On my way to a meeting at the Sanger Institute in Hinxton, near _Cambridge_. Promissing to be a great meeting with a lot of interesting talks. This is the last trip with people from my old lab (as my ex-boss retired) and all 4(!) of us are going - #cool.
Will present a poster in the evolution of #sex and also give a talk on the evolutionary origin of nematodes (the ur-nematode).
Arrived...
First really, really hot day of the year. Real nice - although spent the most of it working and watching #GameOfThrones season 3 at the side.
Need to do some #sports tomorrow, as I guess the #NZLvsENG #rugger this morning doesn't really count...
So the last week (and part of the week before) I have been teaching in my first own Master module. With my students I am delving into computational analysis of evolutionary biology. Therefore most of the students had first to get accustomed with Linux/Unix based computer system. I am very surprised (and pleased to see) how much effort they are putting into this, some virtually starting at zero. In between we do have talks and discussions about evolutionary biology, which are also a lot of fun. Have to say: I like teaching this motivated group.
However, now that it is the weeking, I am also happy to take a break. As there is a holiday next week, I can use the time to get on with some paper writing, poster designing, talk preparations, ah, well and science...
To get my head clear for that, I just watched Riddick. ;-)
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