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How I learned to stop worrying, and care for research

by Konstantinos Geles | Oct 13, 2019 | Off science, people | 0 comments

Why Molecular Biology? I’ve always enjoyed searching for Biology. At kindergarten, I’ve had watched the 1st Jurassic Park movie being released in 1993, and that opened my youthful eyes to a completely different world. I couldn’t even read properly at...

EvoCell podcast #3 – special mini edition: Tell us something weird about your animal

by Siri Kellner, Milena Marinkovic | Aug 7, 2019 | Off science | 0 comments

Welcome back to the EvoCell podcast! In this special mini edition, we go around and ask the fellows (and anyone else who was willing to be recorded) for odd, grim, gory, fun facts about the animals they work with. This podcast should probably be labelled NSFW for...

Exploring Platynereis

by Kevin Nzumbi Mutemi | May 9, 2019 | Off science, The evolution of the forebrain | 1 comment

Hallo Erde!! 🙂 Exploring organisation of the Platynereis nervous system – specifically the brain. Let’s hope I get to learn something interesting along the way 🙂 Below is an image of some neural projections accessed from a single Platynereis dumerilii larval...

Hey everyone, i’m Periklis!

by Periklis Paganos | Jan 25, 2019 | Off science, Neuronal cell subtypes in sea urchins, people | 0 comments

Hey everyone! I’m Periklis and this is my first attempt to blog post about my PhD-life experience so far. I’m from beautiful Greece and

Oh, you study biology?

by Petra Kovacikova | Jan 21, 2019 | Off science, The evolutionary origin of the germline, people | 0 comments

HELLO COLD WORLD!! I feel like this is as much of a big deal for me as the “young adult transition” portrayed in the Paramore song with the same name.. (And currently, it is indeed cold outside). I’m Petra and I’m glad you came across this blog. I’m a fresh PhD...

#hownottobloglikekevin

by Kevin Nzumbi Mutemi | Jan 21, 2019 | Off science, The evolution of the forebrain | 3 comments

Hello World! Hope this finds you well! My name is kevin. I am a new PhD student (yesssssss!!!!!) and i’m really lucky to be part of EvoCELL ? (there’s a lot of amazing scientists – at least in my view – and i don’t feel like one of them but i’ll do my best...