Sabbatical visitor!
Christopher Wheat has just arrived. Although we can only do everything virtually at the moment, he will spend the next few months with us during his sabbatical in Zurich. Welcome Chris!
Year: 2020
Special visitor
Our journal clubs are normally on Zoom but now we had a special visitor – Piret Avila explaining her current work, fun to chat about future plans too!
Another Kokkonuts outing
Outdoor activities are not completely banned during social distancing time so the Kokkonuts had (very responsibly) fun on the water! What a nice day.
‘Teaching of the Hour’ Award
Our teaching this spring went all remote, really abruptly too, but perhaps it was not a complete disaster – the undergrads nominated us for a teaching award, nice!
Congratulations Hanna!
Hanna has been elected as a new member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences! https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2020
Ignas Safari Mng’Anya visited us this week!
Safari gave a talk about “What shapes sex-roles in black and white-browed coucals?” as part of our IEU Behaviour, Ecology, Environment and Evolution Seminar …
Biology20
Last week the Biology 20 https://events.unifr.ch/biology20/ took place. Three of our group members gave talks there.
Thomas’ talk was about the implication …
Goodbye! And congratulations!
Hanna ten Brink left the Kokkonuts to start her new position as a postdoctoral fellow in the Fish Ecology and Evolution group at Eawag, where she studies speciation and speciation reversal in the Alpine Whitefish.