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March 2020
GBE paper accepted: Burny, Nolte, Nouhaud, Dolezal and Schlötterer:
Secondary evolve and re-sequencing: an experimental confirmation of putative selection targets without phenotyping. 2
February 2020
eLife paper out by Hsu, Jakšić, Nolte, Lirakis, Kofler, Barghi, Versace and Schlötterer: Rapid sex-specific adaptation to high temperature in Drosophila 3
Link to press release 4
February 2020
Congratulations to three alumni on their career advances:
Ana Marija Jakšić 5 (currently at Cornell Univ.) accepted a group leader position at the EPFL in Lausanne to work on experimental evolution of the cognitive brain in flies.
PopGen Vienna alumnus Christian Huber 6 (currently ARC DECRA fellow at the University of Adelaide) accepted a faculty position at Penn State.
Alumna Polina Novikova 7 (currently Postdoc at Ghent Univ.) will open her lab at MPIPZ in cologne in September.
February 2020
Papers out:
Borges and Kosiol in J. Theor. Biol.:
Consistency and identifiability of the polymorphism-aware phylogenetic models. 8
Spitzer, Pelizzola and Futschik in Annals of Applied Statistics:
Modifying the Chi-square and the CMH test for population genetic inference: adapting to over-dispersion. 9
January 2020
To conclude the old and welcome the new year, 34 members of the institute and the Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics had a fun and creative night out - we painted mugs for each other and enjoyed dinner together.
December 2019
PopGen Vienna faculty alumna Andrea Betancourt 10 (Univ. of Liverpool) was promoted to Professor! Congratulations, Andrea!
December 2019
Congratulations to Thomas Taus 11 who defended his PhD thesis successfully on December 18th, 2020: "Experimental Evolution with Drosophila simulans under Thermal Stress"
December 2019
PopGen Vienna alumnus Andrea Fulgione will start a group leader position at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne in 2020. Congratulations, Andrea!
PopGen Vienna alumnus Tom Hill, currently postdoctoral researcher at Rob Unckless' Lab (Univ. of Kansas) received the KU Research Postdoctoral Achievement Award. Congratulations! Read more here 12
December 2019
Students of the Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics organise the practical course "Experimental evolution: Bringing theory and practice together” from December 2 to 6, 2019 at the Vetmeduni Vienna.
Link to course website 13
Link to news feature Vetmeduni 14
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 15
September 2019
Thomas Wolfe 16 and Sabine Felkel 17 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 18
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" 13
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 19
Vlachos and Kofler: Optimizing the power to identify the genetic basis of complex traits with Evolve and Resequence studies.
Link to publication 20
Borges, Szöllősi and Kosiol: Quantifying GC-biased gene conversion in great ape genomes using polymorphism-aware models.
Link to publication 21
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 22
Christodoulaki, Barghi and Schlötterer: Distance to trait optimum is a crucial factor determining the genomic signature of polygenic adaptation.
Link to publication 23
Burny, Nolte, Nouhaud, Dolezal and Schlötterer: Secondary evolve and re-sequencing: an experimental confirmation of putative selection targets without phenotyping.
Link to publication 24
July 2019
Review online by Lirakis and Magalhães: Does experimental evolution produce better biological control agents?
Link to publication 25
July 2019
Two new pre-prints are now available:
Barghi and Schlötterer: Distinct patterns of selective sweeps and polygenic adaptation.
Link to publication 26
Otte and Schlötterer: A generalised approach to detect selected haplotype blocks in Evolve and Resequence experiments.
Link to publication 27
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 28
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 29
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 30
April 2019
New publication by Felkel et al.: "The horse Y chromosome as an informative marker for tracing sire lines."
Link to publication 31
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 32
April 2019
Robert Kolfer just published "Dynamics of transposable element invasions with piRNA clusters" in MBE.
Link to publication 33
Link to press release 34
April 2019
Congratulations to our Alumna Claudia Bank 35, group leader of the Evolutionary Dynamics laboratory 36 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 37
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 38
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 39
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 40
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 41
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 42
Link to press release 43
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 44
January 2019
Phd student Anna Maria Langmüller 45, currently at Cornell Univ., is co-author of a new Genetics paper: "Maximum likelihood estimation of fitness components in experimental evolution."
Link to publication 46
January 2019
Ilse Höllinger 47 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 48 (Section 'Population and Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics').
Pressemeldungen Vetmeduni Vienna
2020
Schnelle geschlechtsspezifische Anpassung an hohe Temperaturen bei Drosophila 50
2019
Experimental Evolution Course 2019 14
Schädliche DNA geht häufig in die Falle 51
Vorteilhafte Mutationen im Überfluss 52
Paviane eröffnen neue Einblicke in die Evolution des Genoms 53
2018
Fruchtfliegen kontern Klimawandel durch Stoffwechselumstellung 54 55
2017
Frische Gene auf dem „verfallenden“ Y-Chromosom 57
Clubzwang für springende Gene 58
2016
Neue Software entschlüsselt, warum „springende Gene“ aktiv werden 59
2015
Invasion der genetischen Egoisten - Transposon erobert neuen Fliegenstamm 60
Gene in der Komfortzone - Umwelteinflüsse steuern Genexpression 61
2014
Das Schicksal der Gene erforscht 62
Highspeed-Evolution im Labor – GenetikerInnen evaluieren kostengünstige Genomanalyse 63
Ausgewählte Pressemeldungen
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The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics in the press: click here 74 for more information.