Institute of Environmental Sciences JU

Welcome!

Welcome!

All welcome! We are starting this week!

Take and read :)

Zapraszamy!

praca.bip.uj.edu.pl/documents/14...

JOB alert!

We are seeking candidates for the position of Research Assistant within the project “Understanding pesticide-Pollinator interactions to support EU Environmental Risk Assessment and policy”. Link and details below.

Congratulations Junchen Deng! Fantastic PhD defence!
Congratulation also to the supervisor form our Institute @sympiotr.bsky.social

Tropical Ecology Field Course :)

The spores fall on other insects, thus spreading a “massive zombie attack”. So far, the fungus has not been observed to turn course participants into zombies, but who knows ...

Once infected, it takes over the behaviour of the victim, forcing it to bite into a leaf. It then devours the immobilised victim from the inside, and scatters spores from the threadlike mycelium protruding outwards.

In addition to a similar climate (rain, humidity and heat) and type of environment (rainforest), in all these places our students may encounter an unusual “zombie” fungus that attacks insects.

For almost 20 years, the Jagiellonian University has been organising a tropical ecology field course for its students. We started in Venezuela and now the courses take place alternately in Borneo and Costa Rica.

A new paper by our team @ioes-ju.bsky.social just published in J Invert Pathol @jinvertpathol.bsky.social!

In Diptera-#Entomophthora system, we show how simultaneously #sequencing #insect, #fungal #pathogen, and bacterial marker genes can aid biodiversity and biological interaction discovery.

and several posters

Julia Morales García: Polymorphic inversions distort selection scans: selection inference in the extremely complex genomic landscape of the spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus)

They presented two talks:
@szymekdr.bsky.social : The variance world: the era of location-scale models in evolutionary meta-science

It's been a busy summer for our scientists. Several of them attended the #ESEB2025 conference in Barcelona.

It is a huge enterprise that combines data from private databases, published articles, so-called grey literature, and biodiversity databases. This online dataset is a real treasure trove for future research on: biodiversity, biogeography and conservation of these extremely important organisms.

Anna Maria Łabęcka, together with numerous European freshwater bivalve researchers, has developed a comprehensive atlas of freshwater bivalve distribution in the Western Palearctic!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Praca przygotowana pod kierunkiem Prof. Dr hab. Wiesława Babika w Instytucie Nauk o Środowisku WB UJ. Teraz planuje kontynuować naukę za granicą na kierunku biologia molekularna.

Trzymamy kciuki za dalsze sukcesy!

Krystian Budzik studiował Biologię - PERSPEKTYWicznY kierunek!
Krystian właśnie obronił pracę licencjacką pt. “Identification, ontogenetic and tissue expression profile of Toll-like receptors (TLR) in the Iberian ribbed newt (Pleurodeles waltl)”

The "Mayday, plastic threat!" project implemented by the Socio-Environmental Research Team is coming to an end, so below we present you the latest posters produced as part of the project.

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🐝🌱 #PollinatorWeek continues!
Today we’re heading to @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social  @ioes-ju.bsky.social , where @michalfilipiak.bsky.social  & @filipiakzuza.bsky.social  are looking at bees through a different lens — not just pollination, but nutrient cycling. ♻️🌍

#PollinatorsWeaveConnections

The very first paper from my lab in Krakow is now available here: DOI: 10.3791/68207 Yes, it is a protocol, BUT it is also a GREAT protocol! Congrats to the first author @navinafrancis.bsky.social! Stay tuned, an update on the clones is coming soon!

Supervisors: Prof. dr hab. Paweł Koteja and Dr. Edyta Sadowska

Congratulations to Alaa Hseiky! Fantastic PhD defence :) “Experimental evolution of the thrifty and spendthrift genotypes, and its consequence for susceptibility to adverse effects of “Western diet”: insights from a selection experiment on bank voles”