Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance

Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance VI Global Invertebrate Genome Alliance VI, July 2026, Philippines

An official invitation letter to the GIGA IV Conference in the Philippines July 6-10, 2026 from GIGA President Carlos Prada is now up on our website. gigavi.org

Genome Biology and Evolution | February 2026 cover

The cover of February's issue of Genome Biology and Evolution features the work of Kosakyan et al. on the evolution of mitochondrial genomes in the Gastrotricha.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag001

#genome #evolution #mtDNA

Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance VI Global Invertebrate Genome Alliance VI, July 2026, Philippines

Early bird registration and abstract submission are now open for the GIGA VI Conference. Join us July 6-10 in Boracay, Philippines! gigavi.org

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We are raising funds to help support international students attend our next conference. If you are able to donate, any amount, is greatly appreciated. Details can be found here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hziez...

A holiday card from the Global Invertebrate Genomic Alliance. It says Wishing everyone a happy holiday season and hopeful new year. There is a picture of a wreath, a slug, a starfish, and a soft coral.

We are definitely planning to incorporate an optional dive trip into the Philippines conference!

Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance VI Global Invertebrate Genome Alliance VI, July 2026, Philippines

GIGA VI will be in the Philippines July 6-10, 2026. We have a pre-registration survey and a survey for interest about the Genome Assembly Workshop we will be running during the meeting. Sign up to receive updates about the conference: gigavi.org

The Lariviere lab at UMiami is recruiting PhD students! Incoming students will join us in studying host-microbe interactions in the honey bee gut, using molecular and genetic approaches. Please see the attached flyer for more details.

#Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky #PhDOpportunity #AcademicJobs

PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social

“Applications are Open for Xerces’ 2026 Student Research Awards”. Up close with an ambush bug as it hides in wait on a purple flower.

Spread the word: we are providing multiple $5k awards for grad & undergrad research on invertebrate conservation !! In addition to our continuing DeWind Award (for Lepidoptera research), we now have the 1st annual BanDrosky Award (for any invert in decline). Details in thread🧵 ⤵️

🚨🪲 COOL JOB ALERT 🪲🚨
3-year position at the Western Australian Museum working on an awesome beetle phylogenetics project, starting at $105k dollarydoos per annum: search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

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It's not too late to sign up for the online/hybrid portions of the Understanding Life: Using Largescale Biodiversity Reference Genomes conference Oct 27-29. coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/unders...

Three Armadillidium vulgare individuals

Our annotated chromosome(ish)-scale assembly of the genome of the terrestrial isopod Armadillidium vulgare, the common pillbug, is available on NCBI: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...

Work carried out at Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions (EBI) lab in Poitiers.

Chromosomal Genome of the Red Sea sponge, Diacarnus erythraeanus, Kelly-Borges & Vacelet, 1995, and its Associated Microbial Metagenomes Published A high quality whole chromosomal genome of the sponge Diacarnus erythraeanus and the metagenomes of its microbial associates have been published from the Photosymbiosis Hub, a component of the Well…

Here's a new sponge genome and the associated metagenomes!
lopez-lab.net/2025/08/30/c...

Pacific-based ascidian, Trididemnum clinides Kott, 1977, whole genome is now published Another Aquatic Symbiosis Genome (ASG) Project Genome Note has been published. This time on the chromosomal level whole genome sequence of the photosymbiotic ascidian, Trididemnum clinides Kott, 19…

Check out the recently published genome of the ascidian Trididemnum clinides: lopez-lab.net/2025/07/29/p...

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...

The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan - Nature Genomic, single-cell transcriptomic and epigenetic analyses show that chaetognaths, following extensive gene loss in the gnathiferan lineage, relied on newly evolved genes and lineage-specific tandem ...

Exciting genomic study on Chaetognaths (aka arrow worms)! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

We are so proud of our sea star wasting work that came out today. This interactive article is very complete and includes beautiful videos.
Unmasking the Sea Star Killer www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

Check out our new community funding proposal "Adopt an Invertebrate Genome with GIGA". The focus is to help scientists get funds for sequencing invertebrate genomes through crowdsourcing.

Details here if you are interested : www.gigacos.org/index.php/20...

#genome #omics #genomics #invertebrate

Phylogenomics of enigmatic crustacean y-larvae reveals multiple origins of parasitism in barnacles The deeper relationships of major thecostracan (barnacles sensu lato) groups remain contentious due to a lack of genome-scale data of enigmatic lineag…

This new paper on phylogenomics of crustacean y-larvae is super interesting! #crustacea #genome #invertebrate
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here's a first look at the genome for the giant barrel sponge, Xetospongia muta: wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...

#sponge #genome #invertebrates #marinebiology

Enter the absorbing world of sponges - Wellcome Sanger Institute Blog Enter the absorbing world of sponges, the intricate animals that have evolved to inhabit all corners of our Earth’s waterways and oceans. Thanks to a worldwide collaboration of sponge scientists throu...

Check out this excellent blog post about sponges and 50 recently published sponge genomes! sangerinstitute.blog/2025/07/03/e...

Best-practice guidance for Earth BioGenome Project sample collection and processing: progress and challenges in biodiverse reference genome creation Abstract. The Earth BioGenome Project has the extremely ambitious goal of generating, at scale, high-quality reference genomes across the entire Tree of Li

New pub on genome sample collection and processing: "Best-practice guidance for Earth BioGenome Project sample collection and processing: progress and challenges in biodiverse reference genome creation"
academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Population Genomics - Townsville, QLD, Australia James Cook University (JCU) is creating a brighter future for life in the Tropics and beyond, through education and research that makes a difference locally and globally.  We now have an opportunity a...

We @marine-omics.bsky.social are hiring. We're looking for a postdoc in population genomics. @janstrugnell.bsky.social careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

Friday Harbor Labs has a new marine genomics center! NSF supported facility that is ADA accessible. Great new place to access genomes right where you get the critters.

fhl.uw.edu/facilities-r...

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT!
For more information see here:
gahanlab.com
tinyurl.com/34xke35d

Upcoming World Sponge Conference in Portugal: worldspongecommunity.com

It’s heroic, hardy and less than a millimetre long: meet the 2025 invertebrate of the year | Patrick Barkham Guardian readers around the world voted in the this year’s contest, but which creature won, asks natural history writer Patrick Barkham

Congratulations to the tardigrades! Invertebrate of the year 2025! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...