Some of you participated in CAnMove's recent workshop "The Biology-Physics Interface". This was an inspiring symposium - at least to me - which will hopefully create some future positive feedbacks and stimulate collaborations between biologists and physicists. Some very fast-growing areas are the cross-disciplinary fields of "bioinspiration" or "biomimetics", i. e. how we can learn from nature's solutions to create new human engineering applications and possibly also industrial products. A famous example are the lamellae of gecko's feet, which enable these animals to climb on flat surfaces without falling down, due to the Van Der Waals-forces that arise because of the small nano-structures of these lamellae (see picture above).
In the latest issue of the internal university news magazine LUM ("Lunds Universitet meddellar") there was a nice article featuring our workshop - which is of course good PR for our Linneaus-initiative. Also, today our workshop was also featured on the main web-site of Lund University, including one of my pictures of a beatiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo).
It is exactly this kind of visible outreach activities we must participate more in - if we wish to make CAnMove a succesful initiative in the future, that gets to be known outside of a small circle at the Department of Ecology. This is critical if we wish to attract additional postdocs from outside and ultimately also more financial resources and more research grants. This is one of many reasons why this new CAnMove-blogg has started. Please spread the information about this blogg to all you know who might be interested in our ongoing and planned future activities.
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