The @cbank.bsky.social lab is going 🚄 to #MMEE2026 in Cork next week! @ayalopjulio.bsky.social will present Thursday afternoon on hybrid incompatibilities, and @lorhab.bsky.social will present Wednesday afternoon on the repeatability of adaptation (1/3)

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Bacteria that evolve antibiotic resistance epigenetically in cows 🐮?!!? If you're at #SMBE2026 , listen to group member Adamandia (Mado) Kapopoulou's ✨flash talk ✨ at 14:20 on Tue (30th) in Session 3 (Lumbye room).

PhD candidate @wachalak.bsky.social from our department will be presenting at #SMBE2026 in Session 15: "Detecting selection and local adaptation on (im)possible systems". Listen to her ✨flash talk✨ "Detecting local adaptation within chromosomal inversions" on Wed the 1st of July at 11:10.

Congrats to @zacharybailey.bsky.social on his new preprint which show that phages can stabilize coexistence between competing bacteria cultures🧫🦠, but temperature fluctuations 🌡️ (like this heat wave 🥵 we are currently experiencing in Europe 🌍) can weaken these interactions!

The University of Bern's features the "Treasure Chest project", which uses real-world scenarios to teach stats to bio students. Our collaborator Stephan Peischl @spei.bsky.social connects genetics to epidemiology, bringing statistics to life! Article (in DE) in the link below:

Happy Pride month PhD candidate @lorhab.bsky.social will also be speaking at the next "Astronomy on Tap Bern" on Wed, the 10th of June at Stellwerk. Scan the QR-code in the image if you want to participate!

Congrats to current postdoc @timothyfuqua.bsky.social who recently published the work from his former-postdoc position working on promoter emergence in random vs genomic DNA.

A bit late, but @msrivastava95.bsky.social , @cbank.bsky.social , Suman Das, and Joachim Krug recently released a manuscript on arXiv titled: "Evolution as fitness landscape navigation: Concepts, Measures, and Emerging Questions". Check out their work here! arxiv.org/abs/2604.17036

Happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈 PhD candidate, @lorhab.bsky.social from the group was recently on the radio with Radio Bern (RABE) to talk about the network Queer UniBE, an LGBTQ+ organization for staff at the University of Bern (session starts ~19 minutes, German only): rabe.ch/beitrag/20-0... (post 1/2)

We are happy to present the latest preprint from our group led by Ph.D. candidate @lorhab.bsky.social! This piece explores the epistatic tradeoffs within eco-evo fitness landscapes (Give her a follow and wish her luck finishing her thesis!). Any feedback and constructive criticism is appreciated.

Excited to share my first preprint from my PhD w/ @justinmcrocker.bsky.social. We show that cell type-specific regulatory dominance promotes robustness and evolutionary innovation through interallelic transcriptional hubs, potentially expanding the mutational paths available to diploids. (1/18)

Can interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers? peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html We're running an ethics-approved, pre-registered study thanks to funding from the University of Bern. Are you lecturing in the Spring? Contact me to receive the survey link!

🧬 Our 2025 review is here! A (very belated) Happy New Year from the THEE group! From transcription factor evolution to microbiomes, epistasis, biodiversity, and antimicrobial resistance — here’s a thread highlighting our group’s contributions to research in 2025 👇