Social Insects Lab - JGU Mainz

Evolutionary biology, genomics, bioinformatics, social insects.

To bring together the international entomological community to share knowledge, foster collaboration & inspire future research. June 29 – July 3, 2026 • Tours, France 🐛🦋🐜🪲🦗🐞🦟🪰🪳🐝🌍🔬🧬🧪 ➡️ https://www.ece2026.org/

Zoologist interested in evolution, conflicts and cooperation. Comparative Genomics, Biodiversity Genomics, Molecular Evolution, Mitonuclear Coevolution, Ants, Molluscs. https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/fabrizio.ghiselli/en https://linktr.ee/antswoodwide

🧬🦪🦗🧽 Dealing/struggling with invertebrate evolutionary genomics 🎓 he/him postodoc in @robertofeuda.bsky.social lab at Uni of Leicester (UK), former PhD student at Uni of Bologna (IT) 🎨💭 Also drawing & science communication https://filonico.github.io/

Entomologist / community ecologist | Working on army ant ecology, among other things

Postdoc at University of Zurich interested in evolution, sexual selection, mating systems, reproduction, behavioral ecology, sperm competition, thermal fertility

PhD student at the University of Würzburg Study the evolution of social wound care behaviour in ants | MEME alumnus 🇸🇪 🇨🇵 🇩🇪 🇨🇴 Social evolution, behaviour and maths https://juanjose-lagosoviedo.weebly.com/

Biologist mostly working with natural enemies of social wasps. Based in Canterbury New Zealand.

Cataglyphilosophine: Philosophisticated Anthusiast (she/her)🐜 #Neuroethology #Navigation #Magnetoreception, views my own

GWIS | MorphoBank | Historical Biology | SORTEE | SSB | EcoEvoRxiv

MSCA fellow, postdoc @ UvA Amsterdam, interested in the ecology, evolution, and behaviour of 🐜 and other insects; enjoys hiking in the mountains 🏔️👟; #scicomm; http://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org

Professor at Zhejiang University; sex chromosomes and sex determination; qizhoulab.org

Myrmecologist

Plant-insect interactions, evolutionary ecology and population genetics. Postdoctoral researcher, JGU Mainz.

Scientist Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Frankfurt, Germany evolutionary biology, adaptive genomics, behavior

Bees, ants, parasites, and pollinator conservation for work. Professor and Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge University. Nature, opera, fantasy novels, family, and reading for play 🐜 🐝 🦠 🏳️‍🌈

We are an open biodiversity genomics community to generate reference quality genomes for all European species. #Genomes for #Biodiversity https://www.erga-biodiversity.eu/ | https://linktr.ee/erga_biodiversity

Ant researcher

Evolutionary Biology / Comparative Genomics / TEs / Genome Evolution. Plant lover. 🌱 Ant addict. 🐜 She/Her

PhD candidate | JGU Mainz | Palaeogenetics Group | Palaeo-epigenomics | aDNA | 🇪🇬

Director, Environmental Bioinformatics Group at SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss. Chair, European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA, @ergabiodiv.bsky.social). #biodiversity #genomics www.rmwaterhouse.org

Asst. Curator of Entomology @nhm.org | evolution, genomes, museums | @cornelluniversity.bsky.social & New College of Florida alumna | she/her. | views are my own. mbarkdull.github.io

Research in insect diseases and immunity @inrae-dgimi.bsky.social in Montpellier, France 🐝 🦗 🐛

Population genetics, molecular ecology, sex evolution, marine biology. Greenland Institute of Natural Resources

Kokkonut 🥥 and PhD student at JGU Mainz, Germany | Non genetic inheiritence, plasticity, polymorphism maintenence| Theories of adaptative evolution | 🧬🌿📈👩‍💻🙆‍♀️ Previously at EES LMU, Munich and Azim Premji University, Bangalore she/her

(Palaeo)Botanist at Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt. Cycads, early Angiosperms, all sorts of leaves. Supporter of plant paleoart. Also food, beer, music, boardgames. Neurodivergent. He/Him. Opinions are my own. mariocoiro.blog

Evolutionary Biology. Adaptation Genomics. Transposable Elements. Drosophila. @IBB_Botanic @CSIC @Dros_EU @LCATMon #melanogasterCTF #ERCgrantee Lab web: gonzalezlab.eu Science outreach: www.melanogaster.eu DrosEU: www.droseu.net

The Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. EcoEvoRxiv (https://ecoevorxiv.org) is our preprint server. Become a member at http://sortee.org/join https://linktr.ee/sortecoevo

Professor of Ecology at the University of Helsinki 🧪 #Animal behaviour, #animal coloration, #evoeco, #moths, #sensory ecology #fundamental science I teach birds to play computer games

<3 reproductive (in)compatibilities. Currently postdoc-ing on self-incompatibility in Brassicacae, in Lille. Past loves: Wolbachia in mosquitoes, fungi. 🌈🇵🇸

- Lecturer at the University of East Anglia. - Interested in ageing and parental effects. - Fond of burying beetles. - R and Shiny enthusiast. - Data editor at Ecology Letters. - Past-President of SORTEE. - Dad x1 - Website: https://eivimeycook.github.io

Co-founder of BES Evolutionary Ecology Group. Loves Dartmoor, Sweden, XC skiing, fell running, sunsets, knitwear, teaching & cream teas. And evolutionary ecology, obvs.

Interested in ecology, evolution, & population genetics. Associate professor at the University of Manitoba. He/him. https://www.garroway-lab.com/.

Group leader at I2BC | EVOGEN team | Evolutionary geneticist interested in intragenomic conflicts and genome evolution.

Group Leader @GReD_Clermont Chargé de Recherche @INSERM Evolutionary biologist studying chromatin also drummer. Jazz and epistemology. he/his https://www.igred.fr/en/team/evolutionary-epigenomics-and-genetic-conflicts/

Professor of non-Mendelian genetics, University of Edinburgh

Postdoc at Wageningen University & Research

Studying the evolution of complexity through modelling and phylogenomics

Evolutionary biologist, photographer and professor (Lund, Sweden). Preferred pronoun: comrade. Publications: http://tinyurl.com/fkhzubhw Photos […] [bridged from https://ecoevo.social/@EvolOdonata on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

Professor of biology at U Aberdeen. Senior editor of J Animal Ecology. Into macroecology, biogeography, genomics, niche evolution, odonates, plants, global change biology. Here for the science 🦋

In the bluegrass

Evolutionary genetics PI and professional reinventor of wheels @biouea.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social. #firstgen 🇺🇸 ➡️ 🇸🇪 ➡️ 🇨🇦 ➡️ 🇺🇸 ➡️ 🇬🇧 | He/him | Posts are mine. grieshoplab.com

CNRS Researcher - France - Europe Evolutionary Biology - Genomics - Ecology

Evolutionary geneticist, studying polygenic adaptation, Group leader at MPI for Evolutionary Biology, mum to a fun toddler, loves books & traveling https://www.evolbio.mpg.de/3792274/Max-Planck-Research-Group-Evolution-of-polygenic-trai

Computational biology researcher. Now working at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Interested in Origins of Life, early protein evolution, complexity, network analysis, synthetic biology and pathogen evolution. Opinions of my own.

Associate Professor at Waseda University. Working on the origins of life, from the perspective of RNA, evolution, and artificial cells. https://mizuuchilab.w.waseda.jp/home-en/

Origins of life, astrobiology and synthetic biology group at Charles University in Prague

Assistant professor at Wageningen University, interested in Comparative Microbial Genomics, Phage genomics, Evolution

Mathematical and Computational Population Genetics Microbial Evolution | Machine Learning in PopGen | CRISPR-Cas | Pangenomes | HGT 🦠 ➔ 🧬 ➔ 💻 ➔ 🤔 www.baumdickergroup.de

Macrobe qui aime les microbes http://www.shapirolab.ca/

Evolutionary ecologist at Stockholm University Zoology. Interested in how biotic and abiotic interactions influence the evolution of reproductive strategies.

Professor of Behavioural Ecology, University of Leeds, UK. The biology of sex and social environments, and Thermal Fertility Limits, mainly of fruit flies.

Evolutionary biologist | Research Fellow at The University of Liverpool | Studies sexual selection, reproduction and environmental change | Uses moths, micro-CT, and (mostly) meta-analysis

School of Microbiology and APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork 🇮🇪 Microbial Ecology | Microbial Evolution | Gut Microbiome

Evolutionary ecologist and open science advocate. Interested in social evolution, population dynamics, statistics, and open science. Parent x2. Incompetent but enthusiastic naturalist

Lecturer for @ephe-psl.bsky.social, working at the Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity (@isyeb.mnhn.fr, @mnhn.fr, Paris) on the genetics of adaptation in wild populations.

Evolutionary Biologist interested in the genomes and immune systems of animals, genome duplication and phylogenetics. Royal Society-Research Ireland URF at UCD School of Medicine

Evolutionary Biologist, Mammals, Phylogenies, Comparative Genomics, Art and Running

Zoologist and evolutionary biologist. Interested in animal phylogeny. At UCL. Author of 'The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle'

Evolutionary biologist studying archaeal and bacterial genomes | Assistant Prof @BinfUtrecht.bsky.social 🇳🇱

Evolutionary biologist interested in the origin and early diversification of eukaryotes. Phylogenetics/(meta)genomics. Protists & Archaea. Reseach Director at Uni Paris-Saclay (France)/Associate Prof. Uni of Rhode Island (USA)

deep-time evolution, phylogenetics, anaerobic protists, the tree of Life. Science depends on vigorous respectful debate and evidence-based reasoning. This is my personal page and what I post here has nothing to do with my employer.

Eukaryotic evolution, protist diversity, mitochondrial evolution At OIST, Japan with @filiphusnik.bsky.social; formerly at IBE, Barcelona with @multicellgenome.bsky.social and Dalhousie University with @andrewjroger.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈She/her. Views my own

Professor @Universitat Autonoma Barcelona-Understanding how genomes organize, evolve & are transmitted to the offspring. #genomics #evolution #meiosis #3Dgenome #biodiversity Co-EiC @heredityjournal.bsky.social 👉https://webs.uab.cat/evolgenom/

Research Scientist @CSIRO Australian National Wildlife Collection | Conservation Genetics | Historical Epigenetics | airborne eDNA | STA Superstar of STEM alumnus | Mama | Speed noodle snuggler

Postdoc at Université de Lausanne (Switzerland) with Nicolas Salamin. Population genetics and phylogenetics, confronting or integrating them. https://thibaultlatrille.github.io/

Macroevolution, paleobiology, Singapore-grown, US-developed scientist in Norway. Marine inverts, bryozoans. Natural History Museum & Centre for Planetary Habitability Oslo. [Background photo is the Whanganui coast, North Island, NZ]

Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford using genomics to investigate the global spread and evolution of bacterial pathogens. Science | Sport | Music

Evolutionary genomics of ants. PI at the Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa. Focusing on evolution of social structure. Homepage https://privman.haifa.ac.il/

Scientist interested in Ants / Molecular Evolution / Population genomics / Phylogenomics

Evolutionary biologist, Inst. Evol. Biol. (CSIC, Barcelona). Invertebrate genomics, trying to understand how animals colonised land (and also caves). www.metazomics.com

ethical hedonist | arte ultra | evolutionary biologists | private citizen at bsky | will worry about humanity for as long as humanity worries about soccer | born about 100 ppms less of CO2 ago

Molecular ecology Habitat-forming species

Enseignant chercheur @univ-amu.fr, @isyeb.mnhn.fr, génétique, gorgones, coraux et autres...

Marine evolutionary ecology, genomics and restoration at GEOMAR Kiel, Germany's Ocean Institute. Fascinated with ocean life, its adaptation and protection. Focus Baltic Sea & other world areas. Pet species cod, seagrass, comb jellies, phytoplankton

Comparative Genomics (Insects) lab @ LIB Museum Koenig, Bonn Pollinator evolution and biodiversity. Social insects. Phenotypic evolution and phenotypic loss. Comparative and population genomics. Entomology

Head of the Biodiversity Genomics lab All enthusiastic about butterflies, holocentric chromosomes, speciation, evolution and conservation!

Chromosome biology, evolutionary genetics, sex chromosomes, holocentric chromosomes, meiosis, butterflies,...

Based in New Zealand. Research: #seafood #genomics #adaptation. Editor-In-Chief for @EvolAppJournal. Prof at @AucklandUni. Science Group Leader @@bioeconomyscience https://marenwellenreuther.com/

Biologist fascinated by cells, molecules and the evolution of cellular processes. Membrane traffic, cytoskeleton, microscopy, fungi, evolutionary cell biology. https://www.unige.ch/sciences/biochimie/labs/marko-kaksonen/

Fascinated by microbial eukaryotes diversity, ecology & evolution. PI at Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw. x.com/ania_karnkowska #ProtistsOnSky

Uppsala University & Lund University || Anaerobes, mitochondria, evolution. #ERC_stg #tango2lund www.thelabupstairs.online

Evolutionary Neurobiology and Behaviour www.shmontgomery.co.uk

Brain evolution https://alealisousa.github.io/

into brain evolution & development, open science, art & science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hMNZHsrNHw, music, making, javascript, contemporary dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfHj7F2FzQ website: katjaq.github.io

Ramón y Cajal PI Researcher | Paleoneurology | Neuroecology | Neurosensory evolution of mammals 🧠 Institut Català de Paleontologia 🇪🇸 | Contact me for PhD & Postdoc opportunities https://ornellabertrand.wordpress.com/ https://go.bsky.app/7FEDFXK

PostDoc at IEE - @unibe.ch studying #acoustic adaptation in frogs barbarafreitas.netlify.app

Group leader at the Swedish Museum of Natural History Evolutionary biologist interested in island biology, adaptive radiation, genomes and ecological niches. Islandevolution.github.io

Evolutionary and conservation genomics group leader at Globe institute, University of Copenhagen 🇲🇽in🇩🇰 https://globe.ku.dk/research/hologenomics/evolutionary-and-conservation-group/

theoretical evolutionary biologist, working on transitions between genetic systems.

Evolutionary biologist working on conflicts, unusual genetics, sex, and all the other funny things that make biology tick | https://martijnaschenkel.wordpress.com | STN Internal Conflicts & Organismal Adaptation https://internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

Researcher in genomics, evolution, biology 🧬 Currently Postdoc on DNA Elimination in nematodes @LBMC/@CNRS | Prev. PhD on malaria genomics @EMBL-EBI/@Cambridge

Researching all kinds of creatures at Oxford University 🪱🕷️🦀🐚🐌

Plant scientist with a particular interest in why some genomes get so big!

Prize Fellow at the Milner Centre, University of Bath - plant evolution, genomes, trees and sometimes ferns

Research Assistant at Ruđer Bošković Institute | PhD Student at University of Zagreb | Fulbright Scholar at Emory University | SORTEE President-Elect

Multipartite parasitic interactions in the microbial world, Phage co-infection studies (ERC_StG: MULTIPHAGE) Wallenberg Academy Fellow #curiosity_driven #microbiology_without_borders www.bionomics-mmlab.com