At the evolutionary modelling group at KU Leuven (Belgium) we develop evolutionary models to understand how living organisms adapt, from antibiotic resistance to the evolution of human language.
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Evolutionary modelling group (PI: Piet van den Berg)
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Today, we would like to introduce our Italian PhD student: Giorgio Boccarrella
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For everything on our research topics, publications, and ourselves.
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Happy New Year! 🎉
Today, we would like to introduce our PhD candidate, Ronja Hulst! She came from Grunn with a smile :)
Follow her on Bluesky to learn more about her work: @ronbaas.bsky.social
Visiting the conferences of @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social and @humbehevosoc.bsky.social in Rabat. Good talks and good walks. @kathetgedacht.bsky.social
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Today, we would like to introduce our PhD student, Kat Van der Poorten!
Back in Belgium after traveling the world! She is an autistic evolutionary biologist intrigued by all things ‘language’.
Follow her on Bluesky to learn more about her work: @kathetgedacht.bsky.social
Nieuwe blogpost :)
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We develop evolutionary models to understand how living organisms adapt - from antibiotic resistance to human language evolution.
Evolutionary modelling group (PI: Piet van den Berg)
Evolutionary modelling group (PI: Piet van den Berg)
Evolutionary modelling group (PI: Piet van den Berg)
Evolutionary modelling group (PI: Piet van den Berg)
Kat Van der Poorten (キャット)
The @iussi-nwes.bsky.social that we organised this week in Leuven (18-19 December, www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings) was a success! @rmash.bsky.social and @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social delivered fantastic keynote talks and there was a great set of contributed talks and posters.
A huge thank you to our secretary Conny Coeckelberghs and everyone from my team for the fantastic organisation - Viviana Di Pietro, Helena Mendes Ferreira, Anneline Mattens, @kdebeuckelaere.bsky.social and @anvandoren.bsky.social.
Talk I gave about our recent Evolution Letters paper, in which we quantified the benefits of helping at the origin of eusociality using a combination of experiment & theory, at the @iussi-nwes.bsky.social winter meeting in Leuven this week! Powerpoint here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4w3hw...
Tom Wenseleers
Tom Wenseleers
Tom Wenseleers
Very excited about this special issue! Our goal is to bring together empirical and theoretical work across a wide range of “unusual” systems of aging. Sounds like a good fit? Consider submitting to our SI 🤩 Unsure? Feel free to contact us. And please spread the word!
E. Yağmur Erten
Working on ageing in unusual taxa? Consider submitting to our Special Issue on the Journal of Evolutionary Biology: "Ageing outside of the box: insights from unusual and non-model species". With @yagmurerten.bsky.social and @MargauxBieuville, we are looking forward! academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...
Luisa Jaimes
Early-season helping in Polistes wasps shows increasing returns - more helpers lead to convex gains in sexual productivity, resolving a key paradox in the origins of eusociality.
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