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12 November 2025 - Zoom Session V on Reticulate ...

12 November 2025 - Zoom Session V on Reticulate Evolution

Genomics of hybridisation and reticulate evolution in the insect models Heliconus and Drosophila

We are happy to announce the fifth session of our seminar series on Reticulate Evolution.
This session will be moderated by Anna Hundsdörfer (Senckenberg Dresden) on the 12.11.2025, 5 - 7 pm (CET).

We are very pleased to announce James Mallet (Harvard University) and Yuttapong Thawornwattana (University College London) and Amir Yassin (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS) as speakers of this session.

James Mallet/Yuttapong Thawornwattana: Hybridization, Introgression and Speciation in Heliconius

Amir Yassin: Reticulate evolution in Drosophila: experimental assays and phylogenomic signals of introgression

All interested Taxon-OMICS and Reticulate Evolution affiliated scientists are welcome to attend.

For questions or the link to the Zoom session, please contact tina.niemann@uni-hamburg.de.

As a reminder, the meeting will take place bimonthly on Wednesdays, 5 - 7 pm (CET) via Zoom. At each of these meeting we will be inviting two speakers with a presentation of 30 min each to talk about various aspects of reticulate evolution.

[ARCHIVE] 25 September 2025 Taxon-Omics Annual Meeting

2025 Annual Meeting of Taxon-Omics from 2-4pm via Zoom

Dear Taxon-Omics members,

Save the date for the Taxon-Omics Annual Meeting! It will take place on 25 September 2025 from 2-4pm via Zoom.

We would be delighted if not only members of ongoing projects, but also all members of funding phase II who have already completed their projects would attend this meeting.

Further information and registration will follow soon.

[ARCHIVE] 09 July 2025 - Zoom Session IV on Reticulate Evolution

Reticulate Evolution - Generalisations and Theoretical Foundations

We are happy to announce the fourth session of our seminar series on Reticulate Evolution.
This session will be hosted by Christoph Oberprieler (University of Regensburg) on the 09.07.2025, 5 - 7 pm (CEST).

We are very pleased to announce Daniel S. Brooks (University of Wuppertal) and Andrej Spiridonov (Vilnius University) as speakers of this session.

Daniel S. Brooks: The Persistence of Levels of Organization in Biological Thought

Andrej Spiridonov: The scaling picture of symbiosis and co-evolution: Bretskyan hierarchy of holobionts and geobiomes

All interested Taxon-OMICS and Reticulate Evolution affiliated scientists are welcome to attend.

For questions or the link to the Zoom session, please contact tina.niemann@uni-hamburg.de.

As a reminder, the meeting will take place bimonthly on Wednesdays, 5 - 7 pm (CET) via Zoom. At each of these meeting we will be inviting two speakers with a presentation of 30 min each to talk about various aspects of reticulate evolution.

[ARCHIVE] 14 May 2025 - Zoom Session III on Reticulate Evolution

Reticulate evolution in microbial eukaryotes: HGT and its contribution to (endo)symbiosis

We are happy to announce the third session of our seminar series on Reticulate Evolution.
This session will be hosted by Kenneth Dumack (University of Koblenz) on the 14.05.2025,
5 - 7 pm (CET).

We are very pleased to announce Elisabeth Hehenberger (Biology Centre CAS) and Julia Van Etten (Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution) as speakers of this session.

Elisabeth Hehenberger: The extent, role, and timing of (endosymbiotic) gene transfer in plastids 

Julia Van Etten: Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes and across microbial communities

All interested Taxon-OMICS and Reticulate Evolution affiliated scientists are welcome to attend.

For questions or the link to the Zoom session, please contact tina.niemann@uni-hamburg.de.

As a reminder, the meeting will take place bimonthly on Wednesdays, 5 - 7 pm (CET) via Zoom. At each of these meeting we will be inviting two speakers with a presentation of 30 min each to talk about various aspects of reticulate evolution.

[ARCHIVE] 8. Nov. 2023 - PhD Position in Systematic Botany and Biogeography - Apply by 15 Dec

[ARCHIVE] 8. Nov. 2023 - PhD Position in Systematic Botany and Biogeography - Apply by 15 Dec

 We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a MSc degree, fluency in English, an interest in biogeography and a relevant background in plant systematics and evolution. Experience with molecular phylogenetic and/or evolutionary analyses (e.g. ancestral trait or biogeographic reconstructions) is essential. Previous experience with field work, lab work, morphology analysis methods or chemical/metabolomic analyses, or advanced bioinformatic skills will also be viewed favourably. 

[ARCHIVE] 30. Jul - 11. Aug 2023 - Taxon-Omics Summer School

Summer School Taxon-Omics 2023

When? - 30. July 2023 — 11. August 2023

Where? - Prinzessin Therese von Bayern Lehrstuhl für Systematik, Biodiversität & Evolution der Pflanzen; Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München https://www.en.sysbot.bio.lmu.de/index.html, 

Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg -- Botanische Staatssammlung München https://www.botmuc.de/; http://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/

16 Taxon-Omics project members will be selected from the pool of applicants. Please see private linked webpage from newsletter announcements for more information.

For questions, contact A.Zerdoner@lmu.de

[ARCHIVE] 23. Jun 2021 - Taxon-Omics DMP Workshop

The workshop will deliver a general introduction to Research Data Management (RDM) in the biological sciences with particular focus on Data Management Plans (DMPs). Specifically, we will cover the essentials of a good DMP, its intended use and content, including the handling (e.g., archival and publication) of different data types. The workshop will include a demonstration of the GFBio Tool for DMP preparation (www.gfbio.org/dmpt) and an introduction to the GFBio service for DMP support. The participants will have the chance to start writing their own DMP and pose questions to GFBio and NFDI data management experts.