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Lab News Feed
Upcoming events
24.04.2024: We are hosting Michael Gerth, leader of the Symbiont Evolution group at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig, Germany, as an invited speaker for the BTE Spring seminar to give a talk about “Host shifts and the evolution of arthropod symbionts”.
13.05.2024: We are hosting Florian Labourel, Postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratoirde de Chimie Bactérienne, Marseille, France, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
Past events
12.04.2024 We congratulate Loraine from our group and Flávia Schlichta, for obtaining a grant from the Equal Opportunity Commission of the Faculty of Science at the University of Bern, to have a workshop on “Gender and Diversity in Academia: What’s My Share?” that will take place in the IEE on 12.04.2024 and is open for students of all levels in the Biology Department. Signup here
08.04.2024: We are hosting Pooja Singh, Postdoctoral researcher in the Aquatic Ecology & Evolution lab, University of Bern, and EAWAG as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
11.03.2024: We are hosting Thomas Flatt, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Fribourg, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting to give a talk about “Unravelling How Balancing Selection Maintains Inversion Polymorphism”
04.03.2024: We are hosting Ksenia Khudiakova, PhD student in the Barton Group, Institude of Science and Technology, Austria, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting to give a talk about “The impact of sign epistasis on the maintenance of genetic diversity”
05.02.2024: We are hosting Magdalena Bohutinska, Marie Curie Global Postdoctoral fellow in the Evolutionary Ecology lab, University of Bern, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting to give a talk about “Genetics of repeated adaptation in alpine Arabidopsis and beyond”
18-19.01.2024: The lab is actively participating at the Biology 24 conference in Zurich, Switzerland: Russ is giving a talk, and Julio and Loraine are presenting a poster
10.01.2024: Welcome to our new postdoctoral researcher, Catalina Chaparro Pedraza
01.01.2024: Welcome to our new associated postdoctoral researcher, Zachary Bailey, working mainly in the Terrestial ecology group at the University of Bern.
28.11.2023 - We are hosting Thomas Lenormand, CNRS researcher at the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), France, for an IEE seminar
27.11.2023 - We are hosting Gian Marco Palamara, Research associate at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
23.11.2023 - We congratulate Ana-Hermina Ghenu, PhD student in our lab, for succesfully defending her PhD titled “Fitness landscapes for predicting evolution between environments”
13.11.2023 - We are hosting Christian Tentellino, Postdoc at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
23.10.2023 - We are hosting Ailene McPherson, Assistant Professor in Mathematics at the Simon Fraser University, Canada, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
17.10.2023 - We are hosting Andrea Sweigart, Professor in the genetics department at the University of Georgia, USA, for an IEE seminar.
13.10.2023 - We congratulate Jessica Rieder, associated PhD student in our lab, for succesfully defending her PhD titled “Environmental DNA methods for monitoring and detection of aquatic bacteria in recitculating aquaculture systems”
09.10.2023 - We are hosting Vitor Sudbrack, PhD student in the Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology group at the University of Lausanne, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
16.08.2023 We are hosting Lindi Wahl, Professor in the applied mathematics department at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, for a seminar.
26.06.2023 We are hosting Swastik Patnaik, an associated master student in our lab, as an invited speaker for our Lab meeting
05.06.2023: We are hosting Charlotte Ng, Group Leader at the University of Bern, Switzerland, as invited speaker for our Lab meeting
31.05.2023 We congratulate Giulia Capella and Henrik Jasper for presenting their bachelor thesis
31.05.2023: We are hosting Adria LeBoeuf, Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, for a BTE Spring seminar
22.05.2023: We are hosting Justus Fink, PhD student in the Theoretical Biology group, ETH Zürich, as invited speaker for our Lab meeting
10.05.2023: We are hosting Inês Fragata, Researcher at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, for a BTE Spring seminar
26.04.2023: We are hosting Daven Presgraves, Professor at the University of Rochester, USA, for a BTE Spring seminar
05.04.2023: We are hosting Meike Wortel, Assistent Professor at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Netherlands, for a BTE Spring seminar
06.03.2023: We are hosting Judith Boumann, Post-Doc at the Interfaculty Platform for Data and Computational Science, University of Bern, as invited speaker for our Lab meeting
01.03.2023: We are hosting Catalina Chaparro Pedraza, Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the EAWAG, Switzerland, for a BTE Spring seminar
13.02.2023: We are hosting Alexandre Rego, PhD student in Rike Stelkens’ lab at the University of Stockholm, for a talk with title: “Dynamics and outcomes of adaptation to complex environments in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
01.02.2023: Welcome to our 2 new PhD students Julio Ayala and Russ Jasper
16.01.2023: We are hosting Stefan Struett, Post-Doc in CMPG lab (co-supervised by Excoffier & Peischl), University of Berne, as invited speaker for our Lab meeting to give a talk about “Demographic inference under weak negative selection without recombination”