Marcus Hicks

Mass-Scale Genome Sequencing Will Change Our Understanding of Life The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence 1.8 million species. It's one of the most ambitious science projects ever, and it will revolutionize biology

Whole Genome Sequencing Will Transform Our Understanding of Life. The Earth BioGenome Project is using cutting-edge tech like long-read sequencing to map the DNA of 1.8 million organisms. Researchers anticipate major discoveries in evolution and medicine.

A fluorescent microscopy image of a developing scale

I'm looking for a postdoc to join the lab as part of @leverhulme.ac.uk funded interdisciplinary team working on butterfly scale structure development jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

Great to be involved in this exciting endeavour !! @projectpsyche.bsky.social

Very happy to present my research at @eseb2025.bsky.social yesterday! It was an incredibly engaging experience, with great discussions during the poster session and thoughtful conversations afterwards. Grateful for the interest and feedback! @eseb.bsky.social

Me presenting at European conference

Me presenting at European conference

Very happy to have had the opportunity to share my research @eseb2025.bsky.social yesterday - a great turnout and some great discussion afterwards! #eseb2025

Just touched down in Barcelona for @eseb2025.bsky.social ! Excited to present about reproduction (or a lack thereof) in Neotropical butterflies!
Come and see my talk here: Tuesday 4pm in Room 131: S51-09 😎

First field trip of the #WG2 has come to an end! We will share some of the most relevant moments of this fantastic week! Stay tuned 🦋🧬

Academic poster alongside academic presenter

Another week another poster! Pleasure to present at the QMUL Postgraduate Research Symposium

Poster presentation about drop in coding sessions

Great to take my first foray into Pedagogy at the Festival of Education yesterday - lots of very inspiring scholars and teachers !!

Looking forward to giving a presentation about the evolution and mechanisms of reproductive plasticity in tropical butterflies at the ESEB congress this summer! Excited to hear about other implications of climate change on reproduction in the same symposium
@eseb2025.bsky.social

👩🏾‍💻 It’s finally here! 👩🏾‍💻

We’re excited to announce the launch of our official website for Cost Action 10kLepGenomes: www.10klepgenomes.eu 🦋

We invite you to explore and stay updated with our progress in Lepidoptera genomics! 🧬

#10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #Genomics

Lund University Library amongst a clear blue sky

Brilliant time at the @projectpsyche.bsky.social spring meeting in Lund this week - lovely conversations and an even lovelier library

Would be great to be on there! Cheers

I had the privilege of sharing my work with some of the world's leading lepidopterists today - many thanks to @gmkov.bsky.social and co for hosting Lepinars year round!

Tempo and mode of winter diapause evolution in butterflies Abstract. Quantifying the tempo and mode via modern phylogenetic comparative methods can provide key insights into how selection and constraints shape trai

Tempo and mode of winter diapause evolution in butterflies
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @EvolLetters by Sridhar Halali, Etka Yapar, Christopher W Wheat, Niklas Wahlberg, Karl Gotthard, Nicolas Chazot, Sören Nylin, and Philipp Lehmann

Well-attended departmental seminar

Another busy edition of our departmental EED (EcoEvoDevo) meetings, with special thanks to @katieemelianova.bsky.social for a great talk about TEs and radiations!

PhD Opportunity in the wonderful Oostra lab at QMUL!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

If you know anyone interested, or know anyone working in China (PRC), please send this forward!

Deadline is 29 Jan

I have done successful pacbio extractions from samples stored in RNAlater and kept frozen (as best as possible) before/after flight - all the way from Peru. No problems with latam airlines, but RNAlater is also pretty expensive!