PhD student- @InsectBiomech Group @Cambridge_Uni. Studying carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plant fluid control and implications for insect capture in Borneo 🪴🪰
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Joined May 2018
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Charlotte Andrew retweeted
🌱Just published in @annbot : “An insect trap adjusting to weather conditions: Nepenthes rafflesiana plants control the fluid level in their pitchers to maximize prey capture” by Charlotte Andrew and co-authors🧵1/8
👉 doi.org/qhfz
#Nepenthes #PlantScience #AoBpapers
ALT An insect trap adjusting to weather conditions: Nepenthes rafflesiana plants control the fluid level in their pitchers to maximize prey capture
Charlotte Andrew retweeted
So pleased to announce that @CNSAndrew_ has been awarded the Conservation Physiology Lecture and will write a summary for the journal following the event.
Her talk is on "Pitcher plant adaptation to weather fluctuations":
academic.oup.com/conphys
#biologists100
Charlotte Andrew retweeted
Huge congratulations to @CNSAndrew_ for winning Best Poster at @UKPlantBiomech Day at the @slcuplants !!
@RobinsonSci @nakayama_naomi @CamZoology @LucyCavColl
Charlotte Andrew retweeted
Super excited to attend tomorrow! Good luck to Charlotte, Ritabrata and Walter who are all presenting! 🪴 🐜 – at Cambridge, England
’Twas the night before the inaugural UK Plant Biomechanics Day, and all through the lab not a creature was stirring...
Excited for new ideas, new collaborations & inspiration from invited speakers @MechEcoLab & @MCNDLab!
Launching the new @UKPlantBiomech community
#UKPlantBioMech
ALT Empty green poster boards waiting to be filled with posters of cool planty bio-mech research for tomorrow's UK Plant Biomechanics Day presenters
Charlotte Andrew retweeted
Interested in a cool project combing physics and biology? A 3 year PhD/Research Assistant position on Biomechanics and multifunctionality of insect cuticular lipids is available in our lab at @CamZoology @Cambridge_Uni funded by @HFSP .
Link below:
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44777/
Charlotte Andrew retweeted
Congratulations to @CNSAndrew_ for passing her first year PhD viva, especially on her birthday!!!!🪴🐜🎂 – at Cambridge, England
Research blog out now on the @LucyCavColl website!
lucy.cam.ac.uk/blog/carnivor…
Charlotte Andrew retweeted
Teachers love hearing about what their students have been inspired to do and so it was great to catch up with alumna Charlotte and find out how her Physics lessons at Truro High have led to her carrying out ground-breaking research in the jungles of Borneo.
That end of fieldwork feeling…sad to be leaving Brunei after 5 months of pitcher plant experiments out here.💪🏻 Good luck to the rest of the @InsectBiomech crew finishing up our fieldwork in the coming weeks! Brunei- I’ll be back!🇧🇳✈️🌱 – at Brunei
Charlotte Andrew retweeted
Prof Walter Federle gave a fascinating talk yesterday at the Brunei Nature Society about his work on insect-plant interactions in Brunei! Huge thanks to Prof Ulmar Grafe, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, for the invitation!!
I wondered why my pitchers were falling over every night… the culprit caught on camera 📸 🦎 – at Brunei
Charlotte Andrew retweeted
Walter, @ritabrata1907 and Lorenz have joined @CNSAndrew_ on fieldwork in Brunei 🇧🇳! We are super excited to continue working on insect-plant interactions on the abundant populations of both pitcher plants and macaranga trees here. Some snapshots from our first field site visits: – at Brunei
Charlotte Andrew retweeted
The 2023 College #Research Day was a great success, with fascinating presentations from our graduate #students across a range of disciplines.
Kindly sponsored by @AstraZeneca, prizes were awarded at the end of the day for the top three talks and blogs.
Congratulations to the winners and to all participants! And a massive thank you to @AlumLucy @juliainclusion, for providing live illustration of the presentations.
See more pictures and the full news story at lucy.cam.ac.uk/news/lucy-cav…
Fieldsite flora! 🌸1. A Pale reed orchid on a dewy morning 2. The National flower of Brunei- Dillenia with its fruits 3. A Bamboo orchid on the outskirts of the site 4. The flower of a young Cicada tree 🌼 – at Brunei
Best insect finds in and around Nepenthes rafflesiana! 1. Giant grasshopper taking shelter 2. Striped lynx spider lying in wait upon a pitcher 3. Unidentified, partially digested and very gruesome spider retrieved from the pitcher fluid 4. Stick insect succumbed to the trap💔 – at Brunei
Incredible first 2 weeks in Brunei kicking off the first pitcher plant field experiments of my PhD with the team from @MechEcoLab and attending the International Workshop for Biodiversity and Bioinspiration @UBDVTLab ! Here are some of the best bits so far! 🌿 – at Brunei
