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Pensoft biodiversity publisher, ERA7 Bioinformatics, and IT Savantic are business companies playing major roles in BIG4. They bridge BIG4 science with industry and expose business environment to our students early in their career. Having an experience in science-related industry is an added ...
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One of the special features of BIG4, as an EU funded Innovative Training Network, is regular joint workshops for all students that cover various aspects of modern entomological systematics, such as: growth and maintenance of the entomological collections including specimens adequately preser...
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Each of the BIG4 PhD projects is multidisciplinary and therefore requires supervisory input from several experts. Any student of BIG4 has the main institution of enrollment in the PhD school and the main advisor working at that institution. However, BIG4 program assumes that each student has...
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This post was written by Miroslav Valan. Human impact on nature causes insects to die out and disappear at a faster pace than they can be studied. Any survey on biodiversity requires expertise, but those who may help with identifications - taxonomists - are always in shortage. Thanks to new techn...
This post was written by Erik Gobbo. Among gall-making insects, the Cynipidae (gall-wasps) are probably the most fascinating, for many reasons: they are capable of inducing extremely complex galls that often constitute a small ecosystem of their own, they are extremely diverse (countin...
This post was written by Janina Lisa Kypke. You might be wondering what animals am I talking about and how large is the largest animal family? Meet the rove beetles or Staphylinidae! If you have never heard of them, here are the cornerstone facts:- Rove beetles consist of more than 63.137 fos...
This post was written by Ashish Tomar. A tree or hierarchical representation of data is commonly observed in biology. This is due to interlinked information, and the complex hierarchical nature of biological systems. Advanced data visualization in scientific communities is becomin...
This post was written by Hamid Reza Ghanavi. Lepidoptera (i.e. moths and butterflies) is one of the four most diverse orders of organisms - BIG4 - on earth. Despite a wide variety of research being undertaken, there is still a lot to discover about them. Scientists are discovering new species,...