Marcel Dicke – preview
Posted by Alexander Klopping on October 13, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Marcel Dicke is an ecologist with a special interest in the relation between plants and insects. The central theme in his research is the way that plants define the lives of insects. For example, there are plants that spread special fragrances if they are attacked by caterpillars. The fragrances attract predators of the caterpillars (like ichneumon wasps) as a sort of bodyguards for the plant.
Our guide in the world of insects
Read more about Dicke’s research.
[...] Another great talk. A man being a professional photographer telling about how interesting photos can be if you don’t try to focus on something interesting. He showed us his early work and the work he admired. In example, a man who always had a bike on his photos. He told us that once his bike gotten stolen and now he placed them in his sight (in the photo). Now he’s photographing objects of what his mom made for him, then he could throw them away, because he didn’t really liked them. [...]