Join our department (GEE) as a fellow - Research Career Development Fellowships Program Call: tinyurl.com/2sfpyhsz
GEE invites #ECRs who wish to be sponsored to apply for external fellowships to establish an independent research group. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
More info: tinyurl.com/mtwhwzjj
Meet some of our newest PhD students and find out about their research. www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
Great UCL Genetics Institute seminar from @hernanaburbano.bsky.social presenting his work on phage-derived weapons shaping trade-offs in plant-associated Pseudomonas populations.
You can read more in this preprint from the Burbano lab 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....
A person sits in the UCL Flaxman gallery. Text reads, "12 subjects in the global top 10. QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026." UCL logo is displayed.
UCL is now ranked in the top 10 globally in 12 subject areas in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026, with @ioe.bsky.social and @thebartlettucl.bsky.social topping the ranks in Education, and Architecture & Built Environment.👏 Read more: https://bit.ly/3PHDsGJ
Peter and Rosemary Grant standing together in the Linnean Society library. They are smiling and in the background is a portrait of the Society's founder.
Renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant paid a special visit to the Society last week.
The talk was a fascinating insight into the Grants' work on the Evolution of Darwin's Finches, supported by @cloeucl.bsky.social and @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social.
Listen at buff.ly/3cT7E6u
Pleasure giving a recap of a wonderful PopGroup conference, and the opportunity to talk about my research.
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Avoid disappointment, and make sure to secure your tickets to this brilliant evening. Drinks reception with Rosemary and Peter Grant will follow the talks.
Peter and Rosemary Grant conducting research
Join Peter Grant FLS FRS & Rosemary Grant FRS on Wed 4 March as they discuss their landmark research on Darwin’s finches and how new species form. Peter and Rosemary are renowned evolutionary biologists, having studied these finches on the Galápagos islands since 1973.
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Professor Gail Taylor, Dean of the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences, was a Coordinating Lead Author for the United Nations Environment Programme’s Seventh Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7), which was published on 9 December. Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
#GEO7 #UNEP #UNEA7
Huge shoutout to the amazing instructor squad @kaplipa.bsky.social , @sabifo4.bsky.social , Tomas Flouri & @zihengyang.bsky.social for smashing another epic #Phylogenomics course! 🚀
Massive thanks to everyone who joined us this week — go crush your data and rock those projects! 💥🔥
So grateful to be back for another year! 💫 Big thanks to all the participants who joined us on this phylogenomics journey. We hope you find these resources helpful for your analyses, best of luck! 💻🧬
Why does the trade-off persist?
Because both competition and colonization hinge on the same surface molecule. The O-antigen is a case of antagonistic pleiotropy – you can’t optimize one function without hurting the other.
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What surprised us: this trade-off isn’t transient.
Using herbarium samples up to 200 years old, we show that the same genetic variants have persisted across 10⁵–10⁶ generations, with no evidence of widespread escape via recombination.
Natural selection keeps circling the same solutions.
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Our new collaborative work led by @taliamycota.bsky.social
Jiajun Cui & Emma Caullireau between my lab @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social & the Karasov Lab (tkarasovlab.org) @uofubiology.bsky.social
and collaborators: @plantricia.bsky.social et al.
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A fan letter from Australia for my book. Made my day.
It's a bit "we've been inundated with a letter from North Wales. From a Mrs Trellis...."
Gene annotations matter for downstream analyses: different structural gene-annotation pipelines yield markedly different orthology calls. We compare four strategies across species and argue for standards & QC before inference. Work led by @silviaprietob.bsky.social. Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
Watch Prof. Nick Lane on the Dwarkesh podcast, talking about the principles that govern life on Earth and potentially across the Universe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GMW...
Special Issue on Phylogenomic Discordance in the Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society. REVIEW PAPER from Ziheng Yang👉 doi.org/10.1093/evol...
NEW PAPER! Genomic Data Reveals Cryptic Diversity in the Soda Lake Cichlid Oreochromis amphimelas doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
NEW PAPER- Persisting at the Edge of Ecological Collapse: The Impact of Urbanization on Fish and Amphibian Communities From Lake Xochimilco, in Environmental DNA dx.doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
Fresh off the presses in @currentbiology.bsky.social : Is the deuterostome clade an artefact? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We (yours truly, Paschalis Natsidis, Laura Piovani and co-leads Paschalia Kapli and @maxjtelford.bsky.social) set out to try to answer this question.
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A primer by Sergio Latorre @smlatorreo.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ye8zwcrc on the paper by Jigisha et al. "Popgen and molecular epidemiology of wheat powdery mildew" @plosbiology.org tinyurl.com/357nkey8 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social
New publication! Sherlock, MB, Wilkinson M, Maddock ST, Nussbaum RA, Day JJ, Streicher JW (2025) Submerged corridors of ancient gene flow in an island amphibian. Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/mec.17742.
