ANOM Lab

We are happy to announce that one of our external collaborators – Dr. Greg Edgecombe from the Natural History Museum, London – was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society. Many congratulations Greg!

I headed off to Seville to give an invited lecture at the Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology yesterday. It was wonderful to receive such a warm welcome by everyone at the CABD, and the discussions after and before the talk were fascinating. I was particularly honoured to have been chosen by the PhD students and Post-docs as their annual invitation to the seminar series, by popular vote no less! The research going on at the CABD is truly astounding. Thank you for fantastic day!

We are looking for two new PhD students join the ANOM Lab, on fully-funded 4-year long research projects working on Fezouata Biota fossils. Please see our Opportunities page for more information, and in the meantime enjoy these lakeview photos taken in the Ouchy area of Lausanne to tempt you to Switzerland!

To celebrate the arrival of a great many fossils from Morocco – beautifully preserved soft-bodied fossils from the Fezouata Biota – the ANOM Lab hosted an apero in the Institute today. Some of these fossils were on display, which even managed to draw people away from the table of booze (for a few minutes at least)!

The ANOM Lab is very happy to welcome Harrie Drage, Steve Pates, and Lukas Laibl to Lausanne. Harrie and Steve are joining us here at UNIL for the last year of their PhDs, after spending the first few years of their doctoral studies at Oxford University. Lukas Laibl joins us for a 2-year postdoctoral position as Arthropod Research Project Manager. We are looking forward to working with them, and wish them all the best for their time here on Lausanne!