Diyar H. (He/Him)

Diyar H. (He/Him)

@diyarhamidi.bsky.social

PhD candidate in Evolutionary Immunogenomics at the University of Hamburg M.Sc in Molecular Biology and Evolution Kiel University - MPI for Evolbio into Population genomics, Molecular evolution, Ancient DNA, and Primates 🦧🦕🖥️🧬

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2 weeks ago
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Dear all,
The deadline has been extended to 27 February!
We will host the 29th DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology!
Don’t miss this great opportunity to share your research, exchange ideas, and connect with other researchers in evolutionary biology.

Scan the QR for details👇

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3 weeks ago

Just a quick reminder that the abstract deadline is approaching for the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology 2026: Feb 20! 👈
We still have a few places left 🤗🌈

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1 month ago

👋 Hi #AcademicSky!

Together with @smbe-idea.bsky.social I’m organizing a symposium at #SMBE2026 (Copenhagen) 🇩🇰

🌈 Our mission is to 𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 & 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

📣 Call for abstracts 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡
⏰ Deadline: 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟯

✨ Hope to see you there! 😉

@official-smbe.bsky.social

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1 month ago

Deadline for #SMBE2026 abstract submission is coming up (Feb 3)!

Consider symposium S14 "Evolution of Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Genomic Age", organized by @jcwinternitz.bsky.social, @arcova.bsky.social, @michalvinkler.bsky.social and @diyarhamidi.bsky.social.

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Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961

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DZG Graduate Meeting 2026 DZG Graduate Meeting 2026

Join the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Hamburg, March 25-27, 2026. Theme: Interactions and Coevolution. PhD students & early postdocs can register. More info: https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/evolutionaere-immungenomik/dzg-meeting.html #conference

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Step back and think about this…it’s INCREDIBLE

We can sequence DNA from an extinct species that’s been dead for thousands of years. Not only that, we can sequence DNA from another extinct species that first extinct species ate as its last meal…to learn about population dynamics of the extinct prey.

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A fantastic meeting is coming 🥳

This year DZG Evo Bio Graduate meeting will be in Hamburg, chase the red queen 🍎 @dzg-evol.bsky.social

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Really grateful to the people in Hamburg for hosting the graduate meeting this year. Join them it will be great!

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2 months ago

This year, we are hosting and organizing the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology at Hamburg Uni with an exciting theme and amazing invited speakers!
For more information and registration, please visit our website:
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung...

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Same-sex sexual behaviour can help primates to survive — and reproduce Bonds between same-sex individuals help apes and monkeys to manage conflict and strengthen alliances, especially in dry habitats and predator-rich landscapes.

Same-sex sexual behaviour is part of the normal social life of some primates and could play an important part in their long-term success

go.nature.com/4qNGo1I

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2 months ago
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I participated in the amazing PopGroup @popgroup2026.bsky.social for the first time in Lille, and it was a great experience to present my work for the first time.
Many thanks to everyone who organized and participated.
I am already very excited for the next ones!

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SMBE2026 Symposium 14 | Evolution of host-pathogen interactions in the genomic age

SMBE2026 Symposium 14 | Evolution of host-pathogen interactions in the genomic age

📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts

📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme

#SMBE2026

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3 months ago

We are very excited to be organising this symposium at SMBE @official-smbe.bsky.social next year! We look forward to your abstracts and to being in Copenhagen!

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3 months ago
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Ancient DNA Analysis: Why Study ancient Disease? YouTube video by StoneLab

For a nice overview of what ancient DNA can tell us about pathogens (produced by undergraduate and graduate students in my lab!) see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOE...

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3 months ago
Depictions of evolution where a phylogeny often has humans on the far right or top can give an impression of evolution being progressive of leading to ‘increased complexity’ when it does not. Top figure shows such a phylogeny which can look the same as ‘the March of progress’ depiction most commonly used to depict evolution (showing monkey to man erroneous march of evolution) - instead swiveling some nodes on a phylogeny where humans are shown closer to the center (which doesn’t change relationships) can lead to better ‘tree thinking’

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social

On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

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6 months ago
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Çatalhöyük Animasyonu YouTube video by Hacettepe Üniversitesi

💀+🧬+🤖 = 🎬🔥
Makalemiz artık sadece okunmuyor, izleniyor! Kurgu değil, gerçek bilim 😍😎
Teşekkürler Hacettepe ❤️
@science.org
👇 Yapay zeka animasyonumuza acil bakın:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3_C...

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7 months ago
Bunte Regenbogen-Pride-Flagge weht vor Bürogebäude mit Glasfassade und grauen Wänden.

Es ist Pride Week in Hamburg! 🌈 Dieses Mal unter dem Motto: „Wir sind hier, um zu bleiben. Queere Menschen schützen.“ Und auch dieses Jahr heißt es wieder: #HamburgzeigtFlagge Wir sind dabei und haben vor dem Hauptgebäude und vor der Verwaltung im Mittelweg gehisst! 🏳️‍🌈

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8 months ago
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🌾 Agriculture didn’t always spread with mobility of people.
New ancient DNA research shows that in western Anatolia, while communities stayed put, farming and village life spread through the movement of ideas and practices.

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9 months ago

Detecting and quantifying rare sex in natural populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657731v1

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Structure and Evolution of the uqcrfs1 Gene in Western Palearctic Water Frogs (Genus Pelophylax) and Implications for Systematics of Eastern Mediterranean Species The Rieske protein, encoded by the nuclear uqcrfs1 gene, is an essential subunit of the cytochrome bc1 complex involved in electron transfer. Despite its vital function, studies on the structure and ....

An effective marker for water frog systematics, including complex systems and hybrids 🤔

“Structure and Evolution of the uqcrfs1 Gene in Western Palearctic Water Frogs (Genus Pelophylax) and Implications for Systematics of Eastern Mediterranean Species”

DOI: doi.org/10.1155/jzs/...

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9 months ago

Our paper (w/ @smishra677.bsky.social) is now out in Genetics!

academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

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9 months ago
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UKE-Forschungen zum mütterlichen Immunsystem und zu Nierenfiltern werden gestärkt

Stärkung für die Forschung am UKE: Die @dfg.de hat zwei neue Sonderforschungsbereiche zum mütterlichen Immunsystem und zu Nierenfiltern bewilligt. Diese werden in den kommenden vier Jahren mit insgesamt 29 Millionen Euro gefördert. Auch Forschende aus Lübeck, Berlin, Köln und Münster sind beteiligt.

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🚨 Don’t miss the 1st HAAM-radio symposium: "Ethics in Human DNA Research"
📅 May 29 (next week!)
🕒 LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm)
🎙️ With @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jenniferraff.bsky.social @marisolespitia.bsky.social & Tomás Gozález Zarzar
📝 Register by May 28
🔗 shorturl.at/1VScZ

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9 months ago

Genomic Insights into Derived Dwarfism and Exudivory in a Genus (Callithrix) of the World's Smallest Anthropoid Monkeys https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654637v1

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Marmosets are diverse in morphology and diet. We study these differences through an evolutionary lens and implications for marmoset conservation and husbandry. This work took 10 years thru major world events, moving across three continents, and driving all over Brazil. Check out the pre-print!

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11 months ago

This is a great opportunity to compare the headline they use to get you to click through to the actual substance of the article.

These aren't dire wolves. They're gene-edited "99.9% grey wolves." This isn't a scientific breakthrough, it's CRISPR editing with a marketing wing.

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11 months ago

We just succeeded in formally linking a specific rodent species - the otherwise charming fire-footed rope squirrel - to the onset of a mpox outbreak in a primate species - sooty mangabeys. Here Kai’s report on the preprint we released yesterday 1/2

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11 months ago
IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models

Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released!

(Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs)

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Complete sequencing of ape genomes - Nature Complete sequences of chromosomes telomere-to-telomere from chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan and siamang provide a comprehensive and valuable resource for future evol...

📢 new paper alert for the primate and genomics nerds. telomere to telomere ape genomes. I led MHC annotations on this work w/ @biotobi.bsky.social and @meyerbritta.bsky.social And hey it’s my first nature paper 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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