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!
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!
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.
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.
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)
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
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 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)
Video
More information about the network can be found here. Interested individuals can sign up here, which is free of charge:
www.unibe.ch/university/p...
(post 2/2)
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...
arxiv.org
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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)
Noa Ottilie Borst
Check out our newest preprint! 📝 We find that adaptation on coevolutionary fitness landscapes is highly repeatable, but landscape-specific, and intergenomic epistasis creates coevolutionary fitness load for interacting species due to frequent fitness trade-offs 🏋️
Promoters emerge three times more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA.
