October, 2025: Our last paper is out in Cell Genomics! Here we explore the genetic basis of between-individual variation in gene expression using hundreds of outbred Drosophila and two different tissues.
October, 2025: Luisa participated in a panel discussion on the question, Are the species like Linneo imagined them? (video in Spanish here). The panel was part of the Catedra Europa, an annual series of conferences and discussion on scientific and cultural topics organized by Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia.
October, 2025: Gabriel Thornes joins the lab as a visiting student for a two-month rotation project. Gabriel is doing a Masters in evolutionary genomics and systems biology at the University of Vienna. Welcome Gabriel!
September, 2025: The lab attended, for the first time, the European Drosophila Research Conference. It was a lot of fun! Luisa co-chaired, together with Thomas Flatt, the PopGen & Evolution session which had great talks by junior and stablished researchers.
September, 2025: This month Saudat starts her fellowship at the KLI (Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research) in Klosterneuburg, Austria. Saudat will be working on a chapter of her PhD thesis focused on “Correlational Selection in Drosophila: Balancing Robustness and Plasticity Under Stress”. Huge congrats to Saudat for winning this fellowship!
August, 2025: The lab participated for the second time in the EMBO Drosophila Genetics and Genomics course, teaching about Complex Traits Genetics in Drosophila. This year, it was Jun and Yu-tao’s turn to join Luisa in running the theoretical and practical sessions.
June, 2025: Meri finished her Master thesis and had a wonderful thesis defense! Meri is the first student to graduate from the lab – so this is a big deal! Huge congrats and all the best for her PhD!
June, 2025: We co-organized the SMBE satellite meeting on ‘Origin, Maintenance, and Evolution of Biological Noise’. Researchers from very diverse disciplines came to Tübingen to discuss about stochasticity, plasticity, robustness, individuality, variability, and everything else under the umbrella of Biological Noise. More info here.
April, 2025: Alessia Gecele and Vania Sacks-Rattenbach, both Masters students at Tübingen University, join the lab as research assistants – Welcome!
March, 2025: The lab was present at the Qlife Winter School on Polygenic Adaptation in Paris. Luisa participated as a lecturer, and Jun presented a poster.
January, 2025: Lisa Gritsch joins us as lab technician. Welcome Lisa, we are very happy to have you in the lab!
January, 2025: Happy New Year! we started this year with the visit of the Ministerpräsident from Baden-Württenberg. Herr Kretschmann visited the institute and our lab, proving that flies are popular not only with scientist but also with politicians! Read about his visit here.
December, 2024: Our lab is in the German news! SWR visited our lab to understand why fruit flies are important for research. Practice your German skills by reading the article or listening to the audio here.
November, 2024: Saudat gave a talk at the annual meeting of the PhD students of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Uni. Tübingen [info about the EVEREST PhD program here]
October, 2024: Anais Rasch is a Masters student in Molecular Medicine at the University of Tübingen. Anais will be doing a rotation with us for the next six weeks. Welcome to the lab!
September, 2024: Our collaboration with the Crocker Lab is now out in Molecular Biology and Evolution! We developed a tool, TF-HighEvo, to increase the mutation rate of Drosophila in a pathway-specific manner. This will allow us to understand better the regulatory genome and to study the evolutionary dynamics of de-novo mutations in flies! [press release here]
September, 2024: Welcome to Yu-tao Cao, he’s our brand new PhD student!
August, 2024: Rafik Neme, Professor at Universidad del Norte in Colombia, visited our lab and told us about the exciting genomics-based approaches to understand the biodiversity in the Caribean region of Colombia.
August, 2024: Congratulations to James for being elected as PhD representative of our IMPRS grad school!
August, 2024: Welcome to Jun Ishigohoka! Jun did his PhD at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology and joins our lab as our very first postdoc.
July, 2024: James gave a talk at SMBE2024 in Puerto Vallarta on his work on transcriptional robustness in Drosophila. Congrats, James! This was also the first international talk given by a trainee of the lab!
July, 2024: Dila will be working with us this summer as part of her Erasmus+ fellowship. She comes from Turkey, where she studies molecular biology at the Başkent University in Ankara. Welcome, Dila!
June, 2024: Congrats to Saudat who won the ‘Best short talk’ prize at the PhD symposium!
June, 2024: We had our first ever lab retreat! Together with Justin Crocker’s lab from EMBL we spent three days discussing science, hiking, Karaoke-ing, and cooking together.
May, 2024: Luisa attended and was a speaker in the Polygenic Adaptation meeting hosted at ICTS – Bengaluru. All talks available here: https://www.icts.res.in/program/adapt2024/talks
April, 2024: Welcome to our new rotation student! Ayushi is a Masters student at Uni Tübingen and will be working with us for the next two months.
March, 2024: Meri, Saudat, and Luisa went to the TAGC conference in Washington. We had a lot of fun attending the Fly and PEQG sessions. Meri and Saudat presented posters, and Meri got an honorary mention during the poster awards!
January, 2024: We welcome Noah Wamukoya to our lab meetings this semester. This is the second year that the lab participates in the Virtual Lab Meeting program from the SMBE. This program aims to connect grad students and faculty across the globe.
October, 2023: Daniele is a Masters student at Uni Tübingen, and will help us with our fly selection experiments for the next couple of months. Welcome, Daniele!
October, 2023: Meri joins the lab as a rotation student for the next two months. She is doing a Masters in Uni Tübingen. Happy to have you in the lab, Meri!
September, 2023: Huiting, a Masters student at Uni Tübingen joins the lab as a bioinformatics research assistant. Welcome Huiting!
July, 2023: Saudat, James, and Luisa participated as instructors in the EMBO Drosophila Genetics and Genomics course. It was an amazing week teaching to and learning from PIs and students working on Drosophila.
June, 2023: Emre is an undergraduate student from the Istanbul Technical University in Turkey who got an ERASMUS+ fellowship to work with us for the next 3 months. We are excited to have you around, Emre!
April, 2023: Urja is Masters student at Uni Tübingen, and will be doing a rotation with us for the next months. Welcome, Urja :)
March, 2023: We attended the second Münster Evolution Meeting, and presented our work on the role of GxE interations in complex traits. It was great to get know the community of people studying evolutionary questions in Germany!
Feb, 2023: Welcome to the lab, James! James Tan ShengYi is a new PhD student in our lab.
Jan, 2023: Our last paper is out in Nature Genetics! We explore how dietary stress remodels the genetic architecture of lifespan variation using an outbred Drosophila melanogaster population.
Oct, 2022: Céline Raiser and Harivignesh Ganesan, from Tübingen University, joined the lab as research assistants. Welcome! :)
Sep, 2022: Saudat Alishayeva is our brand new PhD student. Welcome Saudat!
Aug, 2022: Luisa attended the ESEB meeting in Prague and gave a talk in the symposium “Phenotypic plasticity importance in evolution”. But the highlight of the conference was that the John Maynard Smith prize to promising young evolutionary biologists went – 3 years in a row- to Colombian students! // La cosa más emocionante de asistir al congreso de la ESEB (Sociedad Europea de Biología Evolutiva), fue ver que el premio John Maynard Smith al mejor biólogo evolutivo jóven se lo ganaron, por tres años consecutivos, estudiantes colombianos!
I wrote a note about it (in Spanish) / Escribí una nota sobre esto aquí
Jul, 2022: It was so much fun to join, as an invited speaker, the annual retreat of our IMPRS graduate school. We have such a wonderful group of students doing research at the Max Planck and Tübingen University.
Jun, 2022: After 2 years of online meetings, Luisa attended and gave a talk at the in-person PEQG meeting in Asilomar, CA.
Mar, 2022: Luisa gave an invited talk at the meeting “Mind the gap: From Genotype to Phenotype and the role of Modelling, Genomic Prediction and Development”. She will talk about the dynamic nature of genotype-phenotype maps.
Feb, 2022: Luisa was invited to give a talk at the First Meeting of Biology Alumni from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. // Luisa fue invitada a dar una charla en el Primer Encuentro de Egresados de Biologia UNAL.
http://ciencias.bogota.unal.edu.co/eventos/biounal2022/
Video [minuto 2:00:22]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZUryyoNbbM
Feb, 2022: Maria Langegger joins the lab as Lab Manager. Welcome Maria!
Feb, 2022: The Pallares Lab is officially open for business at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society. Come join us in beautiful Tübingen!
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