Rike Stelkens
@stelkens.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, Evolutionary Genomics, Quantitative/Population Genetics, Yeast, Experimental Evolution, Hybridization, @Stockholm University https://stelkenslab.com/
Thank you for having me at the SMBE satellite meeting in Puerto Varas in Chile! @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social Super well organised, fantastic people, interesting science! 🧪 🌋
October 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Thank you for having me at the SMBE satellite meeting in Puerto Varas in Chile! @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social Super well organised, fantastic people, interesting science! 🧪 🌋
We’re welcoming a new PhD student to the lab! Rubie Min Lu, formerly in Jason Tsai‘s lab @ishengtsai.bsky.social has joined us in Stockholm. Welcome Rubie!
October 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We’re welcoming a new PhD student to the lab! Rubie Min Lu, formerly in Jason Tsai‘s lab @ishengtsai.bsky.social has joined us in Stockholm. Welcome Rubie!
We have a new paper out in Molecular Ecology, led by @devinbendixsen.bsky.social ! Reproductive isolation due to divergent ecological selection is accompanied by vast genomic instability in experimentally evolved yeast populations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
We have a new paper out in Molecular Ecology, led by @devinbendixsen.bsky.social ! Reproductive isolation due to divergent ecological selection is accompanied by vast genomic instability in experimentally evolved yeast populations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We’re still beaming from hosting illustrious guest for our workshop on yeast genomics and evolution in Sweden! Thanks to Gilles Fischer, @fcocubillosr.bsky.social @pablo-villa.bsky.social for sciencing, kayaking, walking, talking, beer tasting, and just generally making science as fun as it can be!
July 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We’re still beaming from hosting illustrious guest for our workshop on yeast genomics and evolution in Sweden! Thanks to Gilles Fischer, @fcocubillosr.bsky.social @pablo-villa.bsky.social for sciencing, kayaking, walking, talking, beer tasting, and just generally making science as fun as it can be!
Job alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. Apply through this link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 15 August.
June 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Job alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. Apply through this link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 15 August.
Just out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast". Beautiful work using experimental evolution forecasting climate impacts on biodiversity by Jennifer Molinet @jennifermolinet.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast". Beautiful work using experimental evolution forecasting climate impacts on biodiversity by Jennifer Molinet @jennifermolinet.bsky.social
Today we had Anna Runemark over! She talked about transgressive gene expression in hybrids. We’re looking forward to dabble in yeast experimental evolution together! 🧪
April 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Today we had Anna Runemark over! She talked about transgressive gene expression in hybrids. We’re looking forward to dabble in yeast experimental evolution together! 🧪
Specific aims are to investigate 1) parallel evolution of climate adaptation in yeast from Europe and South America, 2) the genetic architecture of thermal traits, and 3) the evolution of pathogenicity as a by-product of thermotolerance.
March 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Specific aims are to investigate 1) parallel evolution of climate adaptation in yeast from Europe and South America, 2) the genetic architecture of thermal traits, and 3) the evolution of pathogenicity as a by-product of thermotolerance.
The postdoc will be harnessing the power of experimental evolution and comparative genomics with yeast to address fundamental questions in evolutionary biology.
March 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The postdoc will be harnessing the power of experimental evolution and comparative genomics with yeast to address fundamental questions in evolutionary biology.
And now, we also have a 2-year postdoc position in the Stelkens Lab! 🧪 If you are interested in parallel evolution, genomics, yeast, and climate adaptation, this could be for you! Please apply through U Stockholm's job platform here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
March 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
And now, we also have a 2-year postdoc position in the Stelkens Lab! 🧪 If you are interested in parallel evolution, genomics, yeast, and climate adaptation, this could be for you! Please apply through U Stockholm's job platform here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Sweden is a free and open society, and strives to be one of the world's most innovative and research-intensive nations. We enjoy a respected system of democracy and individual rights, free health care, freedom of speech, a free press, the right to scrutinize those in power, and access to nature.
March 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Sweden is a free and open society, and strives to be one of the world's most innovative and research-intensive nations. We enjoy a respected system of democracy and individual rights, free health care, freedom of speech, a free press, the right to scrutinize those in power, and access to nature.
You will use the powerful microbial model system budding yeast (Saccharomyces spp.), experimental evolution, and cutting-edge genomic tools to study evolutionary processes. We are looking for candidates with a strong interest in evolutionary biology!
March 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
You will use the powerful microbial model system budding yeast (Saccharomyces spp.), experimental evolution, and cutting-edge genomic tools to study evolutionary processes. We are looking for candidates with a strong interest in evolutionary biology!
José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social giving a keynote at the Swedish Oikos meeting! Excited to have you as a new neighbour!
February 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social giving a keynote at the Swedish Oikos meeting! Excited to have you as a new neighbour!
Posting this cartoon every once in a while for anyone struggling with imposter syndrome. I think it's a really helpful perspective. I don't know who originally made this, please add a link if you do. 🧪
December 11, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Posting this cartoon every once in a while for anyone struggling with imposter syndrome. I think it's a really helpful perspective. I don't know who originally made this, please add a link if you do. 🧪
Pretty lunch time on Stockholm uni campus. This is the highest the winter sun will rise today.
December 3, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Pretty lunch time on Stockholm uni campus. This is the highest the winter sun will rise today.
Teaching ANOVA today with tomatoes 🍅🍅🍅
December 3, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Teaching ANOVA today with tomatoes 🍅🍅🍅
Got to give a talk on a BIG screen today! 🤩 Thanks @loreament.bsky.social for the photo and the #Mycology Nordics conference for hosting!🧪🍄🍄🟫
November 28, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Got to give a talk on a BIG screen today! 🤩 Thanks @loreament.bsky.social for the photo and the #Mycology Nordics conference for hosting!🧪🍄🍄🟫
Big happy grant news for the lab today! 🎈🥳 🥂 🧪 Cheers to all the labs around the world doing awesome fundamental research in #evolution #ecology #genomics!
November 20, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Big happy grant news for the lab today! 🎈🥳 🥂 🧪 Cheers to all the labs around the world doing awesome fundamental research in #evolution #ecology #genomics!
Wow Tübingen, you’re pretty! Thanks Luisa Pallares at the Max Planck Institute for Biology for hosting me!
October 8, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Wow Tübingen, you’re pretty! Thanks Luisa Pallares at the Max Planck Institute for Biology for hosting me!
The new fall semester is here and we are welcoming Andrea Silva to the lab! Andrea (left in the picture) is a visiting PhD student from Tarragona in Spain, where she works on designing microbial consortia to improve wine fermentation!
September 18, 2024 at 8:13 PM
The new fall semester is here and we are welcoming Andrea Silva to the lab! Andrea (left in the picture) is a visiting PhD student from Tarragona in Spain, where she works on designing microbial consortia to improve wine fermentation!
Do you have a great idea for a 2-year postdoc project in yeast evolutionary biology and genomics? Got your PhD in the last 5 years and have lived outside Sweden the last 9 months? Get in touch with me to apply for external funding, we've had good success in the past! @Zoology_SU
August 26, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Do you have a great idea for a 2-year postdoc project in yeast evolutionary biology and genomics? Got your PhD in the last 5 years and have lived outside Sweden the last 9 months? Get in touch with me to apply for external funding, we've had good success in the past! @Zoology_SU
Here is postdoc Jennifer Molinet presenting her poster at the SMBE meeting in Puerto Vallarta! Hope you got a chance to check out her awesome work on experimental evolution and shifts in thermal performance curves of 8 yeast species! #yeast #evolution #climatechange 🧪
July 11, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Here is postdoc Jennifer Molinet presenting her poster at the SMBE meeting in Puerto Vallarta! Hope you got a chance to check out her awesome work on experimental evolution and shifts in thermal performance curves of 8 yeast species! #yeast #evolution #climatechange 🧪
Working with people from all over the world also means you sometimes find delicacies right on your desk!
July 4, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Working with people from all over the world also means you sometimes find delicacies right on your desk!
We thought this is perhaps explained by cell size, i.e. a given OD may result in fewer cell counts if cells are on average larger. But no, we found the opposite! At a given OD, strains with larger cells also produced higher cell counts. Weird!
May 27, 2024 at 4:03 PM
We thought this is perhaps explained by cell size, i.e. a given OD may result in fewer cell counts if cells are on average larger. But no, we found the opposite! At a given OD, strains with larger cells also produced higher cell counts. Weird!
Heads up #microbiology peeps! Postdoc Javier Pinto looked at two common estimates of population growth and fitness in microbiology - cell density (OD) and cell count (flow cyt) - across different species and strains of yeast. We found some surprises! micropublication.org/journals/bio...
May 27, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Heads up #microbiology peeps! Postdoc Javier Pinto looked at two common estimates of population growth and fitness in microbiology - cell density (OD) and cell count (flow cyt) - across different species and strains of yeast. We found some surprises! micropublication.org/journals/bio...