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Lloyd Finishes His Master’s Thesis

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Two weeks ago Lloyd defended his Master’s thesis at the Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology in Hamburg. Our host was Prof. Dominik Begerow, who runs...

Tjorben Completes His Master’s Thesis

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Tjorben defended his Master’s thesis at Lübeck University today. His thesis is focused on a web tool he wrote for visualizing the taxonomy of sequenced life,...

New dates for the courses

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The new dates for our anual courses Bioinformatics for Evolutionary Biologists and Go Programming, Biologists have been set:

Sara-Lena Completes Her Master’s Thesis

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Earlier this week Sara-Lena defended her Master’s thesis at Lübeck University. Sara-Lena compared fast methods for classifying bacteria based on their genome...

Open PhD positions

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We have two open PhD positions. The application deadline is 11th January, 2026. For more info see the 2026 IMPRs EvolBio call