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09.12.2025 We are hosting Pengjuan Zu, Assistant Professor of Information Ecology at the Institute of Biology, University of Neuchatel, for an IEE seminar titled “Plant-insect chemical communication in ecological communities: an information theory perspective”.
08.12.2025 We are hosting Isabel Alves, Assistant Professor at Strasbourg University, France, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting, with a talk titled “Gene expression, variable dominance and their impact on molecular diversity”.
10.11.2025 We are hosting Kimba Duncan, researcher at the Institute of Physiology and Nutrition, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Hungary, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
03.11.2025 We are hosting Andrea Betancourt, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour, University of Liverpool, UK, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting, with a talk titled “Fly genomes and transposable element invasions”. On the same day, she will give a presentation and a discussion on her recent paper Leaving Academia: Insights from Evolutionary Biologists on Their Career Transitions and Job Satisfaction.
07.10.2025 We are hosting Joachim Krug, Professor at the Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne, Germany, for an IEE seminar titled “Bacterial responses to antibiotic stress: Resistance, resilience and tolerance”.
30.09.2025 We are hosting Andrea Agazzi, Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Bern, for an IEE seminar titled “Stochastic jump models in chemistry and biology: large populations and rare events”.
15.09.2025 We are hosting Martin Kapun, Research assistant at the Natural History museum in Vienna, Austrira, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
08.09.2025: We are hosting Timothy Fuqua, Postdoctoral researcher at Andreas Wagner’s lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
18-22.08.2025: The lab is actively participating at the ESEB 2025 conference in Barcelona, Spain: Russ and Suman are giving a talk, and Loraine, Julio, Zach, and Dhanya are presenting posters.
13-18.07.2025: The lab is actively participating at the Gordon Research conference and seminar in Dynamics of Ecological and Evolutionary Change in Lucca, Italy: Russ is giving a talk and presenting a poster, and Loraine is presenting a poster.
26.06.2025: We are hosting Vera Domingues, Editor for Nature Ecology and Evolution, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
19.05.2025: We are hosting Marco Davoli, Postdoctoral researcher at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
14.04.2025: We are hosting Himani Sachveda, Assistant Professor at the Mathematics Bioscience Group , University of Vienna, Austria, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
31.03.2025: We are hosting Alexander Zarebski, Senior Research Associate at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, UK, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
26.03.2025: We are hosting Piyanun Harnpicharnchai, Researcher at the National Science and Technology Development Agency, Thailand, for a BTE seminar titled “Fungal communities useful for assessment of river biodiversity and water quality”.
25.03.2025: We are hosting Pleuni Pennings, Professor in the department of Biology, San Francisco State University, USA, for an IEE seminar titled “Why are not all E coli resistant to antibiotics?”.
10.03.2025: We are hosting Lucy Lansch-Justen, former lab member and PhD student in the Alexander group at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, UK, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
01-04.03.2025: The lab is actively participating at the Gordon Research conference and seminar in Speciation in California, USA: Julio is giving a talk, and presenting a poster.
26.02.2025: We are hosting Jasmine Ono, Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK, for a BTE seminar titled “The genetics of speciation in budding yeasts”.
25.02.2025: We are hosting Rike Stelkens, Associate Professor in Population Genetics, Stockholm University, Sweden, for an IEE seminar titled “Yeast as a model system for the evolution of thermal adaptation and ecology-driven reproductive isolation”.
18.02.2025: We are hosting Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen, Postdoctoral Researcher at Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zürich, for an IEE seminar titled “What can reptiles say about the evolution of language? The importance of non-model species on broad evolutionary studies”.
13-14.02.2025: The lab is actively participating at the Biology 25 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland: Loraine is giving a talk, and Julio, Russ, and Ianis are presenting a poster
20.01.2025: We are hosting Malvika Srivastava , Postdoctoral Researcher in the Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology Lab, University of Lausanne, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
01.01.2025: Welcome to our new PhD student, Ianis Vilela