Lab News Feed Archive
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.
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”
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