Biology and Evolution of Symbiosis (BESymb)
After a long hiatus, we are back in Slovenia! This past week Pegah and I went to the University of Ljubljana to join long-term collaborator Peter Trontelj and Maria Kolesnykova (Π. ΠΠΎΠ»Π΅ΡΠ½ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ²Π°) in a sampling trip under the umbrella of our FWF SymBirth project. We visited a couple of known plus new sites and managed to sample some glossiphoniids, erpobdellids, and piscicolids to use in our sutdy on symbiont transmission in leeches. I also had the opportunity to present our past and current work on leech symbioses across leeches at the Ecology & Evolution Doctoral Seminar Series. Thanks Peter and Maria for being great hosts! very much looking forward to the next trip.
