Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser

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.

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

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...

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!

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 .

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

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,

Swiss Zebrafish Meeting. If you could not join, you can at least check the abstractbook - now online!
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#EPIMAR2025 - beautiful place @Institut de Ciències Del Mar @Barcelona, great people, open community, fascinating research 🧬 🌎 🧪 🥼 🐟 🪸 🌊

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! 🚂 🧪 🧬 ☁️ 🌍

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...

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?
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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...

The gobies keep on giving… preprint on success factors for id/td research is now available @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social.
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#epimar #epimar2025 and now the program is out! Looking forward to the trip to Barcelona :) 🐟 🧬 🌍 🌊

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

(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.

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

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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...

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

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

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,

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

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!

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#fish #3R #welfare #experiment

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

Velvet ant - Wikipedia

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_...

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<

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

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

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

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

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

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

My copy arrived last week, and I am loving this book so much so far 😍 it’s “every master student in evolutionary biology should have read this” material.

a man in a purple shirt standing next to a bed ALT: a man in a purple shirt standing next to a bed

My current network is weirdly neuro-science-heavy. Where are the evolutionary biologists? Whom should I follow? Which channels should I use?

Panorama view onto the old town of Bern and the alps behind it on a sunny day.

The Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT):

APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩‍💻

APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾‍🔬

More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

Application deadline: 1 March 2025

The afternoon is spent researching the literature on the ethics of #epigenetics, public perception and education, medical applications etc. The shared @mendeley_com library and the whiteboards start to fill up!

…but what do participants think about #epigenetics? #Rigiworkshop2024 who catches the hedgehog shares their view!