Schedule:

14.10.25 – Tábita Hünemeier (Univ. of Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, ES)
Evolutionary Genomics of American Populations.

28.10.25 – Dieter Ebert (Univ. of Basel, CH)
Red Queen dynamics from months to megayears: Selection for extreme genetic diversity.
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18.11.25 – em. Günter Wagner (Univ. of Yale, US)
The evolution of the fetal-maternal relationship in mammals.
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25.11.25 – Jessica Abbott (Univ. of Lund, SW)
Understanding sex chromosomes using experimental evolution. 
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02.12.25 – Nicholas Irwin (Austrian Academy of Sciences, GMI, AT)
Horizontal gene transfer as a driver of eukaryotic complexity.

09.12.25 – Călin Guet (Inst. of Science and Technology Austria, AT)
Gene Regulatory Networks: A Journey from Synthetic Biology to Evolutionary Molecular Biology.

16.12.25 – Maud Tenaillon (Univ. of Paris-Saclay, FR)
SFB Polygenic Adaptation Distinguished Speaker
Phenotypic and molecular evolution of plants under domestication.
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13.01.26 – Alexei Maklakov (Univ. of East Anglia, UK)
Why do organisms age? Challenges in the evolutionary biology of ageing.

20.01.26 – Hinrich Schulenburg (Univ. of Kiel, DE)
Evolution of C. elegans-microbiome interactions.
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27.01.26 – Tanja Schwander (Univ. of Lausanne, CH)
Origins and consequences of unorthodox reproductive modes: Insights from stick insects.