In August we attended the Congress of European Society for Evolutionary Biology, and we presented several stories on fish vision and bioluminescence based on our research!

Our group photo:

Pau showed a poster on deep-water cichlids from the Cameroonian crater lakes, and what news can we get from the single-cell analysis od the retina:

Kristýna presented her single-cell RNA sequencing on the sturgeon species, one of which lost the rod cells entirely. So many open questions with this new method!:

Zuzka had a poster on her common barbel project, and what can we tell about vision after evolutionary tetraploidization:

…and Vítek showed his first results on the transcriptomics of the light organs in deep-sea fishes:

and finally myself, I had a talk on deep-sea fish vision:-). These fish are really bizarre:

Many thanks to all PhD students and postdocs for their representation at ESEB 2025! It was a great success and very motivating experience.