Category: Blogs
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Enjoying the little things
Maira Maselli, MixITiN ESR7, finding balance in life through the study of kleptoplastidic mixoplankton December 2019 Studying GNCM helps me understand why biology is defined as a discipline; understanding a discipline only comes with practice. Good practice requires focus and focus has to be practiced in the light of additional consciousness derived from experience. To…
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Finding poetry in mixoplankton with the help of Shakespeare
Anna-Adriana Anschütz, ESR8, ponders about mixoplankton, Hamlet and Helsingør November 2019 A year has passed since the last time I visited Helsingør, Denmark. That time, I met up with the other MixITiN ESRs to learn culturing techniques for mixoplankton. This year, I returned for two months to culture one of the mixoplankton species I study.…
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The Computer-Biologist
Notes from ESR 6, Andreas Norlin.October 2019 Being a biologist can mean many things. For me, when I started studying biology, it meant that I would be able to study the natural world and hopefully go out into the field and experience it myself. This was of course only part of the truth about being…
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Sailing on familiar yet unknown waters
Joost Mansour and Andreas Norlin report from on board RV Thalassa their experiences on ship. Giving everyone some insights on shipboard research and live away from land.
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Art & Maths in Modelling Plankton
Claudia Traboni, MixITiN’s ESR9, reports on her secondment at Swansea University June 2019 Short but sWEeT I feel very happy to have tasted a small bite of the Welsh life in Swansea. While I was there for my secondment I had the chance to enjoy the city, small enough to recognize familiar places and streets but…
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It is time to put everything in the right box!
Guilherme Ferreira, MixITiN’s ESR3, reporting from Helsingør, Denmark about his adventures in Crete May 2019 When was the last time that you ever felt that you did not know how to read? Probably some years ago… maybe when you were 6 years old? Well, I felt just like that when I reached Crete (Greece), in…
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Computer games and Prymnesium parvum?!
Nikola Medić, MixITiN ESR 2, reports from Swansea, UK March 2019 In February 2019, I left my cultures and laboratory equipment at the Københavns Universitet Marine Biological Section in Helsingør (Denmark) and travelled from one of the happiest cities in the world – Copenhagen, to one of the wettest cities in the UK -Swansea. I…
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A great opportunity to combine science and culture
Konstantinos Anestis, MixITiN’s ESR1, reports from the town of San Sebastián in the Basque Country. February 2019 Last January I travelled to Pasaia, a small town close to San Sebastián in Spain. The purpose of my trip: learning more about water management policies. My secondment took place at the technology center of AZTI which was…
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Mingling in a Microworld
Notes by MixITiN’s ESR 11, Lisa Schneider January 2019 For nine months now, I have been mingling in a world that is invisible to the naked eye. I have a background in physical oceanography/hydraulic engineering and am now working at Deltares (The Netherlands). My research focuses on coastal water management under the new mixotroph-centric paradigm…
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The stars of Villefranche-Sur-Mer
Joost Mansour and Andreas Norlin, MixITiN ESRs, report from the French Riviera November 2018 After weeks of drafting up experiments and planning for all possibilities, we found ourselves on the brink of autumn when the heat of an extraordinarily hot summer in Europe had started to fade. That is when our ‘mission’ and search for…
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