Just wrapped up an amazing time at #EMPSEB30. A truly unique event by PhD students, for PhD students packed with insightful talks and outstanding networking with future colleagues. If you’re a PhD student in evo-bio, this is the meeting you don’t want to miss! #EMPSEB30 #EvolutionaryBiology
If bottom-up approaches still needed evidence they work, #EMPSEB30 gave it. A warm atmosphere, sustainability prize, engaging DEI session, emotional workshops, alternative presentations, so many out-of-the-box things. Altogether with a really high scientific quality. Thank you @empseb30.bsky.social!
And that’s a wrap! #EMPSEB30 comes to an end in the same friendly way in which it started🙌🏽 A huge thank you to the organisers for a flawless conference and for the phenomenal final show! 🕺🏻💃🏻@empseb30.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @tarunyumnam.bsky.social for getting the #EMPSEB30 prize for best talk! 🦋🥇 Very well deserved! 👏🏼
Such a pleasure to be able to discuss topics so close to my heart with this lovely bunch! Many thanks to the organisers for this invitation 🫶🏼 #EMPSEB30 #DEI
Juan Francisco Esteves Ramírez gave a talk about his work on tradeoffs between competitive ability and parasitoid resistance in experimentally evolved Drosophila populations.
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Ana Carolina Varela Pereira showed us the genetic mechanisms that Drosophila larvae evolve to cope with nutritional stresses.
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Zorimar Vilella Pacheco @biologaboricua.bsky.social gave a fascinating talk on differences in within- vs. trans-generational plasticity in different Daphnia magna lineages.
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Benjamin Cejp gave a very comprehensive talk on allometries in life-history strategies and a fast-slow continuum in amphibians.
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Tarunkishwor Yumnam @tarunyumnam.bsky.social presents his awesome work on false head evolution in butterflies with very beautiful animations.
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Thank you, Sara Kafimola, for your great talk with the title "Evolutionary insight into Euconulus fulvus group (Gastropoda) with some taxonomic implications".
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Muhammed Rasit Durak @rasitdurak.bsky.social is explaining how he combines phylogenies, substitutions and protein structures to infer coevolution across the tree of life.
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Laura Brosseau-Acquaviva gave an interesting talk about phyloregions of rodents in the Sudanian savanna now and in the past.
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What a fascinating study on the false heads of some butterflies! 🤩🦋 Great presentation by @tarunyumnam.bsky.social #EMPSEB30 @empseb30.bsky.social
We closed the 3A session with a fascinating talk by Grzegorz Ostrowski on the diversity and evolution of Mucoraceae: from pathogens to dry-aged meat specialists.
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Thank you to Abosede Eniola Olarewaju @eniolami.bsky.social for explaining what phylogeography can tell us about the evolution of parasites and their hosts.
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An insightful talk by Najmussher Ghani — Competitors matter: transmission upon death selects for a higher pathogen load but not always an increase in virulence.
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In Session 3A, Jorge Gonzalez Garcia introduced us to the enERVate pipeline, which is designed to identify, filter and annotate integrations of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) in host genomes.
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Can you spot the moths? This is a perfect illustration of Akhil Sadiq's talk, 'Blending at borders: the role of background boundaries in camouflage'.
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A fascinating presentation was given by Pranav Shriram Datar on the topic of Venom variability in Hottentotta tamulus scorpions, which explored the underlying factors.
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Elisabeth Maria Mikkonen gave a great talk about how milk cortisol concentration in Asian elephants is shaped by maternal and infant factors.
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Ritam Das @ritamd.bsky.social ended session 4B with a very clear talk on the evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying negative frequency dependent selection.
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This is a perfect opening for session 2B. Theo Brown asks, 'Does it pay to be lazy?' He tested the 'lazy flight' hypothesis of aposematic butterflies.
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Thank you, Salvatore Bannò, for your interesting talk about your experimental evolution study of yeast and its adaptation to a changing environment.
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Kartikey Awasthi with a great talk called "How inconsistent models had let low-quality parents be fitter than high-quality ones".
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Beautiful presentation by Akhil Sadiq on the role of background boundaries in camouflage to finish the session! 🤩 Spoiler: being on the background border can increase survival in camouflaged prey✅ Can you find the moth(s) in the last 📷? #EMPSEB30 @empseb30.bsky.social
Elisabeth Maaria Mikkonen @lummaalab.bsky.social is studying the determinants of milk cortisol concentrations in *semi* captive elephants from Myanmar 🐘🍼 #EMPSEB30
Packed room to kick off the Evolutionary Ecology session at #EMPSEB30 with a talk by @theobrown.bsky.social, who wonders whether it pays off to be lazy… if you are a butterfly, that is! 🦋🐥@empseb30.bsky.social
Afra Salazar @salazarafra.bsky.social ra gave a very fascinating talk on artificial selection for community function in multi-species microbial communities.
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