Below a couple of fun photos of lab members, collaborators and a few conferences. Some photos of our study organisms can be found here.
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Tom and Patrizia D'Ettorre practicing their pool skills at the 2004 INSECTS closing symposium in Helsingoer, Denmark
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Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas Diane! |

An and Lien - aren't they cute? |

Francis Ratnieks giving Bourke & Franks "Social evolution in ants" a thorough read at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin
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The conference dinner at the 2003 IUSSI meeting in Brussels
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THEMMMM!!! THEMMMM!!!! Our big chief (in better days) about to be devoured by a giant ant!
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Tom and Kevin Foster "working hard" at the Institute for Advanced Study |

Collaborator Kevin Foster, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin!
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The enfant terrible of the social insect world: professor Laurent Keller, clearly enjoying himself at the 2002 IUSSI conference in Sapporo, Japan! |

Diane, clearly feeling the effects of having spent a month and a half in Japan |

In Germany they clearly spend more money on science than in Belgium! Francis Ratnieks, Kevin Foster and Tom Wenseleers on the balcony of their ballroom-sized office at the Insitute for Advanced Study |

Steven trying to come to terms with the Tree of Life. If only that phylogeny wouldn't be so damn long. |

Tom giving the fire brigade a hand to collect a wasp nest |

Fuminori Ito and grad students Bart and Nina on an ant collecting trip at our field site in Zonhoven. |

Bart and Nina digging up a wood ant colony. |
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