Dr. Kateřina Sam: Fifty Shades of Green Alias where Do the Predators Keep the Plants Flourish?

Dear Students,

You are cordially invited to a lecture of MUNI Life Sciences seminar:

„Fifty Shades of Green Alias where Do the Predators Keep the Plants Flourish?“
by Dr. Katerina Sam, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice

WHEN: Thursday, March 11, 2021 from 16:00
WHERE: MS Teams - CODE TO JOIN THE TEAM: eeymbmr

INSTRUCTIONS:

I would like to kindly ask you for cooperation with the online form of the seminar. If it is possible, please turn on your camera at a few first minutes of the lecture so that the speaker is able to see the people to whom he or she will give the talk. I believe that it will make the online talk more pleasant to the speaker.

Do not hesitate to ask the speaker questions with a microphone after the talk.

Thank you for your cooperation!

Best regards,
Lucie Nesvadbová
lus@sci.muni.cz

Dr. Kateřina Sam from University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice

Dr. Kateřina Sam is a groupleader of Laboratory of Multitrophic Interactions at University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice and holder of ERC Starting grant 2018.

See the webpage of her lab or read an exciting interview with her below.

Na stromy v Pošumaví a v eukalyptovém lese v Austrálii lepila housenky z dětské plastelíny. V Japonsku chodila do lesa v kalhotách s rolničkami, aby zaplašila medvědy. V tropickém pralese Papuy Nové Guineje ručně sundávala z kmenů stromů mravence. A taky zažila několik přepadení – dva dny třeba utíkala se svázanýma rukama sama pralesem pro pomoc. Nebo ošetřovala člověka posekaného mačetou. Bioložka Kateřina Sam vypráví, jak divoce může vypadat terénní část prestižního mezinárodního výzkumu.

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Sticking Plasticine caterpillars on trees in the foothills of the Šumava Mountains and in Australian eucalypt forests. Trekking through Japanese woodlands wearing jingle bells on her trousers to scare off bears. Hand-picking ants off tree trunks in the tropical rainforests of Papua New Guinea. And several times being ambushed – one such encounter left her running for help through a rainforest for two days, hands tied and alone. Also having to dress the wounds of a man hacked with a machete. This is how biologist Kateřina Sam describes the wild side of doing fieldwork for a prestigious international research project.