lørdag den 1. september 2012

Back for a breather

Back from a massive entomology conference in S. Korea. Had great fun, met amazing people and got my eye opened to some really interesting research. In specific check out the work of Robert Dudley, Sanjay Sane and Daniel Rubinoff, loving their work.

Now I am home for a one month breather before going to southern africa for a two month collecting trip. I am quite excited about the trip, mainly because I have just bought the MPE-65mm macro lens and the MT-24EX flash for my Canon, so I am ready to lugg it around and get some great shots..

I am also trying to alter a field light trap for easy transport and field efficiency. This involves a solar powered battery pack the right lamps for the job and a custom sheet and umbrella that wil fit on my fully extended camera tripod.

Lets see if I can keep the blog updatet during the trip.

  
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Past and present.

With the PhD done I am now in the midst of a transition in my life. There are the manuscripts from the PhD thesis that need to be updated and prepared for publishing, there is also a new Post-doc at the Natural History Museum of London, several fieldtrips and the ICE conference that need to be planned. I feel almost content with the results achieved in the PhD. Currently one paper is published and within the next months I should have two more coming out. All the papers are on the morphology of some of the basalmost lepidopteran larvae and deal specifically with the evolution and ground plan characteristics. In the process of writing the thesis I have become quite intrigued with the locomotion of caterpillars and especially with the musculature that drive the locomotion. One of the more fascinating things is the information that lies in the muscular arrangements and the several different secondary locomotory structures that caterpillars have.

Keep an eye on the Reference section where I will update my publications and also have a link to my Mendeley profile so you can see my literature collection.