On the road again to do some #chemicalecology in the field ! 🤓🪲🐛🦋 With FABI UP Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

I like to sniff butterflies.

Forest plants now flower a week earlier than a century ago. An important article published last week in New Phytologist: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Alongside a press release: idw-online.de/de/news792608

Prof Wynand Steyn kicking of the second day of the 2022 TPCP meeting by talking about how technology and engineering can improve biology research. #TPCP2022 #CPHB2022 FABI UP Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences Future Africa Platform UP Plant and Soil Sciences🌾 @ResearchUP

Eeee! I always get so excited to see SmWoef and today he is showing off his new in-house built sensor payload! #EBIT #SmWoef #TPCP2022 #CPHB2022 UP Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences FABI Future Africa Platform

What happens in the brain when a fly smells?🎙️In the #podcast with Benjamin Fabian from @SilkeSachse‘s group, you can learn how the perception of odors changes the structure of different nerve cells in the antennal lobe of the vinegar fly. ice.mpg.de/412214/images-… #ImagesOfScience

Competition! We have collaborated with Paperpile to give away £250 to one lucky uni student! For your chance to win: 1⃣ RT this! 2⃣ Follow us & Paperpile 3⃣ Tag a friend in the replies Winner picked at random. Open to students in the US, UK & ROI. T&Cs: thephdplace.com/scholarship-co…

Very excited to start this collaboration with Prof Trudi Joubert (Director of CEFIM University of Pretoria) and her students. Objective: detection of my #stinkbug via electronic sensors or e-nose 👃💻🔬 #pestmanagement UP Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences FABI

Finally!!! My first PhD article is online!! 🔬🪲🧬 FABI UP Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences PLOS One For someone who never touched a PCR machine in her life before it is quite an achievement and a new step in understanding this 🇿🇦 species! #stinkbug #entomology journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

A small step towards more sustainable macadamia production in South Africa! PhD candidate Elisa Pal, PhD 🦋🐛🐞🐝🇫🇷🇿🇦 deployed the first pheromone baited traps for the two spotted stink bug in South Africa! Read the full scoop here: fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/news…

There are SO many positives of doing a #PhD! It can be easy to feel flooded with the negatives but this image highlights the many benefits of the phd process 😍 elifesciences.org/articles/81075

#madmacs represent!!! So proud of angel maduke and all her hard work! What a legend. #saspp2022 #MaPP

Today is Women's day in South Africa. I am lucky to work with many women who inspire me daily base. I am just happy to be part of this big family. #womensday #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience FABI @ResearchUP University of Pretoria UP Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

If there is one thing that COVID taught us, it is that you can attend a conference virtually from the other side of the world! #ISCE_APACE #chemicalecology

Don't bug me I stink! 🪲🧨 My article on the alarm pheromone of my #stinkbug is finally online! International Society of Chemical Ecology A new step for the south African macadamia industry 🇿🇦 FABI UP Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@DianaSix1 talking to FABI about science art at our weekly Monday Morning Meeting. "Sci-art can be a way to explore your identity as a scientist."

Student or FABIan of the year 🎉😭😍 Thank you for believing in me FABI and thank you to my amazing supervisors who made me who I am today. Hard work, passion and dedication 🐛🦋🐞🌱🪲 Fabian once Fabian forever, I will never forget ❤️

Review on effects of some insecticides on honey bee health dlvr.it/Sdrv82

Really grateful to be able to work with this talented scientist Dr Fanny Mondet on 🐝 who just received a #Lauriers2024 with INRAE

So happy to be at the ISCE conference #chemecol2025 in New Zealand and in person ! Last time I could participate was in South Africa during the pandemic. It was also a great opportunity to meet with Andres Gonzalez and discuss our future chemical ecology workshop at UniversityofPretoria