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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Sep 2

The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (Sep-Jan). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

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Genetics Society UK @gensocuk.bsky.social · Jun 27

🧬Submit your abstract now – deadline Monday!

This meeting will bring together researchers interested in using ancient genomes to understand the role that migrations, introgression, adaptation & selection, have played in shaping human genetic variation and disease.

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Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine | Genetics Society

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the Autumn Meeting of the Genetics Society. This meeting will provide a unique forum to network and socialise with a wide cross-section of the ...

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Jun 25

Watch Margarida Matos talk "From nature to the lab: The role of history, chance and selection during adaptation to novel environments" here youtu.be/fP3MV4YdwdY #evolution

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Jun 23

Our last #PopGen Seminar speaker of this term is Margarida Matos: "From nature to the lab: The role of history, chance and selection during adaptation to novel environments."Our #PhD students are excited to meet her!#evolution
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Jun 17

Could horizontal transfer be abundant not just in bacteria but also in eukaryotes? A recent work by Pianezza R, Haider A, Scarpa A, Signor S and Kofer R finds 3 HTs of transposons in a mere 30years.
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#evolution #drosophila

Spatio-temporal tracking of three novel transposable element invasions in Drosophila melanogaster over the last 30 years

Abstract. Transposable elements (TEs) are repetitive sequences capable of mobilizing within genomes, exerting a sigfinificant influence on evolution throug

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Jun 16

Our #PhD students are excited to hear @stschiff.bsky.social speak about "Spatial inference of population structure and prehistoric human mobility from ancient and modern #genomes" tomorrow for our #PopGen Seminar series.
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Jun 11

Take a look at our SFB Polygenic Adaptation Distinguished Speaker Lauren McIntyre - PopGen Vienna talk
youtu.be/AC7nIii7ugo?... #evolution

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Jun 10

Our students are excited for todays SFB Distinguished Speaker Lauren McIntyre
("Disentangling cis and trans effects: a novel crossing design") for our #PopGen seminar series. SFB website: vetmeduni.ac.at/sfb-polygeni...
Streaming signup and term schedule: #evolution

Vetmeduni: SFB_Polygenic_Adaptation

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Jun 5

Our students are excited for next Tuesdays SFB Distinguished Speaker Lauren McIntyre ("Disentangling cis and trans effects: a novel crossing design") for our #PopGen seminar series. SFB website: vetmeduni.ac.at/sfb-polygeni... Streaming signup and term schedule: www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

Vetmeduni: SFB_Polygenic_Adaptation

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Jun 4

Watch our recent PopGen Vienna talk @aprilwei.bsky.social
youtu.be/M0kE9IkbE-Q

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Jun 2

@aprilwei.bsky.social is tomorrow's #PopGen Seminar speaker. Our #PhD students look forward to hearing her talk on "Genomes as Graphs: Compressing, Utilizing, and Simulating Biobank-Scale Whole Genomes" and meeting her! Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · May 26

Our #PhD students look forward to meeting
@yun-s-song.bsky.social who is speaking in our #PopGen seminar series tomorrow! Title: "Learning and applying complex probability distributions over biological sequences." Full schedule and streaming details popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · May 21

Watch our PopGen Vienna talk - Filipa Sousa
youtu.be/Nv_O_Vcutl8?...

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · May 19

Parallel gene expression evolution declines with genetic divergence. In #Drosophila, we show that as divergence increases, adaptive expression responses become more heterogeneous—supp. the omnigenic model&highlighting the role of redundancy in #evolution
doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #PolygenicAdaptation

Reduced Parallel Gene Expression Evolution With Increasing Genetic Divergence—A Hallmark of Polygenic Adaptation

Parallel evolution, the repeated evolution of similar traits in independent lineages, is a topic of considerable interest in evolutionary biology. Although previous studies have focused on the parall...

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · May 19

Our #PhD students are excited for #Vienna local Filipa Sousa's @filipa-sousa.bsky.social talk for our #PopGen Seminar tomorrow: "Bioenergetics #Evolution: The link between Earth's and Life's history." Full schedule and streaming details at
www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · May 12

Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @lifeatthebench.bsky.social on May 13!She will tell us about "Understanding the predictability of #evolutionary trajectories using threespine stickleback".Schedule and streaming details www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · May 5

Congratulations to our #PhD student @philipphummer.bsky.social! He has been awarded with the SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award by @official-smbe.bsky.social #genomics #evolution

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · Apr 30

🪰 GSEA winner Philipp Hummer - PhD student @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social - is on today!

Philipp is working at the intersection of genomics, museum collections, insect evolution, and transposable elements.

More on Philipp ⬇️ and follow him: @philipphummer.bsky.social

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · May 5

Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @luisapallares.bsky.social on May 6!She will tell us about "Phenotypic robustness across the genotype-phenotype map, from genes to environment and back". Schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Apr 28

Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker M. [email protected] on April 29! He will tell us about "Microbial symbionts as sources of evolutionary innovations in beetles". Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Apr 17

Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @jmkreiner.bsky.social
on tuesday April 22! She will tell us about "The mode and tempo of genomic adaptation to contemporary agriculture". Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Apr 16

Call for #PhD students open! Apply by 14 May to start your research career in #evolution #genetics in beautiful #Vienna among a fun international and interdisciplinary crowd of peers #evolVienna #bioinformatics #bigdata #Drosophila #adaptation #popgen

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Apr 14

Dear Pleuni, please scroll down the website, you can find the announcement below general information and schedule thank you

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Apr 14

Our #PhD student Almorò Scarpa @almoroscarpa.bsky.social looks forward to #PopGen meeting tomorrow! He will tell us about "Two centuries of transposable element invasions in Drosophila melanogaster"
Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congratulations to PopGen PhD student Sarah Saadain!
#evolution #outreach @nhmwien.bsky.social

Robert Kofler @rokofler.bsky.social · Mar 27

Super proud of amazing PhD student Sarah Saadain winning the Carl von Schreibers prize with her cockroach project; Vetmeduni Wien and @nhmwien.bsky.social www.nhm-wien.ac.at/presse/press...

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Apr 7

Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @wenjuanma84.bsky.social tomorrow! She will tell us about "The #evolution of sex chromosomes and sex determination in frogs." Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

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