Two #PhD #defenses whithin a month - congratulations to Benjamin Wölfl (Hermisson lab, "A theory of oligogenic #adaptation of a quantitative trait") and Filip Wierzbicki (Robert Kofler lab, "Transposable elements and #piRNA clusters in Drosophila" #OffToNewAdventures

We're hiring #Postdocs #PhD students @ new #SFB Polygenic #Adaptation in #Vienna Work with Neda Barghi Joachim Hermisson @magnusnordborg Himani Sachdeva Robert Kofler Christian Schlötterer Nick Barton & Kelly Swarts #evolution #modeling #adaptation #popgen vetmeduni.ac.at/sfb-polygenic-…

The fate of flamenco in the simulans-clade. Happy we could to contribute to fantastic work by Dr. Sarah Signor

Deadline to apply for #Postdoc and #PhD in beautiful #Vienna coming up - looking forward to YOUR application by Sept. 17! #PolygenicAdaptation #research #Career RT appreciated

Starting over with our #popgen #webinar series, opening with our talented senior #PhD student Clara Groot Crego - sign up for seminar alerts and tune in for "Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of an adaptive radiation in #Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae)". forms.gle/N2mZ2QCdyzLFsV…

📅 Less than a week left until the EE course starts at PopGen Vienna! 📸 Full schedule below ❓More details and further updates: popgen-vienna.at/training/exper…

Call for #PhD students open! Apply by 1st of April to start your research career in #evolution #genetics in beautiful #Vienna among a fun international and interdisciplinary crowd of peers #evolVienna #bioinformatics #bigdata #Drosophila #adaptation #Arabidopsis #popgen please RT

yeeii very happy - our new work is out: P-element invasions could get out of (host) control - special thanks to the reviewers, in retrospect the comments were super helpful pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38490738/

Dear friends of transposons: Genome Biology launched a special collection on 'TEs in genome evolution' with me and Juergen Schmitz as guest editors. We look forward to receiving your exciting new work by Dec 21 :) please RT biomedcentral.com/collections/TE…

Check out this thread - Fantastic paper of our #PhD students Almorò and Riccardo Pianezza, and alumnus FilipWierzbicki - Robert Kofler group on fire

Tracking trait variance unlocks secrets of adaptation! How many loci contribute to the adaptive response of a selected trait? We show that the variance in gene expression over time holds the answer! #Genetics #Evolution #Drosophila academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-ar…

Congratulations to Nina Flowers in the Yamashita lab for her successful #PhD #defense, "Feeding behavior of dry forest lemurs and monitoring of threats to their habitats" 👏👏

This magazine article on cockroach evolution using museum specimens featured #PhD student Sarah Saadain and her advisor Robert Kofler. In German: spektrum.de/kolumne/evolut… Vetmeduni

Call for #PhD students open! Apply by 14th of Mar to start your research career in #evolution #genetics in beautiful #Vienna among a fun international and interdisciplinary crowd of peers #evolVienna #bioinformatics #bigdata #Drosophila #adaptation #popgen please RT