AaRConference 2025

Interview to our March AaRCTikTalks speaker Lydia Hildebrand Furness

March 2025

Protecting the endangered Dugong through paleogenomics

At the beginning of the XVIII century, traveler and author Ernst Christoph Barchewitz was enjoying the view from his porch near the sea shore, when he suddenly came to observe the social behavior of a pair of dugongs during his stay on Letti Islands (Maluku, Indonesia) as a commanding officer. The female of the pair was captured and killed. The male subsequently allowed himself to be killed as well:  

Interview to our February AaRCTikTalks speaker Anna Penna

February 2025

Resolving the taxonomic puzzle of bush babies

“When I reached England in the spring of 1862, I found myself surrounded by a room full of packing-cases, containing the collections that I had from time to time sent home for my private use. These comprised nearly three thousand bird-skins, of about a thousand species; and at least twenty thousand beetles and butterflies, of about seven thousand species; besides some quadrupeds and landshells. A large proportion of these I had not seen for years; and in my then weak state of health, the unpacking, sorting, and arranging of such a mass of specimens occupied a long time.” (From Wallace’s 1869 Preface of his book The Malay Archipelago) [1].  

Interview to our February AaRCTikTalks speaker Alexander Salis

February 2025

Achieving better techniques for DNA preservation and recovery

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