Postdoc
We are offering a Post-Doc in an NCN-funded project aiming to investigate coevolution between Lime disease agent, Borrelia afzelli, and its rodent host a the level of genes. The candidate …
PhD student
PhD position in evolutionary biology is available for four years starting from 1st October 2020 in NCN-funded project aiming to investigate coevolution between Lime disease agent Borrelia afzelli and its …
Mating preferences can drive expansion or contraction of major histocompatibility complex gene family.
In a series of commuter simulations described in a paper recently published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Jacek Radwan and Piotr Benkowski reveal unexpected potential of MHC-based mating …
Advances in the Evolutionary Understanding of MHC Polymorphism
A paper by Radwan et al. (2020) published in Trends in Genetics reviews mechanisms explaining landmark features of MHC genes, including their extreme polymorphism, and identifies open questions in MHC …