Adaptive Evolution Lab

🌱 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!

Warm temperature perceived at the vegetative stage affects progeny seed germination in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana Temperatures perceived early in the life cycle of mother plants can affect the germination of the offspring seeds. In Arabidopsis thaliana, vernalisation-insensitive mutants showed altered germinati...

Plants have good memory!

Warm temperature perceived at the vegetative stage affects progeny seed germination in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana - New Phytologist

doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Amazed by the work done on C. elegans or S. cerevisae at #TAGC24. Why don’t we hear more about these illuminating systems in #Australia ´s research? #ARC should stop deterring it’s scientists from studying model organisms.

Details : Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Genomics (Multiple Opportunities) : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

Academic job in #genomics at beautiful melbourne
Come and play with us!

To all #chia seeds enthusiast: Tandem duplication of SAD gene clusters is the main hypothesis to explain high Omega-3 content. A reference #genome fresh from the press!
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Pop genomics greatly helps to fine-tune invasion risk prediction across environments for different source populations of ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Very proud of the work of Ganesh Nawkar & Martina Legris
with invaluable help from many others: Air channels create a directional light signal to regulate hypocotyl phototropism. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Feels good to be here! 😀