A MSc internship with Frederic Lens + a period as guest researcher in his young Functional Traits group + fantastic insights from many wonderful researchers resulted in this pretty awesome publication. Proud of my first -first author - paper in Ecology and Evolution!

Congratulations to the winners of the talk and poster prizes Alex Hooft Bethan Clark @AnaSaruz Madeleine Carruthers Audrey Putman, PhD Charlotte Huyghe Rebecca Hoch and Ash Parker 🎉🎉🎉

Very proud to announce the first global robust Tree of Life of the mustard family based on nearly all 450 genera and > 1000 genes: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09… #Brassicaceae 📢🔜 A following up study based on ca 2000 species is ongoing. Another 1000 species will be added later🙌

Population genomic analysis reveals cryptic population structure in the commercially important Lake Malawi cichlid Copadichromis mloto biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genomic

Next on our Population Genomics session @EMPSEB29 Alexander Hooft van Huysduynen Alex Hooft tells us about rapid adaptation of heavily fished Malawi cichlids to anthropogenic pressures.

The last of yesterday's talks were wonderful : Alex Hooft Gaurav Athreya Shikhara Bhat Ammar Abdalrahem 🦋 @ammarabdalrahem Lots of genomics and cleverly explained maths The sun is out for the final day of @EMPSEB29