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October 2019
We recently enoyed the yearly PhD retreat at Altaussee for talks, discussing, hiking and socialising with 38 participants including associated members and guests.
Link to group foto 2
September 2019
Thomas Wolfe 3 and Sabine Felkel 4 successfully defended their PhD theses - Congratulations and all the best for your postdoc research!
September 2019
New pre-print by Langmüller and Schlötterer available: Low concordance of short-term and long-term selection responses in experimental Drosophila populations.
Link to publication 5
August 2019
The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics is organizing an experimental evolution workshop in December. Application is open until end of September 2019.
Link to "Experimental evolution: bringing theory and practice together" 6
August 2019
Three new papers have just come out:
Vlachos, Burny, Pelizzola, Borges, Futschik, Kofler and Schlötterer: Benchmarking software tools for detecting and quantifying selection in evolve and resequencing studies.
Link to publication 7
Vlachos and Kofler: Optimizing the power to identify the genetic basis of complex traits with Evolve and Resequence studies.
Link to publication 8
Borges, Szöllősi and Kosiol: Quantifying GC-biased gene conversion in great ape genomes using polymorphism-aware models.
Link to publication 9
August 2019
Three bioRxiv pre-prints have been published:
Weilguny, Vlachos, Selvaraju and Kofler: Reconstructing the invasion route of DNA transposons using extant population samples.
Link to publication 10
Christodoulaki, Barghi and Schlötterer: Distance to trait optimum is a crucial factor determining the genomic signature of polygenic adaptation.
Link to publication 11
Burny, Nolte, Nouhaud, Dolezal and Schlötterer: Secondary evolve and re-sequencing: an experimental confirmation of putative selection targets without phenotyping.
Link to publication 12
July 2019
Review online by Lirakis and Magalhães: Does experimental evolution produce better biological control agents?
Link to publication 13
July 2019
Two new pre-prints are now available:
Barghi and Schlötterer: Distinct patterns of selective sweeps and polygenic adaptation.
Link to publication 14
Otte and Schlötterer: A generalised approach to detect selected haplotype blocks in Evolve and Resequence experiments.
Link to publication 15
June 2019
Paper out by Borges, Szöllősi and Kosiol: Quantifying GC-biased gene conversion in great ape genomes using polymorphism-aware models.
Link to publication 16
May 2019
New collaborative pre-print by Vlachos, Burny, Pelizzola, Borges, Futschik, Kofler and Schlötterer: Benchmarking software tools for detecting and quantifying selection in Evolve and Resequencing studies.
Link to publication 17
May 2019
Paper by Lukas Weilguny and Robert Kofler is now published in Molecular Ecology Resources: "DeviaTE: Assembly‐free analysis and visualization of mobile genetic element composition".
Link to publication 18
April 2019
New publication by Felkel et al.: "The horse Y chromosome as an informative marker for tracing sire lines."
Link to publication 19
April 2019
Just out in GBE: A recombination map of D. simulans - new paper by James M Howie, Rupert Mazzucco, Thomas Taus, Viola Nolte and Christian Schlötterer: "DNA motifs are not general predictors of recombination in two Drosophila sister species".
Link to publication 20
April 2019
Robert Kolfer just published "Dynamics of transposable element invasions with piRNA clusters" in MBE.
Link to publication 21
Link to press release 22
April 2019
Congratulations to our Alumna Claudia Bank 23, group leader of the Evolutionary Dynamics laboratory 24 at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), on winning the SMBE Allan Wilson Junior Award 2019!
March 2019
PLoS Genetics paper published by Höllinger, Pennings and Hermisson: Polygenic adaptation: From sweeps to subtle frequency shifts.
Link to publication 25
March 2019
New pre-print by Jakšić, Karner, Nolte, Hsu, Barghi, Mallard, Otte, Svečnjak, Senti and Schlötterer: Neuronal function and dopamine signaling evolve at high temperature in Drosophila.
Link to publication 26
March 2019
Congratulations to alumnus Jun Chen on his faculty position at the Department of Ecology of Zhejiang University!
March 2019
New pre-print by Vlachos and Kofler: Optimizing the power to identify the genetic basis of complex traits with Evolve and Resequence studies.
Link to publication 27
February 2019
Barghi and Schlötterer published a perspective on the shift in data analysis from SNPs to selected haplotype blocks in Molecular Ecology.
Link to publication 28
February 2019
Bergman and Eyre-Walker just published in Molecular Biology and Evolution: "Does adaptive protein evolution proceed by large or small steps at the amino acid level?"
Link to publication 29
Febrary 2019
New publication by Barghi, Tobler, Nolte, Jakšić, Mallard, Otte, Dolezal, Taus, Kofler and Schlötterer: "Genetic redundancy fuels polygenic adaptation in Drosophila" in PLOS Biology.
Link to publication 30
Link to press release 31
February 2019
Paper just out by Hsu, Jakšić, Nolte, Barghi, Mallard, Otte and Schlötterer in Genes: "A 24 h age difference causes twice as much gene expression divergence as 100 generations of adaptation to a novel environment."
Link to publication 32
January 2019
Phd student Anna Maria Langmüller 33, currently at Cornell Univ., is co-author of a new Genetics paper: "Maximum likelihood estimation of fitness components in experimental evolution."
Link to publication 34
January 2019
Ilse Höllinger 35 just defended her thesis "Mathematical models of speciation and polygenic adaptation" at University of Vienna. Congratulations, and all the best for your further career!
January 2019
Robert Kofler has become editorial board member of Genes 36 (Section 'Population and Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics').
Selected press releases
2019
Deleterious DNA often falls into a trap 38
2019
Vorteilhafte Mutationen im Überfluss 39
2019
Baboons provide new insights into the evolution of the genome 40
2018
Fruit flies adapt to climate change through metabolic rewiring 41
2018
Alumnus Dominik Schrempf received Austria's highest possible honor for excellent study success 42
2017
New genes on “deteriorating” Y chromosome 43
Party discipline for jumping genes 44
2016
New software helps to find out why “jumping genes” are activated 45
2015
DNA with self-interest. Transposable element conquers new strain of fly 46
Living in the genetic comfort zone: how to avoid the influence of genetic variation 47
2014
High-speed evolution in the lab – Geneticists evaluate cost-effective genome analysis 49
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Press information
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Press information of the Vetmeduni Vienna in German 62 and English 63