PopGen Vienna (hybrid) seminars

Physical location of hybrid seminars:
Vetmeduni Vienna
Typically Lecture Hall B (building FA, ground floor), but note exceptions marked with an asterisk under the title
How to find the lecture hall: campus map

Time: 17:00 CEST/CET on Tuesdays

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Schedule:

03.03.26 – Bonnie Fraser (Univ. of Exeter, UK)
Population genomics reveals rapid repeatable adaptation in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata).
Watch talk here.

10.03.26 – François Rousset (Univ. of Lyon, FR)
What phage-bacteria interactions teach us about innate immunity.
*Online only. 
Watch talk here.

17.03.26 – Martin Jastroch (Univ. of Stockholm, SW)
Reconstructing the evolution of vertebrate thermogenesis using comparative approaches.
*Online only. 

24.03.26 – Ulrich Technau (Univ. of Vienna, AT)
Evolution of bilaterian traits and mechanisms of cell type diversification: insights from cnidarians.
Watch talk here.

31.03.26 – Henrique Teotónio (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, FR)
When, how and why selection for recombination is decoupled from adaptation.
Watch talk here.

07.04.26 – Claire Mérot (Univ. of Rennes, FR)
The role of structural genomic variants in the evolution of biodiversity.
Watch talk here.

14.04.26 – Rebekah Rogers (UNC Charlotte, US)
The limits of genetic novelty in rapid adaptive change.
*Lecture Hall A (Building FA, ground floor)

21.04.26 – Nicolas Bierne (Univ. of Montpellier, FR)
Two tales of anthropogenic hybridization in human-altered marine habitats.
Watch talk here.

28.04.26 - Thomas Hummel (Univ. of Vienna, AT)
Genetic architecture of drosophila brain asymmetry.
*Lecture Hall A (Building FA, ground floor)

05.05.26 – Alison Wright (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
The genomics and development of sexually selected traits.
*Online only. 

12.05.26 – Carlotta Martelli (Univ. of Mainz, DE)
The effect of temperature on brain wiring: from mechanisms to functional implications.

19.05.26 – Emily Josephs (Univ. of Michigan, US)
Integrating evolution and genomics to understand plant phenotypic plasticity.
*Online only. 

02.06.26 – Bertrand Servin (Univ. of Paris, FR)
Combining quantitative and population genetics inferences to predict phenotypes in populations under polygenic adaptation.

09.06.26 – Juliette de Meaux (Univ. of Cologne, DE)
Adaptation to environmental challenges in plants.
SFB Polygenic Adaptation Distinguished Speaker

16.06.26 – Angela Hancock (Max Planck Insit., DE)
Molecular basis of adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana.
*Lecture Hall M (building HA, 1st floor)

23.06.26 – Andrea Betancourt (Univ. of Liverpool, UK)
Impact of P-element hybrid dysgenesis in male Drosophila simulans.