Tyler Kent

Excited to finally have the pre-print up for this work on evolutionary rescue from my PhD at UBC!

Previous theoretical work on the effects of negative density-dependent growth on evolutionary rescue has uncovered inconsistent results, leading to an incomplete understanding of its influence.

This began as a @jgi.doe.gov Community Science Program (CSP) project in 2017 with the goal of uniting the diverse sorghum breeding and mapping populations in the framework of a 'pangenome'.

Thanks to a huge efforts across many stakeholders, the article was preprinted today. A 🧵 w/ what we found:

Assistant Professor of Biology The Biology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in conservation ecology. Initial appointment to this po...

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs

jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

Recruitment, rewiring and deep conservation in flowering plant gene regulation - Nature Plants A highly scalable approach is used to generate 3,000 genome-wide maps of transcription factor binding in ten flowering plants, along with multi-species single-nucleus RNA-seq atlases. Together, the re...

"We found that TF orthologues from distant species retain
nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread."

From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

The evolution of suppressed recombination between sex chromosomes and the lengths of evolutionary strata Abstract. The idea that sex-differences in selection drive the evolution of suppressed recombination between sex chromosomes is well-developed in populatio

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My talk from this year's probgen is finally out.

Where do linear mixed models and random effects come from?

They emerge from *mutations* on Ancestral Recombination Graphs.

It craves repeats. It must grow.

and now I can't look away from the putative centromere

hadn't seen this

A network perspective on the evolution of hybrid incompatibilities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.663985v1

hold strong mark

Sloan Lab Welcome! Our research focuses on the evolutionary process at the molecular level. In particular, we investigate how a mixture of natural selection and non-adaptive forces create and maintain the amazi...

Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website.

sites.google.com/site/danielb...

Staff scientist position (computational):

I am looking for a computational scientist to join my genomics lab at Stanford. They should have an outstanding skillset in ML/statistical methods for genomic applications, postdoc experience and a strong publication record.
#sciencejobs

Excellent work out from postdoc Remi Ketchum in @samurscicop.bsky.social's lab 👊🔥🦟

Expression Divergence in Response to Sex-biased Selection Abstract. It remains debated whether greater degrees of sexual dimorphism would evolve if not for intersexual genetic constraints. Here, we used experiment

Out now in @molbioevol.bsky.social with Michelle Liu (co-first), Ryan Frost, Matthew Lindsay, Malak Bayoumi, Martin Brengdahl, @ruxmolnar.bsky.social and @aneil-agrawal.bsky.social, we evolved ~40% of the D. melanogaster genome under male-limited inheritance, ...

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The evolution of tandem repeat sequences under partial selfing and different modes of selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.04.663195v1

The evolution of sex-specific gene expression in polygenic traits Abstract. Selection often favours different phenotypes in males and females, driving the evolution of sex-specific genetic architectures that facilitate se

The evolution of sex-specific gene expression in polygenic traits

@ewanflintham.bsky.social

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Relaxed Purifying Selection is Associated with an Accumulation of Transposable Elements in Flies Abstract. Although the mechanisms driving genome size evolution are not yet fully understood, one potentially important factor is the dynamics of the accum

Relaxed Purifying Selection is Associated with an Accumulation of Transposable Elements in Flies

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Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Christopher Condon et al.

Study of Statue of a Young Satyr Wearing a Theater Mask of Silenos, at the Chicago Art Institute

Male waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus) displaying the compact, dense inflorescence structure characteristic of staminate plants. The reddish-purple flower spikes contain numerous small flowers, each bearing the yellow anthers that produce pollen in this dioecious species. Image credit: Julia Kreiner.

Waterhemp has recently evolved separate M & F sexes from a monoecious ancestor. @jmkreiner.bsky.social @stepheniwright.bsky.social &co reveal surprising #chromosomal complexity associated with this transition, challenging assumptions of how separate #sexes evolve @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/46sTg6u

📣📣📣 So pleased to see @vdbijl.bsky.social's stunning analysis of the inheritance and genetics of guppy color diversity out today @natecoevo.nature.com! Deep learning reveals the complex genetic architecture of male guppy colouration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GitHub - jaeyoungchoilab/Topsicle: Topsicle utilizes abundance of telomere pattern k-mers to estimate telomere length in long read. Topsicle utilizes abundance of telomere pattern k-mers to estimate telomere length in long read. - jaeyoungchoilab/Topsicle

I'd like to share a new method my grad student Linh and I have been developing called Topsicle. Do you have long read sequencing data and wondered what the telomere length of your organism is? If you're wondering then Topsicle is the tool for you!
github.com/jaeyoungchoi...

Very pleased to see this officially out - Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals. With @siluwang.bsky.social, @dortizba.bsky.social and Loren Rieseberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The winner of the SMBE Mid-Career Excellence Award is Amanda Larracuente (University of Rochester).

⭐ 2025 Winners: members.smbe.org/news/Details...

📄 Information on the Faculty Awards: www.smbe.org/faculty-awards

Evolution of Functional Genomic Diversity During a Bottleneck Abstract. Most species have been through population bottlenecks and range expansions, and the impact of these events on patterns of diversity has been well

Schlichta, Peischl & Excoffier reveal how purifying selection on deleterious mutations impacts diversity: while codominant variants create diversity dips, recessive mutations can preserve diversity in bottlenecks through pseudo-overdominance.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf107

#genome #evolution

Crossover patterning through condensation and coarsening of pro-crossover factors Nature Cell Biology - Zhang et al. provide evidence that, during meiosis, recombination proteins assemble into active droplets, the coarsening of which partially explains the phenomenon of...

Very happy (and frankly relieved) to see this paper finally out in peer-reviewed form. (Preprint was posted in August 2021, but this is the world we live in now). rdcu.be/erMk6

Interested in the evolution of molecular interactions ? We are recruiting a new PhD student with a background in proteomics to study the diversification of the receptor-ligand interaction controlling plant self-incompatibility.
--> details here : initiative-excellence.univ-lille.fr/fileadmin/us...

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 🪰🧬