Laura Ross will give a talk at IEU on October 19, 2017

Title: When males lose their fathers genome: the why and how of a remarkable reproductive system Abstract: Under standard mendelian inheritance, individuals receive one set of chromosomes from each of their parents, and transmit one set of chromosomes to each of their offspring, without bias. However, across thousands of animal species, males systematically transmit only those chromosomes that they inherited from their father. I …

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Amy Martin from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland visited on February 19 – March 13, 2017.

Florian Ruland from Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Freie Universität Berlin joined us from April 24 – 28, 2017.

Hanna ten Brink from the University of Amsterdam joined us from April 24 -26, 2017.

Thomas Aubier from the Centre D’Ecologie Fonctionnelle & Evolutive visited on May 8 – 21, 2017.