Proud to have played a part in this multi-lab collaboration! 😀

⏰ Only 2 DAYS left for early registration! Join us at #Yeast26 (June 13-17, Pacific Grove, CA) for cutting-edge research in #genetics, #genomics, #disease, #regulation, #systemsBiology, #cellBiology, #lifeCycle, #syntheticBiology, & more. Register by April 16 to save! 🧬 genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/

Such a big relief to see my much belated PhD project finally wrapped up, after so many years and so much ups and downs ... "It is a long way from amphioxus, but we all came from there" ~

very happy to have this work published in mbe @molbioevol.bsky.social can now use phyloHessian to get a (hopefully) improved div time & subs rate estimate, particularly for deep-time or fast‑evolving lineages github.com/evolbeginner... #julialang #iqtree #mcmctree #molecularclock

Abstract Submission - Yeast Genetics Meeting 2026 Visit our website to learn more.

The abstract submission deadline for #Yeast26 has been extended to next week, March 12! 📣

GSA is committed to meeting the needs of our genetics community and supporting our scientists through challenging times.

Join us at the stunning Asilomar. Submit your abstract now: buff.ly/XmP8Z2i

David Botstein, a titan within the scientific community, died last week. GSA mourns his passing and celebrates his legacy.

Read more about his significance to our community in this thread ⬇️🧵

a headshot of David Botstein

We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of David Botstein, a towering figure in modern #genetics and a foundational force behind SGD.
www.yeastgenome.org/blog/in-memo... #yeast #modelOrganism

Yeast | Microbiology Journal | Wiley Online Library Yeast is a microbiology journal for research in the rapidly moving field of yeast biology. We publish the most significant developments in unicellular fungi.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The webpage for the upcoming yeast meetings of 2026 has recently been updated. Have a look at it to find out which exciting #yeast #conferences are ahead!!! 😀

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

The new issue of @genomeresearch.bsky.social is now live. Follow the link to new research on chromosome engineering in 8p syndrome, convergent evolution in arid rodents, and more! tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3...

GitHub - yjx1217/LRSDAY: LRSDAY: Long-read Sequencing Data Analysis for Yeasts LRSDAY: Long-read Sequencing Data Analysis for Yeasts - yjx1217/LRSDAY

📢 It has been a few years since we updated LRSDAY last time, during which the downloading URLs of some of its dependencies have become inaccessible. I've just implemented a fix in GitHub make the automatic installation script work again.
github.com/yjx1217/LRSDAY

Jia-Xing Yue (Sun Yat-sen University)

Jia-Xing Yue (@iamphioxus.bsky.social), principal investigator at Sun Yat-sen University, is one of the new members of the GBE editorial board. He is an expert in evolutionary genomics, genome instability, telomeres, aneuploidy, cancer, and yeast.

#societyjournal

Thx Daniel! :-)

Honored to serve @genomebiolevol.bsky.social and the greater @official-smbe.bsky.social community! 🫡

Homepage - Yeast Genetics Meeting 2026 Visit our website to learn more.

Honored to serve on the Yeast Genetics Meeting Program Committee of Evolution & Population Genetics. Welcome for meeting registration and abstract submission, especially on our Evolution & Population Genetics program! genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/
@genetics-gsa.bsky.social #Yeast26

SMBE is now on Weixin/WeChat

SMBE is now on Weixin/WeChat!

Stay up-to-date with the latest news, events, and articles published in @molbioevol.bsky.social and @genomebiolevol.bsky.social

Follow the @officialSMBE account, or scan the QR code with the app.

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#society

It is great to have @petrovadmitri.bsky.social here at Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center to give us an highly inspiring talk on “Fitness landscape of tumor suppressor genes in lung cancer ”. Tour de force experiments, mind blowing results, and exciting bench-to-bed perspectives!

First #SMBE meeting for our lab！Definitely a memorable experience. Already looking forward to the next one! @official-smbe.bsky.social #SMBE2025

Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes - Nature Using sequencing and haplotype-resolved assembly of 65 diverse human genomes, complex regions including the major histocompatibility complex and centromeres are analysed.

Two papers in today's issue of @nature.com ‬: 1) we assemble 65 genomes to near completion, including centromeres and the MHC. tinyurl.com/3huhax6w. 2) we sequence 1,019 genomes from the 1kGP with long reads, revealing SVs down to low allele frequencies tinyurl.com/wbx3we9x.

Group photo with all oral speakers.

Prof. Dmitri Petrov delivering his talk.

Super honored to have chance to co-organize the #SMBE2025 Symposium on Experimental Evolution, together with @jingli-0512.bsky.social and Dao-Qiong Zheng. Thank @petrovadmitri.bsky.social for serving as our invited speaker. Also thank all the oral/poster presenters and audience. @OfficialSMBE

📣Our #SMBE 2025 Symposium (No. 3) on Experimental Evolution will be held today (7.22, Tuesday) at 10:30 in Room 4, Building No. 8. An associated poster session will be held at 14:00 (poster number: S3-P01~P16). Welcome to join! let's study evolution in action! 🥳 🎉 @official-smbe.bsky.social

📅 The day is today!

#SMBE2025 in Beijing starts now, as the registration desk opens to all participants.

Join us for five days full of the latest discoveries in molecular biology and evolution 🧬 We hope all attendees enjoy the many opportunities for discussion and networking among our community.

Gene regulatory networks and essential transcription factors for de novo-originated genes Nature Ecology & Evolution - A combination of computational methods applied to single-cell RNA sequencing data and genetic experiments shows that a small number of transcription factors are...

Our latest paper is out: rdcu.be/ev6Ym — one of my favorite projects. It began about 8 years ago when Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel asked me: what transcription factors regulate new genes? I had no idea then. Now we have some answers.

Welcome to attend our SMBE2025 Symposium on Experimental Evolution. Co-organized by Dao-Qiong Zheng, @‪jingli-0512.bsky.social‬ and myself.

Talks by:

@petrovadmitri.bsky.social

Shuqing Xu
@jingli-0512.bsky.social
@fitz-james-lab.bsky.social
@michael-barnett.bsky.social
Liye Zhang
Anjali Mahilkar
Tatiana Bellagio
@marcofumasoni.bsky.social
Can Liu
Alexander Sastokas

Very excited about this work by @mrazo.bsky.social in collaboration with www.madhavmani.com bsky.app/profile/mraz... I am so lucky to be able to collaborate with such brilliant people! Learned a lot. This is our first foray into ML approaches and I am quite taken with their power 1/n

CSHL Keynote, Dr. Steven McCarroll, Harvard Medical School + Broad Institute YouTube video by CSHL Leading Strand

Keynote talk from Steven McCarroll from last weeks Biology of Genomes conf. My favorite talk of the whole meeting! #bog25 youtu.be/BCRAlmFv7ag?...

📢 3 Postdoc positions available in @evomicslab.bsky.social
targeting on genome instability evolution of both yeast and human genomes. Both computational genomics and experimental genomics backgrounds are welcome! 🧬🧑‍💻🧪 For more information, see evomicslab.org or send me a message!

Uncalled4: a toolkit for nanopore signal alignment, analysis and visualization of DNA and RNA modifications.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/35 New paper out! @jamesTstroud and I dive into why long-term studies are crucial for understanding evolution. They reveal processes impossible to detect in short timescales and capture rare events that transform our understanding of evolutionary dynamics.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...