Past event ·
Strolling in the deep ft. Sea Slugs
Antoine Gilles‐Lordet
WhenFriday 14 February 2025
Who can comeStudents & postdocs
Undergraduate, master’s and PhD students, and postdocs.
Abstract
As the saying goes, you are what you eat. While humans don’t literally transform into their food, some animals are adept at kleptoplasty — the incredible ability to extract and utilize functional organelles from their prey. These creatures aren’t world-eating aliens; they live in the ocean and rarely exceed a few centimeters in length! Meet the remarkable sea slugs. Dive with me into their wonderful world, where eating algae enables photosynthesis and preying on jellyfish bestows a deadly sting.
