EkoEvo

Hi there, #ScienceTwitter! Have you heard about us yet? If you have not, here is a flood about us (EN/TR): We, The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Society of Turkey (EkoEvo), aim to promote scientific research in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology in Turkey. +

Our lab was pleased to participate in the 12th Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium (EEBST 2026), organized by the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Society (@ekoevoder).

🌿 EEBST 2026 has come to an end. Thank you to all participants, speakers, organizers, volunteers, and supporters for being part of this wonderful symposium. See you next year!

Now presenting: Hikmet Hakan Kültür “Microplastics Exposure in Long-eared Owl (Asio otus) Reflects Land-use Differences in Terrestrial Ecosystems.” #EEBST2026

Now presenting: Mert Elverici “Unveiling Pollinator Specialization in Scrophularia: From Floral Traits to Functional Guilds.” #EEBST2026

#EEBST2026 | Session 9: Wildlife Ecology, Behaviour and Biogeography has begun! We’re starting the session with Alper Kağan Selçukoğlu, presenting “Phenotypic Plasticity Drives Brown Bear Circadian Rhythms in Human-Dominated Landscapes.”

Now presenting: Funda Özdemir Değirmenci “Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Holocene Vegetation in Western Anatolia: Integrating sedaDNA with Limnogeological Archives.” #EEBST2026

Now presenting: Arda Sevkar “Ancient Mycobacterium leprae Genomes from Anatolia and Italy Provide New Insights into the Evolution and Dispersal of Leprosy.” #EEBST2026

#EEBST2026 | Session 8: Paleobiology / Ancient DNA has begun! We’re starting the session with Kayra Canpolat, presenting “Paleogenomic Insights into Five Millennia of Population History at the Hittite Capital Hattuša (Boğazköy).”

Now presenting: Dilay Hazal Ayhan “Transposable Elements Drive Adaptation in a Clonally Evolving Cross-Kingdom Pathogenic Fungus.” #EEBST2026

Now presenting: Xuhua Xia “Natural Selection on the Translation Machinery and mRNAs in Vibrio natriegens.” #EEBST2026

#EEBST2026 | Session 7: Microbiology / Microbial Ecology and Evolution has begun! We’re starting the session with Melih Kaplan, presenting “Revealing the Assembly Processes of the Endolithic Bacterial Communities in the Atacama Desert.”