SPP 2349 Gevol

📢 GEvol Job Alert: PhD position in Joachim Kurtzs lab in Münster in the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity. This research project focuses on the evolutionary flexibility of epigenetic regulation in insects. Find this and more open positions @ g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio... 🧬

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...

***Super cool-project alert***⚠️ Come work with @dirkmetzler.bsky.social and me in trying to understand how transcriptional noise evolves in a phylogenetic context 🧬 Deadline 15th Dec 2025 (Project funded by @dfg.de @gevol.bsky.social)

📢 Job alert: Post-Doc Position in the project "Functional annotation of genomic🧬 innovations in a densely populated clade🪰 with deep learning 💻" Join the GEvol community in a collaborative project between @bornberglab.bsky.social and @katharinahoff.bsky.social lab.
👉 bornberglab.org/post-doc-pos...

Climate and parasite pressure jointly shape traits mediating the coevolution between an ant social parasite and its host Abstract. Host–parasite relationships are often shaped by coevolutionary arms races. While abiotic influences on these dynamics are well documented, a comb

#Climate and parasite pressure jointly shape traits mediating the #coevolution between an #ant social parasite and its #host:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Erwann et al. 2025

💻 The Project: We will integrate multi-omics (bulk/scRNAseq, long-reads, ATAC-seq) to explore how duplicated genes diverge in regulation and function.
🤝 You will be part of the DFG SPP 2349 @gevol.bsky.social consortium & the @imprsgs.bsky.social, with research visits to collaboration partners (👇).

🧬 PhD Position: Evolutionary & Comparative Genomics 🕷️
Join us at @uni-goettingen.de for a 3-year PhD (65% TV-L E13).
We will investigate the genomic & phenotypic impact of gene duplication across 233 arthropod genomes!
More infos 👇 and s.gwdg.de/eDrAAY
#Evolution #Genomics #Bioinformatics

More specific, from the 6,1 Mio€ grant money, 9 ongoing projects are extended for 3 more years and 8 new projects can be started. The project lead will be at the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity
@uni-muenster.de

again. We look forward to our old and new collaboration partners and 🪰🐝 &🕷️!

🧩 Thrilled to share our new paper in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social !

We present a comprehensive review of de novo gene emergence — providing a classification of current detection methods and a roadmap for addressing major challenges in the field of gene birth from non-genic sequences.

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

check out the accompanying paper doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... as well!

🚀We’re excited to share our new paper in Bioinformatics!

We introduce a user-friendly toolkit that implements our novel DeNoFo file-format for standardised annotation of de novo gene detection workflows — enabling reproducible methodology descriptions and easier dataset comparison across studies.

🎉We are happy to announce that our wonderful GEvol SPP will be funded by @dfg.de for another 3 years. Included are 17 great projects all over Germany with amazing people. You want to be part of this fantastic community? Soon you can find new PhD/Post-Doc positions here & on our website. Stay tuned🎉

The DeNoFo format & toolkit for annotating, assessing and comparing the tools and tresholds used in studies of de novo evolved genes is out now in Bioinformatics! Great effort led by @drdomain.bsky.social and Anna Grandchamp!

academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations in Insects: Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution: Vol 344, No 7 The Journal of Experimental Zoology – B (JEZ-B): Molecular and Developmental Evolution covers the structure & evolution of animal & non-animal organisms.

📢 Check out our GEvol inspired Special Issue in JEZ-B:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15525015... 🚨

Saturating the eQTL map in Drosophila: Genome-wide patterns of cis and trans regulation of transcriptional variation in outbred populations Pallares et al. collect over a thousand RNA-seq and DNA samples from Drosophila melanogaster flies to investigate the genetic basis of gene expression variation. They find eQTLs for 98% of the genes a...

We have put together a comprehensive eQTL map for D. melanogaster using thousands of genetically diverse flies 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰 We hope this helps -as similar resources have done in yeast and humans- to understand how genetic variation 🧬 regulates complex traits variation 🪰 via transcriptional regulation ⬆️⬇️

Many thanks to all GEvol members for a truly wonderful annual meeting. It was really great to catch up with you all again.

Many thanks to Barbara Feldmeyer, Eckart @eckartstolle.bsky.social and Erich @bornberglab.bsky.social for organising and hosting our GEvol-inspired symposium @eseb2025.bsky.social 👏

We wrapped up the day with a nice dinner together — paella included! (2/2)

Lots of inspiring talks & posters at our GEvol symposium at #ESEB2025 yesterday!
Thanks to everyone who presented, especially our invited speakers @ahuylmans.bsky.social & @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social. From GEvol, Marie Lebherz, Elisa Israel and Barbara Feldmeyer gave talks about their work. (1/2)

Don't miss our symposium (S29: Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations) at @eseb2025.bsky.social tomorrow starting at 11. Hope to see many of you there!

A night full of fun, science and insects: We invite you to join our “Lange Nacht der Insekten” on Sept. 5th, 6pm until midnight, at LWL Museum of Natural History in Münster. Bring your family and friends and explore an ant farm, watch a science slam and visit the planetarium! Entrance is free.

@eseb2025.bsky.social We are looking forward to welcome four GEvol members presenting Tuesday 19.8. in S29 "Genomic Basis of evolutionary innovation": Invited Speaker @ahuylmans.bsky.social, Marie Lebherz @bornberglab.bsky.social, Elisa Israel (Prohaska Lab) and Barbara Feldmeyer @sgn.one. 🌞

Recently Evolved, Stage‐Specific Genes Are Enriched at Life‐Stage Transitions in Flies We discovered that 20%–30% of protein-coding genes in Drosophila melanogaster and Aedes aegypti are only expressed during specific stages of development. Surprisingly, many of these stage-specific ge...

🪰🚨 Check the new GEvol paper by our PhD students Andreas Remmel and Karl Kaether and PIs Peter Stadler und Steffen Lemke about stage-specific Genes at Life Stage Transitions in Flies: doi.org/10.1002/jez....

💻 The last days we had a really interesting workshop on "NEXT LEVEL SCIENCE USING AI ASSISTANTS!" by www.schillermertens.de. As excited as we are about the many possible applications of AI, it's also kind of scary👻.

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨

🔬 Ever wondered how new genes emerge from scratch? Meet DESwoMAN, a fully automated pipeline to detect and analyze newly expressed ORFs (neORFs) from transcriptome data — giving us a window into the earliest stages of de novo gene emergence!

(Thread 🧵👇)

ATAC‐seq in Emerging Model Organisms: Challenges and Strategies Principle of ATAC-seq (left), overview of arthropod species with published ATAC-seq data (middle), summary of experimental design (right).

You want to apply #ATACseq in your emerging model organism, but you don't know where to start? Is #ATACseq the best method for my research questions? Search no more! We got you covered with our new review: doi.org/10.1002/jez.... Excellent collaboration with @gevol.bsky.social

Gene and Genome Duplication in Spiders In chelicerates whole genome duplications (WGDs) were identified in distinct groups. While there is evidence that Xiphosurans/horseshoe crabs had three rounds of WGD and arachnopulmonates (e.g. spide...

🕷️NEW cool GEvol Paper by our Spider Group: "Gene and Genome Duplication in Spiders" by GEvol student Chetan Munegowda, @pechmannm.bsky.social, Nikola Pripic-Schäper and @nturetz.bsky.social
in JEZ-B.🕸️ doi.org/10.1002/jez....

De Novo Whole Genome Assemblies of Unusual Case‐Making Caddisflies (Trichoptera) Highlight Genomic Convergence in the Composition of the Major Silk Gene (h‐fibroin) The major silk gene, h-fibroin, was annotated in high-quality genomes of two unusual case-making Trichoptera. H-Fibroin of Limnocentropus insolitus shows a similar amino acid composition to other cas...

NEW PAPER by GEvol member Jacqueline Heckenhauer and her colleques from @sgn.one about Convergence in the Major Silk Gene in Caddisflies.
doi.org/10.1002/jez....

Multiomics Reveal Associations Between CpG Methylation, Histone Modifications and Transcription in a Species That has Lost DNMT3, the Colorado Potato Beetle Despite lacking DNMT3, EM-seq revealed CpG methylation in the Colorado potato beetle. CUT&Tag analysis showed an association of H3K36me3 and H3K27ac with transcription, with H3K36me3 mirroring CpG me....

Check out the brand new Gevol Paper about epigenetic in the Potato Beetle by our students Zoe from the Kurtz lab (Münster) and Elisa from the Prohaska group (Leipzig). doi.org/10.1002/jez....