Martin Lercher

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Today we are announcing the launch of the Night Science Institute by our Founders Dr. | Night Science Institute Today we are announcing the launch of the Night Science Institute by our Founders Dr. Itai Yanai and Dr. Martin Lercher! The Institute champions a cultural shift in science by training researchers to...

Today we announced the launch of the Night Science Institute over on LinkedIn - check it out and why not send it to your friends? Follow us on LinkedIn or even better join the growing Night Science Community at www.night-science.org! www.linkedin.com/posts/night-...

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Ever heard a #scientist telling a #story like a Moth story slam? Well - look no further than the Making Waves event by @transom.bsky.social that took place a few weeks ago. It was incredibly fun and now you can watch or listen to the stories here: transom.org/2025/making-...

Scientific bedlam at the world’s weirdest and wildest research conference Woodstock Bio2 + Night Science aimed to encourage collaborations through creativity. The walk-on music for presentations was fun, too.

A cool article in Nature about Night Science at Woodstock Bio2 with @itaiyanai.bsky.social - check it out! Focused on #collaboration and #creativity in #science!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Key takeaways:
✅ Use Count or GLOOME with maximum parsimony for accurate HGT inference;
⚠️ Gene trees introduce noise;
📌 If donor info is needed, use ALE with high stringency.

#HGT #genomics #evolution

Genes transferred together often remain neighbors, so we use genomic data to test real-world accuracy.
Fig. 2 is key:
🔺 Implicit methods (GLOOME, Count) vastly outperform others.
🔻 Explicit methods relying on gene trees show fewer co-transferred neighbors, suggesting higher false-positive rates.

How can we best infer horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in prokaryotes?
Our new study finds a surprising winner: gene presence–absence patterns beat explicit phylogenetic approaches!
📄 Mishra & Lercher (2025), Mol Biol Evol
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb...

So excited to launch the Night Science Institute with @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @oliverbogler.bsky.social !

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!