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Welcome to the web page of the Division Theoretical Ecology and Evolution at the University of Bern. Here you can follow the latest lab news (below) or learn more about our team members, research, publications and more!
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Upcoming events
18.11.2024: We are hosting Remo Ryser, group leader in the Institute of Plant Sciences, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
Past events
04.11.2024: We are hosting Linh Phuong Nguyen, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Theoretical Ecology and Evolution group, University of Fribourg, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
15.10.2024 - We are hosting Brandon Ogbunu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, for an IEE seminar titled “Context & constraint in complex biological systems: Lessons from epidemiology”
23.09.2024: We are hosting Sergey Kryazhimskiy, Associate Professor in Evolutionary Systems Biology at the University of Californa, San Diego, for a talk about “Emerging regularities in the effects of mutations on microbial phenotypes and fitness”.
27-29.07.2024: The lab is participating in the Evolution meeting in Montreal: Russ (27.07 at 09:30), Loraine (29.07 at 09:45), and Suman (27.07 at 16:45) are giving talks.
16-17.07.2024: The lab is participating in the Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution (MMEE) conference in Vienna: Julio (16.07 at 13:30), Loïc (17.07 at 10:25) and Claudia (19.07 at 15:15) are giving talks.
10.07.2024: The lab is participating in the SMBE meeting in Puerto Vallarta: Mado (10.07) is presenting a poster.
17.06.2024: We are hosting Nehemiah Ongeso, Research Fellow in the Computational and Molecular Population Genetics (CMPG) lab, University of Bern, for a talk about “Genes telling the story of our ancestors”.
03.06.2024: We are hosting Sara Dal Cengio, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Physics, at the University of Grenoble Alpes, France, as an invited speaker.
23.05.2024 We are hosting Augustin Fragniere, Deputy Director of the Competence Centre in Sustainability at University of Lausanne, for a BTE seminar entitled “Should academics engage in activism and advocacy? Insights from a collective reflection at the University of Lausanne”.
21.05.2024 Congratulations to Marco Louro on successfully defending his PhD entitled “Population dynamics of centrosome amplification”! Marco was co-supervised by Monica Bettencourt-Dias (Gulbenkian Science Institute) and Claudia.
13.05.2024: We are hosting Florian Labourel, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Marseille, France, as an invited speaker.
24.04.2024: We are hosting Michael Gerth, leader of the Symbiont Evolution Group at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig, Germany, for the BTE Spring seminar to talk about “Host shifts and the evolution of arthropod symbionts”.
12.04.2024 Congratulations to Loraine from our group and Flávia Schlichta from the CMPG Group on 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 at all levels in the Department of Biology! Sign up 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.