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Upcoming events
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 are hosting Adria LeBoeuf, Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, for a BTE Spring seminar
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
24.04.2023: We are hosting Daniel Romero Mujalli, Post-Doc at the University of Greifswald, Germany, as invited speaker for our Lab meeting
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
Past events
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
14-19.08.2022: The lab is actively participating at the ESEB meeting in Prague: André, LiJuan, Loïc, and Mado are giving a talk, Hermina and Ana are presenting a poster
05.07.2022: Jessica’s, Mado’s, and Claudia’s paper on “Metagenomics and metabarcoding experimental choices and their impact on microbial community characterization in freshwater recirculating aquaculture systems” is now online in bioRxiv
27.06.2022: Claudia’s and Ana’s paper on “Evolutionary models predict potential mechanisms of escape from mutational meltdown” is now online in bioRxiv
25.06.2022: Hermina’s, Loïc’s, and Claudia’s paper on “Challenges and pitfalls of inferring microbial growth rates from lab cultures” is now online in bioRxiv
13-17.06.2022: Loïc gives a virtual talk at the Models in Population Dynamics, Ecology and Evolution meeting MPDEE2022, Torino, Italy with title: “Evolutionary rescue in fluctuating environment”
14-15.06.2022: The lab is actively participating in the SIB days, the Swiss bioinformatics summit: Ana is co-chairing a session and Mado is selected for a 3’ pitch of her poster
02.06.2022: Claudia gives an interview about how “Time stands still for some creatures” in Horizons - The Swiss Research Magazine
01.06.2022: We are hosting Victor Boussange, PhD student in the Landscape Ecology Group at ETH Zürich and at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow & Landscape (WSL), Switzerland
31.05.2022: Loïc gives a talk at the iPOLS meeting at Montpellier, France with title: “Evolutionary rescue in fluctuating environment”
24.05.2022: We are hosting Chaitanya Gokhale, Group Leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany, for an IEE seminar on “The power of belief - how collective narratives catalyze cooperation”
19.05.2022: Welcome to Harsh B Gupta, who is joining the lab for a virtual summer internship during the next 2.5 months
18.05.2022: We are hosting Bahti Yilmaz, Ambizione Group Leader at the Mucosal Immunology Department, University of Bern, for a BTE Spring seminar
17.05.2022: Loïc is hosting François Blanquart, CNRS Group Leader at the Collège de France, for an IEE seminar
11.05.2022: We are hosting Hannes Svardal, Head of Evolutionary Population Genomics, at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, for a BTE Spring seminar
03.05.2022: We are hosting Dave Johnson, Group Leader at the Department Environmental Microbiology, EAWAG, for a seminar
29.04.2022 Claudia’s review paper synthesizing “Epistasis and Adaptation on Fitness Landscapes” is now online as a preprint
18.04.2022 Dave’s paper “Effects of epistasis and recombination between vaccine-escape and virulence alleles on the dynamics of pathogen adaptation” has been published link
12.04.2022: We are hosting Massimo Amicone, PhD student at the Gulbenkian Science Institute in Oeiras, Portugal, for a seminar on “The role of competition in microbial evolution”
12.04.2022: We are co-hosting Sam Yeaman, Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, for a virtual IEE seminar on “The genetic basis of adaptation: constrained, flexible, or somewhere in between?”
06.04.2022: We are hosting Stefan Laurent, Group Leader at the MPIPZ, Germany, for a BTE Spring seminar
05.04.2022: We are hosting Joshua Ebner, PhD Candidate at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, for a seminar on “Proteome plasticity across temperature and environment”
30.03.2022: We are hosting Philine Feulner, Group Leader of Fish Genomics at EAWAG, for a BTE Spring seminar showing us “A Genomic Perspective on Speciation and Adaption in Alpine Whitefish”
28.03.2022: LiJuan’s and Claudia’s paper on “Imbalanced segregation of recombinant haplotypes in hybrid populations reveals inter- and intrachromosomal Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities” is published in PLOS Genetics
25.03.2022: Dave gives a talk at the Mathematical models in ecology and evolution conference at Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France with title: “Effects of epistasis and recombination between vaccine-escape and virulence alleles on the dynamics of pathogen adaptation”
22.03.2022: We are hosting Sam Yeaman, Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, for a discussion on “Quantifying how constraints limit the diversity of viable routes to adaptation”
09.03.2022: Claudia gives a talk at the University of Lausanne
03.03.2022: Claudia gives a virtual talk at the University of Exeter, UK
01.03.2022: We are hosting Marion Talbi, PhD Student at the Aquatic Ecology and Evolution group, University of Bern, for a seminar with the title: “Inference of recombination landscapes – from simulation to real data”
21.02.2022: Spring semester starts at the University of Bern
17.02.2022: Ana gives a talk at the Biology22 meeting in Basel with the title: “Mutagenic drugs consistently induce rapid mutational meltdown across several strains of laboratory-passed influenza A virus”
17.02.2022: Hermina gives a talk at the Biology22 meeting in Basel with the title: “Some fitness landscapes are surprisingly predictable across environments”
09.02.2022: Claudia gives a virtual talk at the Evolutionary Systems Biology Meeting with the title: “Epistasis and adaptation on rugged fitness landscapes”
11.01.2022: Claudia gives an interview about how “Evolution ‘Landscapes’ Predict What’s Next for COVID Virus” in Quantamagazine