Attending #EMBOevoChromo25 next week? Our Reviews Editor @ingridtsang.bsky.social will be attending - feel free to talk to her about the journal or @biologists.bsky.social activities!
03.12.2025 18:23 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
@amberridgway.bsky.social can tell you... Good luck!
01.12.2025 19:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Joint profiling of gene expression and chromatin accessibility in pancreatic lymph nodes and spleens in human type 1 diabetes
Joint chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic profiling of human and mouse pancreatic lymph nodes uncovers distinct features of CD4 T cells in T1D.
I am very excited to share our collaborative work on multiome profiling of gene expression and chromatin accessibility of more than 1 million immune cells in pancreatic lymph nodes and spleens in human type 1 diabetes in
@sciimmunology.bsky.social scim.ag/4o12TOZ
26.11.2025 18:55 β π 21 π 6 π¬ 3 π 1
SAVE THE DATE: the yearly NY Population Genetics meeting will be back on March 9 2026, generously hosted by the
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
14.11.2025 17:05 β π 52 π 39 π¬ 2 π 3
Check out this terrific thread by first author, @sungyalin.bsky.social, whose creativity, bravery, exactitude, and perseverance made this project a reality.
29.11.2025 12:56 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Wow - thank you, Peter!
28.11.2025 17:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
π doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
26.11.2025 16:21 β π 181 π 84 π¬ 8 π 8
Meng-Chao Yao Obituary | 1949 - 2025 | Seattle Times
View Meng-Chao Yao's complete obituary, share memories, and explore 1 tribute posts from the community.
Deeply saddened by the passing of my colleague, Prof. Meng-Chao Yao, a remarkable scientist and mentor. He left an indelible mark on all of us fortunate enough to know him. His legacy in molecular and ciliate biology will endure. Rest well, my friend. 1/
obituaries.seattletimes.com/obituary/men...
17.11.2025 23:24 β π 67 π 17 π¬ 1 π 1
I am looking to hire a postdoc interested in combining genetics and evolution to understand why telomeres vary so much in plants. My group has been developing Mimulus a genetic model for studying plant telomeres and we have really cool research brewing. Please check ad for detail. Deadline is 12/31.
16.11.2025 20:29 β π 38 π 37 π¬ 0 π 0
Our NY area population genetics meeting is back and "upgraded", as Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org generously agreed to host. Please save the date: March 9, 2026. Look forward to seeing many of you from NY and beyond.
14.11.2025 17:58 β π 24 π 15 π¬ 1 π 1
Insertion of an invading retrovirus regulates a novel color trait in swordtail fish
For over a century, evolutionary biologists have been motivated to understand the mechanisms through which organisms adapt to their environments. Coloration and pigmentation are remarkably variable wi...
I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up: shorturl.at/NE65A
12.11.2025 20:34 β π 185 π 69 π¬ 3 π 15
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
12.11.2025 04:49 β π 74 π 150 π¬ 1 π 2
Apply - Interfolio
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Come be our colleague! The University of Rochester is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in evolutionary genetics and genomics: apply.interfolio.com/173431.
29.10.2025 14:12 β π 10 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Molecular mechanisms of selfish elements and strategies
Certain genes, chromosomes, organelles, or entire sets of chromosomes can bias their transmission to the next generation, propagating themselves at the expense of the rest of the genome. Referred to β¦
(1/9) Join us in Bern, Switzerland (8β11 Feb 2026) for our EMBO Workshop on Molecular Mechanisms of Selfish Elements and Strategies!
Organized with Tanja Schwander, Laura Ross (@laurarossevo.bsky.social) and Axel Imhof.
meetings.embo.org/event/26-sel...
#EMBOselfishElements #EMBOevents
27.10.2025 17:37 β π 9 π 15 π¬ 1 π 0
Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito
Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. In this work, we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipie...
How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities?
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the βLondon Underground mosquitoβ β one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
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@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
25.10.2025 04:45 β π 247 π 100 π¬ 8 π 8
Yay, Cecile! So happy for you! Congratulations.
24.10.2025 16:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Antiviral reverse transcriptases reveal the evolutionary origin of telomerase
Defense-associated reverse transcriptases (DRTs) employ diverse and distinctive mechanisms of cDNA synthesis to protect bacteria against viral infection. However, much of DRT family diversity remains ...
1/10 Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from?
Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
17.10.2025 17:22 β π 220 π 103 π¬ 5 π 16
π¨ New paper alert on telomeres! π¨
Something different from the group! Thanks to Yuxin, a talented student in the lab, we used long-reads in 75 human trios to study telomeres and their inheritance.
09.10.2025 05:33 β π 32 π 13 π¬ 3 π 1
Ecstatic for you, Ish - big congrats! Excited for all the science to come.
09.10.2025 01:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Long-read sequencing reveals telomere inheritance patterns from human trios https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680721v1
07.10.2025 23:32 β π 8 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0
Check out this new Levine-Lampson collaboration, led by the talented Hyuk-Joon Jeon.
We explored the consequences of inheriting long telomeres from dad and short telomeres from mom. Or the reciprocal. Turns out, parent-of-origin matters (in mice, at least).
authors.elsevier.com/c/1loW-3QW8S...
04.10.2025 16:40 β π 49 π 20 π¬ 3 π 3
Registration deadline for @embo.org workshop EvoChromo extended until September 30.
meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...
14.09.2025 17:00 β π 12 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0
Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
24.09.2025 15:12 β π 225 π 106 π¬ 4 π 10
Penn postdoc in biology | microbes, ecology, evolution | from Taiwan
Postdoc in the Berger Group at the Gregor Mendel Institute - Vienna BioCenter @gmivienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social | MSCA Fellow | Interest in evolutionary biology and currently studying chromatin
Brandeis Biology, Asst Prof,epigenetic inheritance,protein QC, learning to cope with uncertainty, hoping good coffee helps, thinking about poetry and those who do not have the permission to narrate.he/him http://www.ragunathanlab.org
We work on nuclear organization and silent chromatin using the powerful fission yeast model.
Independent Group Leader at the MPI-IE passionate about mechanisms governing embryonic development with a focus on transposable elements𧬠Postdoc @MundlosLab π©πͺ| PhD from @Bourchis lab π«π·| She/her
https://www.julianeglaserlab.com/
C4 grasses, hydraulics, single cell, plant physiology, anatomy and everything in between
π PhD candidate Gregory & Helliker lab, University of Pennsylvania,
Visiting PhD students πUBC Canada
McLure II Professor
PennLINC | University of Pennsylvania
www.pennlinc.io
neurodevelopment, neuroimaging, neuroinformatics, & mental health
Transposons, Transcription, piRNA, Drosophila
PhD Student in the Brennecke lab at IMBA
Evolutionary cell biology, chromosomes, yeasts, and occasional SciArtπ§¬π§ͺπ¨. Postdoctoral fellow at the labs of Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Gavin Sherlock (Stanford University).
The Sorek Lab
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/molgen/Sorek/
Assistant Professor of Pathobiology at the University of Pennsylvania. We use trees to study RNA virus evolution and transmission, with a focus on avian influenza. viruses, sequencing, phylogenetics, pop gen. She/her
https://lmoncla.github.io/monclalab/
Postdoc in the Brennecke lab @IMBA, Vienna | Alumni: PhD @igbmc @unistra | enthusiast of transcription, chromatin, germline/early development, and transposon biology
Fascinated about the molecular mechanisms of evolutionary arms races and fast evolving sequences.
Hobby enthusiasts of non-model organisms.
Plant genetics and epigenetics @ University of Cambridge, Department of Plant Sciences
Postdoc at the Brennecke lab - studying the twilight zone between transposons and endogenous retroviruses // Scientist, mom, bioart enthusiast
Molecular bio(techno)logist/adventurer. Fascinated by the molecular gears that underly life and evolution βοΈπ§¬π©βπ¬
Views are my own
Trying to understand how mosquito genomes and brains have evolved to help them exploit humans.
http://mcbridelab.princeton.edu
Evolution of social complexity & evolutionary genetics of social insects. Assoc Prof at Arizona State University
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern studying the evolutionary diversification of cytoskeletal proteins
News from the Sternberg lab at Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Posts are from lab members and not Samuel Sternberg unless signed SHS. Posts represent personal views only.
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