Lab activities

Kawsar Khan presenting on our weekly meetings.
Welcoming the new members of the lab!
Weekly meeting. 
Celebrating February birthdays at the faculty courtyard. 
Occasional pub visits.
Mariella orienting us on all the important skills in life. 
Celebrating the victory at the faculty Easter scavenger hunt, with a little political statement. 
Liisa and George extracting moth toxins.
Celebrating after a moth sampling weekend. 
Darsh with all his posters in the office.
Braxton and George in the lab with an Amata friend.
We are always excited to find spiders!
Lab trip to New Zeland for ASSAB conference. 
Lab trip to New Zeland for ASSAB conference. 
Mic, George and Poncho on the field yet again. 
Vanessa preparing spider assays.
Jess working on jumping spiders.
Spider brains!
Placing moth models. 
DNA extraction of Amata moths.
Mocktail hour!
Weekly spider hunts.
Writing retreats.
Argiope mating assays.
Lab at the smoking ceremony at the Reconciliation week. 

Lab people at ISBE conference

Kawsar is presenting about his research work about cost and benefit of ontogenetic colour change at ISBE conference

Vanessa is presenting her research about testing the Social Brain Hypothesis in spiders at ISBE2022 conference

Groufie after Mariella's plenary talk at ISBE conference

Group photo after an amazing and inspiring talk from Mariella at ISBE conference

Mariella during her plenary talk at ISBE conference

Mariella during her plenary talk at ISBE conference

George, just before starting talk about aposematic variation in her beloved diurnal lepidopteran at ISBE conference

Chat, Shatabdi, Mariella, Sanni, Vanessa, Marilia, Liisa and Hansani ready to catch some butterflies! 

Chat, Shatabdi, Hansani, Marilia and Vanessa looking for proper places to catch spiders, damselflies, and butterflies. 

Sanni's first reared butterfly.

Dr. Jim graduation ceremony. 

Lab Participating on the wear purple day. 

Chris, Hansani and Sanni collecting butterflies in Brisbane.

Kawsar, Chat and Tonmoy enjoying a break during damselfly and spider collection.

Pool days at the Ubar. 

Kawsar's goodbye party. 

Placing models at the Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden.

Liisa is our top butterfly catcher.

Going off to the Australasian Evolution Society conference in Canberra.

Australasian Evolution Society conference plenary.

End of the year celebration with other labs at Macquarie. 

2023 Writing retreat at pearl beach. 

Hansani's Masters seminar poster presentation. 

Chat and Vanessa visiting Uruguai for the international Aracnology Conference.