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What is the genetic basis of bird migration? 🐦 Director Institute of Avian Research | Prof Ornithology UOL | MPRG Behavioural Genomics MPI Evolutionary Biology

four panel figure summarising the main findings of epigenetic state as a possible molecular basis of liability underlying evolutionary shift in migratory propensity. upper panels A and B show hypothalamic chromatin accessibility as a possible molecular basis of migratory liability. in migrants chromatin in some genomic regions is differentially accessible between seasons. these genomic regions together contribute to the overall reaction norm of liability. if in sum this passes the threshold (top left), migratory behaviour during the migratory season is expressed. in residents (top right), the amount of seasonal changes in chromatin accessibility at these genomic regions is reduced and does not exceed the threshold line across seasons, manifested as the resident phenotype. (bottom left) our evolutionary model of seasonal migration initiated and driven by environmental shift and distinct positions with respect to the threshold. (bottom righ) simplified schematic of available breeding and wintering sites before and after the last deglaciation and evolution of seasonal migration.
Spanisch blackcap male sitting on a rocky structure, curiously looking to the left in front of a green background (c) Benehar Rodrigues
four panel figure clockwise from top left - bird silhouettes in front of a glass ceiling, fish in a blue marine environment with beautiful shadows, museum entrance hall with artistic lining, alley with lots of green during my stroll through the Schlosspark.
running a sunny trail, left to a cold stream
Four Women on stage. Sabrina presents our kids4kids project during the award ceremony.
why do geese fly in V shape and who is leading the flock? wonders a girl on the episode cover of our kids4kids podcast
episode cover on the common tern - a boy asks who research on common terns is done
podcast kids4kids on bird migration - two kids talk about science, look at migratory birds travelling across planet earth.
wooden plates with migratory birds and a fun fact (in german). happy world migratory bird day
female blackcap with its characteristic brown cap
four panel figure with a bee on a forget-me-not flower upper left, ants finding their way upper right, migratory bird on the lower right and the logo of the special intestest group on animal navigation of the royal institute of navigation on the lower left. in the middle it is written "royal institute of navigation (RIN) - animal navigation group with the RIN logo"
wonderful female scientists I have the pleasure to work with
Adult gull-billed tern landing with prey to feed its chick, runing towards the parent. Background with flying gull-billed tern silhouettes. Beautiful illustration by @co-la.bsky.social
EMBO neuroethoogy lanyard name tag with a hand drawn study species of the speakers
the title page of our book about ina, a robin, that takes us on their journey to their wintering grounds. flippling through the pages of this book that just got released. the book has beautiful drawings by corinna langebrake in it, sketching robins along their journey and throughout their life.
Cute little house in Ventura with a rainbow coloured sign of hope, love, kindness.
alpine roses in the front, a turquois lake behind and mountains in the back. sunlight glow from the right.
Andrea wearing her PhD hat after successfully defending her thesis.
male blackcap in the hand at our field site in Georgia. the bird is proudly wearing a geolocator on its back, which will literally shed light into their migratory behaviour, giving insight into overwintering areas and timing, direction and distance of its route.
Robin team with T30 - field work on a partial migratory robin population in Northern Germany.
Early morning gannet glory on Helgoland.
Kids4Kids Podcast team - on the mics are Greta and Charlotte in discussion with Sabrina.
Chicken inspecting the world - a globe that shows the Earth and refers to the magnetic field that sourroundes the planet. Credit: Jacqueline Pitt
Snippets from a film by Emilia Tikka and Oula A Valkeapää. Original shot by Jan Helmer Olse (c) - the film combines reindeer nomadism in Arctic Sápmi and biosciences on epigenetics
conference mug of the münster evolution meeting 2025. next to the mug is a tea bag with the label "sleep & dream"
scribbled circuits and formulars on a blackboard
programme with lineup of speakers - registration at https://uol.de/en/quantbio/sfb-symposium