Adaptive Evolution Lab

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At just 12 years old, Edmond Albius discovered hand-pollination of vanilla orchids making global vanilla cultivation possible.🌺

#BlackHistoryMonth #PlantReproduction

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

Why hasn't this paper gotten more attention?

Interested in plant phenotyping, hyperspectral imaging and ML-driven data analysis?
Then apply and join us.
@latrobeuni.bsky.social
#APPN
#hypetspectral
#plantphenotyping

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Photo of 9 slime mold sporangia that look like tiny, orange hot air balloons lined up in a somewhat disorderly row. The sporangia are on dark coloured, dead wood with bright green moss behind them.

Slime mold, Trichia decipiens in front of bright green #moss. NWT, Canada.
#myxomycete #fungifriends
The slime mold is about 0.5cm high.

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Naming my first variable $joe, and the next $jane…

It's this time of the year when we are happy to celebrate the new graduates from the AdaEvo lab! Congratulations to Dr Andhika R. Putra, Ana Krteska, MSc and Tiffany Gong, MSc!

A circadian transcriptional subnetwork and EARLY FLOWERING 3 control timing of senescence and grain nutrition in bread wheat Circadian clocks control daily and seasonal timing of physiology and development. Because of their influence on photoperiodic flowering, variants in circadian clock genes have been selected for ph...

I’m very pleased to share our latest work, led by the talented @cbuckley.bsky.social as part of his PhD. It’s our first attempt at studying #circadian rhythms in wheat with the help of some great collaborators @jesshyles.bsky.social @adaevo.bsky.social et al. #plantsci 🌾⏰ 1/7
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

🌱 Using ‘compelling’ methods, including #CryoET, researchers mapped spinach thylakoid membranes at single-molecule precision, revealing how photosynthetic complexes are organised and settling long-standing debates on chloroplast architecture.
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Homepage - Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference Visit our website to learn more.

Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!

Among the Academies: Studying How Plants Adapt How can plants adapt to their environment, and how will they be able to adapt to climate change? Those are among the biggest questions Johanna Schmitt has sought to answer during her career as a plant...

A nice profile of the wonderful Annie Schmitt

www.ucdavis.edu/news/among-a...

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Same here… I often ask to print the Arabic word for dick when error-catching… 🙈

Announcing myloasm, a new long-read (ONT R10/PacBio) metagenome assembler that I've been working on during my postdoc in the Heng Li lab (@lh3lh3.bsky.social).

myloasm-docs.github.io

How to deal with our own poison: How plant genomes regulate deleterious genetic elements? A seminar by Dr Taiko To (School of Life Science & Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo)

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To address the underrepresentation of women in our School’s genetics program and pursuant to a special measure under Section 12 (1) of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (VIC), this position is only open to female-identifying candidates.

Details : Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Genomics : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

The School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne is recruiting a female-identifying genomicist in a teaching and research academic role. Come and work with us!
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92007...

Australian Chief Plant Protection Officer Webinar: Biosecurity Commons | ARDC Learn about Biosecurity Commons - an open-access, cloud-based platform for modelling and analysing biosecurity risk and response.

Learn about @biosecuritycommons.bsky.social at a webinar hosted by Australia's Chief Plant Protection Officer, Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith!
📅 Tues 25 March, 2pm AEDT
✍ Add the event to your calendar via this link:
ardc.edu.au/event/austra...

#NCRISimpact #biosecurity

Please explain?

Details : Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Biotechnology : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

The School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne is recruiting a continuing academic (level B/C) in Biotechnology.
This is a research and teaching role.
Come join us!
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91875...

Thanks for voicing that, don’t keep quiet.

Trait genetic architecture and population structure determine model selection for genomic prediction in natural Arabidopsis thaliana populations Abstract. Genomic prediction applies to any agro- or ecologically relevant traits, with distinct ontologies and genetic architectures. Selecting the most a

📣 New Paper out!!! 📣
When is ML outperforming good old parametric regression for genomic predictions? Go check 👇

doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Cool in freezer first 😎

A lot of pangenome graph at #PAG32

While the per capita consumption of olive oil has remained steady (increasing with population), the consumption of kiwis or pistachios has seen its rise alongside population growth. Interestingly, increased fruit and vegetable consumption is often associated with economic improvement.

The genome of Citrus australasica reveals disease resistance and other species specific genes - BMC Plant Biology Background The finger lime (Citrus australasica), one of six Australian endemic citrus species shows a high natural phenotypic diversity and novel characteristics. The wide variation and unique…

📢 New publication 'The #genome of Citrus australasica reveals #disease resistance and other species specific genes' by Upuli Nakandala, Agnelo Furtado, Ardashir Kharabian Masouleh, Malcolm Smith, Darren Williams and Robert Henry in BMC Plant Biology.

Controlling the frequency dynamics of homing gene drives for intermediate outcomes Abstract. Gene drives have enormous potential for solving biological issues by forcing the spread of desired alleles through populations. However, to safeg

Gene drives can have non-trivial intermediate behaviours in a population. We better model it to get it right!
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Remembering Bob Hawke, honouring Landcare and sustainable agriculture Meet two farming families competing for the Bob Hawke Landcare Award.

To remind us all that the land is the fragile media that gives the purpose to all our science.

www.theland.com.au/story/883070...

Apollo bay?

Was nice to collaborate on this one, to predict the evolution of plasticity under a combination of cyclical (e.g. seasonal) and stochastic (random) fluctuations!