Talks & posters

Upcoming talks
  • August 2024, International Conference for Entomology, Kyoto
    Invited talk: "The molecular signatures of healthy ageing in termites"

  • April 23 2024, MEEGene: Museum seminar in Evolutionary and Environmental Genomics
    Invited talk: "Genomics of healthy ageing in eusocial animals"

Talks & posters at conferences
  • International Conference for Blattodea Research, Münster, 2023
    Talk: "Searching for the genomic footprints of sociality"

  • International Conference of Entomology, Helsinki, 2022
    Talk: "Social and anti-social cockroaches"

  • International Union for the Study of Social Insects, San Diego, 2022
    Invited talk: "Convergent co-expression network structures in two eusocial insects"

  • CSH Biology & Genomics of Social Insects, virtual 2021
    Poster: "Caste-specific methylation patterns in a higher termite"

  • Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution, Manchester, 2019
    Poster: "Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality"

  • International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Guarujá, Brazil, 2018
    Talk: "Rewiring of the IIS/TOR pathway in ant queens"

  • Münster Evolution Meeting, Münster, 2018
    Poster: "Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality"

  • ESEB, Groningen, NL, 2017
    Poster: "The evolution of eusociality in cockroaches is associated with gene family contractions"

  • International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Helsinki, 2016
    Poster: "Investigating the evolution of eusociality in termites"

  • Population Genetics Conference, Sheffield, UK, 2015
    Talk: "The influence of ploidy on selection in bumblebees

Other invited talks
  • FINE seminar, 12th September 2023. "Molecular signatures of longevity in eusocial animals"

  • Comparative genomics lecture, May 15th 2023. University of Hohenheim

  • BioinfoGRX May 31, 2022. "The genomic footprints of sociality"

  • Colloquium Evolution and Ecology, Freie Universität, Berlin, May 9 ,2022. "Investigating genomic footprints of sociality"

  • Centre for molecular biodiversity research (zmb), Museum König, Bonn, 2018. Presentation and discussion of our termite evolution paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution.