Title: Mating types, loneliness, and the evolution of self-compatibility
Title: When males lose their fathers genome: the why and how of a remarkable reproductive system Abstract: Under standard mendelian inheritance, individuals receive one set of chromosomes from each of their parents, and transmit one set of chromosomes to each of their offspring, without bias. However, across thousands of animal species, males systematically transmit only those chromosomes that they inherited from their father. I …
Déborah Federico and Aurèle Boussard, two students in Behavioral Ecology at the University of Dijon (FR) joined us for one week to discover …
Amy Martin from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland visited on February 19 – March 13, 2017.
Florian Ruland from Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Freie Universität Berlin joined us from April 24 – 28, 2017.
Hanna ten Brink from the University of Amsterdam joined us from April 24 -26, 2017.
Thomas Aubier from the Centre D’Ecologie Fonctionnelle & Evolutive visited on May 8 – 21, 2017.
Both to do with Hanna’s Finnish cultural award; we needed to do something outdoorsy so that we’re not too cultural all the time. First, we dragged ourselves all the way up Pilatus from lake level. Isobel got to do her marmot face selfie and we all got rather sweaty. The following weekend was less sweaty but no less fun – rafting down the Rheinschlucht, but no selfies or any other photo evidence survived.
Together with Erik Svensson (Lund), Florence Débarre (Paris) and Tim Connallon (Monash, Australia), we got multi-year funding for an ESEB Special Topics network. We will be running workshops for students and researchers around the topic “Linking local adaptation with the evolution of sex differences”. That’s fantastic news, now we have to figure out what the first concrete thing will be!
This Finnish prize for significant cultural achievement is awarded once a year and – guess what:
Hanna Kokko is one of this years recipients of the award!
Congratulations from the whole team, that’s really great!!!
By the way, from a reliable source we know that the national anthem was compulsory. It’s not easy to stand next to a famous rapper, sing the national anthem, not really remembering the lyrics…
Find some impressions, here (in Finnish).
Or at least a tiny bit about it in English.
