PopGen Vienna
@popgenviennaphd.bsky.social
The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional PhD program in evolutionary and population genetics in Vienna, Austria
The #PopGen #PhD students are excited to hear Dieter Ebert´s talk tomorrow: "Red Queen dynamics from months to megayears: Selection for extreme genetic diversity". Term schedule and streaming signup: popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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October 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The #PopGen #PhD students are excited to hear Dieter Ebert´s talk tomorrow: "Red Queen dynamics from months to megayears: Selection for extreme genetic diversity". Term schedule and streaming signup: popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
Our #PhD students are looking forward to meeting with tomorrow's
#PopGen seminar speaker
@hunemeier.bsky.social She kicks off the term by talking about "Evolutionary Genomics of American Populations".
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
#evolution
#PopGen seminar speaker
@hunemeier.bsky.social She kicks off the term by talking about "Evolutionary Genomics of American Populations".
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
#evolution
Seminars
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October 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Our #PhD students are looking forward to meeting with tomorrow's
#PopGen seminar speaker
@hunemeier.bsky.social She kicks off the term by talking about "Evolutionary Genomics of American Populations".
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
#evolution
#PopGen seminar speaker
@hunemeier.bsky.social She kicks off the term by talking about "Evolutionary Genomics of American Populations".
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
#evolution
The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (Sep-Jan). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
September 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (Sep-Jan). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
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This meeting will bring together researchers interested in using ancient genomes to understand the role that migrations, introgression, adaptation & selection, have played in shaping human genetic variation and disease.
genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...
This meeting will bring together researchers interested in using ancient genomes to understand the role that migrations, introgression, adaptation & selection, have played in shaping human genetic variation and disease.
genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...
Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine | Genetics Society
It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the Autumn Meeting of the Genetics Society. This meeting will provide a unique forum to network and socialise with a wide cross-section of the ...
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June 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🧬Submit your abstract now – deadline Monday!
This meeting will bring together researchers interested in using ancient genomes to understand the role that migrations, introgression, adaptation & selection, have played in shaping human genetic variation and disease.
genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...
This meeting will bring together researchers interested in using ancient genomes to understand the role that migrations, introgression, adaptation & selection, have played in shaping human genetic variation and disease.
genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...
Watch Margarida Matos talk "From nature to the lab: The role of history, chance and selection during adaptation to novel environments" here youtu.be/fP3MV4YdwdY #evolution
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June 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Watch Margarida Matos talk "From nature to the lab: The role of history, chance and selection during adaptation to novel environments" here youtu.be/fP3MV4YdwdY #evolution
Our last #PopGen Seminar speaker of this term is Margarida Matos: "From nature to the lab: The role of history, chance and selection during adaptation to novel environments."Our #PhD students are excited to meet her!#evolution
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Seminars
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June 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Our last #PopGen Seminar speaker of this term is Margarida Matos: "From nature to the lab: The role of history, chance and selection during adaptation to novel environments."Our #PhD students are excited to meet her!#evolution
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Could horizontal transfer be abundant not just in bacteria but also in eukaryotes? A recent work by Pianezza R, Haider A, Scarpa A, Signor S and Kofer R finds 3 HTs of transposons in a mere 30years.
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#evolution #drosophila
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#evolution #drosophila
Spatio-temporal tracking of three novel transposable element invasions in Drosophila melanogaster over the last 30 years
Abstract. Transposable elements (TEs) are repetitive sequences capable of mobilizing within genomes, exerting a sigfinificant influence on evolution throug
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June 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Could horizontal transfer be abundant not just in bacteria but also in eukaryotes? A recent work by Pianezza R, Haider A, Scarpa A, Signor S and Kofer R finds 3 HTs of transposons in a mere 30years.
academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
#evolution #drosophila
academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
#evolution #drosophila
Our #PhD students are excited to hear @stschiff.bsky.social speak about "Spatial inference of population structure and prehistoric human mobility from ancient and modern #genomes" tomorrow for our #PopGen Seminar series.
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Seminars
www.popgen-vienna.at
June 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Our #PhD students are excited to hear @stschiff.bsky.social speak about "Spatial inference of population structure and prehistoric human mobility from ancient and modern #genomes" tomorrow for our #PopGen Seminar series.
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Take a look at our SFB Polygenic Adaptation Distinguished Speaker Lauren McIntyre - PopGen Vienna talk
youtu.be/AC7nIii7ugo?... #evolution
youtu.be/AC7nIii7ugo?... #evolution
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June 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Take a look at our SFB Polygenic Adaptation Distinguished Speaker Lauren McIntyre - PopGen Vienna talk
youtu.be/AC7nIii7ugo?... #evolution
youtu.be/AC7nIii7ugo?... #evolution
Our students are excited for todays SFB Distinguished Speaker Lauren McIntyre
("Disentangling cis and trans effects: a novel crossing design") for our #PopGen seminar series. SFB website: vetmeduni.ac.at/sfb-polygeni...
Streaming signup and term schedule: #evolution
("Disentangling cis and trans effects: a novel crossing design") for our #PopGen seminar series. SFB website: vetmeduni.ac.at/sfb-polygeni...
Streaming signup and term schedule: #evolution
Vetmeduni: SFB_Polygenic_Adaptation
vetmeduni.ac.at
June 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Our students are excited for todays SFB Distinguished Speaker Lauren McIntyre
("Disentangling cis and trans effects: a novel crossing design") for our #PopGen seminar series. SFB website: vetmeduni.ac.at/sfb-polygeni...
Streaming signup and term schedule: #evolution
("Disentangling cis and trans effects: a novel crossing design") for our #PopGen seminar series. SFB website: vetmeduni.ac.at/sfb-polygeni...
Streaming signup and term schedule: #evolution
Our students are excited for next Tuesdays SFB Distinguished Speaker Lauren McIntyre ("Disentangling cis and trans effects: a novel crossing design") for our #PopGen seminar series. SFB website: vetmeduni.ac.at/sfb-polygeni... Streaming signup and term schedule: www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Vetmeduni: SFB_Polygenic_Adaptation
vetmeduni.ac.at
June 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Our students are excited for next Tuesdays SFB Distinguished Speaker Lauren McIntyre ("Disentangling cis and trans effects: a novel crossing design") for our #PopGen seminar series. SFB website: vetmeduni.ac.at/sfb-polygeni... Streaming signup and term schedule: www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
@aprilwei.bsky.social is tomorrow's #PopGen Seminar speaker. Our #PhD students look forward to hearing her talk on "Genomes as Graphs: Compressing, Utilizing, and Simulating Biobank-Scale Whole Genomes" and meeting her! Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Seminars
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June 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
@aprilwei.bsky.social is tomorrow's #PopGen Seminar speaker. Our #PhD students look forward to hearing her talk on "Genomes as Graphs: Compressing, Utilizing, and Simulating Biobank-Scale Whole Genomes" and meeting her! Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Our #PhD students look forward to meeting
@yun-s-song.bsky.social who is speaking in our #PopGen seminar series tomorrow! Title: "Learning and applying complex probability distributions over biological sequences." Full schedule and streaming details popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
@yun-s-song.bsky.social who is speaking in our #PopGen seminar series tomorrow! Title: "Learning and applying complex probability distributions over biological sequences." Full schedule and streaming details popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
Seminars
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May 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Our #PhD students look forward to meeting
@yun-s-song.bsky.social who is speaking in our #PopGen seminar series tomorrow! Title: "Learning and applying complex probability distributions over biological sequences." Full schedule and streaming details popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
@yun-s-song.bsky.social who is speaking in our #PopGen seminar series tomorrow! Title: "Learning and applying complex probability distributions over biological sequences." Full schedule and streaming details popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
Watch our PopGen Vienna talk - Filipa Sousa
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May 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Watch our PopGen Vienna talk - Filipa Sousa
youtu.be/Nv_O_Vcutl8?...
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Parallel gene expression evolution declines with genetic divergence. In #Drosophila, we show that as divergence increases, adaptive expression responses become more heterogeneous—supp. the omnigenic model&highlighting the role of redundancy in #evolution
doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #PolygenicAdaptation
doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #PolygenicAdaptation
Reduced Parallel Gene Expression Evolution With Increasing Genetic Divergence—A Hallmark of Polygenic Adaptation
Parallel evolution, the repeated evolution of similar traits in independent lineages, is a topic of considerable interest in evolutionary biology. Although previous studies have focused on the parall...
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May 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Parallel gene expression evolution declines with genetic divergence. In #Drosophila, we show that as divergence increases, adaptive expression responses become more heterogeneous—supp. the omnigenic model&highlighting the role of redundancy in #evolution
doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #PolygenicAdaptation
doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #PolygenicAdaptation
Our #PhD students are excited for #Vienna local Filipa Sousa's @filipa-sousa.bsky.social talk for our #PopGen Seminar tomorrow: "Bioenergetics #Evolution: The link between Earth's and Life's history." Full schedule and streaming details at
www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
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May 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Our #PhD students are excited for #Vienna local Filipa Sousa's @filipa-sousa.bsky.social talk for our #PopGen Seminar tomorrow: "Bioenergetics #Evolution: The link between Earth's and Life's history." Full schedule and streaming details at
www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @lifeatthebench.bsky.social on May 13!She will tell us about "Understanding the predictability of #evolutionary trajectories using threespine stickleback".Schedule and streaming details www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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May 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @lifeatthebench.bsky.social on May 13!She will tell us about "Understanding the predictability of #evolutionary trajectories using threespine stickleback".Schedule and streaming details www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
Congratulations to our #PhD student @philipphummer.bsky.social! He has been awarded with the SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award by @official-smbe.bsky.social #genomics #evolution
🪰 GSEA winner Philipp Hummer - PhD student @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social - is on today!
Philipp is working at the intersection of genomics, museum collections, insect evolution, and transposable elements.
More on Philipp ⬇️ and follow him: @philipphummer.bsky.social
Philipp is working at the intersection of genomics, museum collections, insect evolution, and transposable elements.
More on Philipp ⬇️ and follow him: @philipphummer.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Congratulations to our #PhD student @philipphummer.bsky.social! He has been awarded with the SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award by @official-smbe.bsky.social #genomics #evolution
Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @luisapallares.bsky.social on May 6!She will tell us about "Phenotypic robustness across the genotype-phenotype map, from genes to environment and back". Schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
Seminars
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May 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @luisapallares.bsky.social on May 6!She will tell us about "Phenotypic robustness across the genotype-phenotype map, from genes to environment and back". Schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker M. Kaltenpoth@kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social on April 29! He will tell us about "Microbial symbionts as sources of evolutionary innovations in beetles". Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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April 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker M. Kaltenpoth@kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social on April 29! He will tell us about "Microbial symbionts as sources of evolutionary innovations in beetles". Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @jmkreiner.bsky.social
on tuesday April 22! She will tell us about "The mode and tempo of genomic adaptation to contemporary agriculture". Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
on tuesday April 22! She will tell us about "The mode and tempo of genomic adaptation to contemporary agriculture". Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
Seminars
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April 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @jmkreiner.bsky.social
on tuesday April 22! She will tell us about "The mode and tempo of genomic adaptation to contemporary agriculture". Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
on tuesday April 22! She will tell us about "The mode and tempo of genomic adaptation to contemporary agriculture". Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
Call for #PhD students open! Apply by 14 May to start your research career in #evolution #genetics in beautiful #Vienna among a fun international and interdisciplinary crowd of peers #evolVienna #bioinformatics #bigdata #Drosophila #adaptation #popgen
April 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Call for #PhD students open! Apply by 14 May to start your research career in #evolution #genetics in beautiful #Vienna among a fun international and interdisciplinary crowd of peers #evolVienna #bioinformatics #bigdata #Drosophila #adaptation #popgen
Our #PhD student Almorò Scarpa @almoroscarpa.bsky.social looks forward to #PopGen meeting tomorrow! He will tell us about "Two centuries of transposable element invasions in Drosophila melanogaster"
Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Seminars
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April 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Our #PhD student Almorò Scarpa @almoroscarpa.bsky.social looks forward to #PopGen meeting tomorrow! He will tell us about "Two centuries of transposable element invasions in Drosophila melanogaster"
Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Super proud of amazing PhD student Sarah Saadain winning the Carl von Schreibers prize with her cockroach project; Vetmeduni Wien and @nhmwien.bsky.social www.nhm-wien.ac.at/presse/press...
April 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM