Our team members Paco Cardenas (UU), Ana Riesgo and Vassia Koutsouveli (both NHM) have been through the immense sponge collections at the Natural History Museum in London in the frame of various SponGES research lines. One full day … Read More
The 2017 SponGES cruise onboard the research vessel G.O. Sars just successfully concluded. For three weeks, an international and well mixed team of SponGES researchers has worked 24/7 to study very different deep-water sponge grounds, ranging from the 1300 m … Read More
It has been an intense period for the SponGES’ team. Besides a summer of research cruises, the EU project has been actively engaged in many events, conferences and international meetings. Some examples? Andrew Davies (Bangor University) has introduced the project in … Read More
SponGES teams get together again for field work operations, as researchers from the Natural History Museum in London and from Uppsala University join staff at Bergen University. This deep-sea sponge sampling campaign, in the Norwegian fjords, is on September 8-9 … Read More
This post refers to a joint PhD appointment at the Natural History Museum of London (Life Sciences Department) and the Uppsala University (Department of Medicinal Chemistry) in the area of Evolution and ecology of marine sponges: PhD-candidate in deep-sea sponge … Read More