IGERT Fellow, Jeremiah Asaka’14 has received an invitation to participate in a workshop on Urban Biodiversity and Social Processes co-hosted by the NSF-funded UrBioNet Research Coordination Network ( http://urbiocompare.pbworks.com/ ) and the North-West University at Potschefstroom, South Africa. The Workshop will be held January 25-30, 2016 in South Africa. All travel costs are covered. The workshop aims are three-fold: network building, development of new research, and quantitative analyses of existing databases.