Please join us at this #EMBOEvoEco Workshop on 6-9 October 2026. It is hands down one of my (if not THE) favourite conferences with a real community feeling and it's great for networking! Also, the catering is excellent. :)

The Rokas Lab at Vanderbilt University@rokaslab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Want to gain mechanistic insights on major outstanding questions in #ecology and #evolution? Join us 6-9 October 2026 for the #EMBOEvoEco Workshop at @events.embl.org in beautiful Heidelberg, Germany Abstract submission deadline is June 30 - submit one now! www.embl.org/about/info/c...

This paper has been a long time in the making. Started during my Ph.D., @chloehbk.bsky.social and @stelkens.bsky.social picked it up and finished it. Huge thank you to all my co-authors! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Adaptive Benefits of Hybridization in Saccharomyces Yeast are Constrained by Genomic Background and Depend on Temperature

Abstract. Climate change urges us to better understand and predict evolutionary responses to temperature shifts. Hybridization, by increasing genetic varia

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New paper out in Evolution 🧫🧬 doi.org/10.1093/evol... with a pretty big crew & @stelkens.bsky.social ! Story started over 20 years ago, fun to jump in late and help wrap it up :)

Adaptive Benefits of Hybridization in Saccharomyces Yeast are Constrained by Genomic Background and Depend on Temperature

Abstract. Climate change urges us to better understand and predict evolutionary responses to temperature shifts. Hybridization, by increasing genetic varia

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🧨 New publication out (I think this one is 🌶️ ): Cerca & @stelkens.bsky.social - "The identity crisis of speciation genomics". academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

Come to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm this Friday if you want to hear a story that starts in Patagonia and ends in a beer bottle!

Rike Stelkens@stelkens.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We will be telling the story behind the beer and our exciting journey to get it bottled at The Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 13th February. See the invitation to the event here: www.nobelprizemuseum.se/en/event/the...

What do wild microbes and the taste of beer have in common? Next Friday you can listen to Prof. Rike Stelkens at The Nobel Prize Museum talking about the role of yeast in evolution & taste locally brewed beer. @stelkens.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social www.nobelprizemuseum.se/en/event/the...

The chemistry of yeast – from Patagonia to local beer

Listen to researcher Rike Stelkens talk about the role of yeast in evolution, and enjoy a tasting of locally brewed beer.

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Wanna read about yeasts and heat waves? 🥵 Check out our new preprint with @jennifermolinet.bsky.social and @stelkens.bsky.social! doi.org/10.64898/202...

We made a new lager beer! "Indomitus" for wild and untamed. Brewed with a wild yeast strain from Patagonia! This is the result of a super fun collaboration (and lots of hard work) with Francisco Cubillos in Chile (@fcocubillosr.bsky.social) and Andrés Furukawa at the Nils Oscar Brewery in Sweden.

Check our last paper, where we explore how interspecific hybridization can facilitate adaptation to novel environments. @stelkens.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol...

The long-term evolutionary potential of four yeast species and their hybrids in extreme temperature conditions

Abstract. Accelerating climate change and extreme temperatures urge us to better understand the potential of populations to tolerate and adapt to thermal c

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We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Associate Professor in Zoology with focus on ecology and evolution

Department of Zoology  at Stockholm University includes ca. 80 employees counting researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and education at the department occurs in an internatio

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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!

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT! Find the positions here: su.varbi.com

Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet

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How do populations maintain an evolutionary memory? I am happy to share that our work with Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social, Paul Schmidt, and colleagues on dominance reversal and stabilization of insecticide resistance in changing environments over time is now published at Nature EE.

Beneficial reversal of dominance maintains a large-effect resistance polymorphism under fluctuating insecticide selection - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Measuring selection and dominance in fitness of the insecticide-resistant Ace alleles in Drosophila melanogaster, the authors show evidence for beneficial reversal of dominance, a mechanism that can s...

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Wild yeasts live in the forests all around us. Yet, little is known about the role they play in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new #beer and bread flavors, but can also serve as a unique model for studying #climatechange @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @stelkens.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mebnw7v5

Wild yeasts as a model for climate research | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

Wild yeasts live in the forests all around us. Yet, little is known about the role they play in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new beer and bread flavors, but wild yeast can also serve as a u...

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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!

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.

Having fantastic days of Science with @stelkens.bsky.social and @hittingerlab.bsky.social in the @iatacsic.bsky.social. So inspiring. Great research and better persons ! Thanks to @dperisn.bsky.social @fungialab.bsky.social for organizing it.

🧬 Microbial Marvels: Biodiversity & Evolution of Yeasts Top scientists @hittingerlab.bsky.social & @stelkens.bsky.social reveal how yeasts evolve, adapt, and speciate. @uv.es @upv.es Don’t miss this inspiring workshop! 📅 June 16 📍 @iatacsic.bsky.social🔗https://bit.ly/4mytSC2 #YeastScience

Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Want to know more about the ecology of wild yeasts, their association with oak trees, temperature, and rainfall? Read the latest by @chloehbk.bsky.social and @javo-pinto.bsky.social

Chloé Haberkorn @chloehbk.bsky.social · last yr.

First paper of my postdoc is out: "Fermentative Yeast Diversity at the Northern Range Limit of their Oak Tree Host" - fun collab to study yeasts in my host country ft. JP, AT, MF and RS! dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758... Special thanks to @stelkens.bsky.social - also for the celebratory chocolate cake!

How do organisms adapt to climate change? A new study in @pnas.org reveals the complex interplay between genetic diversity and temperature tolerance evolution. New study from @jennifermolinet.bsky.social & @stelkens.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social www.su.se/english/news...

Yeast reveals how species adapt to a warmer climate - Stockholm University

Yeast reveals how species adapt to a warmer climate How do organisms adapt to climate change? A new study reveals the complex interplay between genetic diversity and temperature tolerance evolution.

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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

Wild yeasts live in forests all around us but little is known about their roles in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new beer & bread flavors, but wild yeast can also serve as unique model for studying climate change. @stelkens.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social www.su.se/english/news...

Wild yeasts as a model for climate research - Stockholm University

Wild yeasts can be used to develop new beer and bread flavors, but wild yeast can also serve as a unique model for studying climate change.

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New vacancy in my team! PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture. Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :) www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #MEvoSky #MicroSky

We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology

Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.

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Now out in @NatureEcoEvo! Life (and adaptation to warming) is a story of chance and history, but also... epistasis... Congrats to former grad student Alex Rego and ace collaborator David Berger for their brilliance and endurance and thanks to Zach Blount for a great commentary!

David Berger@dbergerbiol.bsky.social · last yr.

Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41... We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.

One of our main sponsors, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, has published a nice article about our work. Yay to fundamental research! @kawresearch.bsky.social kaw.wallenberg.org/en/research/...

Wild yeasts as a model for climate research | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

Wild yeasts live in the forests all around us. Yet, little is known about the role they play in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new beer and bread flavors, but wild yeast can also serve as a u...

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