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![Patrick Reygel](https://biodiversity.bitelab.be/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/01/Patrick-Reygel-370x370.jpg)
Patrick Reygel
Associate professor
Describing new marine flatworms, giving them a name and figuring out their relation with other excisting flatworms to reveal some evolutionary...
![Mare Geraerts](https://biodiversity.bitelab.be/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/01/Mare-Geraerts-370x370.jpg)
Mare Geraerts
Former PhD student
Using tiny parasites as a magnifying glass to unravel the introduction history of the invasive Nile tilapia and studying their impact on local...
![Stefan Gobert](https://biodiversity.bitelab.be/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/01/Stefan-Gobert-370x370.jpg)
Stefan Gobert
Former PhD student
Among the sand grains of the beach and the ocean floor there exists a wealth of biodiversity waiting to be explored.
![Michiel Jorissen](https://biodiversity.bitelab.be/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/01/Michiel-Jorissen-370x370.jpg)
Michiel Jorissen
Former PhD student
Invasive species are species that are introduced into new regions and have a detrimental effect on the local ecosystem. They are one of the major...
![Fortunate Mafeta Phaka](https://biodiversity.bitelab.be/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/01/Fortunate-Phaka-370x370.jpg)
Fortunate Mafeta Phaka
Former PhD student
Exploring the complex link between biological and cultural diversity is a good way to find ecologically and socially just conservation solutions...
![Jolien Wevers](https://biodiversity.bitelab.be/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/01/Jolien-Wevers-1-370x370.jpg)
![Toon Willems](https://biodiversity.bitelab.be/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/01/Toon-Willems-370x370.jpg)
Toon Willems
Former researcher
The possibility to save farmland birds is hidden in the right agri-environmental management.