We are all very excited about our new lab baby!  Massive congratulations to Anneke Paijmans on the birth of her new baby girl – Hanna.  What a sweetie 😉

A big congratulations to Oceane Salles for winning a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers to join our team working on fur seals!

Congratulations to Dr. David Wells for successfully completed his viva this week!

Congratulations to Dr. David Vendrami for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Applications of cutting-edge genomic approaches to address key questions in ecology and evolution” !!

An opportunity has become available for a two year postdoc to work on the population genetics of Antarctic marine organisms. We are seeking a candidate with a keen interest in population genetics and experience of RAD sequancing and related approaches.

The deadline for applications is April 3rd 2019. All materials should be e-mailed as a single PDF to: claudia.petersen@uni-bielefeld.de with ‘Postdoc application Wiss 19036’ in the subject line.

Please see the attached PDF for more details about the position and do not hesitate to contact me with any questions at joseph.hoffman[at]uni-bielefeld.de.

Congratulations to Martin Stoffel for winning funding for his own position from the German Science Foundation.  His project, together with Josephine Pemberton at Edinburgh University, will focus on the genomics of inbreeding depression in Soay sheep.  We wish him the best of luck and much fun!

We want to thank Francisco Ceballos for visiting the lab and giving a really nice talk on runs of homozygosity.  The kids also loved seeing his photos from South Africa!

A massive congratulations to Martin Stoffel for successfully defending his PhD with a Summa cum laude.  We wish Martin all the very best for the next step in his career, where he will hopefully go to Edinburgh to work on Soay sheep.

A big thanks to Greg Charrier, who travelled all the way from Brest to give a very nice talk in the Behaviour and Evolution seminar series. We had a great time eating yummy German food and discussing life, the universe, and marine population genetics!

A big welcome to Louise Heitzmann, who is joining the lab for an internship before she returns to Montpelier next spring for her PhD.