🌳🐟At the first ever Swedish Biodiversity Symposium, held in Gothenburg the past 3 days, CeMEB members shared their work on adaptation of marine species in general (Kerstin Johannesson) and the invasive Pacific oyster in particular (Pierre De Wit) in a session dedicated to genetic diversity🧬

🧬🧬🧬And that's a wrap: #CeMEB2025 has been concluded. What a great experience! For the first time, the assembly was held outside of Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, and what a success it was! Thanks to all speakers, organisers, helpers & attendants! See you next year! And yes, we have become kids-friendly😉

The last session of talks at #CeMEB2025:

🐟 Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser (U of Bern, Quantifying variability as response to s)
🌊 Giannina Hattich (Åbo Akademi U, Sixty Years of Change: Diatoms Adapting to a Warmer Baltic Sea)
🐌 Gabriella Malmqvist (GU, Layers of Adaptation: Littorina saxatilis)

The 3rd and final day of #CeMEB2025 started with another great keynote lecture by Professor Karin Rengefors from Lund University, on phytoplankton diversity and adaptation!🧬

After insightful discussion sessions, the 2nd day of #CeMEB2025 ended with an absolute highlight: at a dinner at one of the traditional Uppsala student unions. Amazing food, traditional Swedish songs, and even a final quiz testing our evolution knowledge!

Yesterday's afternoon talk session was full of super diverse talks by:
🐟 Ola Svensson (U of Borås, Spawning behaviour in fish)
🧬Arianna Cocco (UU, NGS library generation)
💻 Angela Fuentes Pardo (SciLifeLab, DivBase as new tool for genetic diversity data)
🎓 Anna-Sara Lind (UU, academic freedom)

The afternoon of the 2nd day of #CeMEB2025 was filled with a very unique program, including a guided tour of Uppsala botanical gardens and of the Open Lab and sequencing facilities at SciLifeLab Uppsala. Highly impressed by the infrastructure open to all scientists in Sweden!

After this morning's keynote, we continue with talks by our one and only Kerstin Johannesson (The ecotype concept in the genomic era) and by Erik Zhivkoplias (The innovation potential of marine-derived genetics) from the Stockholm Resilience Center. #CeMEB2025

2nd day of #CeMEB2025 Assembly started with an amazing keynote talk by Aneesh Bose (SLU) on behavioural ecology of cichlids! A very insightful addition to all the genomics-based studies at our assembly! And what a setting, in the beautiful Humanistiska teatern of UU...

Before we end the day with poster session and some snacks and drinks, Professor Carol Eunmi Lee of the University of Wisconsin, Madison is giving the final keynote talk of the day - Live from the US - on genome architecture and habitat invasion!🧬 #CeMEB2025

Last session before the final keynote of the first day at #CeMEB2025. Our very own Andreas Wallberg (Uppsala University) presenting on the insanely large genomes of krill, and Olga Vinnere Pettersson of Sweden's SciLifeLab speaking on its Planetary Biology Strategic Area (tinyurl.com/h8ahe2fc).

More herring science@ #CeMEB2025

Cheng Ma - Evolution of salinity adaptation in herring
Jake Goodall - Hidden Genetic Structure in Baltic Herring
Mats Pettersson - Genetic differentiation in North Atlantic herring
Enrico Bazzicalupo - Using ancient DNA to understand genomic adaptations of herring

🐟🌊Great news, a brand new infrastructure for Sweden and the Baltic Sea, the BalticWaters Fish Laboratory!!! At our Assembly, Konrad Stralka, Executive Director, is showcasing the new facility for research! #CeMEB2025 Find out more here: balticwaters.org/en/about-us/...

Next up, our guest from the University of Agder in Norway, Associate Professor Marte Sodeland, presenting on the role of supergenes in fish speciation!🧬🐟 #CeMEB2025

Chaired by Jake Goodall from Uppsala University, we are continuing the CeMEB Assembly 2025 with talks by members and guests. First up, Simon Henriksson presenting work of the CODTYPES project!🧬🐟 #CeMEBAssembly2025

🧬The annual Center for Marine Evolutionary Biology (CeMEB) Assembly 2025 has officially started, for the 1st time in Uppsala!🧬
After a welcome by steering committee member Andreas Wallberg, we are kicking things off with the first keynote lecture by Leif Andersson, Atlantic herring in the Baltic!🐟

Working on evolution in the marine realm (or evolution in general)? Join us at the Center for Marine Evolutionary Biology Assembly 2025, taking place Oct 8th - 10th at Uppsala University, Sweden! No attendance fee! Register at bit.ly/467NohA until Sep 5th! More info and contact here bit.ly/4p2p5do!