I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz @biotobi.bsky.social , my colleague Alexej Sinner, and our team assistants Sabine Baumann and Christine Brinker for all the contributions in organization and logistics.
We also would like to thank Dr. Bahar Patlar @baharpatlar.bsky.social , Dr. Taina Conrad @drtainaconrad.bsky.social , and Dr. Ruth Archer for their experience and support throughout the process. We are also grateful to the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (DZG) for all the opportunities.
We are pleased to share that the meeting was highly successful. We sincerely thank all participants for sharing their inspiring research, and our invited speakers, Dr. Sophie Armitage and Prof. Dr. Dieter Ebert, for their valuable contributions.
Short time ago, we, the Evolutionary Immunogenomics Research Group, organized the 29th DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology @dzg-evol.bsky.social at the IZS, University of Hamburg @uni-hamburg.de, bringing together early-career researchers for inspiring talks, discussions, and networking.
Marie traveled to the beautiful Hamburg to attend this year’s Graduate Meeting of the Evolutionary Biology Section of the DZG. Many thanks to the organizers for putting together such a nice meeting, featuring great talks and networking opportunities! 🧬☀️
Dear all,
The deadline has been extended to 27 February!
We will host the 29th DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology!
Don’t miss this great opportunity to share your research, exchange ideas, and connect with other researchers in evolutionary biology.
Scan the QR for details👇
Just a quick reminder that the abstract deadline is approaching for the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology 2026: Feb 20! 👈
We still have a few places left 🤗🌈
👋 Hi #AcademicSky!
Together with @smbe-idea.bsky.social I’m organizing a symposium at #SMBE2026 (Copenhagen) 🇩🇰
🌈 Our mission is to 𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 & 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
📣 Call for abstracts 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡
⏰ Deadline: 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟯
✨ Hope to see you there! 😉
@official-smbe.bsky.social
Deadline for #SMBE2026 abstract submission is coming up (Feb 3)!
Consider symposium S14 "Evolution of Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Genomic Age", organized by @jcwinternitz.bsky.social, @arcova.bsky.social, @michalvinkler.bsky.social and @diyarhamidi.bsky.social.
Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961
Join the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Hamburg, March 25-27, 2026. Theme: Interactions and Coevolution. PhD students & early postdocs can register. More info: www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/evolutionae... #conference
Step back and think about this…it’s INCREDIBLE
We can sequence DNA from an extinct species that’s been dead for thousands of years. Not only that, we can sequence DNA from another extinct species that first extinct species ate as its last meal…to learn about population dynamics of the extinct prey.
A fantastic meeting is coming 🥳
This year DZG Evo Bio Graduate meeting will be in Hamburg, chase the red queen 🍎 @dzg-evol.bsky.social
Really grateful to the people in Hamburg for hosting the graduate meeting this year. Join them it will be great!
This year, we are hosting and organizing the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology at Hamburg Uni with an exciting theme and amazing invited speakers!
For more information and registration, please visit our website:
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung...
Same-sex sexual behaviour is part of the normal social life of some primates and could play an important part in their long-term success
go.nature.com/4qNGo1I
I participated in the amazing PopGroup @popgroup2026.bsky.social for the first time in Lille, and it was a great experience to present my work for the first time.
Many thanks to everyone who organized and participated.
I am already very excited for the next ones!
SMBE2026 Symposium 14 | Evolution of host-pathogen interactions in the genomic age
SMBE2026 Symposium 14 | Evolution of host-pathogen interactions in the genomic age
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
We are very excited to be organising this symposium at SMBE @official-smbe.bsky.social next year! We look forward to your abstracts and to being in Copenhagen!
For a nice overview of what ancient DNA can tell us about pathogens (produced by undergraduate and graduate students in my lab!) see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOE...
Depictions of evolution where a phylogeny often has humans on the far right or top can give an impression of evolution being progressive of leading to ‘increased complexity’ when it does not. Top figure shows such a phylogeny which can look the same as ‘the March of progress’ depiction most commonly used to depict evolution (showing monkey to man erroneous march of evolution) - instead swiveling some nodes on a phylogeny where humans are shown closer to the center (which doesn’t change relationships) can lead to better ‘tree thinking’
New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
💀+🧬+🤖 = 🎬🔥
Makalemiz artık sadece okunmuyor, izleniyor! Kurgu değil, gerçek bilim 😍😎
Teşekkürler Hacettepe ❤️
@science.org
👇 Yapay zeka animasyonumuza acil bakın:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3_C...
Bunte Regenbogen-Pride-Flagge weht vor Bürogebäude mit Glasfassade und grauen Wänden.
Es ist Pride Week in Hamburg! 🌈 Dieses Mal unter dem Motto: „Wir sind hier, um zu bleiben. Queere Menschen schützen.“ Und auch dieses Jahr heißt es wieder: #HamburgzeigtFlagge Wir sind dabei und haben vor dem Hauptgebäude und vor der Verwaltung im Mittelweg gehisst! 🏳️🌈
🌾 Agriculture didn’t always spread with mobility of people.
New ancient DNA research shows that in western Anatolia, while communities stayed put, farming and village life spread through the movement of ideas and practices.
Detecting and quantifying rare sex in natural populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06....
An effective marker for water frog systematics, including complex systems and hybrids 🤔
“Structure and Evolution of the uqcrfs1 Gene in Western Palearctic Water Frogs (Genus Pelophylax) and Implications for Systematics of Eastern Mediterranean Species”
DOI: doi.org/10.1155/jzs/...
Our paper (w/ @smishra677.bsky.social) is now out in Genetics!
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
Stärkung für die Forschung am UKE: Die @dfg.de hat zwei neue Sonderforschungsbereiche zum mütterlichen Immunsystem und zu Nierenfiltern bewilligt. Diese werden in den kommenden vier Jahren mit insgesamt 29 Millionen Euro gefördert. Auch Forschende aus Lübeck, Berlin, Köln und Münster sind beteiligt.
🚨 Don’t miss the 1st HAAM-radio symposium: "Ethics in Human DNA Research"
📅 May 29 (next week!)
🕒 LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm)
🎙️ With @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jenniferraff.bsky.social @marisolespitia.bsky.social & Tomás Gozález Zarzar
📝 Register by May 28
🔗 shorturl.at/1VScZ
Genomic Insights into Derived Dwarfism and Exudivory in a Genus (Callithrix) of the World's Smallest Anthropoid Monkeys www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05....