Sishuo Wang

Intergeneric chromosomal transfer in yeast results in improved phenotypes and widespread transcriptional responses - Nature Communications Transferring genetic materials between distantly related yeasts, presents technical challenges but can yield industrially interesting phenotypes. Here the authors establish a method to transfer indivi...

Happy to share a recent publication to which I contributed as a corr. author:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This work is in collaboration with Dr. Yao Yu at Fudan University, where the team managed to transfer S. cerevisiae chromosmes into K. marxianus, a species diverged from Sc ~114 mya. (1/4)

Tom Cavalier-Smith in Cornwall UK 23 August 2017, photo by Neal C-S

I am happy to share the unfinished but nevertheless fascinating autobiography of the late Thomas Cavalier-Smith, written in 2020, shortly before Tom passed away in 2021. I thank Ema Cavalier-Smith for sharing the text with me. I recently finished curating […]

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Coming to #evol2026 this summer? The SSB Early Career Travel Funds competition is now live! Apply by February 27 for this years’ Tri-Society meeting.

More info:

www.systbio.org/early-career...

meetings.embo.org/event/26-mic... Announcing the 2026 EMBO course in Computational and Experimental Microbiomics, to be held at Bath. The course brings together experiments and bioinformatics to study host-microbe interactions and co-evolution. Register now, or at least by 11 May, if interested :)

Only one week left to register to MCEB 2026 in Crete! mceb2026.sciencesconf.org

Benchmarking of software for Bayesian sampling of divergence times using genomes

We have a new Bayesian sampler of divergence times that is smoking fast! Benchmarking by the exceptional @lauramulvey.bsky.social

Systematic Biology’s January 2026 issue (75.1) is out! It launches our 75th anniversary series, debuts the new Invited Review article category, features a Tillandsia Spotlight, along with a nice mix of empirical & methods papers. Check it out: academic.oup.com/sysbio/issue...

@systbiol.bsky.social

SMBE2026 Symposium 6 | Synthetic and systems biology approaches to dissecting the molecular mechanisms of evolution

SMBE2026 Symposium 6 | Synthetic and systems biology approaches to dissecting the molecular mechanisms of evolution

📨 Abstract submission
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📋 Programme details
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#SMBE2026

If you’re conducting research in the relevant area and want to share your work, we’d love to hear from you! Get in touch if you're interested in presenting or learning more.

Abstract deadline: 19th January 2026!

#MicrobialSymbiosis #CSEE2026 #Symbiosis #Parasitism #Mutualism

how to do +ASC (Ascertainment bias correction) manually under JC69 This blog article will show you how to calculate the phylogenetic logL under a subs. model given +ASC in a (semi-)manual way. So, what is +ASC? As shown at it refers to An ascertainment bias correc…

what is +ASC (ascertainment bias correction) and how to do it manually under JC69 #phylo sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/h...

Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-Clock Models: Distinguishing between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates Abstract. In Bayesian molecular-clock dating of species divergences, rate models are used to construct the prior on the molecular evolutionary rates for br

Happy to share that my PhD paper published in Systematic Biology. My paper explores the #Asymptotictheory of Bayesian rate model selection and explore how misspecified calibrations can affect this. Also test rate model selection with large #Phylogenomes

Link below:
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Frustrated that MCMCtree does not have complex substitution models? The IQ-tree team has now developed IQ2MC, an interface for seamless integration of IQ-tree's substitution models with MCMCtree's fast Bayesian pipeline for clock dating. Read the preprint here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Computational Approaches to Early Evolution

Join us for interesting discussions at the Computational Approaches to Early Evolution workshop next year in April at OIST in Onna, Okinawa! 🦠💻🧬 Registrations open until January 2nd '26, do not miss it! More info & registration details in the link below! 🔽
www.oist.jp/conference/c...

New preprint out! Using ~75k environmental OTUs + 77 fossil calibrations, we reconstructed a Proterozoic timeline of eukaryote evolution. Our results show crown eukaryotes were already diversifying >1.6 Ga, long before the first undisputed fossils (~1.05 Ga).
🔗 DOI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

very glad to host the visit of
@bqminh.bsky.social to my dept at #cuhk, fantastic talk on recent #iqtree development and its appl. on viral #phylo ; also a great experience to interact with people from #hku haogao_gu and to enjoy the nice view of sai kung from the mountain ma on shan 馬鞍山.

Symposium “Efficient Computational Methods for Molecular Evolution in the Genomic Era” at AsiaEvo in Kunming With the great help of xiyun and yuttapong (co-organizers), it’s my great honor to host a very successful symposium “Efficient Computational Methods for Molecular Evolution in the Genom…

my great honor to host a successful symposium "efficient methods in #molevol" co-organized by xiyun and yuttapong, #asiaevo in kunming: 8 speakers from 4 continents, incl. 3 female scientists and researchers at diff. career stages with diverse backgrounds sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/s...

Permanent Research Group Leader Position, Crete, Greece: Interested to assume long-term responsibilities for the Biodiversity Computing Group www.biocomp.gr I have set up in Crete? Apply now via apella.minedu.gov.gr/en/node/5998 (PDF also in English) - for questions email to stamatak@ics.forth.gr

Hybrid seminar.
Inferring phylogenies for viruses: recent challenges and advances

Speaker: Prof. Bui Quang Minh
Time: Dec 15, 2025 11:00 AM Hong Kong SAR

Venue: Room 38069, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin

Zoom ID: 925 6769 4550 (Passcode: 902352)

Phylogenetic reconciliation supports a methanogenic ancestor of the Archaea and a derived origin for host-associated lineages The phylogeny of the Archaea continues to be revisited and revised as new groups are discovered and phylogenetic methods improve, but key questions about their early evolution remain. It has been sugg...

#Archaea, #DPANN, #phylogenetic_reconciliation
New preprint online!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SMBE2026 Symposium 12 | Reconstructing the deep Tree of Life: challenges and new approaches

SMBE2026 Symposium 12 | Reconstructing the deep Tree of Life: challenges and new approaches

📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts

📋 Programme details
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#SMBE2026

Abstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open!

Abstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open!

Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal.
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And symposium selection is now finalized!
👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme

#SMBE2026

#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!

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🤝 In 2024, the 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 from @official-smbe.bsky.social went to Drs. Rori Rohlfs and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for their podcast ScienceWise!

✨ We are happy to have contributed to their project!

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An interactive meeting budget calculator I created a simple meeting budget calculator for a workshop which we wished to hold next year. Unfortunately, probably it won’t happen. However, the lucky thing is that the online calculator …

An interactive meeting budget calculator sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/a... some may ask if it's with the help of ai that i developed this. no, it's the opposite.

Excited to share my new preprint developed with @matsen.bsky.social, in collaboration with Marius Brusselmans, Luiz Carvalho, @msuchard.bsky.social, and @guybaele.bsky.social, on the biological causes and impacts of tree space ruggedness in phylodynamic inference. 1/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The genomic basis of symbiotic integration at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The genomic basis of symbiotic integration at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

There's a PhD position now available with me in Bath, on the evolution of symbiosis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... The supervisory team also includes @anja1.bsky.social @phil-donoghue.bsky.social and others. NB, this is open both to UK-based students *and* to international students :)

Really, really happy that our work on microsporidian genomes is now out in @plosbiology.org! A huge thank you to my coauthors, my supervisors @mblaxter.bsky.social & @marakat.bsky.social, the editors @roliroberts.bsky.social & Joseph Heitman, and the reviewers ❤️ plos.io/48HsAQJ

Mesquite's two icons, one against a black background, and one against a sun on a sky blue background.

Mesquite 4.02 update released! It fixes a few bugs and adds Codon Alignment and various other improvements. Also, much faster with genomics files with 1000s of loci. www.mesquiteproject.org 🧪 #evolbio
@bembidion.bsky.social

From typhoon to horizontal gene transfer (HGT) This year, Hong Kong has undergone I guess at least eight typhoons, in additional to several tropical storms, which is not common. Today, the city witnessed its hopefully the last typhoon of the se…

From "typhoon" to horizontal gene transfer (HGT) sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/f...