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The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional PhD program in evolutionary and population genetics in Vienna, Austria
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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
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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
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The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (Mar-Jun). 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 www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
PopGen Seminar Series Summer Term 2025 04.03.25 – Lutz Becks (Univ. of Konstanz, DE)
The evolutionary dynamics of novel endosymbiosis. 11.03.25 – Ilkka Kronholm (Univ. of Jyväskylä, FI)
How chromatin structure influences genetic and epigenetic variation. 18.03.25 – Katja Hoedjes (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, NL)
Understanding functional impact of genetic variation on complex traits at a single nucleotide resolution. 25.03.25 – Sophie Armitage (Freie Univ. of Berlin, DE)
Evolutionary ecology of host-pathogen interactions. 01.04.25 – Matthew Rockman (New York Univ., US)
Developmental evolution is a population-genetics problem. 08.04.25 – Wen-Juan Ma (Vrije Univ. Brussels, BE)
The evolution of sex chromosomes and sex determination in frogs. 15.04.25 – Almorò Scarpa (Vetmeduni, AT)
Two centuries of transposable element invasions in Drosophila melanogaster 22.04.25 – Julia Kreiner (Univ. of Chicago, US)
The mode and tempo of genomic adaptation to contemporary agriculture. 29.04.25 – Martin Kaltenpoth (Max Planck Inst. for Chemical Ecology, DE)
Microbial symbionts as sources of evolutionary innovations in beetles. 06.05.25 – Luisa Pallares (Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, DE)
Phenotypic robustness across the genotype-phenotype map, from genes to environment and back. 13.05.25 – Diana Rennison (Univ. of Calif., San Diego, US)
Understanding the predictability of evolutionary trajectories using threespine stickleback.

20.05.25 – Filipa Sousa (Univ. of Vienna, AT)
Bioenergetics Evolution: The link between Earth’s and Life’s history. 27.05.25 – Yun Song (Univ. of California, Berkeley, US)
Learning and applying complex probability distributions over biological sequences. 03.06.25 – April Wei (Cornell Univ., US)
Enabling efficient analysis of biobank-scale data with genotype representation graphs. ALT TEXT OUT OF SPACE, GO TO https://www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
February 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Call for #PhD students open! Apply by 14 Mar 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
Flyer describing the open PhD position. The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics provides an exciting training opportunity for highly motivated, outstanding PhD students with a background in one of the following disciplines: bioinformatics, mathematics, statistics, evolutionary genetics, theoretical or experimental population genetics. Available topics include: --The role of deleterious mutations for adaptation and maintenance of variation. --The evolution of ageing --Long-term adaptation of local Drosophila populations. --Inference of selection signatures from time-series data. --Studying the genotype-phenotype map. --Stabilising selection during polygenic adaptation. --Evolution of regulatory networks. Read further details at www.popgen-vienna.at. Apply by 14 Mar 2025. Salary for PhD students: EUR 2.684,10 before tax, based on Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
February 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM