From February to March 2018, we traveled across the west coast of USA, with the aim of “put in us on the map” making our investigations known and negotiate future collaborations (postdoctoral positions, brief internships for our students …). During this period, we visited several institutions described below:

1. University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)   https://www.washington.edu/  

2. Friday Harbor (Seattle, Washington) https://fhl.uw.edu/

3. Hopkins marine station of Stanford University (Monterey, California)   https://hopkinsmarinestation.stanford.edu/               

4. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) (Moss Landing, California)    https://www.mbari.org/             

5. The Scripps Research Institute (San Diego, California)  https://www.scripps.edu/           

6. Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación superior de Ensenada (CICESE) (Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico)   https://www.cicese.edu.mx/