GENECO has held their annual winter meeting at Kulturen, the indoor and open-air museum of historic buildings and exhibitions here in Lund.
GENECO is the graduate research school in genomic ecology, open to all PhD students in the Nordic countries. The students come together to understand genomic techniques and applications – and communicate their research ideas.
The meeting with the theme ”Application of new cool methods”, was opened by Geneco:s director Bengt Hansson who also presented the speakers through the day together with Postdoctoral fellow Emily O’Connor.
Arild Husby was invited from Uppsala University to talk about the role of epigenetics in the seasonal timing of reproduction.
Robin Pranter held the first PhD presentation – Neural crest cell migration and differentiation in wall lizards. Victor Kalbskopf followed with a presentation titled ”Haplotype dynamics within avian malaria infections”.
After a nice lunch, where there was time to browse around the museum or just chat with colleagues, Damandeep Kaur held her PhD presentation titled ”Experimental evolution to study the evolution of dosage compensation”.
Fabien Burki, of Uppsala University, talked about he origin of plastids, with insights from the uncultured microbial diversity.
After a coffee break the Ph D presentations continued with Mingyue Yuan and Vittoria Todisco.
Finally Emília Santos talked about how she uses CRISPR-CAS to study morphological evolution in cichlid fishes.
The day at Kulturen was summed up with a mingle and drinks, before dinner was served.
Text & photo: Anders Örtegren
