 Good evening. When I was at school in Brazil I was never one of those very popular students that everyone knows about and who attract people during break times. But I graduated and kept studying until I started my PhD. And then I was faced with the challenge to choose the marine animal to study. whales turtles fish Muscles, none of those popular ones. I ended up choosing something that is more or less anonymous like ours Etude chitons For those of you thinking that these are limpets, I tell you they are not. They kind of look similar, but chitons have eight small shells that overlap Allowing them to roll up as an amadeillo, an excellent defense for something that spends the whole life Attach it to a rock. I know so many exciting animals to work with and so many endangered ones. Why chitons? Well, have you ever discovered something really amazing that happened to me? My very first results suggest that New Zealand has two groups of chitons and they happen to live at different places One lives at the North Island and the other lives at the South Island and the sub-untarctic islands all together. I wonder if this has something to do with traveling Did you know that North Island chitons do not travel? But the southern chitons are very brave adventures. They attach to the base of giant sewage and travel very very far migrating between New Zealand South Island and the sub-untarctic islands. At this point, you may already know Why I wasn't a popular student, right? Such a weird choice But these chitons are finally doing something about that. They are giving a very cool perspective to my work Or should I say hot? Never mind. I'm talking climate change that is such a popular topic So using very recent molecular technologies and a cup of not so recent as well I want to check how much temperature matters for chitons. I was good northern chitons Why they do not live home? Is that because the South Island is colder and why are southern chitons do not come up to the North? Is that because there's no transport available or because it's too warm for their taste? And I hope that their answers will help me with popularity. I mean we'll help us understand more about how temperature influences both unpopular and popular animals and also the potential to adapt to changing climate conditions. Thank you