20.03.2019 We’re pleased to announce next SEEB. The lecture entitled 'The effect of sexual selection on adaptation and extinction: insight from the laboratory and field' will be given by Jonathan Parrett (Oxford University). When: 20.03.2019, 12:15 Where: Collegium Biologicum, room B
13.03.2019 We’re pleased to announce next SEEB. The lecture entitled 'Evolution of alternative, sexually selected pheotypes' will be given by Jacek Radwan (Evolutionary Biology Group, AMU Poznań). When: 13.03.2019, 12:15 Where: Collegium Biologicum, Mała Aula
The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is central for self-/non–self-recognition and acquired immunity. The extreme polymorphism of MHC genes, promoted by parasite-mediated selection, contrasts with limited within-individual diversity. The prevailing explanation is a trade-off between increased pathogen recognition and the anti-autoimmune T cell receptor (TCR) depletion mechanism. However, the predicted inverse relationship between individual MHC diversity [...]
27.02.2019 We’re pleased to announce next SEEB. The lecture entitled 'The genomic impact of Bioinvasions - a case study of two aliens' will be given by Olaf Thalmann (University of Medical Sciences, Poznań). When: 27.02.2019, 12:15 Where: Collegium Biologicum, Mała Aula
18.02.2019 The lecture entitled 'Unsolved problems of the Aral Sea, perhaps the worst environmental disaster of the 20th – 21st centuries' will be given by Nikolay V. Aladin (The Laboratory of Brackishwater Hydrobiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petersburg). When: 18.02.2019, 10:00 Where: Collegium Biologicum, Parter hall
A paper by Leszek Rychlik (Department of Systematic Zoology) and collaborators (from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) about arboreal locomotion in the feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus) appeared in the Journal of Human Evolution (Q1 in Anthropology). The authors demonstrate a strong preference of A. pygmaeus for small and horizontal substrates, avoidance of large and vertical [...]
23.01.2019 We’re pleased to announce next SEEB. The lecture entitled 'Ecophysiological factors and life history strategies in marine top predators' will be given by Roger Colominas-Ciuro (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland). When: 23.01.2019, 12:15 Where: Collegium Biologicum, Mała Aula
09.01.2019 We’re pleased to announce next SEEB. The lecture entitled 'Effect of climate change and human activity on population dynamics of small mammals' will be given by Karol Zub (Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Białowieża). When: 09.01.2019, 12:15 Where: Collegium Biologicum, Mała Aula
PhD, Master and Bachelor students of our Institute: MSc Agnieszka Majer, MSc Alicja Laska, BSc Kamila Karpicka-Ignatowska, Anna Radwańska, BSc Jakub Buda, BSc Mateusz Zmudziński have been awarded scholarships from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements for the academic year 2016/2017. Congratulations!
Jacek Radwan, Magdalena Migalska and Alvaro Sebastian, in collaboration with colleagues from Institute of Nature Conservation PASand Lund University, in a paper published in Molecular Ecology, documented selection acting on major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus). MHC proteins are crucial in pathogen recognition, it is still poorly under-stood how pathogen-mediated selection promotes and maintains MHC diversity, and especially [...]
