METAP Project

Manipulative Experiments: Trees, Arthropods, Predators
pan-European project testing plant inducible defence. oaks, Methyl jasmonate, plasticine caterpillars

[Anna Mrazova @aMa14167426]

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📢📢📢The METAP Project has begun for the southernmost sites.🎬🎬🎬
Thank you all, METAP partners, for conducting this experiment. I can't wait to see the results! Fingers crossed to all. Stay tuned!📻

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An update on the METAP Project

The kits of materials were sent to the partners from all over Europe. We are impatiently waiting for the season to come so we can start the experiments.

Stay tuned

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🎄Christmas? 🥳New year? 💨METAP must go on!
PDMS tubes for sampling plant defensive volatiles were prepared! 5200 tubes are clean, sorted into vials, and safely sealed.
Next step? To send the kits to all ~ 50 European partners. Wanna join us? Do it here: https://t.co/hrjDQVXRk8

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We are working hard to make a video protocol for all METAP partners! Things are moving. Stay tuned to learn more about the progress of the Project!
With 👨‍🔬 @BCastagneyrol and 📽️ Aurélien Marquot (IG: aurelien_marquot) at @INRAE_BIOGECO

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🥳Woohoo! Currently, we have 38 registered partners from 20 European countries!
🛒I am already ordering all the materials we need and soon, we will release a video guide protocol.📽️
Stay tuned!📻
At @INRAE_BIOGECO

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Two days after the first kick-off of the Project, we have 23 pre-registered partners. We are looking for more! What if we do the experiment in each of the 50 European countries?!
At @INRAE_BIOGECO with @BCastagneyrol
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🛒🛍️I've been shopping. The European resources of methyl jasmonate are out of stock. ❌Sorry.

📻Stay tuned for further updates.

🛜 In the meantime, find out more about the METAP project here: https://t.co/CcbtGzltjx

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This pic is in a nutshell the whole METAP Project.

🌳We will manipulate oaks to produce defensive chemicals.
🌍How does the chem defence vary along the European latitudinal gradient?
🐦How does the defence influence arthropod communities and predation?
💡Let's find out!💡

[Anna Mrazova @aMa14167426]

It's been three weeks since we moved to France. I started to prepare protocols for partners of my postdoc project. @BioRender seems to be a pretty useful tool.
I can't wait to meet my colleagues in @INRAE_BIOGECO in September and really start the project.