Tag Archives: Teaching
Stress
It is that time of year again: the course on plant stress for our master students at the University of Antwerp (as I also wrote about previous years). This year, the practical part got a long-anticipated upgrade. It is now … Continue reading
An important tool in the toolbox
Last week, I had the opportunity to teach the students of our third Bachelor in Biology a little lesson about vegetation surveys. It was a half a day course in the framework of their course on Good Field Practices, in … Continue reading
Spring rehearsal
This weekend brought me the first real rehearsal for the course I will assist in at the end of this month. As we did last year, we will take the students of biology of our university to the beautiful Hallerbos, … Continue reading
Chilling
For the next year, I will have four master thesis students joining in on my projects, so I will definitely be chilling day in day out (and this cute cat is happy to teach me how to do that). No, I am … Continue reading
A suspicious amount of green tea
That I seemed to love tea, the cashier of my local supermarket noticed. A fairly unusual conversation starter, where it not that he could impossibly ignore the obvious fact: I had a cart with only green tea, 140 tea bags … Continue reading
Follow your nose
In between the corrections of the reports of my students in the course on forest types, I took some free time roaming through little forest patches in the southern half of Flanders, close to the capital. It was in one of these patches that I stumbled on … Continue reading





