Evolutionary Genomics of Sex

Wen-Juan gives a public ERC lecture

What the frog?! 🐸

Wen-Juan delivers her ERC inaugural lecture on 4 May 2026 at 5:00 pm in the Green Room, U-Residence, VUB campus. She shared her findings in her European Research Council (ERC) Lecture on FROGWY and how in most frogs, many fishes, reptiles and flowering plants, sex chromosomes may remain indistinguishable from the others and are repeatedly re-evolving.

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A heartfelt thank you to the organizers, to vice rector Pieter Ballon for opening the event, to the European Research Council (ERC) for supporting this research, and to my fantastic team, bDIV research group and Biology Department, collaborators, colleagues, students, and the wider VUB and Flanders research community.

Feeling grateful, inspired, and excited for the discoveries ahead!
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📸 Relive the evening with us!
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