New assistant professor in the group
Our own dr Jonathan Parrett has been recently employed at the Adam Mickiewicz University as an assistant professor. Jon did his PhD at the Queen Mary University of London, where …
Workshop on Genomics in Cesky Krumlov
Jon and Sebastian have recently participated in an intensive, 2-weeks genomics workshop held in a beautiful, medieval town Cesky Krumlov. Topics covered by the workshop include UNIX, R, sequencing technologies, alignment, …
Sexual selection predicts the persistence of populations within altered environments
The effect of sexual selection on species persistence remains unclear. A fascinating article, recently published in Ecology Letters, suggests that dung beetle species with more competition among males for mating …
PhD position: Genomics of invasion in Trinidadian guppies
The Evolutionary Biology Group is recruiting a PhD student for an NCN-funded project that will investigate genomic consequences of artificial introduction, population expansion and population replacement in the Trinidadian guppy. …
Magdalena Migalska defends her thesis!
Magdalena Migalska defended her PhD entitled “MHC genes copy number and TCR repertoire size in the bank vole: diversity, selection and the optimal hypothesis”. The thesis was submitted as a …