News

Our latest news - conferences, grants, publications, new members, events, etc.

2026

January/26 - Alex and Martin got their first grant with us! Alex received 250 k SEK from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Martin 60k SEK from Magnus Bergvalls Stifelse. José got ~350 k NOK funding from the Research Council of Norway to do fieldwork in the Galápagos. January/26 - We just received 5 Tb of Pacbio, ONT and Hi-C data for our projects. Now for the hardwork.. January/26 - Alex and Mona have started their postdocs and PhD, respectively with us! Alex will be working on Ancestral Recombination Graphs (ARGs) and hybrid genomes, and Mona with reference bias and hybridization on birds!

2025

December/25 - We got a Wenner-Gren Fellowship funded for David Criado Ruiz to join us in March! December/25 - Nicolò got the first paper out of his Postdoc! Pangenomes as a Framework for Adaptive Radiation, Speciation, and Adaptation November/25 - Another paper out! Genomic and biogeographic patterns of endemic geckos in the Galapagos Islands reveal population structure and species delimitation on inhabited islands! November/25 - New paper out! Reference genome bias in light of species-specific chromosomal reorganization and translocations . October/25 - Florian Schmidt and Nicolò have started as a PhD student and a postdoc, respectively!
September/25 - Martin Eriksson has started as a postdoc!
August/25 - Two new papers out! Chromosomal Inversions Mediated by Tandem Insertions of Transposable Elements and Population genomics of the invasive blackberry (Rubus niveus) in the Galapagos Islands
August/25 - José and Wanyi just spent 2 weeks in the Galápagos doing fieldwork.
June/25 - Frasella has finished her MSc!
March/25 - Postdoc position in Oslo to work on reference genomes and comparative genomics
March/25 - Grant application to the Swedish Research Council sent in - fingers crossed.
February/25 - Wanyi Wei began her PhD in Oslo on the Galápagos Daisy project! Welcome.
January/25 - New paper out - k-mer approaches for biodiversity genomics
January/25 - We have two PhD students advertised one on Evolutionary genomics, Biogeography, genome evolution of Diplotaxis (Brassicaceae) in Cabo Verde, and Evolutionary genomics (with a focus on hybridization on Indo-Pacific birds)
January/25 - José officially started as a group leader in the Swedish Museum of Natural Science.

2024

December/24 - Wanyi Wei will be joining the IslandParadox project as a PhD student in Oslo
October/24 - Frasella won the best talk award by a MSc student at the student conference for the section of ecology and evolution!
October/24 - New preprint out on transposable elements and Scalesia where we test whether TEs are associated with hybridization (genomic shock hypothesis) or climatic niches
September/24 - We are advertising a PhD position. See here
June/24 - José was awarded a Young Researcher Grant from the Norwegian Research Council (8,000,000 NOK) - we will be hiring soon!)
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