by Agnes | May 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
José did his licenciatura degree at the University of Costa Rica, working on the pollination biology of Meriania macrophylla. There, José confirmed yet another shift to passerine pollination in the Merianieae. He decided to continue research on the pollination biology...
by Agnes | Apr 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
I am happy to welcome Constantin Kopper as new PhD student in the Schönenberger lab! Constantin will be working with me on floral evolution and pollination syndromes in the plant family Melastomataceae, which contains more than 5700 species across the tropical regions...
by Agnes | Feb 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
All February, together with my colleague Florian Etl and the Tropical Field Station La Gamba, I will be tweeting about our ongoing research projects in the tropics! We will talk about unexpected discoveries, preliminary results, unanswered questions and the great...
by Agnes | Nov 12, 2020 | fieldwork
Together with my Master student Constantin Kopper, I travelled to Colombia and Costa Rica in February and March 2020 to collect flower material of various Melastomataceae species and perform new pollinator observations. We had hoped to be able to travel back to...
by Agnes | Aug 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Launched!! Together with my colleagues Lucas Bacci, Thuane Bochorny, Fabián Michelangeli, Vinicius Brito and Ana Flávia Caetano, I have initiated a new online seminar series on Melastomataceae! Inspired by the fantastic Solanaceae seminar series, we thought it is high...
