STINE FREY LAURSEN is a PhD student visiting from Aalborg University in Denmark. Stine works with insect production for food and feed, and one of the main objectives of her PhD project is to investigate the possibility of optimizing traits relevant in insect production through the application of selective breeding in the house fly. In addition to this she is highly interested in the physiological aspects of insect production, and her work at the F.L.I.E.S Facility consists of assessing how larval nutrition affects the fertile egg production of black soldier flies.