Fond memories are reflected in the photo recap of #eseb2025 available here https://eseb2025.com/eseb-2025-photo-recap/
Part of this photo gallery are also our PI @DenisMeuthen while asking a question to the presenter and our PhD student Nhamo Mutingwende during a scientific discussion. #EvolutionaryBiology #evolution #ecology @academicchatter
Our lab provided two more contributions to #eseb2025. Our PhD student Dominik Perisa presented a poster titled "Epigenomic profiles underlying induced defenses in a freshwater gastropod" while our PI @DenisMeuthen presented his work under the title "Antipredator phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary divergence in a freshwater snail". Both posters garnered a lot of interest from our colleagues and multiple fruitful discussions alongside possible collaborations emerged. #EvolutionaryBiology #evolution #ecology @academicchatter
After speeding through France at up to 300 km/h for a few hours, I am changing to a small regional train to take me the last 30 or so km to Basel.
As much as I enjoyed #ESEB2025, I also look forward to getting home and getting a good nights sleep 😴

The train journey along the Mediterranean between Perpignan and Montpellier is very scenic. I even saw Greater Flamingo’s feeding in the lagoons right beside the rail tracks.

After a 1 h stopover in Valence I get on another TGV, this time an older model, with the destination of the second leg being Mulhouse.

#ESEB2025

Since #ESEB2027 will be a hub meeting, which should reduce travel distances overall and thus be more environmentally friendly, I thought I’d get into the spirit early. My (not particularly impressive) train journey back home from #ESEB2025 starts with a TGV from Barcelona Sants to Valence, France.
Next ESEB meeting will have an innovative format, across four hubs. The aim is to make it easier to avoid plane travel, and to diversify the locations that can host a meeting #ESEB2025 #ESEB2027

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Incredibly moving session this morning for the EUEA awards at #ESEB2025. Thanks to the Equal Opportunity committee for helping us try to understand the enormous challenges that some of our colleagues are facing
von der Dunk: natural protein have less diversity of primary sequence than random sequences, but more diversity of 3D structures 🤔. de novo (young) proteins in yeast resemble random sequences -> evidence that properties of natural proteins have been selected.
How to evolve new protein folds? de novo -> low robustness; duplication -> low variation.
#ESEB2025
Sam von der Dunk: we know that RNA structure is robust to mutation yet evolvable. What about protein structure? Take advantage of ESMfold https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade2574
Natural proteins are robust to mutations, whereas random amino-acid sequences are not. Even disordered natural proteins are robust! #ESEB2025
Bornberg-Bauer: also convergence of de novo genes in slave-maker ants
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.31.630940
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