Interested in a PhD?
EEC is looking for PhD candidates. Emanuel and Oliver have advertised PhD projects at the GAIA doctoral school (Université de Montpellier). Project descriptions are here (Emanuel) and here (Oliver). Contact us if you are interested!
A new lab member!
Lilia Galvez has joined EEC for a three-month master project, together with Emanuel and Oliver. Using a protist model system, Lilia will explore eco-evolutionary dynamics during community range expansions.
Symbiont life history and host range
In a Russian-German-Italien collaboration lead by Martina Schrallhammer, we have published an article in FEMS Microbiology, investigating phylogenetic position, life-history characteristics and host range of a bacterial symbiont of Paramecium. Alexey Potekhin, Michael Schweikert, Irina
EEC is looking for master students
Master projects are available in our group! Possible projects focus on eco-evolutionary dynamics in fragmented landscapes. Using both theoretical and/or experimental evolution approaches, the aim of the projects is to investigate the joint effects of
EEC is back online!
As of 1/1/2018, Emanuel Fronhofer joins our team as a CNRS research scientist. Welcome, Emanuel! Visit his page and his personal website!
Phages and bacterial social evolution
A new article published by Marie Vasse, Clara Torres-Barceló and Michael Hochberg in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, shows how phage predators impact social dynamics in the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. While predators