Luisa F. Pallares

Last Friday, we wrapped up #EMBODrosophila 🪰

A big thank you to all the fantastic participants, trainers, speakers, and organisers who made this course a success ✨👩🏽‍🔬

See you soon at another EMBL Event 👉 www.embl.org/events/

👋 Greetings from Day 5 of #EMBODrosophila!

Today’s practical sessions have taken over the computer training lab, with participants hard at work behind their screens 🖥️🪰

📸 Can you spot yourself or your colleagues at the keyboard?

Our practical session, combining flight assays and data analyses, was wonderfully run by @junishigohoka.bsky.social & @yu-tao.bsky.social , postdoc and PhD student in my lab :)

Que alegría ir a hablar de ranas a la tierrita 💛💙❤️ Nos vemos en Santa Marta! 🐸🤩

🪰🧪 Day 4 of #EMBODrosophila and it’s time for some hands-on fun!

📸 Here’s a sneak peek at our brilliant participants isolating #Drosophila cells for single-cell analysis 🔬

The second day of #EMBODrosophila Genetics and Genomics course is coming to an end. Four more days in front of us, and let's be honest, we all can't wait for the evolutionary biology part of the course! 😉

🪰 Welcome to the EMBO Practical Course 'Drosophila genetics and genomics'! #EMBODrosophila

Participants will gain hands-on experience and insights from leading experts in the field – let the learning and collaboration begin! 🙌🏼

@embl.org @embo.org @justinmcrocker.bsky.social

Long-read detection of transposable element mobilization in the soma of hypomethylated Arabidopsis thaliana individuals - Genome Biology Background Because transposable elements (TEs) can cause heritable genetic changes, past work on TE mobility in Arabidopsis thaliana has mostly focused on new TE insertions in the germline of hypometh...

Paper led by @movillome.bsky.social on unbiased detection of (somatic) #TE insertions in #Arabidopsis with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads out after peer review. Thanks to academic editor Leandro Quadrana for shepherding it through the review process.
#plantscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...?

We are excited to announce the SMBE Fellows Program! ✍️

Designed to provide networking and mentorship opportunities to early-career researchers through scientific writing in evolutionary biology for @molbioevol.bsky.social and @genomebiolevol.bsky.social

📆 Aug. 31

🔗 smbe.org/smbe-fellows-program

Rant of the day: why are people still submitting manuscripts for review without line numbers? We all review papers, we all know that referring to line numbers makes easier to write the review. So, why do people keep doing this!?

UniVienna has a new look! www.univie.ac.at/en/

The renewed site now has pages dedicated to research & scicomm 🎉. Taking into account the needs of early career scholars, there is also a resource site for postdocs: postdocs.univie.ac.at

Looking fwd to further developing these pages with our team!

Vaccination to mitigate climate-driven disruptions to malaria control in Madagascar Extreme weather is common in high malaria burden areas and is likely to increase in severity owing to climate change–related severe weather events. Yet, data on infection rates after these events and ...

Out today in Science: Our work on tropical cyclones and malaria in Madagascar. Work inspired by many and done in collaboration with many www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Quedan tres semanas para aplicar al Taller Suraméricano de Biología Evolutiva en Uruguay (nov 23-29) Todos los gastos pagos para estudiantes, gracias a la financiación del @sse-evolution.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #CienciaCriolla Info aquí: sites.google.com/view/evosur2...

M O I L A B - Join us! Join us! Our lab is based at the University of California, Berkeley, embedded in the vibrant and multicultural San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by astonishing nature!

Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026

Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS!

Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us

This week @universitypress.cambridge.org has granted free access to all titles in the collection of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Grant Ramsey. There are many options to choose from! Happy reading! 📕👇 www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #philsci #HPbio #evosky #ISHPSSB2025

New paper from postdoc Tuc HM Nguyen!
Mitochondria have their own weird little genomes that evolve weirdly, all the while sharing a home with the buttoned-down conservative nuclear genome. Tuc used C. elegans to figure out what happens when genomes stop being polite and start getting real. 🧵

Following #smbe2025 from Tübigen! Thanks to everyone posting updates!

If you are at #SMBE2025, go and listen to why you should publish your work in a #societyjournal! 👇

And don’t forget to submit to @jevbio.bsky.social. ;)

CIG- UNIL

Become our colleague! Tenure-track Assistant Professor position at The Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. unil.ch/cig/en/home....
More details for how to apply are here:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

A Comprehensive Analysis of Atlantic Salmon Gonad and Pituitary Transcriptomes Identifies Novel Players in Sexual Maturation Background Sexual maturation is a key developmental process important for reproductive success. Understanding the molecular mechanisms behind variation in sexual maturation can provide insights into r...

Reproductive organs are known to have complex transcriptomes - but just how complex and how do male and female organs differ?

First PhD chapter of the talented Xindi Huang, including transcriptome assemblies, long non-coding RNAs, maturation regulators, and more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Whole-genome sequencing of 1,060 Brettanomyces bruxellensis isolates reveals significant phenotypic impact of acquired subgenomes in allopolyploids - Nature Communications The authors sequence and phenotype over 1,000 isolates of the yeast Brettanomyces bruxellensis, and show how allopolyploidization reshapes genome evolution and enhances phenotypic diversity, highlight...

The latest story from the @haploteam highlights the phenotypic impact of acquired subgenomes in allopolyploids, through the lens of 1,060 Brettanomyces bruxellensis genomes. Nice collaboration with @univbordeaux.bsky.social

@unistra.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our group’s first study on fire salamanders is out! 🟡⚫️🦎⚫️🟡 🧪🌍We report differences in predation rates between managed and non-managed forest areas, due mostly to increased 🐦 attacks in managed areas. Both types of areas differ mainly in 🌳 diversity and evenness (1/2) doi.org/10.1111/jzo....

Toward more sustainable research: reducing the environmental impact when working with Drosophila Abstract. The ever-increasing amounts of plastic waste and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide threaten our environment. Biomedical laboratories across the

Now proper out: doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Last chance to register for the Tübingen pre- #cogsci2025 workshop. Register by Jul 1st 👉 forms.gle/v6VtEE6UqYw5... to give a talk, present a poster, or just check out great science and a free lunch (generously provided by @ml4science.bsky.social). Accepted Cogsci paper *not required*. Pls. share 🙏

We are recruiting students who are thinking of applying to Biology PhD programs this fall to apply for the Stanford Biology Preview Program. Please spread the word!

All info on this SBME satellite meeting on 'Origin, Maintenance, and Evolution of Biological Noise' is here: pallareslab.github.io/bionoise2025.... The recorded talks will be available soon! #BioNoise

Thanks to all who came to Tübingen to discuss about Biological Noise, where does it come from, how does it evolve, and what role it plays in phenotypic diversity. We had great discussions despite the not so great weather! Special thanks to @official-smbe.bsky.social for funding it! #BioNoise

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.

📖 SMBE journals on Bluesky

Interested in learning the latest advances in evolutionary biology, genomics, and molecular biology? Follow the SMBE sister journals MBE and GBE here on Bluesky and get updates on new articles coming out.

MBE: @molbioevol.bsky.social
GBE: @genomebiolevol.bsky.social

The final session had talks by Gael Yvert (CNRS, Lyon), Nora Martin (CRG, Barcelona), and Uli Steiner (FU, Berlin) - they covered experimental evolution on mutators, non-deterministic genotype-phenotype maps, and cell division asymmetry.