Ryan is currently on sabbatical at the Blanes Centre for Advanced Studies (CEAB) in Spain, and this week he presented a seminar there about our lab’s work on extinctions in Singapore and the transition from niche-assembled to dispersal-assembled ecological communities. The CEAB was set up in 1985 and focuses on various aspects ecology, in particular marine ecology. Ryan is hosted by David Alonso, who is a theoretical ecologist focussed on community ecology and infectious diseases.