Day 7: Closing event and packing for home

Posted on 18 May 2012 by Pete

After Luis’s defence we had two more tasks before we headed for home, we had to pack all our samples with appropriate documentation and import licences….all I’ve to say is thank goodness for the EU or the paperwork would have been much worse. John’s cloths were displaced from his suitcase and replaced with fixed earthworms
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A new doctor is in the house – Congratulations to Luis!

Posted on 18 May 2012 by Pete

Congratulations are in order as Luis can now be formally addressed as Dr Luis Cunha after successfully completing his PhD defence today in the Azores, on “The effects of extreme environments of volcanic origin in organisms: using earthworms as biological models“   This was timed to coincide with the culmination of the weeks sampling trip which is
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SETAC bound!

Posted on 18 May 2012 by Pete

This week three of our team are travelling to the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) conference to present their findings and mingle with the EcoTox elite. Keep an eye out and if you are to run into them, make sure you say hi and quiz them on their work! viagra price germany Good luck to Craig Anderson, Yaser
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Publication: Diversity of Bifidobacteria within the Infant Gut Microbiota

Posted on 18 May 2012 by Pete

Daniel Pass has contributed as equal contributing first author to the paper “Diversity of Bifidobacteria within the Infant Gut Microbiota“, published in PLoS one. Background The human gastrointestinal tract (GIT) represents one of the most densely populated microbial ecosystems studied to date. Although this microbial consortium has been recognized to have a crucial impact on
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Day 6: Final Flurry

Posted on 18 May 2012 by Pete

So last day after breakfast the well oiled machine goes into action…..the cataloguing complete the fixation of the phylogeographic samples whilst Luis checks the health of the earthworms for transplantation. We process four sites in under 2 hours…..this means we have doubled our speed !! Practice makes perfect. Then we get on the road leaving
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Day 7: The Extremophile PhD defense

Posted on 18 May 2012 by Pete

For those who have been following the blog….sorry for the delayed update. Last day’s sampling was amazing…more later. But we have catalogued the worms and our attention has change to support Luis in his PhD defense and preparing for the public seminars we are giving this afternoon (Friday). But I am so impressed, Luis has
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The fruits of our labours

Posted on 18 May 2012 by Pete

So we have finished cataloguing our sites and uploaded the data onto the ‘doforms’ web site. From there it was a few clicks to download the data and transfer it to google spreadsheets where there is a great widget which displays the GPS coordinates in google maps…..look at our weeks phylogeographic sampling sites….and you guys
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