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The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional PhD program in evolutionary and population genetics in Vienna, Austria
Our #PhD students are looking forward to #Vienna local speaker Nicholas Irwin tomorrow for our #PopGen seminar series. He is talking about "Horizontal gene transfer as a driver of eukaryotic complexity". Streaming signup and term schedule: www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
01.12.2025 09:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our #PhD students are excited to hear Jessica Abbott
speak about "Understanding sex chromosomes using experimental evolution" for our #PopGen seminar series tomorrow. See full schedule and sign up for streaming links here popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
Our #PopGen #PhD students look forward to em. Günter Wagner's talk tomorrow: "The evolution of the fetal-maternal relationship in mammals."
Streaming signup and term schedule here: popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
The #PopGen #PhD students are excited to hear Dieter Ebert´s talk tomorrow: "Red Queen dynamics from months to megayears: Selection for extreme genetic diversity". Term schedule and streaming signup: popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
27.10.2025 11:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Our #PhD students are looking forward to meeting with tomorrow's
#PopGen seminar speaker
@hunemeier.bsky.social She kicks off the term by talking about "Evolutionary Genomics of American Populations".
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
#evolution
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/
02.09.2025 08:59 — 👍 15 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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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.
genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...
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
25.06.2025 09:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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/
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.
academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
#evolution #drosophila
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/
Take a look at our SFB Polygenic Adaptation Distinguished Speaker Lauren McIntyre - PopGen Vienna talk
youtu.be/AC7nIii7ugo?... #evolution
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
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/
05.06.2025 09:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Watch our recent PopGen Vienna talk @aprilwei.bsky.social
youtu.be/M0kE9IkbE-Q
@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/
02.06.2025 08:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
Watch our PopGen Vienna talk - Filipa Sousa
youtu.be/Nv_O_Vcutl8?...
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
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/
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
12.05.2025 08:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations 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
05.05.2025 11:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
05.05.2025 08:20 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker M. Kaltenpoth@kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social 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
28.04.2025 09:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
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
16.04.2025 10:00 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Dear Pleuni, please scroll down the website, you can find the announcement below general information and schedule thank you
14.04.2025 08:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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/
Congratulations to PopGen PhD student Sarah Saadain!
#evolution #outreach @nhmwien.bsky.social
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/
07.04.2025 09:19 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
