Lab news

News from our lab.
Husby becomes member of YAE

Arild Husby was elected to the YAE and aims to establish a Young Academy of Finland

This entry was posted on September 19, 2016.
Jostein Gohli joins the lab!

We are very excited that Jostein Gohli is starting as a post doc in our lab in September. Jostein will work on identifying signs of polygenic adaptation using large scale genotype data on house sparrows.

This entry was posted on June 23, 2016.
House sparrow fieldwork

We joined the  (NTNU) for this summer’s house sparrows fieldwork. Together with researcher Bernt Rønning and MSc student Sarah Lundregan we had a very productive time at Hestmannøy.

This entry was posted on June 8, 2016.
Catarina takes part in Congenomics 2016

Our work on the genetic architecture of phenotypic traits in house sparrows has been presented at the . It was a very inspiring atmosphere with discussions around key topics in population genomics, adaptive genetic variation and conservation issues.

Participants at Congenomics (photo credit: organizing committee)

This entry was posted on June 8, 2016.
Heidi Viitaniemi joins the lab as post doc!

We are very pleased to welcome to the group! Heidi did her PhD at University of Turku and will work on DNA methylation in relation to timing of reproduction in a collaboration project with Prof Marcel Visser and Dr Kees van Oers at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology.

This entry was posted on April 26, 2016.
Funding for work on water striders!

In December Husby was awarded a 3 year research project grant from the University of Helsinki to work on the genetics of phenotypic plasticity using water striders as a model system. The project started this year and will involve fieldwork as well as laboratory experiments.

This entry was posted on January 30, 2016.
Fieldwork on water striders

Together with Elina Immonen at Uppsala University we have started work on water striders and have been out and about collecting these beautiful little beasties over the summer.

Sampling them is rather easy with a pond net and waders...

...and measuring them is also rather easy both in hand...

...and in more detail from photographs.

This entry was posted on July 29, 2015.
New post doc joining the lab!

will join the lab as a post doc on 1st September to work on genotype-phenotype mapping in a population of house sparrows from Norway. Catarina has worked on population genomics of scallops during her PhD and will be a great addition to the lab!

This entry was posted on March 5, 2015.
Funding from the Norwegian Research Council awarded!

Husby was recently awarded a ‘young researcher talent’ grant from the Norwegian Research Council to examine the role of DNA methylation in plasticity of seasonal timing of reproduction. More information about this project will follow soon and two new post doc positions will be announced during the spring (to start in autumn 2015).

This entry was posted on December 21, 2014.