PhD available 1st Oct 2021
PhD position in eco-evolutionary modelling is available for four years starting from 1st October 2021 in a project “Sex, aggression and ecology – how sexual selection alters population dynamics?”. This …
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Spread of parasitic frozen hybrids on the Caribbean island
To understand the dynamics of host-pathogens coevolution and its epidemiological consequences, we need to know how new races of invasive parasites emerge. In our recent work, published in Molecular Ecology …
Foundation for Polish Science Prize for Jacek Radwan
Jacek Radwan received the 2020 Foundation for Polish Science Prize in the field of life and earth sciences for demonstrating the role of evolutionary mechanism for optimizing genetic variability in shaping …
Student – bioinformatician
We offer a stipend of 1500PLN for 8 months to a student startingideally from 1st November 2020 in NCN-funded project aiming to investigate coevolution between Lime disease agent Borrelia afzelli …
Aleksandra Łukasiewicz defended PhD thesis!
On the 29th of September Aleksandra Łukasiewicz successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Factors affecting the intensity of sexual conflict in acardi mites (Acari: Acaridae)”. Ola made a tremendous work, …
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 …
Genomic signatures of adaptive evolution in Gyrodactylus bullatarudis
Genomic analyses reveal adaptive evolution of the fish ectoparasite, Gyrodactylus bullatarudis that is shaped by the combination of gene duplications, divergence and recombination. In a paper by Konczal et al. published …
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 …