Erin Chille, M.S. 🧬🪸🧪

Haha yeah it kinda looks like one!

Sargassum natans: Sargassum is a floating, fast-growing algae that constantly extracts CO2 from the atmosphere

🚨 Post-doctoral position alert! 🚨

The Bhattacharya Lab at Rutgers University is seeking a postdoc in the field of algal multi-omics and metabolic engineering 🌊 🦠 🧬

Ideal start by June. Applications will be reviewed as received. Please share widely :)

jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/269...

#evobio

An especially timely message for #coral conservation -particularly given the growing efforts with assisted reproduction and cryopreservation! Looking forward to giving this a read!

Table coral

Three-way hybridization of table corals in the Acropora hyacinthus group from the southern Great Barrier Reef results in parallel adaptive introgression. Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

#CoralSky #MarEvol #coral #popgen #consgen #genomics

Pseudogenes document protracted parallel regression of oral anatomy in myrmecophagous mammals Abstract. Adaptation to ant and/or termite consumption (myrmecophagy) in mammals constitutes a textbook example of convergent evolution, being independentl

Emerling, @freddelsuc.bsky.social et al. investigated candidate genes related to dentition, gustation, and mastication in nine convergent myrmecophagous mammalian lineages, finding that convergent evolution of myrmecophagy was a protracted process.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag009

#evobio #molbio

Genomic evolution across traits and across species: 🐟 #EvoDevo #Genomics #Evolution

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are calling for a more harmonious approach.

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. A feature in Nature describes how some researchers are calling for a more harmonious approach. #evosky 🧪

Preprint alert: We adopt a cheap & rapid WGS protocol for vertebrate sized genomes, and use it to sequence nearly 1K whitefish genomes to low/med coverage for lake-wide pop genomics of adults + larvae for species assignment, habitat use, decline & selection: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#PopGen

🪸🧬 Our take on what can multi-omics tell us about the coral bleaching problem:

TL;DR
1️⃣ Corals are more complex than they appear
2️⃣ One-size-fits-all solutions won’t work – place-based, population-specific approaches matter

Check it out👇
doi.org/10.1002/bies...

Nearly 9,000 baby corals are on the move from the Florida Aquarium to restoration institutes as part of a major effort to rebuild threatened reef ecosystems.

Learn more below.

#wmnf #floridanews #environment #coralrestoration #oceanconservation

Scientists rebuke Trump’s reported claim linking paracetamol to autism The global scientific community has pushed back on the claim that paracetamol during pregnancy is linked to autism, saying there is no relationship between the two.

Trump: "we found an answer to autism."

Reality: Nope!

We can't let the fearmongering, stigmatizing, guilt-placing lies win. 💪

‘No relationship’: Scientists push back on Trump’s reported claim linking paracetamol to autism www.euronews.com/health/2025/...

#ScienceMatters!

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Today’s #DailyCoralRead: Clay et al. show that modern Caribbean corals descend from fast-growing, stress-sensitive ancestors. With warming seas, communities may shift toward Eocene-like corals –slower-growing, longer-lived, and more stress-tolerant. 🌊🌡️
doi.org/10.1017/pab....

Due to the current funding climate, I’m crowdfunding the last of my PhD project, and 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩! 𝐌𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡, when I need to reach my $16k funding goal. I immensely appreciate your support!

𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: experiment.com/projects/rec...

View Hege Skryseth’s graphic link Hege SkrysethHege Skryseth • FollowingFollowing Executive Vice President at Equinor | Shaping the future of energy supplies and achieving carbon net zeroExecutive Vice President at Equinor | Shaping the future of energy supplies and achieving carbon net zero 2h • 2 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Recently I met with the Board of Equinor to present how technology is innovating the way we work and how it could solve hurdles we are facing. I started by showing this picture. Wells at the Troll field in the North Sea compares to the size of Bergen and Stavanger (here showing only Bergen). When Troll was discovered in 1979 there were no technology available to bring the gas to shore. There where issues to solve, like water depths to conquer, the Norwegian Trench to cross. And the thin layer of oil on top of the reservoir needed a solution. The result? Equinor and partners built the largest manmade object ever to be moved, developed horizontal drilling to penetrate the thin oil layers, and built an extensive network of pipelines and gas processing capability to provide reliable gas to Europe. The key to success has been development of technology, with record-long wells and advanced downhole equipment, together with a strong focus on standardisation and visualization of data. As Europe’s largest energy supplier, Equinor is aiming to maintain the production at the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) at today’s levels also in 2035, targeting 1.2 million barrels of oil equivalents per day. Yet here is our new reality: To maintain production on the NCS and meet global

Inadvertently, this is an incredible illustration of how

(a) the infrastructure required for fossil fuel extraction is bonkers and

(b) how we don't consider our oil and gas to be 'destroying nature' like wind turbines simply bc it's undersea

Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.

Coral restoration can drive rapid increases in reef accretion potential Scientific Reports - Coral restoration can drive rapid increases in reef accretion potential

🌊 Today's #DailyCoralRead shows coral outplanting can boost reef accretion & structural complexity - depending on the species! 🪸

This is great news for #biodiversity 🐠🦀 since complex reefs support fish & invertebrates.

#coralreefs #coralconservation

Highly and lowly domesticated endangered fish from a conservation hatchery diverge in their thermal physiology, transcriptome, and methylome Conservation hatcheries aim to produce fish for supplementation of wild populations, but hatchery environments may drive phenotypic divergence from wild fish. These diverged traits may have reduced fi...

Our collaborative study shows that hatchery domestication in Delta smelt elevates thermal tolerance but reduces plasticity, with transcriptome and methylome shifts influencing adaptation. Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Conservation of bilaterian genome structure is the exception, not the rule - Genome Biology Species from diverse animal lineages have conserved groups of orthologous genes together on the same chromosome for over half a billion years since the last common ancestor of bilaterians. Although no...

Delighted to share the peer-reviewed version of our study led by @tomlewin.bsky.social now out in Genome Biology @bmc.springernature.com! We analyzed 64 chromosome-level genomes across 15 animal phyla and found that extensive genome rearrangements are the norm in bilaterians.
doi.org/10.1186/s130...

GitHub - marctollis/macrogenetics: Fetching and alignment of population-level sampling for DNA genetic markers from NCBI Fetching and alignment of population-level sampling for DNA genetic markers from NCBI - marctollis/macrogenetics

For a project, we needed a tool that will batch download phylogeographic DNA samples (like mtDNA and nucDNA) for lots of species, which have just been sitting on NCBI since the PCR and Sanger-sequencing era (ca. 2003-2015) and can still be hella useful, so I wrote one. It aligns the sequences, too 👍

‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests Survey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg

‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests | Science | AAAS 🧪

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We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!

Check us out and come be our colleague!
sc.edu/study/colleg...

Deadline for applications is Oct 1

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

This press release shares our vision for developing rapid, field-ready diagnostics—similar to COVID-19 lateral-flow tests—to monitor coral health. These tools could help protect reefs by enabling earlier, easier detection of stress and disease. 🪸🧪

Thrilled to have our work featured by the Rutgers Office of Public Outreach and Communication! 🧪🪸 http://tiny.cc/ri3r001 #marinegenomics #coralreefs #conservation

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Small update: NSF source confirms that new funding opportunities at the agency are currently frozen, which is what the EO dictates (until a new review policy is implemented). Source is hopeful the freeze will be lifted in the coming days though.

Metaproteome analysis of short-term thermal stress in three sympatric coral species reveals divergent host responses. The accelerating loss of coral reefs worldwide due to anthropogenic climate change has led to a myriad of studies aimed at understanding the basis of coral resilience to support reef conservation. Her...

🪸🔥 New Preprint Alert! 🔥🪸

Our latest study dives into the proteomic and metabolomic responses of three corals under short-term thermal stress.💥 We uncover species-specific survival strategies!

Take a read at: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#CoralReefs #Conservation #MarineGenomics #Proteomics

The tables have turned: taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of the Acropora hyacinthus (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) complex Genomic data have revealed that traditional coral taxonomy based on skeletal morphology does not accurately reflect the true diversity of, or systematic relationships within, the order Scleractinia. Here, we apply an integrated taxonomic approach combining molecular analysis and morphological comparison of type material with specimens collected from across the Indo-Pacific to revise the taxonomy of a clade within the species-rich and ecologically dominant reef coral genus Acropora, which includes the species Acropora hyacinthus (Dana, 1846) and related species (termed the ‘hyacinthus species complex’). Using a collection of specimens comprising preserved tissues, field images and skeletal vouchers collected from 22 regions spanning the Indian and Pacific Oceans, we generated a phylogenomic reconstruction using targeted capture of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) and exons, combined with examination of morphological characters, to generate primary species hypotheses (PSHs) for the clade. We then tested PSHs by calling Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNPs) from the genomic dataset to provide additional lines of evidence to support the delineation of species within the clade and revise the taxonomy of the group. Our integrated approach recovered 16 lineages sufficiently delineated to be designated as distinct species. Based on comparison of our specimens to type material and geographical distributions, we remove nine species from synonymy: A. turbinata (Verrrill, 1864), A. surculosa (Dana, 1846), A. patella (Studer, 1878), A. flabelliformis (Milne-Edwards, 1860), A. conferta (Quelch, 1886), A pectinata (Brook, 1892), A. recumbens (Brook, 1892), A. sinensis (Brook, 1893) and A. bifurcata Nemenzo, 1971. We also describe five new species: A. harriottae sp. nov. from south-eastern Australia, A. tersa sp. nov. from eastern Australia and the Western Pacific, A. nyinggulu sp. nov. from the eastern Indian Ocean, Indo-Australian Archipelago and southern Japan, A. uogi sp. nov. from the western Pacific and A. kalindae sp. nov. from north-eastern Australia. Our data reveal that the species richness within this clade of Acropora is far greater than currently assumed due to both overlooked provincialism across the Indo-Pacific as well as lumping of distinct sympatric species based on superficial morphological similarity. Given the key ecological role tabular Acropora play on Indo-Pacific reefs our findings have significant implications for reef conservation and management, for example, A. harriottae sp. nov. is restricted to a small geographical region of south-eastern Australia and is therefore at comparatively high risk of extinction. ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6C42546C-9253-4639-9FF4-D8D80808D78C

Today's #DailyCoralRead by Rassmussen et al. shows us we can’t always trust our eyes 🙈

They revise the Acropora hyacinthus complex, revealing 5 new species once all thought to be A. hyacinthus! 🧪🪸

www.publish.csiro.au...

#coralreefs #marinegenomics