PhD position details:

Extensive fieldwork in the tropical Andes of Peru, supplemented by analyses of climatic niche evolution, morphometry, and flight performance.

New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations. DEADLINE: January 11, 2025 More info:

Also happy that our lab hosted two MSc students from Switzerland, Joanne and Lola, who spent two weeks working with Irena Klečková and Honza Kollross on climatic niche modelling. A very productive and inspiring visit! 👩‍💻👩‍💻🌎

Had a great workshop on population and conservation genomics with Kay Lucek. We revisited key concepts and metrics, and streamlined our ongoing projects in Czechia 🦋

Many thanks to the opponents, Anne Duplouy (Uni Helsinki) and Radka Reifova (Charles Uni in Prague), and to our close collaborator Kay Lucek (Uni Neuchatel), who has attended the defence.

Our lab is celebrating! 🥳 Pedro Ribeiro has excellently defended his PhD thesis: https://t.co/nUAlyrfpRE Pedro has used genome data to study the evolution of butterflies and their endosymbiont bacteria Wolbachia. We wish you all the best, Dr. Pedro! 🦋

PhD position details:

Opportunities for international networking, hands-on training and mobility are available through the 10kLepGenomes COST Action ( https://t.co/fCNWg573Di) and close collaboration with Project Psyche ( https://t.co/9KUgyTDq1f) and the LepEU Consortium ( https://t.co/AXnTQHjYYp).

New PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋 The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes. Deadline: September 12, 2025 More info: https://t.co/q0uPXpd6Uv Please, RT

Big congrats to Daniel for leading this study and to Vincent Debat for such a fantastic collaboration!

In skipper butterflies, the evolution of iridescence and "wing tails" comes together with particular changes in the size and shape of their two wing pairs. This points to evolutionary trade-offs between flight performance and antipredator defences: https://t.co/Zzte5U6LJh

(4/4) 📝 Apply for a STSM! Submit your application before May 31st 2025 through the COST platform: https://t.co/FmXdYrE88K To request the application template or for any questions, contact at kay.lucek@unine.ch 📧

(3/4) ℹ How does it work? The program funds 2 to 4 #STSMs to take place between July and August 2025. Up to 2,000 € per mission will cover travel ✈ and living 🏠 expenses. Participants must be members of 10KLepGenomes. Join the Action here:

(2/4) ❓ What are #STSMs? An initiative to foster scientific collaboration across Europe by funding research visits to labs abroad. The call aims to support researchers and build partnerships to advance the goals of the 10KLepGenomes COST Action for #Lepidoptera research 🦋

(1/4) 📣 Exciting news! 📣 The #10KLepGenomes COST Action has opened the first call for Short Term Scientific Missions grants #STSMs Keep reading for all the details 👇

Huge thanks to everyone involved: our amazing collaborators, the PhD committee, and external opponent Tom Sherratt, co-author of "Avoiding Attack", a major reference for Dani's work. All the best in what's coming next, Dani 🎓

A milestone for our lab: Daniel Linke is our first PhD graduate! 🦋🥳 Over 4 years, he studied the evolution of antipredator defences in skipper butterflies, combining experiments in the lab and field in Peru. Thesis: https://t.co/1VUs4T9xRJ

In this interview by the A-magazine (Czech Academy of Sciences), I highlighted our latest research on butterfly evolution, ecology, and conservation. Many thanks @Akademie_ved_CR https://t.co/rywJ8rcqix Foto: Jana Plavec, Akademie věd ČR

In a neotropical butterfly genus, Wolbachia strains jump between host species, their effective population sizes rise and fall rapidly, and parts of their DNA integrate into butterfly genomes 🦠🦋 Huge congrats to Pedro Ribeiro! @LepPhylo @hamid_hrg https://t.co/OAmPZhkrov