💡Online now - the Spotlight "Ancient enzyme diversification underpins octocoral chemical diversity" from @kdarragh.bsky.social.
#TerpeneSynthase #Diterpenes #BiosyntheticPathway #Octocorals #Evolution
Read it here 👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1mURq3S6Gf...
@cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social
22.01.2026 19:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I had a lot of fun writing this spotlight on a recent PNAS paper by @immo-burkhardt.bsky.social showing the diversification of terpene synthesis early in octocoral evolution - very cool study!!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mURq3S6Gf...
What a way to start the year!! Really enjoyed the usual friendly atmosphere at PopGroup and all the research shared. Many thanks to the organisers @popgroup2026.bsky.social
If anyone is interested in joining my group or coming to Sweden please get in touch 🧬❄️
Always inspiring to start the year at @popgroup2026.bsky.social !
If you were there and want to learn more about pangenomes, there’s still time to register for our meeting in Edinburgh in June, co-organised with @charlottewright.bsky.social & @joanameier.bsky.social royalsociety.org/science-even...
So excited to read this!!
12.12.2025 15:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#NSF funding is crucial for uncovering and developing new engineered solutions to our probleme based on plant and animal biology. #saveNSF www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
11.11.2025 17:44 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hi Folks !
Just a few more days to register for the POPGROUP meeting (deadline = this Monday 10/11/2025).
Join us in the beautiful city of #Lille just across the Channel for three exciting days of science and more !
www.hautsdefrancetourism.com/destinations...
--> populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk
My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
05.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 50 🔁 79 💬 3 📌 2
Three people dressed in Halloween costumes as a pupa, butterfly, and caterpillar
Darragh lab ready for Halloween! @zar-rebholz.bsky.social
31.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Just a few days left to apply to our TT position in Plant Physiology in the Dept. of Biology @UMassAmherst! Join a great group of plant scientists (and physiologists 😉) AND fall in love with small town New England! Please repost. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
29.10.2025 15:19 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 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 — 👍 37 🔁 41 💬 3 📌 2
If you are a plant biologist interested in collaborating on an evolutionary floral scent/plant volatile project please reach out!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Very happy to announce that the next POPGROUP meeting will take place in Lille on 7-9 January !
Follow @popgroup2026.bsky.social for all updates.
📢 Please share widely ! 📢
Exciting news!
The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris.
This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics.
More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk
See you there !
Buscando estudiantes para empezar en agosto de 2026. Estudiamos la evolución de las señales químicas de los insectos con biología evolutiva, ecología química, biología molecular, y estudios de comportamiento. Más información aquí: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm
11.09.2025 13:47 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Green butterfly sat on a flower.
I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm
11.09.2025 13:45 — 👍 49 🔁 54 💬 1 📌 2
EELS logo. Text: Evo English Language Support. SSE logo. Three illustrated eels poking their heads out of the sand.
Considering submitting to Evolution? The EELS program offers free, light-touch English language editing for prospective authors. Learn more: www.evolutionsociety.org/publications...
02.09.2025 14:36 — 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0@zar-rebholz.bsky.social
21.06.2025 14:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Come here me talk at #Evol2025 about butterfly chemical evolution today (Saturday) at 3pm in room Athens AB (Parallel Evolution I).
Stay for Zarley Rebholz on chemical convergence between plants and ladybirds!
Ah that's so exciting - congratulations!! 🎉
18.06.2025 19:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I am delighted to be starting as an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at the University of Florida in January 2026. The lab is broadly interested in the functional, developmental, and evolutionary genetics of cell types and organs across flies and beyond 🪰🧬
18.06.2025 18:26 — 👍 74 🔁 13 💬 18 📌 1
The @labschulz.bsky.social worked out how to make HNDB, a species-specific perfume compound of the orchid bee Euglossa dilemma - and here they are collecting their freshly synthesized compound of choice!!
Now published in Synlett:
www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejo...
#natprod
“This grant means freedom… I can take more risks.”
Join us in congratulating the 2025 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award recipients, @aiinglim.bsky.social, Pavitra Muralidhar & Kavita Rangan 👏
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What happens to floral scent when it is no longer needed? At the genetic level, are genes lost or down-regulated? Fun new open access paper in MBE! #evosky #PlantScience
25.02.2025 20:15 — 👍 44 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0Thank you so much, it was a lot of fun!
25.02.2025 19:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Graham!
25.02.2025 19:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0¡Nuevo estudio! Encontramos que las especies de caña agria polinizadas por colibríes han perdido en su mayoría su aroma floral. Me encanto trabajar en este proyecto y me alegra mucho verlo ya publicado en MolBiolEvol. El resumen en español se puede encontrar en "supplementary materials".
25.02.2025 18:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Flowers from two species of spiral ginger (Costus). On the left a bee-pollinated species, and on the right a hummingbird-pollinated species.
Convergent floral scent loss following transition to hummingbird pollination in spiral gingers (Costus).
I had so much fun on this project with @kathleenmkay.bsky.social and Santiago Ramirez and am thrilled to see it published now in @MolBioEvol! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
