Annual SoHaPi Workshop in June 2017
The (almost) full research group met in Göttingen on June 8th and 9th for the annual workshop.
We invited Andrew MacIntosh to share his knowledge on the link between sociality and parasites in primate. Also there was extended time for the students to give progress reports and benefit of comments and advices from all the PIs and the guest. We also devoted time to work on the next steps of our research group and the follow.-up projects.
SoHaPi PhD student Nadine Müller introduces our guest speaker Dr. Andrew MacIntosh for his talk on "Monkeys in the middle: sociality and parasitism in a primate-helminth model system "
SoHaPi students' workshop: "Visual Story Telling"
A two days workshop on visual communication was held at the DPZ on the 6th and 7th June 2017.We were really lucky to have Tina Koch from Mediomix to teach us the basics of visual communication and introduce us to Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. We are now working on this new knowledge to deliver better posters, presentations at conferences and figures for publications!
Women career advice day in Leipzig 2017
On June 1st, the SoHaPi students met Dr. Katja Liebal and Dr. Simone Pika, two experienced behavioral scientists, at the MPI-EVA in Leipzig, to discuss about career as a women in academia: issues and advices. By sharing their experinecs on their own career path and difficulties they encountered, the scientists could answer to students' questions and give them many advices on pursuiing in academia. We want to thank them again for sharing all this!