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Martina Pavlek

@mpavlek.bsky.social
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Caves and spider lover. Especially spiders in caves 🙂. Trying to answer how, why and when they and other cave critters conquered caves.

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Martina Pavlek @mpavlek.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
In the end, they took part in a tour of the Donja Cerovačka špilja cave, where they observed live cave animals in their natural environment. The activity was carried out by www.irb.hr/eng and colleagues from www.hbsd.hr?lang=en.
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Martina Pavlek @mpavlek.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
The students listened to a lecture about caves, cave fauna, and the importance of genome sequencing for studying and protecting biodiversity. After that, they inspected preserved cave animals and compared them with surface species.
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Martina Pavlek @mpavlek.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Recently, on the 111th anniversary of the discovery of Cerovac caves we organized a bioblitz activity for school children from the town of Gračac, and for the employees of the Nature Park Velebit in Croatia. This was done as part of biodiversitygenomics.eu project.
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Martina Pavlek @mpavlek.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Luckily there were few sunny days to take a walk and enjoy some Belgium specialties 😋
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Martina Pavlek @mpavlek.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
A lot of samples take a lot of time to process....
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Martina Pavlek @mpavlek.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
How big are genomes of cave spiders? Thanks to the Feulgen method I will soon find out. I was hosted by Prof. Jean-François Flot at Université libre de Bruxelles, and had the best teacher, Mohammed Tawfeeq. The stay was sponsored by the SRF grant of TheLinneanSociety & @systassn.bsky.social
Stalagtia hercegovinensis, by T. RožmanStalita pretneri, by M. Pavlek
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