🌻 Next STRiVE seminar: Loren Rieseberg (UBC) explores SVs, adaptation & speciation—from wild sunflowers to 1000+ species!
🗓️ Apr 29 | 9am PDT / 6pm CEST
✉️ Zoom link via mailing list: groupes.renater.fr/sympa/subscr...
ℹ️ Info: structuralvariantsstn.github.io/about/
Please join us for the next Asia-Pacific Genetics Seminar on Wednesday April 1st (1pm AEST / 3pm NZST).
We will hear from Assoc Prof Anna Santure from Waipapa Taumata Rau - University of Auckland presenting a seminar titled "Genomic Predictors of Fitness in a Threatened Population".
Excited to welcome Dr @katarinastuart.bsky.social (Macquarie University) to our next #Genomics Community Meeting 🧬💻️
She’ll present: "A Beginners Guide to Structural Variants in Eco-Evolutionary Population Genomics."
🗓️ 17 March 2026. All welcome!
Agenda & join link: buff.ly/IlrqHv4
GSA’s 2026 abstract submission & registration are open!
www.gsa2026.com
Details: July 5-8, University of Queensland’s St. Lucia campus, Brisbane🌴
Abstracts due April 6, early bird reg closes May 25.
Exciting program and plenty of opportunities for everyone to present their exciting work!
And you can check the supplementary for a huge table making a (non exhaustive) overview of SV papers in evolutionary genomics from 2020 to 2025. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We hope this little guide and review of the recent literature on SVs will be useful for the community in #ecology #evolution #genomics #PopGen.
Great lead by Kat!!
New review!
Theory & a practical guide to structural variants in popgen🧬
Many thanks to my co-authors: @rebekahoomen.bsky.social
@annatigano.bsky.social @marenwellenreuther.bsky.social @janawold.bsky.social @dlfield.bsky.social @clairemerot.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Now out in ME: dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec....
Empirical comparison of WGS and RADseq selection scans shows missed signals and false outliers in RADseq selection scans resulting from population specific allelic dropout @katarinastuart.bsky.social @lee-rollins.bsky.social @annasanture.bsky.social
Applications are now open for the Genetics Society of AustralAsia’s 2026 awards for achievements in #genetics research & teaching🧬🧑🏫🔬. Awards presented at our annual conference. Pls RT! genetics.org.au/awards/
#PhDchat #ECRchat #WomenInScience #STEMoriginal #LGBTSTEM
A starling with a yellow front (thanks to NZ flax pollen) made it to the blue front of Molecular Ecology journal. This beautiful shot by Dominic Scott advertises a paper, that peeped into history of invasive starlings in NZ (and, spoiler-alert, Australia too). #biologicalinvasions
And a special shout-out to @pavelpipek.bsky.social, who went deep into online historical archives to uncover some incredible insights into the minds of 19th-century acclimatisation societies! 🕰️📜
See one of my favorite articles below 👇
Huge thanks to first author Bryan Thompson, and co-authors @pavelpipek.bsky.social, @huizhentan.bsky.social, @annasanture.bsky.social, @lee-rollins.bsky.social, @williampearman.bsky.social, Kamolphat Atsawawaranunt, Melissa Nehmens, E. Owen Perkins & Annabel Whibley 👏
4️⃣Using historic archives we pinpoint which translocation events were most successful and use historical accounts to interpret the shared genetic signals seen across Australia and New Zealand.
Genomics 🧬 and history 🗞️ together reveal invasion dynamics that neither could fully explain alone.
We found:
1️⃣The native range was demographically stable before introductions.
2️⃣Starlings move and mix freely across NZ’s South Island and lower North Island.
3️⃣But Auckland birds stand out! Their unique genetics suggest a mysterious, unrecorded introduction.
We then looked at historical articles📰...
New Zealand’s invasive starlings on the cover of Molecular Ecology! 🐦🧬
This collaborative project unpacks the invasion history of starlings in Aotearoa New Zealand, combining population genomics with historical records of human-mediated translocations.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
💡 Bonus: Open Snakemake pipelines for both simulation and imputation are provided:
- github.com/vibaotram/si...
- github.com/vibaotram/im...
Feel free to test and optimize imputation strategies for your own datasets before committing to large-scale LCS projects.
We explored that in this new study in Molecular Ecology Resources 🔎
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@vbtram.bsky.social
@huizhentan.bsky.social
@katarinastuart.bsky.social
@annasanture.bsky.social
🧬 Upcoming Asia-Pacific Genetics Seminar:
📅 30th September
Join us for the "Epigenetics in Evolution and Ecology" symposium, featuring three outstanding early career researchers who will share their latest discoveries.
👉 Register now using the poster below!
Genomic imputation can boost dataset quality and benefit research on wild populations. In hihi, we found high #imputation accuracies despite a small reference panel of high-fecundity individuals. Imputation improves downstream #ConservationGenomics analyses. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Excellent keynotes this morning from Professor Alexei Drummond and Professor Cris Print on the power of genomics and computational biology in precision medicine and health research.
#GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025
Day three of #GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025 kicking off with a great plenary session: diving into the world of plants and regulatory genetics with excellent talks by Miloš Tanurdžić and Erika Varkonyi-Gasic.
A bit of MAGIC spotted in Kathleen's talk at
#GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025
Amazing talks in the Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics, and the Human Genetics concurrent sessions today.
Emma Carroll, Isabelly de Lima, Graham McCulloh, Amara Shaukat, Kathleen McLay, & some excellent lightning talks!
#GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025
Megan Leask closing off the Indigenous Early Career Leaders session with her work designing precision medicine for Māori, by Māori.
#GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025
Catherine Collins walking with us through the tāhuhu kōrero in DNA.
#GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025
Amazing start to #GSA2025! Amanda Black and Dawn Lewis opened with beautiful, thought-provoking science.
Indigenous Early Career Leaders Alana Alexander, Jordon Lima, and Conor Watene O'Sullivan shared wonderful projects and reflections on community and communication.
More to come!
New preprint out:
"A Beginner’s Guide to Structural Variants in Eco-Evolutionary Population Genomics: Everything You Wanted to Know"
A primer for anyone curious about digging into structural variants within their study system. Huge thank you to my brilliant co-authors!
doi.org/10.22541/au....
Excited to share a short blog post I wrote with Greening Australia about the project I’m working on at Applied Biosciences, Macquarie University! 🌱🪴🌿
🧬How plant DNA can shape the future of native seed production:
www.greeningaustralia.org.au/how-plant-dn...
