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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

Bit Rot

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The idea of “bit rot” might seem a bit fanciful. After all, perishable things like autumn leaves rot, but why should a substance as intangible as software un...