Leona Milec

Fishing for DNA (without bycatch)

Thijs is not the only one visiting the KU Leuven in Belgium this spring (March-May 2019). While he is out in the field fishing for sticklebacks, I am fishing for DNA in the lab with my Belgian colleague Els De Keyzer and Congolese visiting scientist Fidel Muterezi Bukinga. Our work focuses on the Lake Tanganyika […]

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Capacity Building Workshop @Uvira, DR Congo

teaching / Leona Milec

In August 2018, Joost and I joined the organisation of an intensive 10-day summer school at the Centre de Recherche (CRH) in Uvira, DR Congo, with over 30 participants gathering from several regional institutes. We taught a diverse array of broadly applicable topics; from scientific writing, literature search and how to avoid predatory journals,

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