Evolutionary Genomics of Sex

🐞 Welcome Puck and Felix to the lab!

We are excited to welcome Puck, our new master’s thesis student, and Felix, our new field assistant!
Puck will investigate reproductive symbionts and sex-ratio distortion in Belgian ladybirds, while Felix brings his expertise in entomology and ladybird identification to support our fieldwork and research on sex-altering endoparasites.
Welcome aboard, Puck and Felix!
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🧬 Welcome Tristan to the lab!

We are excited to welcome Tristan as our new Research Associate! With a background in evolution, genetics, and molecular biology, Tristan will help manage our molecular lab, contribute to ongoing research projects, and continue his master's research on sex chromosome turnover in the Japanese brown frog, working toward publication.
Welcome aboard, Tristan!
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Tristan submitted his FRIA PhD fellowship!

Exciting news! Tristan has submitted his FRIA PhD fellowship application! πŸŽ‰
His project will be supervised by Prof. Brendan Reid (University of Namur) as the main promoter and myself (VUB) as co-promoter, with Prof. Paris Veltsos (VUB) and Prof. Hannes Svardal (University of Antwerp) as key collaborators and co-supervisors.
Fingers crossed
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