CAnMove 2nd conference

During two days members of CAnMove have attanded the 2nd conference, whith invited talks given by various canmovians, including PhD-students, postdocs, seniors and two members of the Scientific Advisory Board. Marilyn Ramenofsky talked about her work on physiological adaptations to the annual cycles, using two populations the white-crowned sparrow, while Steven Reppert gave an overview about his lab's work monarch butterfly migration (see picture). The Animal Flight lab was well represented and gave two presentations (Christoffer and Anders). During the conference we also discussed how to further improve the activities within CAnMove, and how to facilitate even better research. It was a great meeting and now we just have to dig into it and move forward!

New thesis: flight of swifts

On Friday 29th January 2010, Per Henningsson is defending his thesis on "fluid dynamics, flight performance and flight behavior of common swifts". The defense takes place in the Blue lecture hall at 10:00, with Prof. Bret Tobalske as faculty opponent. On the day before, you can enjoy an extra CAnMove mini-sympoium on the animal flight, starting at 14:00 in the seminar room "Tanken", in which Bret Tobalske will talk on his fascinating research on hummingbird flight. That the swift is a remarkable bird is perhaps not new to most of us, and Per is now getting some well deserved media attention for his spectacular PhD thesis. See e.g. http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/1.296297-flygexpertens-hemlighet-avslojad ).