Aleš Buček

Open call for PostDoc with background in (insect) genomics for our Insect Symbiosis Lab in České Budějovice! bucek-lab.org/join_us/

Horizontal gene transfer - a typical source of a major innovation in evolution or a positive publication bias? In the latest preprint from Bourguignon lab, termite genomes provide a story less frequently told. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fresh preprint on how to optimize quality of voucher DNA remaining in insect specimens (including the not-so-fresh ones) after barcoding; from @RudolfMeier15 lab and our lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are looking for a PostDoc with background in (insect) genomics for our Insect Symbiosis Lab in České Budějovice!

Paper on the largest batch of reference-quality termite and cockroach genomes (45+2) is now avail as preprint. Congrats to to joint effort of @tom_oist ,@MarkChHarrison, @strepsipterman, Cong Liu, Cedric Aumont , @aaragret and co-authors! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Andrew Sweet from Arkansas State University is recruiting a PhD for an evolutionary biology project on a super-interesting phenomenon: fragmentation of mitochondrial genomes in parasitic lice. sweetomics.com/join-the-lab

Simon et al. updated termite family- and subfamily-level classification. Thanks to the genome-scale ultraconserved element data used here, this classification shall remain a stable backbone for termite evolution research for many future years. Congrats!

Hellemans et al. produce an updated termite classification with genomic scale analyses, highlighting thirteen family-level lineages and resilience of their classification to future termite research. @tom_oist @HellemansSimon nature.com/articles/s4146…

Paper by @nobuakiMZMT, @HellemansSimon, , @tom_oist, Mike Engel and me on decoding termite pre-mating behavior from amber fossil is out! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

We are hiring! 🌟 Two PhD positions opened on species diversification and evolution of hymenopteran parasitoids in multi-trophic systems. Join our team at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿. Happy for retweets! Details: parasitoidwasps.com/uncategorized/…

PhD position on tripartite interaction of termites, termitophilous rove beetles, and microbes at the Institute of Entomology, Ceske Budejovice, Czechia. Co-supervised by me and Thomas Bourguignon @tom_oist. Thanks for sharing! entu.cas.cz/data/files/PhD… Cheers, Ales

Recruitment finished. Thanks everybody for sharing and supporting and stay tuned for our research!

Recruiting two PhDs and a Postdoc for my Evolutionary Entomology team at Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague to work on evolutionary trends and trajectories in convergently adapted termitophilous insects and their termite hosts. See bucek.ftz.czu.cz/cs/r-19087-ava….

Important information for all people interested in joining #Gtoe2023 👇👇👇

Thanks @MarkChHarrison and others for organizing 1st International Conference for Blattodea Research. Many great talks and I was happy to talk about our research on convergent evolution in termite soldiers. Already looking forward to the 2nd ICBR :)

We are looking for a new postdoc: oist.jp/careers/postdo…