We had the immense pleasure of hosting long-term FERG collaborator Max Tercel here in Newcastle! Max came to visit for EcoNet (which you can read all about in our recent post, including Max’s help running the molecular workshop) and Ento 2025 in Glasgow. Jordan and Max have worked closely together for most of their careersContinueContinue reading “Max Tercel’s visit from Cibio, Portugal!”
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FERG joined NEG in hosting EcoNet 2025!
Following the last Symposium on Ecological Networks (EcoNet) in Israel in 2023 (which was the topic of one of our first blog posts), Darren Evans of the Network Ecology Group (NEG) was approached to host the next EcoNet. Darren asked Jordan, Katherine Baldock of Northumbria University, Madeleine Fabusova from NEG and Shai Pilosof from theContinueContinue reading “FERG joined NEG in hosting EcoNet 2025!”
Jordan’s visit to Stano Pekár and Masaryk University
Jordan has just returned from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic where he gave a seminar and visited Stano Pekár’s Terrestrial Invertebrate Research Group. It was an excellent and inspiring trip filled with brilliant science, fantastic conversations and many beautiful castles (and even some exceptional Czech beer)! Jordan got to visit Lednice park, where variousContinueContinue reading “Jordan’s visit to Stano Pekár and Masaryk University”
Romuald Tcheutchoua’s visit for wasp gut analysis
The wonderful Romuald Tcheutchoua visited us for a couple of weeks from Seirian Sumner’s group at University College London to analyse the guts of wasps from farms across Cameroon! Romuald is looking at the provision of ecosystem services like crop pest biocontrol by wasps in agricultural systems (particularly predation of the devastating fall army worm),ContinueContinue reading “Romuald Tcheutchoua’s visit for wasp gut analysis”
EcoNet2023 and research visit to HUJI
Jordan recently went to Israel to attend the Ecological Networks symposium (EcoNet2023) and took the opportunity beforehand to visit Efrat Gavish-Regev and her group at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (HUJI) who study arachnids from eco-evo-devo and natural history perspectives. Having long discussed working together, it was a great opportunity to get in theContinueContinue reading “EcoNet2023 and research visit to HUJI”
Foraging Ecology Research Group 