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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Jul 23

doi.org/10.1111/1365.... Recommended read for all epi-evo-eco folks. #epigenetics #evolution #ecology #plasticity 🧬 🌍 🧪 🔬

Harbingers of change: Towards a mechanistic understanding of anticipatory plasticity in animal systems

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Jul 13

the #salmonid #brown #trout features #hatchery-induced gene expression in #immune cells. This may explain some issues in #stocking programs. Also: #orthologs with contrasting expression patterns, indicating functional divergence! Also: novel #markers for immune cell subtypes for qPCR!

Single-cell analysis of a salmonid immune system (brown trout Salmo trutta) reveals evolutionary divergence and hatchery-induced transcriptional reprogramming

Vertebrate immune systems exhibit striking evolutionary diversity, yet our understanding remains biased toward mammalian models. Here, we generate a single-cell atlas of immune cells from the ecologic...

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Jul 2

Screaming into the blue void: anyone out there interested in some long-read #pacbio #european #wolf #sequence data? We have too much data from a pilot to not use, but it is too little data to assemble a #T2T on our own. Open to #collaboration. Get in touch!

a wolf is standing in the snow with its mouth open and looking at the camera .

ALT: a wolf is standing in the snow with its mouth open and looking at the camera .

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Jun 5

A new hymn for cellular biology www.facebook.com/share/r/1AVK...
#cellbiology 🧪 🧬

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Jun 5

Swiss Zebrafish Meeting. If you could not join, you can at least check the abstractbook - now online!
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🐟 🧬 🔬 🧪

17th Annual Swiss Zebrafish Meeting – Bern, June 5th 2025

Overview The Swiss Zebrafish Meeting is an annual conference that brings together researchers from various fields of developmental biology, biomedical research,

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · May 27

#EPIMAR2025 - beautiful place @Institut de Ciències Del Mar @Barcelona, great people, open community, fascinating research 🧬 🌎 🧪 🥼 🐟 🪸 🌊

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · May 20

That’s a first for me: traveling to @eseb2025.bsky.social by train from Bern together with @cbank.bsky.social. Let’s hope all those connections hold, and I won’t hate myself for saving all that CO2! 🚂 🧪 🧬 ☁️ 🌍

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · May 10

And then there is this preprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, one I’m pretty excited about. A single cell sequencing atlas of a salmonid immune system, from brown trout. Weird B-cell/Neutrophil crossover cluster - what do immunologists think?
🐟 🔬 🧬 🦠 🧫 🌎

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals influences of rearing environment on cellular immunity in brown trout (Salmo trutta)

The ability to profile gene expression at the single cell level can offer unprecedented insight into the vertebrate immune system. While such profiling of non-model organisms can present unique challe...

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · May 10

The gobies keep on giving… preprint on success factors for id/td research is now available @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social.
🐟 🌍 🔬 🧬

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Success factors for inter- and transdisciplinary research. Lessons from a decade of studies on invasive aquatic species.

Environmental research aimed at informing management and policy must navigate a complex landscape. It has to balance scientific rigor with societal relevance, and academic output with practical impact...

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Mar 25

#epimar #epimar2025 and now the program is out! Looking forward to the trip to Barcelona :) 🐟 🧬 🌍 🌊

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Mar 25

Phd opportunity on soil health in Portugal. Can vouch for the PI. 🪱 🌍 🦠

Job Opportunity Benchmarks Project: PhD Researcher

Join the BENCHMARKS Project as a Researcher in Soil Health & Data Analysis.

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Mar 13

Everyone knows that Max Planck PIs are not chosen for their leadership abilities. @maxplanck.de

www.spiegel.de/panorama/bil...

(S+) Machtmissbrauch: Junge Forscher erheben Vorwürfe gegen Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Nachwuchsforscher berichten, sie seien an Max-Planck-Instituten beleidigt und angeschrien worden. Kaum jemand wagte, sich offiziell zu beschweren.

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Mar 5

Frankenstein matrices: Among-population life history variation affects the reliability and predictions of demographic models doi.org/10.1111/1365...
🐸 🌎 #ecology #conservation

Frankenstein matrices: Among‐population life history variation affects the reliability and predictions of demographic models

Using a real-world dataset of 18 populations of an endangered amphibian across multiple habitats, we demonstrated that the employment of hybrid matrices (those matrices created borrowing estimates fr...

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Feb 25

Yay #EPIMAR2025 I’m coming! Looking forward to discuss our zebrafish single oocyte data with you! 🌎 🐟 #evodevo #RNA 🧬 #inheritance

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Feb 23

swisszebra2025.ch Join us in #Bern #Switzerland in June for a regional #zebrafish meeting! #research #fish #development #epigenetics #genetics #heart #cardiology #RNA

17th Annual Swiss Zebrafish Meeting – Bern, June 5th 2025

Overview The Swiss Zebrafish Meeting is an annual conference that brings together researchers from various fields of developmental biology, biomedical research,

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Dec 13

Finally out! “An adaptable user-friendly score sheet to assess experimental fish welfare”.

We are currently working on improvements, so your feedback - from as many settings and species as possible - is GREATLY appreciated!

doi.org/10.1177/0023...

#fish #3R #welfare #experiment

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Dec 8

#tenuretrack #job #conservation #biology #ecology #biodiversity
Inclusive work environment.
High quality of life in Bern, Switzerland.
www.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/job...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for Conservation Biology (80-100%)

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Dec 8

#job #ecology #evolution #theory #models #mathematics
Inclusive work environment.
High quality of life in Bern, Switzerland.
www.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/job...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for Mathematical or Computational Ecology (80-100%)

www.iee.unibe.ch

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Dec 7

A picture of a panda ant on my hospital floor has sent me down the rabbit hole of velvet ants today. THE BEAUTY!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_...

Velvet ant - Wikipedia

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Nov 26

This master student teaches me so much! She’s on the job market. Skills include #ecology #evolution #wildlife #bioinformatics #fieldwork #molecular #labwork and #modeling, an insane amount of curiosity, and an incredible ability to teach herself using available and new resources. >Marion Meli<

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Nov 25

Also anything with the Brenner character by Wolf Haas, but I’m not sure it’s translated from German.

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Nov 25

Ah! I thought they might not be “real world” enough.

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Nov 25

Does the discworld series count? 🤨 not a novel I guess.

a turtle with elephants on its back and a flat earth on top

ALT: a turtle with elephants on its back and a flat earth on top

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Nov 22

First data discussions on the huuuuge experiment that will teach us a lot about inducible variation & heritability. #adaptation #maternal #inheritance #environment #RNAseq #oocyte

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Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser @adrian-kalchhauser.bsky.social · Nov 20

I’d consider myself a genomics and evolution person, could you kindly include me?

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