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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 2
Christodoulaki, Barghi and Schlötterer: Distance to trait optimum is a crucial factor determining the genomic signature of polygenic adaptation.
Link to publication 3
Burny, Nolte, Nouhaud, Dolezal and Schlötterer: Secondary evolve and re-sequencing: an experimental confirmation of putative selection targets without phenotyping.
Link to publication 4
July 2019
Review online by Lirakis and Magalhães: Does experimental evolution produce better biological control agents?
Link to publication 5
July 2019
Two new pre-prints are now available:
Barghi and Schlötterer: Distinct patterns of selective sweeps and polygenic adaptation.
Link to publication 6
Otte and Schlötterer: A generalised approach to detect selected haplotype blocks in Evolve and Resequence experiments.
Link to publication 7
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 8
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 9
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 10
April 2019
New publication by Felkel et al.: "The horse Y chromosome as an informative marker for tracing sire lines."
Link to publication 11
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 12
April 2019
Robert Kolfer just published "Dynamics of transposable element invasions with piRNA clusters" in MBE.
Link to publication 13
Link to press release 14
April 2019
Congratulations to our Alumna Claudia Bank 15, group leader of the Evolutionary Dynamics laboratory 16 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 17
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 18
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 19
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 20
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 21
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 22
Link to press release 23
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 24
January 2019
Phd student Anna Maria Langmüller 25, currently at Cornell Univ., is co-author of a new Genetics paper: "Maximum likelihood estimation of fitness components in experimental evolution."
Link to publication 26
January 2019
Ilse Höllinger 27 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 28 (Section 'Population and Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics').
December 2018
Call for PhD students is open. Apply by February 14, 2019. Details at https://www.popgen-vienna.at/ 29
December 2018
A merry crowd of 40 students, postdocs and faculty of the Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics had a great night out for ice skating and dinner.
December 2018
The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics 29, our PhD program, just got prolonged by the FWF!
December 2018
Congratulations to associated faculty alumna Andrea Betancourt 30, now at Univ. of Liverpool, on receiving a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant!
December 2018
Congratulations to Gökce Aköz 31 on winning the 2018 Poster Challenge at Vetmeduni Vienna! Her poster on "Genome duplication in Aquilegia and the unique history of chromosome four" won the 1st prize award.
Group leader Carolin Kosiol 32 received Vetmeduni's scientist of the year 2018 award (category non-clinical research). Congrats Carolin!
November 2018
PhD alumnus Derek Setter 33 recently defend his thesis "Detecting signals of adaptive introgression" at University of Vienna. All the best wishes for your postdoc career in Edinburgh, Derek!
November 2018
Fabian, Garschall, Klepsatel, Santos-Matos, Sucena, Kapun, Lemaitre, Schlötterer, Arking and Flatt: "Evolution of longevity improves immunity in Drosophila" is now available in Evolution Letters.
Link to publication 34
November 2018
"Dynamics of transposable element invasions with piRNA clusters" now available at bioRxiv.
Link to publication 35
October 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Kofler 36 on completing his habilitation procedure at Vetmeduni Vienna!
October 2018
Howie, Mazzucco, Taus, Nolte and Schlötterer: "DNA motifs are not general predictors of recombination in two Drosophila sister species", now out in bioRxiv.
Link to publication 37
October 2018
A new bioRxiv paper is available by Höllinger, Pennings and Hermisson: "Polygenic Adaptation: From sweeps to subtle frequency shifts".
Link to publication 38
October 2018
PhD student Shuwen Xia (Wageningen University & Research) is visiting us for 6 weeks in the framework of the BINGO 39 training network to collaborate with members of the Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics. During her stay, she will work on RNA-seq data for a Drosophila melanogaster population in a new temperature regime.
October 2018
Congratulations Nayuta Yamashita 40 on her FWF grant "Food material properties and jaw loading in wild lemurs".
October 2018
PopGen Vienna alumna Ana Marija Jakšić 41 received a prestigious Award of Excellence for outstanding dissertations, bestowed by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, for her thesis "Thermal plasticity of the Drosophila transcriptome". Congratulations!
October 2018
We had a great time at the yearly PhD retreat at Altaussee for talks, discussing, hiking and socialising with 32 participants including associated members and guests.
Link to group foto 42
September 2018
We're organising the SMBE satellite meeting ‘Towards an integrated concept of adaptation: uniting molecular population genetics and quantitative genetics’ from Feb. 11-14, 2019, at Vetmeduni Vienna! Registration and abstract submission is open.
Link to meeting website 43
September 2018
PopGen Vienna turns 10 this year! We're celebrating this very special anniversary during a one-day alumni symposium on September 7, 2018 at Vetmeduni Vienna.
Link to symposium 44
August 2018
Ana Marija Jakšić recently defend her thesis entitled "Thermal plasticity of the Drosophila transcriptome". Congratulations, and all the best wishes for your postdoc career in Cornell, Ana Marija!
Selected press releases
2019
Deleterious DNA often falls into a trap 46
2019
Vorteilhafte Mutationen im Überfluss 47
2019
Baboons provide new insights into the evolution of the genome 48
2018
Fruit flies adapt to climate change through metabolic rewiring 49
2018
Alumnus Dominik Schrempf received Austria's highest possible honor for excellent study success 50
2017
New genes on “deteriorating” Y chromosome 51
Party discipline for jumping genes 52
2016
New software helps to find out why “jumping genes” are activated 53
2015
DNA with self-interest. Transposable element conquers new strain of fly 54
Living in the genetic comfort zone: how to avoid the influence of genetic variation 55
2014
High-speed evolution in the lab – Geneticists evaluate cost-effective genome analysis 57
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Press information
The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics in the press: click here 68 for more information. For journalists: please contact the coordinator 69
Press information of the Vetmeduni Vienna in German 70 and English 71