Ladies and Gentlemen, Dr Chmielewski!
Long awaited day in the lab – we can proudly and loudly celebrate PhD defense. In the thesis entitled “The genomics of sexual selection in the bulb mite, Rhizoglyphus robini” …
News and jobs
Stipend for PhD student
We offer a stipend for 12 months to a student starting from 1st October 2024 in NCN-funded project aiming to investigate coevolution between Lime disease agent Borrelia afzelli and its …
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 …
Karolina defends PhD
On Wednesday ,18th of January 2023, Karolina defended PhD thesis entitled Genetic predictors and fitness consequences of male attractiveness in the guppy Poecilia reticulata. In her PhD, Karolina conducted an experiment on …
Genomic evidence for good genes effects in sexual selection
In our recent paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution (link here) we provide genomic evidence from mites with sexually selected weapon that this costly trait captures genome-wide variation and facilitates the …
Stipend for a student
We offer a stipend of 3000PLN for 12 months to a student starting, ideally from 1st August 2022 in NCN-funded project aiming to investigate coevolution between Lime disease agent Borrelia …
Negative frequency-dependent selection on MHC uncovered by an emergent parasite
High polymorphism of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes that encode proteins crucial for adaptive immunity of vertebrates have been long hypothesized to be maintained by negative frequency-dependent selection resulting from …
Postoc for Ukrainian researchers
Postdoc offer for Ukrainian evolutionary biologist or immune-geneticist: my lab www.evobio.home.amu.edu.pl can now offer one-year position owing to and initiative from our founding agency www.ncn.gov.pl. The requirement is that s/je …
Post Doc available: experimental evolution
Post-doc position in evolutionary biology is available for three years, preferably starting February-March 2022 but subject to negotiations, in a project “Sex, aggression and ecology – how sexual selection alters …
Post-doc and PhD studentship in evolutionary immunogenetics
Post-doc and PhD positions are available in NCN-funded project aiming to investigate coevolution between Lime disease agent Borrelia afzelli and its rodent host, at the level of genes. Starting date …