Great meeting, great discussions, and great to see so many familiar and new faces. Thanks, Copenhagen! #SMBE26

Is the rate of protein evolution really constant through time? In our new preprint, we map lineage-specific shifts in evolutionary rates across thousands of protein families spanning the tree of life and explore how evolutionary history and protein structure shape these patterns. Check it out:

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Shifting Tempo of Evolution: Mapping Site-Specific Rate Shifts Across the Tree of Life https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.19.733087v1

🚨PhD position opening in Montpellier (France) on how Quaternary climatic changes and recent anthropogenic pressures impact the genetic make-up, distribution, and demographic dynamics of lemurs in Madagascar 🐒🧬 All the info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/420224

This year, we are hosting and organizing the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology at Hamburg Uni with an exciting theme and amazing invited speakers! For more information and registration, please visit our website: www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung...

Tobias Lenz@biotobi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Please share: We are hosting the 2026 DZG evolutionary biology graduate meeting at Uni Hamburg on March 25-27: "Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species". #PhD students, early postdocs and advanced Master students in evolutionary biology are welcome to register! t1p.de/dzg2026evolbio

🎓 IMPRS EvolBio opens its 2026 PhD call! Up to 10 doctoral positions in evolutionary biology at MPI-EB — work in an international, cutting-edge research environment where others go on vacation. Start: Sept 2026 | Deadline: Jan 11, 2026 👉 www.evolbio.mpg.de/3848518/impr... #PhD #EvolutionaryBiology

Apply for the ESEB Conference Travel Award 2026 to attend EMPSEB or the Evolution meeting. Open to students in low GDP countries. Deadline: Jan 30, 2026. Details: https://empsebconf.github.io/

Conference season comes to an end with this last one in beautiful Cádiz, Spain 🇪🇸 A large international meeting made possible thanks to EU short-term mobility grant by SEA-EU (The European University of the Seas). A perfect finale under the sunny skies of southern Spain ☀️🌊

Just wrapped up an amazing visit at @isemevol.bsky.social with an EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant! Thanks to @embo.org and to fantastic team here for welcoming me. This let me start a new collaboration on a very exiting project, and it has been an incredible experience. Stay tuned for more updates!

Does population size shape protein coevolution? I explored this in my talk today at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology. Our work in mammals suggests the answer is yes - genetic drift is a major determinant of compensatory mutations. #evolution #genomics #proteinevolution @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social

Please come and see Jinyang’s purr-fectly interesting talk at the #ESEB2025 the coming Thursday 3:45 PM (Meeting Room 116) on Polarizing SNPs without outgroup. (I won’t be there, busy.) -Sent from Naja’s pawphone

Just wrapped up an amazing time at #EMPSEB30. A truly unique event by PhD students, for PhD students packed with insightful talks and outstanding networking with future colleagues. If you’re a PhD student in evo-bio, this is the meeting you don’t want to miss! #EMPSEB30 #EvolutionaryBiology

Really enjoyed being at Biology of Genomes 2025: great science, great people, and great feedback on my work! Also cool and interesting to learn how academic systems differ across countries. #BoG25

It is finally out! Fungal genomes, transposable elements and fungicide resistance: unlocked! A novel DMI fungicide resistance mechanism in Monilinia spp.- linking a nested TE upstream of the CYP51 gene to reduced sensitivity (1) mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Transposable elements in genomic architecture of Monilinia fungal phytopathogens and TE-driven DMI-resistance adaptation - Mobile DNA

Background Fungicide resistance poses a significant challenge to plant disease management and influences the evolutionary dynamics of fungal pathogens. Besides being important phytopathogens, Monilini...

mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com

‼️Save the date‼️The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program kicks off its first call for applications from April 1, 2025; applications can be submitted until May 13, 2025. mpg.de/en/max-planc... #ScienceCareer

Polarizing SNPs without outgroup https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.31.635919v1

The call for PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology is now open, including one in my group! www.evolbio.mpg.de/3017297/appl.... If you are interested in playing with ancestral recombination graphs, please reach out!

How to apply

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