An advertisement for the project Cryptc consequences of a selfish X chromosome. It shows chromosome mapping indicating many inversions, flies with eye colour phenotypes (wild-type brighter than selfish X), and sections of testes that show ordered (wild-type) or deformed structure (selfish X).
We have a funded NERC PhD studentship!
Selfish X chromosomes are these bizarre things where males carrying the selfish X suffer from imploding testes. Lots to do in this space, especially in evolutionary, stress, and infection biology.
Please share!
#PhDchat #AcademicSky @uniexecec.bsky.social
15.11.2025 15:01 β π 11 π 14 π¬ 2 π 0
One week left to apply for this position!
11.11.2025 14:31 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Ichetucknee Springs State Park, a short drive from Gainesville, FL
The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!
15.10.2025 20:42 β π 37 π 41 π¬ 3 π 2
Graphical abstract: The Drosophila OSC Genome as a resource for transposon and piRNA biology. The figure illustrates the workflow and key findings. Left: De novo genome assembly using Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) long reads and Hi-C data generates a phased assembly distinguishing unique (blue) and repetitive (orange) sequences. Dot plot comparison between OSC-r1.01 and dm6 reference genomes shows overall synteny with extensive structural variation. Middle: A freely accessible UCSC genome browser session displays multi-omics data tracks including gene models, transposon insertions, chromatin accessibility, transcription, small RNAs, and histone modifications. Right: New insights into flamenco piRNA cluster biology reveal >730 kb transcribed from a single promoter without major splicing. Tethering assays demonstrate long-range silencing effects across the locus, and genome browser tracks show coordinated regulation of piRNA production, transcription, and chromatin state. This resource enables comprehensive studies of transposon regulation and piRNA pathway function in a widely-used Drosophila cell line.
When transposons jump, genomes diverge - even in cultured cells.
I am happy to share our new preprint: a chromosome-scale genome assembly for Drosophila OSC cells, one of the key model systems in the piRNA field, especially for nuclear piRNA biology. π§¬π§΅ (1/12)
14.10.2025 20:34 β π 66 π 24 π¬ 3 π 4
Front cover of the European Butterfly Red List, showing Polyommatus humedasae. The report can be downloaded at https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=red-list-butterflies-2025
The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europeβs 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...
11.10.2025 09:17 β π 163 π 107 π¬ 3 π 5
Very proud of our paper on "scrambling-by-hopping" LADs, which was just published: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Congrats to Lise Dauban and the rest of the team β this was a real tour-de-force!
02.09.2025 17:26 β π 58 π 24 π¬ 0 π 0
attention πͺ°folks. many of you received a survey from @genetics-gsa.bsky.social about potential future sites of the US Fly meeting. We are excited for #Dros26 Chicago, but future sites are in question, for many logistical reasons. GSA is hard at work planning, but we need to hear from you. please RT!
06.08.2025 17:32 β π 11 π 14 π¬ 2 π 0
Huge congrats Ben, thatβs incredible news!!
19.06.2025 00:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.
03.06.2025 21:17 β π 83 π 115 π¬ 0 π 12
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
Get the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space.
2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026.
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
02.06.2025 16:08 β π 51 π 77 π¬ 2 π 3
Buzzing to see this published! Before selecting my PhD, I spent three months in the Flashman lab working on this project. Since then, this novel tool has been extensively and beautifully characterized - well done to all the authors!
09.05.2025 18:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join our team as a postdoc and explore the exciting world of transposable elements and developmental biology with us! @imbavienna.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social
06.04.2025 16:24 β π 38 π 41 π¬ 1 π 1
Gene Regulatory Networks Driving Male-Female Genital Co-evolution at Oxford Brookes University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Gene Regulatory Networks Driving Male-Female Genital Co-evolution at Oxford Brookes University, listed on FindAPhD.com
Join us to investigate the evolutionary-developmental basis of genital co-evolution between sexes! Strong candidates will have an interest in #EvoDevo & #SexualSelection
and Skills in #Drosophilagenetics, Transgenesis or Bioinformatics
DM for details.
tinyurl.com/yesyjyfd
02.04.2025 11:18 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Drosophila follicle showing retrotransposons (pink & yellow) expressed in somatic cells infecting the oocyte
1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. π§¬
But did you know they can also jump π£π¦π΅πΈπ¦π¦π― cells? π€―
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread π§΅π
17.03.2025 11:56 β π 545 π 259 π¬ 11 π 33
Heterochrony in orthodenticle expression is associated with ommatidial size variation between Drosophila species
Happy to share our Slow cooked work together with @mcgregorlab.bsky.social, @posnienlab.bsky.social , @nuneslab.bsky.social sky.social and Saad Arif and the collaboration of @maikekittelmann.bsky.social, Fernando Casares & @laurensr.bsky.social and many other friends
rdcu.be/d8whP
04.02.2025 17:50 β π 36 π 19 π¬ 2 π 2
A scorpion embryo to brighten your day.
Purple: Pax2A. Yellow: Pax2B. Blue: nuclei.
29.01.2025 03:28 β π 30 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.
17.12.2024 09:40 β π 19 π 32 π¬ 0 π 0
At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Masterβs programme in Evolutionary Genomics!
Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.
Please spread the word!
www.su.se/english/sear...
07.01.2025 16:44 β π 126 π 88 π¬ 0 π 4
Fantastic work!
21.12.2024 16:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Experimental horizontal transfer of phage-derived genes to Drosophila confers innate immunity to parasitoids
Metazoan parasites have played a major role in shaping innate immunity in animals. Insect hosts and parasitoid wasps are excellent models for illuminaβ¦
Excited to share the major work of my dissertation, out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We use Drosophila genetics to dissect the evolution of phage-derived toxins that were horizontally transferred to insects and now function as potent anti-parasitoid defenses (1/n): tinyurl.com/2k9ypyxr
20.12.2024 17:58 β π 145 π 64 π¬ 8 π 5
Love this preprint, beautiful work
18.12.2024 22:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge.
Join us in Cambridge! This evolutionary genomics professorship (lecturer/reader level) has an emphasis on introgression and gene flow. If you study any aspect of evolutionary genomics then please apply! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/
18.12.2024 16:34 β π 62 π 59 π¬ 1 π 1
Do you need to curate a Transposable Elements library for a new genome 𧬠or a new species ππ¦π¦? Try MCHelper.!
Very proud of my (small) contribution here. Gracias a @simonorozcoa.bsky.social y @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social!
genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...
13.12.2024 09:02 β π 7 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0
Automatically posts newly uploaded #Drosophila papers from Pubmed every hour.
Admin: @tkmkmym.bsky.social
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow & Postdoc with Andy Clark and Cedric Feschotte at Cornell | selfish genetic element, transposon, small RNA, evolution
peiweichen.com
Postdoc in the Cooper lab, MT
PhD in Drosophila genetics, currently interested in genome interactions and mechanisms of mitotic failure.
Drosophila, heterochromatin, Wolbachia, endosymbiosis, embryogenesis, chromosomes, Mitosis, Meiosis, histones
Wellcome Early Career Fellow, Jansen lab, University of Oxford | Christ Church, Oxford | All things (neo)centromeres and chromatin
Associate Prof @HarvardMed. Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements, algorithms, phages, molecular biotech, etc. Basic research is the engine of progress.
baymlab.hms.harvard.edu
Professionally playing with plasmids!
Postdoc-ing until someone here scouts me for a PI position ;)
Princeton EEB -> Harvard Medical School -> Soon ETH ZΓΌrich!
Associate Professor at the Univerisity of Bologna. Past Maynooth, Oxford, Caltech, Bristol, Leicester and URF Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/feudalab/home?authuser=0
Professor of Behavioural Ecology, University of Leeds, UK. The biology of sex and social environments, and Thermal Fertility Limits, mainly of fruit flies.
Evolutionary Biologist & Scientific Naturalist | Associate Professor | Director, E4 Initiative | @RiceUniversity #science #biology #evolution #speciation #entomology #biodiversity #genomics #discovery
Lab website: https://scottpegan.com
We explore how evolution, ecology and biological clocks interact,
with a focus on lunar rhythms in development and reproduction
of the marine insect Clunio.
+ Genomics | Biodiversity | Behaviour | NeuroBio | MolBio | SciCom
bit.ly/KaiserLab
We are a research lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. We develop and apply new genomics tools to study genome biology and gene regulation.
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow researching male-female postmating interactions and speciation at the University of St Andrews, UK . She/Her. Hobbies include knitting and trying to grow vegetables.
enthusiast of transposable elements, genetic conflicts, small RNAs, Drosophila, and funky germline biology
running a lab at IMBA, Vienna BioCenter
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/research/julius-brennecke
Postdoc at the Cardoso Moreira lab @Crick. Transposable Elements and data science enthusiast.
Associate Professor of Zoology @UniversityLeeds, Evolutionary Developmental Biologist. Interested in many things but mostly insects. Views are my own. She/Her. Was e_j_duncan on X.
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Nottingham - looking at the evolution of microRNA and its impact on phenotypes.
Postdoc - high-throughput experimental evolution - AMR @ University of Oxford
Postdoc at UPenn thinking about mutations, cells, and evolution.
Physics PhD student at Stanford working with Ben Good and Dmitri Petrov.
