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Our next DEE External Seminar welcomes Elham Nourani (hosted by Erica van de Waal) for a talk about Behavioral Ecology of Mastery throughout Ontogeny (BEcoM). December 6 at 12:15, Biophore Amphitheater or online

Our next DEE External Seminar welcomes Alex Widmer (hosted by John Pannell) for a talk about the adaptation in an Alpine plant🌱. November 22 at 12:15, Biophore Amphitheater or online

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Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Kenji Fukushima (hosted by Agneesh Barua, Robinson-Rechavi Group) for a talk on harnessing public RNA-seq data for macroevolutionary gene expression analysis 🧬 Nov 15 at 12:15, Biophore Amphitheater or online

Our next DEE External Seminar welcomes Dolph Schluter (hosted by Michel Chapuisat) for a talk on evolution of phenotypic incompatibilities during speciation. Nov 8 at 12:15, Biophore Amphitheater or online

Our next DEE External Seminar welcomes Jakob Brodersen (hosted by Claus Wedekind) for a talk on migratory salmonids in post-glacial environments 🐟. Oct 25 at 12:15, Biophore Amphitheater or online

Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes S. Lorena Ament-Velásquez (hosted by Miya Pan, Schwander group) for a talk on self-nonself recognition systems and speciation. Oct 18 at 12:15, Biophore Amphitheater or online

The next DEE External Seminar welcomes our very own Claus Wedekind for a talk on evolutionary conservation. biology and salmonids in Switzerland🐟🇨🇭. October 11 at 12h15, Biophore Amphitheater or online

Our next DEE External Seminar welcomes Andreas Houben (hosted by Tanja Schwander) for a talk on plasticity in plant centromere organization. October 4 at 12h15, Biophore Amphitheater or online

This week's DEE External Seminars welcomes Mike Whitlock (hosted by Jérome Goudet Group) for a talk Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation 🧬 September 27 at 12h15, Biophore Amphitheater or online

New DEE group photo, taken at our first department retreat earlier this month!

We're hiring! We have four open positions in our department, accepting applications until September 30th.

Next week's DEE External Seminars welcomes Jeff Garnas (hosted by Cleo Bertelsmeier) for a talk about forest health and biological invasion 🌲🌳. Sept 13, 12:15, Biophore Amphi UNIL or via REC-UNIL

Unfortunately this seminar has been cancelled. We will communicate a new date once it has been rescheduled.

Kicking off our DEE External Seminars with a talk by Alexandra Weyrich (hosted by Kseniia Kravchenko, Christe/Guisan Groups) about Epigenetic signatures of social status (full title in poster). Aug 28, 12:15, Biophore Amphi UNIL or via REC-UNIL

John Pannell pilotera le nouveau PNR «Sélection végétale innovante»

Open position for a professor in Evolutionary Ecology @DEE_UNIL! Assistant prof level, associate prof possible. Priority to an experimentalist with expertise in organismal biology. Generous startup package and core funding.

Reminder that you can find @DEE_UNIL at

We are looking forward to starting up again in late August with more amazing speakers!.