Welcome to the former web page of the Bank lab at the Gulbenkian Science Institute. Both the lab is in the process of moving to the University of Bern in Switzerland, becoming the Division of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution, and this website is in the process of moving to github under the domain https://banklab.github.io/. See you there!
Sunset in Lisbon with our visitor, Pamela Cote-Hammarlof
Kayaking with our visitors, Jonna Kulmuni and Daniel Zivkovic
Our prize-winning pumpkin!
Having fun with our fitness landscapes board game at the Nos Alive festival 2016
Pre-pandemic Lab News Ticker
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| 06/02/2020 | Claudia is a keynote speaker at Biology20 in Fribourg, Switzerland |
| 10/10/2019 | Claudia gives a talk at the Predicting Evolution Workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 07/10/2019 | Davide presents a poster at the Predicting Evolution Workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 25/09/2019 | Hermina gives a talk at the 23rd Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseilles, France |
| 09/09/2019 | Claudia gives a talk at the EMBO Evolution Workshop at [BC]2 in Basel, Switzerland |
| 01/09/2019 | Welcome to our new postdoc, Davide Cusseddu! |
| 01/09/2019 | Welcome to our sabbatical visitors — Alex Wong, Lila Fishman, and Amanda MacFarlane — who will be staying with us until the end of the year. |
| 23/08/2019 | Alex presents a poster at the at the XVIIth Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) in Turku, Finland |
| 23/08/2019 | Inês gives a talk at the at the XVIIth Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) in Turku, Finland |
| 16/08/2019 | A new paper from our collaboration with Tim Cooper and his colleagues is now online in Evolution: Environment changes epistasis to alter trade‐offs along alternative evolutionary paths. |
| 05/08/2019 | Welcome to Dinis Seward, who is joining the lab for a month-long summer internship. |
| 23/07/2019 | Claudia gives a talk at the SMBE 2019 Meeting in Manchester, UK |
| 20/07/2019 | Welcome to our new postdoc, Li Juan! |
| 08/07/2019 | André and Claudia participate in the program From Molecular Basis to Predictability and Control of Evolution at the Nordita Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. A great opportunity to meet up with some of our PREPARE grant collaborators! |
| 24/06/2019 | Hermina presents a poster at Evolution in Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
| 04/06/2019 | Alex gives a talk at the 39th Petit Pois Déridé in Gif-sur-Yvette, France |
| 01/06/2019 | Congrats to Chris, who was accepted in the IGC PhD Program, where he will begin his studies in September. |
| 28/05/2019 | Seminar by our visitor Mark Kirkpatrick from the University of Texas at Austin |
| 24/05/2019 | Welcome to Vedanth Sriram, who is joining the lab for a two-month-long summer internship. |
| 24/05/2019 | Seminar by our visitor Molly Schumer from Stanford University, California |
| 23/05/2019 | Claudia gives a talk at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France |
| 22/05/2019 | Claudia speaks at the Meeting From germline mutation to speciation at the Collège de France in Paris |
| 01/05/2019 | Welcome to André Amado, who is joining the lab as a postdoc. |
| 14/04/2019 | Check out our new preprint on the non-adaptive evolution of inversions, led by Emma & Alex: Muller’s Ratchet and the Long-Term Fate of Chromosomal Inversions. Feedback welcome! |
| 01/04/2019 | Claudia is awarded the 2019 Allan Wilson Junior Award for Independent Research from the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution |
| 19/03/2019 | Claudia participates in the EMBO lab leadership course in Heidelberg, Germany |
| 14/03/2019 | Claudia gives a talk at the X JNCB ’19 in Aveiro, Portugal |
| 05/03/2019 | A new preprint from our collaboration with Isabel Gordo’s lab is now online: Low Mutational Load Allows for High Mutation Rate Variation in Gut Commensal Bacteria. |
| 04/03/2019 | A new paper from our collaboration with M.P. Soares’ lab is now published in PNAS: Renal Control of Disease Tolerance To Malaria. |
| 01/03/2019 | Welcome to Christian Diwo, who is a biomimetic engineer and who is joining the lab for an internship. |
| 21/01/2019 | Claudia gives a talk at the Department of Theoretical Biology at the University of Vienna, Austria |
| 10/01/2019 | The lab is at the IGC retreat in Vimeiro, where Alex gives a talk |
| 08/01/2019 | Seminar by our visitor Denis Bourguet one of the co-founders of The “Peer Community in” (PCI) |
| 06/01/2019 | Our review on fitness landscape theory, led by Inês, is now published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution: Evolution in the light of fitness landscape theory |
| 04/01/2019 | Seminar by our visitor Emily Jane McTavish from UC Merced in California |
Evolutionary Dynamics 