News

August 2018: Alumni career news

Our Alumna Claudia Bank, group leader of the Evolutionary Dynamics laboratory at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), was awarded an ERC Starting Grant - congratulations! Read more here

July 2018: Alumni career news

Congratulations to our alumna Johanna Bertl for her appointment to Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics at Aarhus University!

July 2018: Website relaunch

We relaunched our website to catch up with technology and offer now a responsive design in addition to a more secure website.

June 2018: Visiting scientist

Christopher Willett, Research Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will visit us for three weeks at the end of June. Chris investigates genetic variation underlying speciation and adaptation and studies the genes that interact deleteriously to generate postzygotic reproductive isolation in a copepod system. He also looks at thermal tolerance and its potential interactions with reproductive isolation in collaboration with members of the Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics.

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June 2018: Marshall Plan Scholarship

Congratulations to Anna Maria Langmüller! She received one of the prestigious Marshall Plan Foundation grants to support her research stay in the US. Anna will spend 6 months in the group of Philipp Messer at Cornell as visiting student researcher to work on population dynamics of CRISPR gene drives.

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June 2018: PhD defense

Juraj Bergman successfully defended his PhD thesis "Inference of population genetic parameters in putatively unselected sites" on June 5, 2018 at Vetmeduni Vienna. All the best wishes for your postdoc career, Juraj!

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May 2018: SAB meeting and Mini-Symposium

This years' Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) meeting took place from May 7 to 9. The students reported their progress in front of the Advisory Board, the program's faculty and fellow students. After the busy daily presentation schedules, the students further interacted with the SAB in more relaxed settings over drinks and dinner. In May 9th, the Mini-Symposium "Frontiers in Population Genetics IV" took place at lecture hall B of Vetmeduni.

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April 2018: ERC Advanced Grant

Our faculty member Magnus Nordborg has been awarded the second ERC Advanced Grant (€2.5M) to study the causes of epigenetic variation in the global Arabidopsis population and its evolutionary significance. Congratulations!

Read more here

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March 2018: Promotio sub auspiciis

During a solemn ceremony, PhD alumnus  Dominik Schrempf graduated "sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae", Austria’s highest possible honor for graduates who have excelled throughout their education and studies. Dominik is the first ever graduate of Vetmeduni Vienna to receive the prestigious ring of honor from the President of Austria. Congratulations, Dominik!

Alumnus Dominik Schrempf and Austria's president Alexander Van der Bellen (Foto: Thomas Suchanek/Vetmeduni Vienna)

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April 2018: ERC Advanced Grant

Faculty member Magnus Nordborg has been an ERC Advanced Grant. Within his second Advanced Grant, he will study causes and evolutionary significance of epigenetic variation in Arabidopsis.

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March 2018: Walter M. Fitch Award Finalist

Congratulations (and fingers crossed!) for Ana Marija Jakšić – she is one of 8 selected finalists to present a 15-minute talk in the Walter M. Fitch Symposium at this year’s SMBE meeting in Yokohama. Based on these presentations, a winner will be chosen by an anonymous expert panel and awarded the Walter M. Fitch Prize (US $2000). Finalists receive a one-year, online MBE subscription and travel support for attending the meeting.

Ana Marija will speak about "Re-thinking a classic clinal trait: Pleiotropic consequences of thermally adaptive dopamine on pigmentation clines in Drosophila"