Our #PhD students look forward to Henrique Teotónio
speaking tomorrow about "When, how and why selection for recombination is decoupled from adaptation" for our #PopGen Seminar Series. Schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
We are delighted to share our new #aDNA preprint on population continuity and shifts in the Early #Medieval Altai region: 91 new ancient individuals associated with successive cultures in a ca. 1400-year-long time transect.
doi.org/10.64898/202...
#AncientGenomics #ancientDNA #popgen
Seasonal job available in Burlington, VT in invasive pest ecologcal genomics! The successful candidate will work with myself and @jcbnunez.bsky.social on seasonal adaptation in Drosophila susukii. #popGen #evolution #genomics 🧪🧬🖥️ Apply by April 7: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
#popGen #genomics #evolution 🧪🧬🖥️
a psmc plot showing population size over time for a mammal species
#popgen question: has anyone seen a psmc plot like this? made from a haplotype-phased assembly and variants from dipcall. I guess if it's real, could it be a result of pop struct. from 2e-5 to 1e-6? Could it be a hybrid? What kind of assembly/variant calling artifacts might produce this?
Our #PhD students are enjoying meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social tomorrow! He will tell us about "Evolution of bilaterian traits and mechanisms of cell type diversification: insights from cnidarians". Full schedule+streaming details popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
A. We use the adaptive dynamics framework to make theoretical predictions of evolutionary trajectory under trade-offs between growth parameters. B. We assess these predictions using forward simulations mapping the trajectory of evolution on varying the supply of mutations (mutation rate, supply of trait-increasing mutations (mutation bias), and mutation effect size), and calculate new quantities not available in adaptive dynamics, such as time-dependent fixation rates and the time to reach an Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS).
Cool new work connecting population genetic and adaptive dynamic perspectives on species interaction by Kasturi Lele & Lawrence H. Uricchio @kasturilele.bsky.social @tufts.edu #EcoEvo #PopGen doi.org/10.64898/202...
🐳🧬8 years in the making! 🐳🧬
Our new paper in Cell explores how bowhead whales responded to past climate change - and how commercial whaling reshaped their future.
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#aDNA #PopGen
Our #PhD students are looking forward to hearing Martin Jastroch discuss "Reconstructing the evolution of vertebrate thermogenesis using comparative approaches" for the #PopGen Seminar Series tomorrow. Full schedule+sign up for streaming links popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
Two rivers meet in Kaunas 🇱🇹 — so does science 🔬
The #GENOA #COST Action met here to unite multidimensional data, scientists & policy to protect #biodiversity 🌿
Genetic diversity is key - GENOA is co-creating tools, building capacity and trust & turning knowledge into action 🧬 💪
#consgen #PopGen
@francoisrousset.bsky.social is speaking tomorrow on "What phage-bacteria interactions teach us about innate immunity" for our #PopGen Seminar Series. Our #PhD students are excited attending and meeting him! Full schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution #ecology
The American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social
will be holding our next meeting in Glen Cove, New York on 8-12 January 2027!
Have an idea for a special symposium? We want to hear it!
#ecology #evolution #behavior 🧪 #popgen 🧬
Applications due Apr 30: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Escaping bottlenecks: The demographic path to genetic recovery in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) 🐨 🧬 #consgen #popgen
Un poste MCF en génomique évolutive / écologie moléculaire à ECOBIOP - Université de Pau #PopGen 👇
urlr.me/rVQmN6
Great write up of our study showing that both extrinsic factors (e.g. habitat availability) and intrinsic traits (e.g. body mass and diet) play important roles in shaping patterns of genomic diversity in birds 🦜 🧬 🌏
#consgen #popgen
Effective population size is a key ingredient in indicators used to monitor genetic #biodiversity – and a fundamental concept in population genetics.
But what is it, really? 🧬 We try to explain in our new blog post ⬇️
#ConsGen #Genetics #PopGen #Monitoring #KMGBF
ginamo.org/2026/03/02/t...
The focus of the post is the study of the origin, evolution and/or effects of human genetic variation that shapes health and disease.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our scientific community in the heart of London.
@ugiatucl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
#EvoBio #PopGen 🧪
Our #PhD students are looking forward to tomorrow's #PopGen seminar speaker @bfraser.bsky.social! She kicks off the term about "Population genomics reveals rapid repeatable adaptation in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)". Schedule, streaming popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
Interested in how race, ethnicity, and ancestry get used and misused in genetics? This talk is for you!
Register at www.hugera.org
#philsky #philsci #STS #HPbio #popgen
I've been developing a new python package that I'm calling "Geneland". It takes DNA sequence data or a precomputed distance matrix (if using RAD-Seq) along with GPS coordinates and outputs an interpolated genetic landscape surface. Similar to Alleles in Space (but prettier). #popgen #evoldir #python
@eveliendegreef.bsky.social's latest is out in the @asn-amnat.bsky.social feature exploring the challenges of genetic forecasting😀
"Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species"
doi.org/10.1086/738889 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio
Hi all! I’m a PhD candidate in the @lindseyswierk.bsky.social and Powell labs at Binghamton University. I use #PopGen, #BehavioralEcology, and #VisualModeling to study the #evolutionary & #ecological processes of #divergence in a semi-aquatic #Anolis lizard species complex. #speciation #evolution
To add one thing: if you have the data to run both classic dN/dS tests and MK tests, choose the latter. dN/dS tests are blind to positive selection in the important, constrained proteome, while MK test will work regardless of constraint, if DFE well estimated.
#evolution #adaptation #popgen
🧬We are launching STRiVE, a @eseb.bsky.social Special Topic Network on the evolutionary role of structural genomic variation.
🗓️Std:
29/04: Online seminar w/ L. Rieseberg
8-10/07: Kick-off in Porto
Join us: structuralvariantsstn.github.io #Evolution #Genomics #StructuralVariants #Biology #PopGen
Hey #PopGen #EEB #PUI friends! Do you have a cool paper demonstrating the power 💪 of "modern" PopGen that would be exciting to upper-level undergrads? I feel like students leave the PopGen unit thinking it's some kind of dead science b/c we're limited to introducing simple models in Evol classes. 😢
The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (March-June). 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/
Finally published! We first uploaded this preprint in 2022 but dropped it after frustrating reviews.
It was well received and cited, motivating us to revisit it.
We added new content, including simulations and a proof-of-concept genomic green status assessment.
#consgen #popgen #PopulationGenomics
