Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich

Our paper is out in @jevbio.bsky.social! Many years of work with #IKIAM in Ecuador. We show parallel quantitative variation in wing colour with altitude and GxE effects on thermal tolerance and developmental rate. doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

4 years fully funded in a very fun department!

Excited to be able to share the first chapter of my master’s thesis which was an absolute blast to think about and write with my amazing co-authors :)

The lab is growing 🤩 exciting times ahead

Representing all the amazing research at the Evolutionary Biology Centrum from Uppsala University #SMBE2026 @animecol-uu.bsky.social @evobiouppsala.bsky.social

I am very happy to present my PhD project so far at #SMBE2026 ! If you want to find out about the genomics of host plant adaptation and ecotypic diversity in the Edith's checkerspot butterfly, come and find me in the Main Hall, poster B116 🦋🧬

this was an incredibly cool talk!!

Some lab members at SMBE presenting for their first conference! Today: Jana Weigel (master) will speak in the Evolutionary rescue symposium at 17.35h about isolation by environment 🐛 Tomorrow: Veronika Mrazek (PhD) will present a poster on the genomics of ecotypic diversity (B116) 🦋

#blogmncn 🦋Las mariposas Morpho azul exhiben algunos de los colores + brillantes de la naturaleza. Se trata de una coloración azul que llama poderosamente la atención por su iridiscencia. Pero el mayor interés de estos insectos es científico y tecnológico. www.mncn.csic.es/es/comunicac...

Congratulations to Raissa Rausch for smashing her master thesis defence last week 💪🏽🙌 she has worked on simulating bottlenecks during biocontrol releases in islands. Super #proudPI @animecol-uu.bsky.social

Our program went out sampling around Uppsala, following the footsteps of Prof Kullenberg, and we recorded >300 observations in inaturalist! www.inaturalist.org/projects/bot...

My students know me too well 😍

SUPER exciting PhD with David Berger (+me as co-supervisor). Incredible datasets ready to crack on Also: Sweden has some of the best PhD salaries and working conditions in the world. Four years (+up to 20% teaching) fully funded. Contact us for any questions

The reason butterfly rearing is mostly about gardening: (x1 speed!)

A new phD position in my lab about amphibian, infection diseases in a global changing world. Check it out! And spread the word ;)

iPhones are the new hand lens 🤓 (looking for a terminal, angled, orange spike to ID Euphydryas edtiha vs chalcedona)

David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New pre-print with some updates on ivory:miR193 in a highly polymorphic moth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We mapped ivory (again!?) this time controlling aspects of camouflage in Anticarsia gemmatalis. Mapping, SVs, Expression and Function. Comments/suggestions welcome!

What a way to start the year!! Really enjoyed the usual friendly atmosphere at PopGroup and all the research shared. Many thanks to the organisers @popgroup2026.bsky.social If anyone is interested in joining my group or coming to Sweden please get in touch 🧬❄️

Oh my way to PopGroup! I’ll be talking about our preprint on bidirectional adaptive introgression between native and invasive agricultural pests: Friday, 16:30 in Amphi B doi.org/10.64898/202...

Excited to be in Lille for @popgroup2026.bsky.social ! Come and catch my talk on accounting for local adaptation in species distribution models @16:15 in Amphi B :)

We’ve been working on this paper longer than it took adaptive alleles to cross the species barrier (in both directions) and make two pests ever more resistant to the things we throw at them. New preprint out 🧬🌱🐛

Tom and John Emmel and Sterling Mattoon officially began their work on “The Butterflies of California” book in 1974. Now, more than 50 years after they began, the book draft has officially been published online and is freely available to the public: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-... 🦋📕

We are so pleased with our new Assist Plus robot. Already hugely upscaling magnetic bead extractions! 🧬 next up libraries and museum samples. (thanks @scilifelab.se for the funding).

New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations. DEADLINE: January 11, 2025 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

Really exciting times to be doing Lepidoptera research! Incredible efforts by the consortium (and thank you for bringing Lepbase back too, sorely missed!)

I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬 Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Too warm to buzz? Check out our newest paper on how warming temperatures affect bee buzzes in the Arctic. Well done to Charlie and Guadalupe and other coauthors for this nice study in the Swedish Arctic! @hfspo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking for a part-time research assistant with an enthusiasm for working with insects and plants to join our Leverhulme-funded project on butterfly scale development jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu ) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

Reliably hungry students @ an R crashcourse 😍

🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!

I guess I’m a euphy biologist now ☺️

First day of fieldwork: one flat tyre, one gopher snake, and many Euphydryas editha 🤩 @ Piute peak, California

Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41... We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.

A much deserved award to the mother of climate change ecology and dear Euphydryas collaborator, Camille. Her story is one of resilience and fighting to study what she believed was important, not what was trendy at the time. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

A little tutorial to make interactive maps with GBIF data for any species, including any metadata you want - pictures too Great work by intern Edgar Signe from Brest University www.montejo-kovacevich-lab.com/projects/

Know a budding insect lover? Here's a new fund from @royentsoc.bsky.social and family of the great moth expert Douglas Boyes. For 14-18 year old persons who would benefit from funding to support their entomological interest? Please encourage them to apply www.royensoc.co.uk/douglas-boye...

What an amazing week at the @floridamuseum.bsky.social We digitised >800 Euphydryas editha, sampled hundreds of legs for genomics, and was given access to Mattoon’s incredible California butterfly collection. Thanks @vmshirey.bsky.social Anisha Sapkota and Andrei Sourakov for all your help

Butterfly detective by night 🦋🕵🏼‍♀️

📣 New PhD position on flycatchers with @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social — spread the word! Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #ecoevojob

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

A postdoc opportunity to work on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) functional genomics with me, @jadrankarota.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social in Lund, Sweden. We aim to leverage the amazing amount of data being generated by @projectpsyche.bsky.social and DToL projects. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...