Theoretical Ecology and Evolution

The Bank lab @ Universität Bern

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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

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.


28.11.2023 - We are hosting Thomas Lenormand, CNRS researcher at the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), France, for an IEE seminar


Past events

16.08.2023 We are hosting Lindi Wahl, professor in the applied mathematics department in 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”


12.12.2022: We are hosting Peter Lenart, Post-Doc in Ben Towbin’s group at the Cell Biology Institute, University of Bern, as invited speaker for our Lab meeting


08.11.2022: We are hosting Andreas Wagner, Professor at the University of Zürich, Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Switzerland, for an IEE seminar on “A highly rugged yet easily navigable adaptive landscape of antibiotic resistance”


31.10.2022: We are hosting Caroline Daniel, PhD student at Allan Ecology Group, University of Bern, as invited speaker for our Lab meeting with title “From competition to coexistence, going beyond the pairwise framework.”


25.10.2022: We are hosting Helen Alexander, Group Leader at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, for an IEE seminar on “Roles of demographic stochasticity and ecology in the emergence of drug resistance”


01.10.2022: Welcome to our new PhD Loraine Hablützel


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