All lab members are very proud of their leader, Tuul Sepp, who got a new paper published on the fascinating idea of using knowledge obtained from human studies to study cancer in other animals, and vice versa... Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bi…

Interested in urban nature, aquatic habitats and urban planning? Don't miss out the movie night organised tomorrow by Tuul Sepp and Jürgen Karvak in Liivi 2 auditorium at 4PM!

We are back on track! A new fieldwork season is just about to begin for the team to monitor the common gull colony on Kakrarahu islet! 🙂 Make sure you don't miss our blog posts about this new season, first post is already here! kajakasproject.wordpress.com/2023/05/12/we-…

Our new protocol this year on Kakrarahu islet will involve collection of behavioural data by performing flight initiation distance on common gulls... Want to know more about it? Just read our new blog post "bold, shy… Fly and tell me who you are"!! kajakasproject.wordpress.com/2023/05/15/beh…

The Kakrarahu game is here! If you love science and board games, this post is for you :) Let's read it and learn more about our fun and strategic common gull game! kajakasproject.wordpress.com/2023/05/17/kak…

Incredible illustrations by Alex Cagan to our group members' talks on the first meeting of the European Wildlife Cancer Network (WildCan) in la Rochelle!

How many albino seabirds have you ever seen? For the Kakrarahu team it was a first! And our surprise was even bigger when we found a second albino chick! Check out more about this with our last blog post kajakasproject.wordpress.com/2023/06/04/alb…

New from Evolutionary Ecophysiology lab Dr Ciara Baines, in #BiologyLetters. Correlations between oxidative DNA damage and formation of hepatic tumours in two flatfish species from contaminated environments ow.ly/MYaY50OFplH #environmentalscience #ecology #WorldEnvironmentDay #pollution

My sketchbook of the inaugural meeting of the European Wildlife Cancer Network (WildCan). Proud to be part of this network studying cancer across species to improve the health of animals, humans and ecosystems. Full sketches: alexcagan.com/wildcan2023 Evolutionary Ecophysiology lab Mathieu Giraudeau

A brand new review paper from Randel Kreitsberg and our team has been published! We discuss the effects of environmental pollution on the gene expression of seabirds, and suggest avenues for future studies. Check it out here sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our team member and ecotoxicology expert Randel Kreitsberg was presenting our results related to liver cancers in fish at the International EcoBalt 2023 conference this week! 🐟🔬 ecobalt2023.kbfi.ee

I am very happy to share our new article showing that glucocorticoids could be reliably measured in the saliva of wild birds! Hopefully this will bring a new option to the toolbox of people interested in stress hormones or glucocorticoids in general :) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Richard Meitern, our group's statistics, genetics, and logistics genius, was awarded a badge of honor by the University of Tartu! Congratulations, we are so lucky to have you in our team!

2nd good news of the week for our lab - we now have a professor in our group! Tuul Sepp was named the professor of animal ecology by the Tartu University senate on last Friday.

🚨 New results 🚨 Eating polluted fish during egg laying affects chicks mass in Common gull 🐣 We also show that personality traits can be measured and are related to fitness related traits in this species! Let's read our last blog post for more info: kajakasproject.wordpress.com/2023/11/02/mer…

What's a good river? How important are the surrounding areas? Listen to our river lover, Jürgen Karvak, to learn more on this topic! (English subtitles available) youtu.be/OP8W-WHWFsc?si…

Looking for a PhD position in ecophysiology and behavioural ecology? You may be interested in joining my group to study seabirds and habitat modifications (pollution, nesting site, density within colony). Details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1lW… Thanks for sharing this !