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Upcoming events
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.
Past events
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
27.11.2024: We are hosting Christoph Netz, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Behavioural Ecology Division, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
18.11.2024: We are hosting Remo Ryser, group leader in the Institute of Plant Sciences, as an invited speaker for our lab meeting.
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 titled “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 titled “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.