I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961
As every year, I will soon teach an online workshop on DNA methylation and its bioinformatic analysis, using short reads (BS-seq) and long reads (ONT and PacBio) approaches. It will be October 27th-29th (european afternoons and US mornings). Mor info here instats.org/seminar/anal...
We are excited to announce the SMBE Fellows Program! ✍️
Designed to provide networking and mentorship opportunities to early-career researchers through scientific writing in evolutionary biology for @molbioevol.bsky.social and @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
📆 Aug. 31
🔗 smbe.org/smbe-fellows-program
Eddy Mendoza-Galindo and @aline-muyle.bsky.social characterise the sex-biases of Silene latifolia small RNAs and their implications for sex-biased gene expression regulation, Y chromosome degeneration and separate sex evolution:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Registrations are now open for the next @embo.org EvoChromo meeting in December.
meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...
Join us in beautiful Costa Brava to discuss chromatin evolution!
Co-organized with @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social @levine-lab.bsky.social and Nick Irwin
(.../3) We are very grateful to Dr. Adam Eyre-Walker, University of Sussex who will complete his term at the end of 2024. Adam has been an outstanding leader for the journal, launching a variety of initiatives including special sections, the evaluation of journal inclusiveness,...
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Announcement: New Editor-in-Chief of Genome Biology and Evolution
We are excited to announce Dr. Maud Tenaillon as a new Editor-in-Chief of Genome Biology and Evolution, starting January 2025. Maud will join Laura A. Katz, Smith College, who continues her term as EIC.
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We are delighted to announce that Québec City (Canada) has been selected to host our annual conference in 2027. The meeting will be held from June 20 to 24, 2027, at the Québec City Convention Centre. We are looking forward to hosting you in 2027.
See smbe/org news items for details
#smbe2027
We are hiring a 3 years Postdoc to work on the epigenetics of selfing in snails under the supervision of Céline Cosseau and Christoph Grunau, in collaboration with Patrice David and myself. The Postdoc will be based in France, Perpignan, with trips to Montpellier ihpe.univ-perp.fr/wp-content/u...
