Wrote a fun little thing on gene tree discordance:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1mzPI3QW8S...

Big congrats to Talia! tkarasovlab.org

#GGFungi2026 Call For Projects is now open for applications getgenome.net/callforproje...

We will be holding an information session today 3rd March at 14:00 CET (08:00 Eastern US; 18:00 PKT). To sign up please complete this short form - forms.office.com/e/DssYYkkY9Z

📣 2026 winner of the JMS Prize:

⭐ Wendy Valencia-Montoya

🐝🌼 "...a tiny insect pollinator must find its rare host plant. How do they find each other? What signals and sensory systems allow them to communicate? And once they meet, how do insects survive feeding on plants packed with neurotoxins..."

Call here: tinyurl.com/2sfpyhsz

Our research institutes:
UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social
Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution @cloeucl.bsky.social
Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research @uclcber.bsky.social
Institute of Healthy Aging @ihaucl.bsky.social
UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social

Join our department (GEE) as a fellow - Research Career Development Fellowships Program Call: tinyurl.com/2sfpyhsz

GEE invites #ECRs who wish to be sponsored to apply for external fellowships to establish an independent research group. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

More info: tinyurl.com/mtwhwzjj

🔥 We'll soon be advertising a 2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at UCL, focusing on insect single-cell mitochondrial genomics. 🔥
More details coming soon. Feel free to get in touch in this sounds fun or share with anyone who might be interested.

Congrats Thorsten! Looking forward to visiting soon :-)

Now that it's official i've got some news! Our group has moved from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social to @unihalle.bsky.social where I am now leading the department for phytopathology and plant protection 🍄🌾🧬

What happens when Klebsiella's capsule locus is swapped? Unexpectedly little in terms of cell growth. Yet, it does change the bacterium's environment and interactions with it: evolution by seamless plug-and-play capsule swap. Led by @julielebris.bsky.social @olayarendueles.bsky.social

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens!

Read it in Science
dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie...

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi-science.bsky.social

Meet the newest CLOE PhD students Find out about our PhD projects and the students completing them

Meet some of our newest PhD students and find out about their research. www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Great UCL Genetics Institute seminar from @hernanaburbano.bsky.social presenting his work on phage-derived weapons shaping trade-offs in plant-associated Pseudomonas populations.

You can read more in this preprint from the Burbano lab 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....

Some reflections on #Fungal26 This was a great meeting as always but set against some turbulent times of course, which meant many regular attendees were not present. This thread is mainly for them. However, the proportion of first-time attendees was very high and very international. #Fungal26 1/15

Congrats to my friend and colleague @thorstenlangner.bsky.social and all the best in Halle!

AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions
📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass...
🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk

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...

Come join us!

We are looking for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London.

Details 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Post funded by UCL Health Strategy.

Join us at UCL @ugiatucl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social 👇🧵

Mi gente latino!
Ya llegó ya está aquí. La primera reunión de Biomoleculas antiguas en Latinoamerica patrocinada por el @official-smbe.bsky.social . Reserven la fecha y estén al pendiente de las fechas importantes. Mas info en nuestra pagina web smbeperu.github.io/SMBEperu-esp/

Please get in contact if you are interested in studying the evolution of plants and their pathogens combining contemporary and ancient DNA! #aDNA Check our latest publications here: www.burbanolab.org/publications

Images of a female student, a microscope slide, and a pipette dropping liquid. Text reads 'The Division of Biosciences presents: How To Get a Master's. Thursday 5 February 2026, 16:00-17:00, JZ Young Lecture Theatre, UCL Anatomy Building. Register by scanning the QR code.'

Current UCL students – join us for an information event about Bioscience master’s degrees with refreshments. “How to get a Master’s” will be held on Thursday 5 February starting at 4pm in UCL Anatomy Building G29 JZ Young Lecture Theatre.

Register here: https://forms.office.com/e/s3BV1AvKXD

Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework?

Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.

A slide from the Teaching Tool. What are botanical collections? Types of collections. Herbaria, Living Collections, Seed, pollen, and spore banks; DNA and tissue banks; Palnological collections, Digital Collections, Ethnobotanical collections.

New Teaching Tool!
blog.aspb.org/new-teaching...
Check out the latest unit in the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology series, “Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections: Opportunities and Challenges,” by M. Deglialberti, C. Paleni, F. Fainelli, C. Lambertini, & Silvia Manrique. @tank-silvia.bsky.social

Reimagining Health with Big Data | Norwich Science Festival Dr Marina Escalera Zamudio and Dr Cenk Celik will share the ways in which big data and AI are transforming medicine.

See UGI's Dr Marina Escalera Zamudio (Rosetrees Fellow) and Dr Cenk Celik (Research Fellow) @cenkcelik.bsky.social presenting at the Norwich Science Festival @niscifest.bsky.social session on "Reimagining Health with Big Data".

norwichsciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on/rei...

#NISF26

A new preprint from the lab, with postdoc @deboraycb.bsky.social and collaborators @aidaandres.bsky.social and Tim Connallon:

“Characterising the detectable and invisible fractions of genomic loci under balancing selection”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New species of oomycete named after Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social 🥳 🥳

Peter and Rosemary Grant conducting research

Join Peter Grant FLS FRS & Rosemary Grant FRS on Wed 4 March as they discuss their landmark research on Darwin’s finches and how new species form. Peter and Rosemary are renowned evolutionary biologists, having studied these finches on the Galápagos islands since 1973.

buff.ly/ZbYnmf2

Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the conserved phage proteome Recognition of foreign molecules inside cells is critical for immunity in all domains of life. Proteins of the STAND NTPase superfamily, including eukaryotic nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain ...

NLR-like immunity in bacteria

A new study from the Alex Gao lab. The scope of this work is incredible!!!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...