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Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien

December 2024

We enjoyed visits from two SFB Distinguished Speakers. They gave talks (titles below) as part of the PopGen Vienn Seminar series, held student roundtables, and met with many students, postdocs, and faculty across our network.

Rhonda Snook (shown here; Stockholm Univ., Sweden): "Ecological and evolutionary consequences of reproductive stress in insects."

Katie Lotterhos (Northeastern Univ., US): "Inversions as concentrators of polygenic architectures."

In December we also bid a congratulatory farewell to our SFB Speaker, Neda Barghi, who is starting a group leader position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. She continues to participate in the SFB remotely.

 

October 2024

This year's retreat was a joint venture between the Institute of Population Genetics and the SFB: Polygenic Adaptation. Twenty-eight students, postdocs, and faculty from five institutions met near beautiful Altaussee in the Alps for scientific talks, discussion, hiking, Austrian food, and great views. We're already excited for next year! Thank you Claus Vogl for most of these photos.

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July 2024

In early July, we held a joint journal club discussion at the Faculty of Mathematics (Univ. of Vienna). Afterward, a few participants enjoyed refreshments at the nearby Beaver Brewing.

A few weeks later, we were excited to continue the discussion with the senior author of the journal club paper, Dr. Guy Sella. He was in Vienna for the International Conference of Quantitative Genetics, organized by many SFB members.

 

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March 2024

Members of the SFB met for a kick-off meeting at the Faculty of Mathematics (Univ. of Vienna).

January 2024

We're excited that the SFB has officially started on January 1st! Several excellent postdocs and PhD students were hired and we're looking forward to the first joint meeting in March.

Summer 2023

Our website is online and the call for PhD students, postdocs and administrative manager open.

December 2022

The Austrian Science Fund FWF approved the Special Research Program (SFB)  "Polygenic adaptation: from single selected loci to the infinitesimal model".

During a 4-year period, funds of 3.9 million Euro will enable the SFB members to conduct excellent research in the field of population genetics.

The SFB is a joint collaboration of Neda Barghi (speaker), Robert Kofler and Christian Schlötterer (Institute of Population Genetics, Vetmeduni), vice speaker Joachim Hermisson and Himani Sachdeva (Univ. of Vienna), Magnus Nordborg and Kelly Swarts (GMI), and Nick Barton (ISTA).

Link to press release of the SFB Polygenic adaptation

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