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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 3h

👏👏👏👏 Congratulations to Lily Fogg, Thomas Hitchcock, Alice Horisberger and Elisa Rioja Blanco, who are joining FBM Unil thanks to their Ambizione grants from the SNSF. Lily and Thomas will be joining us at the DEE in early 2027! 🔗 Find out more: www.unil.ch/news/fr/1791... @snsf.ch

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Quatre nouvelles forces pour la recherche à la FBM grâce aux bourses Ambizione

En 2025, quatre scientifiques se sont vu·es recompensé·es par une bourse Ambizione du Fonds national suisse, leur permettant de rejoindre la communauté scientifique de la Faculté de biologie et de méd...

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Alexander Bénéchet from CHUV (hosted by Jérôme Goudet) for a talk on bioimaging 📷🔬. October 8, 12:15pm at the Biophore Amphitheater or live on Rec Unil.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our upcoming DEE External Seminar welcomes Lucy Aplin (hosted by Elham Nourani) for a talk on birds, cognition and sociality. September 17, 12:15pm at the Biophore Amphitheater or live on Rec Unil.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We're hiring an Associate Professor in Behavioral Ecology and Cultural Evolution More information and applications here: www.unil.ch/fbm/en/home/...

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Faculté de biologie et de médecine @fbm-unil.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🎉 Félicitations aux professeures 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗶 @saramitri.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social et 𝗧𝗮𝗻𝗷𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 au Département d’écologie et évolution @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social qui reçoivent chacune un ERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu 👉 www.unil.ch/news/fr/1781...

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Deux ERC Advanced Grants pour la FBM

Les professeures Sara Mitri, au Département de microbiologie fondamentale, et Tanja Schwander, au Département d’écologie et évolution de l’Unil, reçoivent chacune un ERC Advanced Grant de l’European R...

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Luis Silva (hosted by Tad Kawecki) for a talk on pathogen transmission. June 18th, 12:15 at the Biophore Amphitheater or REC UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This week we welcome Martin Lascoux (hosted by Ehouarn Le Faou, Pannell Group) for a talk on contributions of historical demographics to diversity and conservation. June 4th, 12:15 at the Biophore Amphitheater or via REC UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Hester Brønnvik (hosted by Elham Nourani ) for a talk on tracing behavior development. Thursday, May 21, 12:15pm at the Biophore Amphitheater. @enourani.bsky.social @hbronnv.bsky.social

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Alex Twyford (hosted by John Pannell) for a talk on hybridisation and polyploidy in British flora 🌿🌼. 12:15 on May 7th at the Biophore Amphitheater and via RECU UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This week we are welcoming Catalina Chaparro (hosted by @charlesmullon.bsky.social) for a DEE External seminar on evolution and diversity. April 30th at 12:15 in the usual Biophore Amphitheater or via REC UNIL.

This week we are welcoming Catalina Chaparro (hosted by Charles Mullon) for a DEE External seminar on evolution and diversity. April 30th at 12:15 in the usual Biophore Amphitheater or via REC UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Mike Singer (hosted by Tad Kawecki) for a talk on the evolution of microhabitat choice. Thursday, 16 April, 12:15pm at the Biophore Amphitheater.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Next week Cleo Bertelsmeier and Jérôme Goudet welcome Madhav Thakur from UNIBE for a talk on climate extremes and ecological stability. April 2nd, 12:15 at the Biophore Amphitheater.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Our upcoming DEE External seminar welcomes Tom Reed (hosted by Claus Wedekind) for a talk on migratory life histories in salmonid fishes🐟 March 26, 12:15 at the Biophore Amphitheater.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Next week we welcome Celso Martins (hosted by Tanja Schwander) for a talk on sexual asymmetry. Thursday, 19 March at 12:15pm, Biophore Amphitheater or via REC-UNIL.

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Faculté de biologie et de médecine @fbm-unil.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🆕 New center for theory in ecology and evolution @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dee-unil.bsky.social

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Many organisms, including humans, reshape their environments in ways that influence the conditions faced by future generations. We ask whether this can favour biological variation with @irisprigent.bsky.social in our new paper. Thanks to @dee-unil.bsky.social @snsf.ch www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Our upcoming DEE External Seminar welcomes Takashi Akera (hosted by Luca Soldini - Schwander Grp) for a talk on the impact of genetic cheating. Thursday, March 12th, 12:15 at the Biophore Amphitheater or live via REC-UNIL.

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

V happy to share new paper led by @schmidmax.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... We show that plastic germination timing not only buffers environmental fluctuations (storage effect) but also promotes divergence, temporal assortative mating and thus ecological speciation. Thx @dee-unil.bsky.social

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Plastic Germination, Temporal Niche Partitioning and Emergent Assortative Mating in Annual Plants

Temporal environmental fluctuations can drive genetic diversity and species coexistence via the storage effect. Using eco-evolutionary models of annual plants, we show that adaptive plasticity in see...

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Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement de l'UNIL @fgse-unil.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

In a new study, researchers from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) propose an innovative species-centered approach to more effectively integrate biodiversity into conservation efforts and environmental policies 🐝🌱⛰️ read more👇 www.unil.ch/news/en/1770...

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A more accurate mapping of nature’s contribution to people based on species

How can we better assess and map the benefits that nature provides to human societies? In a new study, researchers from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) propose an innovative species-centered approac...

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Ewa Merz (hosted by Tanja Schwander) for a talk on the disruption of ecological networks in lakes. Thursday, Feb 19th, 12:15 at the Biophore Amphitheater or live via REC-UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Tomorrow we kick off our 2026 external seminars with Zhijie Zhang (hosted by Charles Mullon) with a talk on mechanistic prediction of species coexistence. Thursday, February 5th at the Biophore Amphi (live stream exceptionally not available for this session).

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Our final DEE External Seminar before the holidays welcomes Oscar Gaggiotti (hosted by Isabela Jeronimo do Ó, Goudet Group) with a talk on AI and population genomics. 12:15, December 18th at the Biophore Amphitheatre or online via REC-UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Liesbeth Streck (hosted by Erica van de Waal) with a talk on power and social behaviour in primates. 12:15, December 4th at the Biophore Amphitheatre or online via REC-UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Juha Karjalainen (hosted by Claus Wedekind) with a talk on the effects of industrial waste waters. 12:15, November 27th at the Biophore Amphitheatre or online via REC-UNIL.

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Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement de l'UNIL @fgse-unil.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

👏Félicitations à Antoine Guisan et Marco Keiluweit, deux professeurs de la Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement de l'UNIL, pour leur présence dans la liste Clarivate des chercheurs les plus cités au monde. 🌎 www.unil.ch/news/1763621... @unil.bsky.social

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Deux professeurs de la FGSE parmi les plus cités, selon Clarivate

Antoine Guisan et Marco Keiluweit, tous deux professeurs à la Faculté des géosciences et de l’environnement de l’UNIL, figurent dans la prestigieuse liste des scientifiques les plus cité·es de 2025, é...

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Philippe Jarne (hosted by John Pannell) with a talk on metacommunity dynamics. 12:15, November 20th at the Biophore Amphitheatre or online via REC-UNIL.

This week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Philippe Jarne (hosted by John Pannell) with a talk processes acting in metacommunity dynamics. 12:15, November 20th at the Biophore Amphitheatre or online via REC-UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Coming up next week, DEE External Seminar welcomes Sonja Lehtinen (hosted by Tad Kawecki) with a talk on antibiotic resistance. 12:15, November 13th at the Biophore Amphitheatre or online via REC-UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Andrew Pomiankowski (hosted by @charlesmullon.bsky.social ) with a talk on mitochondrial quality and the evolution of sexes. 12:15, November 6th at the Biophore Amphitheatre or online via REC-UNIL.

Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Andrew Pomiankowski (hosted by Charles Mullon) with a talk on mitochondrial quality and the evolution of sexes. 12:15, November 6th at the Biophore Amphitheatre or online via REC-UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Our upcoming DEE External Seminar welcomes Reto Burri (hosted by Angelica Pulido, Goudet Group) with a talk on convergent plumage coloration 🪶 12:15, October 23rd at the Biophore Amphitheatre or online via REC-UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Kicking off this year's DEE External Seminars is Simon Martin (hosted by João Souto, Goudet Group) with a talk on reinventing the supergene 🧬 12:15, September 18th at the Biophore Amphitheatre or online via REC-UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Our DEE labs got a gold certificate🏅from the LEAF programme, a standard set to improve the sustainability and efficiency of laboratories. Highlighted are efficient resource use, streamlined communication, and an IT tool helps track equipment and samples. Congratulation to all those involved! 👏

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

DEE Prof Antoine Guisan was awarded a Jürg Tschopp Basic Life Sciences Award by @fbm-unil.bsky.social for his outstanding local and international contributions to understanding and predicting species distribution and communities, and the global impact of climate change on biodiversity.

Photo: A. Guisan and M. Thome-Miazza © F. Imhof

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

For our last scheduled DEE External Seminar before the summer break, we welcome Marina Rafajlović (host by @charlesmullon.bsky.social) for a talk on divergence, speciation and inversions. June 26, 12:15 at the Biophore Amphitheater or via REC UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

CUSO Course: Unintended Artificial Selection: Evolutionary and Ecological Consequences 📅 Dates: Tuesday–Friday, 12–15 August 2025  📍 Venue: Berghotel Gasterntal, Kandersteg-Selden (Switzerland) 🔗 Link to photos: www.unil.ch/dee/en/home/... 🔗 Registration link : www.cuso.ch/activity/?p=...

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Next week we welcome Marie Delattre (hosted by Morgane Massy, Schwander Group) for a talk on convergent evolution of auto-pseudogamy in nematodes. Additionally, the Schwander Group welcomes Manfred Schartl for a talk on the evolution of sex determination. Details on posters.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

For this week's DEE External seminar we are welcoming Mia Levine (hosted by Tanja Schwander) for a talk on intra-genomic conflicts. Thursday, May 15 at 12:15, Biophore Amphitheater.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Next week we welcome Frédéric Tripet from Swiss TPH (hosted by Philippe Christe ) for a talk on the renaissance of genetic vector control. Thursday, May 1 at 12:15, Biophore Amphitheater or streaming via REC UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Erica van de Waal has participated in an ARTE film entitled "Animal Cultures". The film includes coverage of her current research with the 'Sense' innovation and research center, and also the recording collars developed by Prof. Franceschiello of the HES-So Valais. www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC...

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Cultures animales - Voyages et découvertes | ARTE

Apprentissage de nouveaux comportements, partage de traditions ou encore adaptation face aux changements : autant d’éléments qui dépeignent la subtilité et l’ampleur des cultures chez les animaux. Tan...

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

DEE Prof. Tanja Schwander is giving her inaugural lecture tomorrow, Thursday, April 10th at the Biophore Amphitheater. 🔗 More info: unil.ch/fbm/LI-LA

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Next week we welcome Lalasia Bialic-Murphy from ETH Zurich (hosted by Cleo Bertelsmeier) for a talk on macroecological patterns, forest trees and climate sensitivity. Thursday, April 10 at 12:15, Biophore Amphitheater or streaming via REC UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This week we welcome Clara Zemp from UNINE (hosted by Philippe Christe) for a talk on cross-scale biodiversity enrichment with tree islands in oil palm landscapes. Thursday, April 3 at 12:15, Biophore Amphitheater or streaming via REC UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Next week we welcome our very own Pierre Bize for a talk about changing body shapes. Thursday, March 27 at 12:15, Biophore Amphitheater or streaming via REC UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Alexander Mathis (hosted by Marc Robinson-Rechavi) for a talk on deep learning and ethology. March 20 at 12:15 or online via REC UNIL.

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Erica van de Waal and German colleagues published a paper entitled Loud Call Production in Male Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) Varies with Season and Signaller Rank. Read: doi.org/10.1007/s107...

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

February 6 and 7, Genopode Building UNIL The Lausanne Genomics Days is a 2-day international conference meant to share advances in (Gen)Omics and their impact on biological research, applied to a wide range of topics. More info: wp.unil.ch/gtf/lgd-2025/

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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

For our final scheduled external seminar of the year, we welcome Francisco Úbeda (hosted by @charlesmullon.bsky.social) for a talk on PRDM9-guided recombination hotspots. November 28, 12:15pm at the Biophore Amphitheater or online via REC-UNIL.

For our final scheduled external seminar of the year, we welcome Francisco Úbeda (hosted by Charles Mullon) for a talk on PRDM9-guided recombination hotspots. November 28, 12:15pm at the Biophore Amphitheater or online via REC-UNIL.

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