Postdoctoral position in conservation genomics and experimental evolution at Hologenomics Section, Globe Institute The Hologenomics Section, Globe Institute, University at Copenhagen, is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher to join our team. This position is part of the research project “Back from the Brink: experimental de-extinction in a model-organism to restore lost diversity”, funded under the Villum Experiment Programme. The project explores the potential of gene editing technologies for conservation using an experimental setting, the risks and consequences for the management of genetically vulnerable populations. Duration: one year.

🚨 Postdoc in conservation genomics & experimental evolution (Copenhagen)

Join us explore questions on gene editing for biodiversity conservation

🔬 Required: exp in experimental evolution (ideally C. elegans)
📅 1-year pos
⏰ Dline: April 6

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Ophrys insectifera is one of my favourite ☺️

...the potential of seedbank digital information - such as sampling locations, number of maternal plants, and seed traits, including digital images - for selecting priority species and populations for conservation efforts and further population genetic research 2/

The potential of seedbank digital information in plant conservation Seedbanks are vital for biodiversity conservation, but their potential remains underutilised due to a limited understanding of the intraspecific genetic diversity they hold. By leveraging digitised d...

Seedbanks of wild species are instrumental for conservation, but their intraspecific genetic diversity 🧬 is often poorly understood. Our new opinion piece explores... 1/
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#consgen authority Fred Allendorf cries out in despair for American science in the Missoulian newspaper. It’s terrifying to watch this destruction unfold day by day. My heart goes out to my American colleagues and friends. Stay strong and fight.

A poster of the evolutionary tree of orchids showing the relationships of different orchid families back in time to their origin

Orchids have existed for 80 million years, but most of their diversity evolved in just the last 5 million! 🌸

Here's a free poster of the most complete Orchid Tree of Life built by Kew's @latinorchidbot.bsky.social & partners' DNA research 🧬👇

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Restoring genetic diversity to facilitate the implementation of the EU Nature Restoration Law Governments and economic blocs are recognising that the world faces a biodiversity crisis. The restoration of biodiversity to the levels prior to wide…

It is great to have the restoration law - but it needs to incorporate genetic diversity more #consgen 🌏🦤
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Robin Waples's "The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size" is now online in Molecular Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Hello! Will you post the PLA Ebb Tide Flag Warning status on bluesky any soon? :) Thank you!

Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
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Dealing With the Complexity of Effective Population Size in Conservation Practice Effective population size (Ne) is one of the most important parameters in evolutionary biology, as it is linked to the long-term survival capability of species. Therefore, Ne greatly interests conser....

Dealing With the Complexity of Effective Population Size in Conservation Practice -- Summary of our workshop on 🧬
#Ne for practical 🌱🌳🦟🍄🐟🐦🐘 #conservation.

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I'm super happy to share our newest preprint on whooping crane genomics 🐣🧬

🚨Persistent genomic erosion in whooping cranes despite demographic recovery🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Extremely thankful to @hernmoral.bsky.social and all co-authors!
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The widely recognized extinction debt problem in community ecology depends on delayed genetic responses (genetic extinction debts/time lags) in the populations of that community. Therefore, genetic extinction debts at the population level deserve more attention /5

*Why it matters:*
Recognizing genetic extinction debts is crucial for effective conservation, both when monitoring genetic diversity and when taking actions to restore genetic diversity in populations /4

*Challenges in interpretation:*
Confounding factors, such as sampling strategies and marker choice, can obscure these debts and lead to misinterpretation. We propose a framework to guide better analytical approaches and to improve the interpretation of genetic extinction debts /3

*What are genetic extinction debts/time lags?*
These are delayed genetic consequences after environmental disturbance. Life-history traits such as long lifespan and vegetative propagation can favour time lags /2

Mind the lag: understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation The delay between disturbance events and genetic responses within populations is a common but surprisingly overlooked phenomenon in ecology and evolut…

✨Excited to share our new article on time lags/genetic extinction debts, online now in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
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Mind the lag: understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation The delay between disturbance events and genetic responses within populations is a common but surprisingly overlooked phenomenon in ecology and evolutionary and conservation genetics. If not accounted...

There’s a time lag between an event and its impact on the genetic composition of a population ⏱️🧬

This cool new paper by @roberta-gargiulo.bsky.social explains why and how conservation strategies should account for this 🧪🌏

Genetic Bottlenecks Driven by Population Disconnection Abstract: Connectivity among populations plays a crucial role in maintaining genetic variation at a local scale, especially in small populations affected strongly by genetic drift. The negative con...

3/ An extinction debt also occurs when gene flow in a metapopulation drops below 1 MPG. This doesn't reflect a deviation from mutation-drift equilibrium, but from migration-drift equilibrium in the metapop. A drop in gene flow reduces the realized inbreeding Ne of the subpopulation.

2/ if allelic richness is smaller than expected from the observed He there is a pending extinction debt
The same principle applies to Tajima's D (haplotypes) or the Site Frequency Spectrum (SNPs).

New paper by @roberta-gargiulo.bsky.social on extinction debts and #popgen.
A bottleneck test is also a test for a genetic extinction debt 1/ at mutation-drift equilibrium Ne predicts allelic richness AR and gene diversity He and vice versa

Check out this new paper just out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on better understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation.

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Let´s form a community of conservation geneticists here - I started with some people I know, but there are likely to be many more... I can happily add them to this list
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