On September 14th high school students from Slovakia visited the Vicoso lab, and learned about our research. Every year 20-30 Slovakian high school students are invited to ISTA based on their performance on a series of articles and quizes on selected topics of evolution, to which members of the Vicoso lab have also contributed. During their three-day stay, the high school students visited the ISTA campus, attended talks and visited several laboratories. PhD student Reka Kelemen represented the Vicoso lab and gave a talk to them about the evolution of sex, sexual dimorphism, and what we can learn about their evolutionary impacts when we study asexual species, like brine shrimp (Artemia clade). Afterwards they visited the Vicoso lab, where lab members Reka Kelemen, Lorena Franco and Julia Chizak showed them the brine shrimp, food moths and fruit flies that are used for research, and answered their numerous questions about them.
