Two scientists in lab coats analyzing plant samples in a greenhouse filled with yellow flowers.
📢New paper alert:
🍄 Friendly #fungi hijack #plant regulator to promote #symbiosis - study uncovers #mechanism that helps fungi to colonize plant #roots
👉 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@an-pocheng.bsky.social @carogutj.bsky.social
Excited to see our FML Research Group Leader
@luisapallares.bsky.social
in the latest Max Planck Research! 🎉
The article follows her journey from Colombia to Germany and her work on how genes and environment shape complex traits using fruit flies.
Read the full story: www.mpg.de/26180374/W00...
You can read a short behind the story of our latest accepted article here:
medium.com/@sarilog/the...
Have you ever wondered 🤔... Does phenotypic variance respond to environmental perturbation? Does it have a genetic basis? Are mean and variance regulating loci exposed to different selection pressures? These and more questions are explored in our new preprint 🔥
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🌾 We have an open postdoc position in Plant Genomics in our group at HHU Düsseldorf!
If you enjoy computational biology, asking big questions, and the satisfaction of code working on the first try, check out schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Mar. 31 | 3-year postdoc | German skills required
The Nature Podcast team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months – from potato genomes to the ultimate quantum party.
go.nature.com/45jJSRq
Just a few days left to apply to the PhD position in our group. It focuses on selfish genes in #fungi and how they might affect the spread of giant #TEs called Starships.
Image of yeast spotted on an agar plate. Some grow well, others are dying.
We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD position available for theoretical and statistical modeling in my joint @gevol.bsky.social project with @luisapallares.bsky.social on the evolution of transcriptional variability and its role in adaptation and evolutionary innovation.
See
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social
🌱 Postdoc position in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics!
Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf.
More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position
@jochenwolflab.bsky.social Check out the latest paper spearheaded by @chyiyin.bsky.social. She explored different methods for target enrichment of DNA extracted from thousands of years old crow bones. Long live ancient DNA!
doi.org/10.1111/1755...
Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry.
But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
🧵1/6
Map of europe with two crows and a picture of two bones.
Tomorrow, October 28 | 4:00 p.m.
Research Colloquium: The use of ancient DNA and museum collections to understand speciation and introgression in crows
with Chyi Yin Gwee, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Join in person (Museum am Löwentor, #Stuttgart) or via zoom: t1p.de/d3y6j
Our paper was included in the Collection "Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes" from the @microbiologysociety.org 🧬 😁
#genomics #longreadsequencing
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
Genial Luisa!
Super cool Fritz! congratulations to all authors!
NOD-like receptor genes evolve under diversity-enhancing mechanisms in a fungal species complex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09....
go.bsky.app/KqsM3kd
🌎👩🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵
Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Do not miss this pre-print update! It has been an honor being part of it! 🤩🧬 Follow the thread ⬇️ to understand the power of #logan, and how you could apply it too! 🤗
SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...
Purple pollen visible in a dissected flower of Linum grandiflorum, flowering flax, an insect-pollinated species.
*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (Sep-Jan). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Your daily Avian Hybrids story!
Do crows engage in extra-pair copulations to avoid hybridization?
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/d...
#ornithology
Why do males and females often differ in traits?
The expected answer: selection.
But our new paper in GENETICS shows that genetic drift alone can generate sexual dimorphism — even when male & female optima are the same
Super cool Fede! Felicidades!
I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.
Interested in eukaryotic algal evolution, metagenomics, new plastid diversity, and more? Check out my poster (P175) today at #eseb2025 ! #protistsonsky