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 …
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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 …
International Darwin Day
Darwin Day is an international event organized since 2009 to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, and author of the theory of evolution. Darwin …
Karl Phillips Course on Statistics
In February we gladly hosted Dr. Karl Phillips from the University of Cork, Ireland. Karl, a former PostDoc from our group, taught a course in statistics for Ph.D. students from …
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, …