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The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional PhD program in evolutionary and population genetics in Vienna, Austria. www.popgen-vienna.at

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 15h
We kick start this semester's #PopGen Seminar series by welcoming Dan Nussey tomorrow. He will speak about "The evolutionary ecology of senescence in wild animals". Schedule and streaming info: popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution #evolutionaryecology
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Changyi Xiao @changyi-xiao.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Glad to share our new paper published in Genetics!!🧬 Using experimental evolution data and forward genetic simulations, we explored how haplotype structure shapes the genomic response. doi.org/10.1093/gene...
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Haplotype structure: an overlooked key factor shaping the genomic selection response
Abstract. Genetic redundancy, a hallmark of polygenic adaptation, implies that new trait optima can be reached by frequency changes of a subset of contribu
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Changyi Xiao @changyi-xiao.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Our paper was accepted at Genome Biology! @sduarrir.bsky.social @yiwenc.bsky.social Genomic and phenotypic signals told different stories in our D. simulans experimental evolution: genomic divergence across environments, but phenotypic convergence. doi.org/10.1186/s13059-026-04250-4
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Bosco Gracia @boscogracia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy to share the first article of my PhD in @elife.bsky.social: Environmental temperature is a strong driver of subspecies competition in the #Drosophila #microbiome You can check it out here: elifesciences.org/articles/110... #SymbioSky #MicroSky #symbiosis #AcademicSky🧪
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Environmental temperature is a strong driver of subspecies competition in the Drosophila microbiome
Changes in abiotic factors, such as temperature, can affect the host fitness indirectly by modulating subspecies dynamics of key taxa, which are usually overlooked in microbiome research.
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next semester (Oct–Jan). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
PopGen Seminar Series Winter Term 2026/27

06.10.2026 – Dan Nussey (Univ. Edinburgh, UK)	Lecture Hall B
The evolutionary ecology of senescence in wild animals

13.10.2026 –  Howard Rundle (Univ. Ottawa, CA)	Lecture Hall B
The population genetic consequences of mate competition: Empirical insights from Drosophila

20.10.2026 – Josephine Pemberton (Univ. Edinburgh, UK)	Lecture Hall A
Evolutionary genetic studies in long term, individually-monitored wild animal populations
SFB Polygenic Adaptation Distinguished Speaker

27.10.2026 – Richard Benton (Univ. Lausanne, CH)	Lecture Hall B
Niche specialisation in nervous systems and beyond

03.11.2026 – Thomas Bataillon (Aarhus Univ., DK)	Lecture Hall A
How to find a “Ruby in the Rubbish?”: On using population genomics to make inference about beneficial mutations, deleterious mutations and their impact on adaptation

24.11.2026 – John Welch (Univ. Cambridge, UK)	Lecture Hall A
When will hybridization be beneficial?

01.12.2026 – Thomas Flatt (Univ. Fribourg, CH)	Lecture Hall A
Inversions and the hunt for the genomic targets of selection

15.12.2026 – Andreas Futschik (Vetmeduni, AT)	Lecture Hall M
Frequentist and Bayesian inference for population genetic data

12.01.2027 – Leif Andersson (Uppsala Univ., SW)	Lecture Hall A
On the origin of Baltic herring by means of natural selection

19.01.2027 – Mikkel Schierup (Aarhus Univ., DK)	Lecture Hall A
De novo mutations, cross-overs and gene conversions across primate species inferred from HiFi sequencing of sperm and testis tissue

26.01.2027 – Thomas Wiehe (Univ. Cologne, DE)	Lecture Hall M
Looking at (some) plant genes with a joint LLM-population genetics lens
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Our last #PopGen Seminar speaker of this term is Andrea Betancourt! Tomorrow she will give a talk "Impact of P-element hybrid dysgenesis in male Drosophila simullans". Full schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #Drosophila #TransposableElements
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Recording of this week's PopGen seminar talk "Molecular basis of adaptation in #Arabidopsis thaliana" by Angela Hancock is now available on our YouTube channel. Thanks to Angela for recording permission! youtu.be/PmWh6P4qfoM?...
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Our #PhD students are looking forward to meeting tomorrow's #PopGen seminar speaker Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social! She talks about "Molecular basis of adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana". Full schedule and streaming signup at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #Arabidopsis #evolution #genomics
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Juliette de Meaux @meauxjuliette.bsky.social is speaking tomorrow on "Adaptation to environmental challenges in plants" for our #PopGen Seminar. Our #PhD students are excited to attend and meet her! Full schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution #molecularecology
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Our #PhD students are excited to hear Bertrand Servin's seminar "Combining quantitative and population genetics inferences to predict phenotypes in populations under polygenic adaptation" for our #popgen seminar series tomorrow. Info: popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution #genetics
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Our #PhD students are enjoying meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @emjo.bsky.social tomorrow! She will tell us about "Integrating Evolution and Genomics to Understand Plant Phenotypic Plasticity". Full schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution #genomes #ecology
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Carlotta Martelli is speaking tomorrow on "The effect of temperature on brain wiring: from mechanisms to functional implications" for our #PopGen Seminar Series. Our #PhD students look forward meeting her! Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Our #PhD students are excited to hear Alison Wright @alielw.bsky.social speak about "The genomics and development of sexually selected traits" for our #PopGen seminar series tomorrow. See full schedule and sign up for streaming links here popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution #genomes
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Our #PhD students are looking forward to meeting with tomorrow´s #PopGen seminar speaker #Vienna local Thomas Hummel! He talks about "Genetic Architecture of Drosophila Brain Asymmetry". Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution #drosophila
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Nicolas Bierne is speaking tomorrow on "Two Tales of Anthropogenic Hybridization in Human-Altered Marine Habitats" for our #PopGen Seminar Seires. Our #PhD sutdents look forward to attending and meeting him! Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Our #PhD students are excited for Rebekah Rogers' talk for our #PopGen Seminar tomorrow about "The limits of genetic novelty in rapid adaptive change." Full schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
@clairemerot.bsky.social is speaking on Tuesday about "The role of structural genomic variants in the evolution of biodiversity" for our #PopGen Seminar Series. Our #PhD students look forward to meeting her! See full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Our #PhD students look forward to Henrique Teotónio speaking tomorrow about "When, how and why selection for recombination is decoupled from adaptation" for our #PopGen Seminar Series. Schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Our #PhD students are enjoying meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social tomorrow! He will tell us about "Evolution of bilaterian traits and mechanisms of cell type diversification: insights from cnidarians". Full schedule+streaming details popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Our #PhD students are looking forward to hearing Martin Jastroch discuss "Reconstructing the evolution of vertebrate thermogenesis using comparative approaches" for the #PopGen Seminar Series tomorrow. Full schedule+sign up for streaming links popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
@francoisrousset.bsky.social is speaking tomorrow on "What phage-bacteria interactions teach us about innate immunity" for our #PopGen Seminar Series. Our #PhD students are excited attending and meeting him! Full schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution #ecology
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Our #PhD students are looking forward to tomorrow's #PopGen seminar speaker @bfraser.bsky.social! She kicks off the term about "Population genomics reveals rapid repeatable adaptation in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)". Schedule, streaming popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (March-June). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Tanja Schwander is closing the #PopGen Seminar winter term by speaking tomorrow on "Origins and consequences of unorthodox reproductive modes: Insights from stick insects". Our #PhD students look forward! Full schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Tomorrow's #popgen seminar speaker Hinrich Schulenburg @schulenburglab.bsky.social will tell us about "Evolution of C. elegans-microbiome interactions". Streaming signup popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ Our #PhD students look forward to his visit and meetings! #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Our #PhD students look forward to kicking off this years #popgen seminar series tomorrow with @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social "Why do organisms age? Challenges in the evolutionary biology of ageing". Check our website for full schedule and streaming signup popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Our #PhD students are looking forward to SFB Distinguished Speaker Maud Tenaillon about "Phenotypic and molecular evolution of plants under domestication" tomorrow for our #PopGen seminar series.SFB www.vetmeduni.ac.at/sfb-polygeni... Streaming Link:https://popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Our #PhD students are excited to hearing #Vienna local Calin Guet discuss "Gene Regulatory Networks: A Journey from Synthetic Biology to Evolutionary Molecular Biology" for the #PopGen Seminar today. Full schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Our #PhD students are looking forward to #Vienna local speaker Nicholas Irwin tomorrow for our #PopGen seminar series. He is talking about "Horizontal gene transfer as a driver of eukaryotic complexity". Streaming signup and term schedule: www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Our #PhD students are excited to hear Jessica Abbott speak about "Understanding sex chromosomes using experimental evolution" for our #PopGen seminar series tomorrow. See full schedule and sign up for streaming links here popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Our #PopGen #PhD students look forward to em. Günter Wagner's talk tomorrow: "The evolution of the fetal-maternal relationship in mammals." Streaming signup and term schedule here: popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The #PopGen #PhD students are excited to hear Dieter Ebert´s talk tomorrow: "Red Queen dynamics from months to megayears: Selection for extreme genetic diversity". Term schedule and streaming signup: popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Our #PhD students are looking forward to meeting with tomorrow's #PopGen seminar speaker @hunemeier.bsky.social She kicks off the term by talking about "Evolutionary Genomics of American Populations". Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (Sep-Jan). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
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Genetics Society UK @gensocuk.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🧬Submit your abstract now – deadline Monday! This meeting will bring together researchers interested in using ancient genomes to understand the role that migrations, introgression, adaptation & selection, have played in shaping human genetic variation and disease. genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...
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Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine | Genetics Society
It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the Autumn Meeting of the Genetics Society. This meeting will provide a unique forum to network and socialise with a wide cross-section of the ...
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Watch Margarida Matos talk "From nature to the lab: The role of history, chance and selection during adaptation to novel environments" here youtu.be/fP3MV4YdwdY #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Our last #PopGen Seminar speaker of this term is Margarida Matos: "From nature to the lab: The role of history, chance and selection during adaptation to novel environments."Our #PhD students are excited to meet her!#evolution Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Could horizontal transfer be abundant not just in bacteria but also in eukaryotes? A recent work by Pianezza R, Haider A, Scarpa A, Signor S and Kofer R finds 3 HTs of transposons in a mere 30years. academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-... #evolution #drosophila
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Spatio-temporal tracking of three novel transposable element invasions in Drosophila melanogaster over the last 30 years
Abstract. Transposable elements (TEs) are repetitive sequences capable of mobilizing within genomes, exerting a sigfinificant influence on evolution throug
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Our #PhD students are excited to hear @stschiff.bsky.social speak about "Spatial inference of population structure and prehistoric human mobility from ancient and modern #genomes" tomorrow for our #PopGen Seminar series. Full schedule and streaming signup at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Take a look at our SFB Polygenic Adaptation Distinguished Speaker Lauren McIntyre - PopGen Vienna talk youtu.be/AC7nIii7ugo?... #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Our students are excited for todays SFB Distinguished Speaker Lauren McIntyre ("Disentangling cis and trans effects: a novel crossing design") for our #PopGen seminar series. SFB website: vetmeduni.ac.at/sfb-polygeni... Streaming signup and term schedule: #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Our students are excited for next Tuesdays SFB Distinguished Speaker Lauren McIntyre ("Disentangling cis and trans effects: a novel crossing design") for our #PopGen seminar series. SFB website: vetmeduni.ac.at/sfb-polygeni... Streaming signup and term schedule: www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Watch our recent PopGen Vienna talk @aprilwei.bsky.social youtu.be/M0kE9IkbE-Q
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
@aprilwei.bsky.social is tomorrow's #PopGen Seminar speaker. Our #PhD students look forward to hearing her talk on "Genomes as Graphs: Compressing, Utilizing, and Simulating Biobank-Scale Whole Genomes" and meeting her! Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Our #PhD students look forward to meeting @yun-s-song.bsky.social who is speaking in our #PopGen seminar series tomorrow! Title: "Learning and applying complex probability distributions over biological sequences." Full schedule and streaming details popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Watch our PopGen Vienna talk - Filipa Sousa youtu.be/Nv_O_Vcutl8?...
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Parallel gene expression evolution declines with genetic divergence. In #Drosophila, we show that as divergence increases, adaptive expression responses become more heterogeneous—supp. the omnigenic model&highlighting the role of redundancy in #evolution doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #PolygenicAdaptation
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Reduced Parallel Gene Expression Evolution With Increasing Genetic Divergence—A Hallmark of Polygenic Adaptation
Parallel evolution, the repeated evolution of similar traits in independent lineages, is a topic of considerable interest in evolutionary biology. Although previous studies have focused on the parall...
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Our #PhD students are excited for #Vienna local Filipa Sousa's @filipa-sousa.bsky.social talk for our #PopGen Seminar tomorrow: "Bioenergetics #Evolution: The link between Earth's and Life's history." Full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Our #PhD students look forward to meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @lifeatthebench.bsky.social on May 13!She will tell us about "Understanding the predictability of #evolutionary trajectories using threespine stickleback".Schedule and streaming details www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Congratulations to our #PhD student @philipphummer.bsky.social! He has been awarded with the SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award by @official-smbe.bsky.social #genomics #evolution
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