Christian Oehlmann, joint doctoral student at the Institute for Biological Control and the Laimburg Research Center, has been working on a project about diapause control in codling moth since August 2022. Now he has presented his project at ScienceSlam Bozen 2022 and was named the winner of the evening.

The ScienceSlam is about explaining the own science to a non-specialist audience in a most entertaining way as possible. The only rule: It must not last more than 10 minutes, otherwise everything is allowed. The ScienceSlam took place in Bozen on three evenings in October. Every evening, 6-7 scientists presented their topic on stage and the audience had the opportunity to rate the performances. Christian Oehlmann won the third and last evening with his ScienceSlam: "Are the pests still asleep?" an absolutely not sleepy lecture about a key pest in pome fruit production, the codling moth.

Congratulations to Christian on the excellent slam and the great success!

Watch again under https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXfmXGRaOyc&list=PL3gO-zN-WSSi6-CW29cjCseFqoy9du4sq&index=18 (Language of the presentation: german)

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