Eco-evo PhD student in @thee-bank-lab.bsky.social ๐งซ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ป๐
Trying to make intergenomic epistasis happen ๐ ๐ฝ
(she/her)
Loraine Hablรผtzel
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Join us next Wednesday in Bern! ๐๐
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"Function-specific epistasis shapes evolutionary trajectories towards antibiotic resistance". Huge parallel experimental evolution effort in E. coli under antimicrobial pressure by @gabypetrungaro.bsky.social at Bollenbach Lab at University of Cologne.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment (now out, but previously posted here as a preprint) with Ville Mustonen, Lutz Becks @jcairns.bsky.social & others. Experiment continues @utu.fi and now 5+ years www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Our work characterizing how mutational bias is influenced by the local sequence context beyond trinucleotides is out now @pnas.org! We also showed which motifs are most prone to mutations caused by strand misalignment, revealing several new hotspots! ๐งฌ
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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. :)
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Alf Soler-Bistuรฉ ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐งซ
Biological communities are complex, dynamic systems that underpin ecosystem functionality,
yet their long-term dynamics and predictability remain p...
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
Teppo Hiltunen
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!
Our study comparing promoter existence and emergence in random vs genomic DNA is finally published!!!
TLDR: the E. coli genome has more promoters than random DNA (even in intergenic regions), and promoters emerge ~3x more readily from random DNA than genomic DNA. (1/2)
Fitness landscapes are mappings between genotypes, phenotypes, and fitness that shape evolution. In recent years, empirical work and theoretical models have greatly advanced our understanding of how p...
Our first study from the Hasli Outdoor Mesocosm Experiment (HOME) is out!!
Here we focus on plant responses to extreme heat and drought during the first two years of the experiment, and we found that fast- and slow-growing plants fully recovered to drought
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Check out my first PhD paper, a model investigating life-history trade-offs and the evolution of sex differences in longevity, just out in @natcomms.nature.com!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Big thanks to Xiang-Yi Li Richter and @lottedevries.bsky.social!
Matt Jago
Rike Stelkens
Theoretical Ecology and Evolution (THEE) Group
Promoters emerge three times more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA.
In a 2-year outdoor mesocosm experiment, slow- and fast-growing grassland plants exhibit biomass-trait decoupling 1 month after drought, particularly under warmed conditions. This decoupling disappea....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Males and females often live different lengths of time, but why remains unclear. Here, the authors present a theoretical model showing that trade-offs between survival and reproduction, together with ...
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!
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Timothy Fuqua ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Gerard Martรญnez-De Leรณn
Ella Rees-Baylis
The Rokas Lab at Vanderbilt University
Great to see this out! doi.org/10.1093/evle.... Lead by
@karenbisschop.bsky.social
and Thomas Blankers. It discusses: If you repeat ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ญ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ญ๐๐ฌ, do you get the same result in terms of fitness? The answer isโฆ not necessarily. Glad to have played a part!
Abstract. The repeatability of evolution is fundamentally important for understanding the origin and diversification of life as well as for developing evol
