New paper from the Rosin lab in collaboration with the Hawley lab 🎉 Spearheaded by postdoc Leif Benner. We use imaging and RNA-seq to better understand apyrene meiosis.
Programmed meiotic errors facilitate dichotomous sperm production in the silkworm, Bombyx mori.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.
Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
So excited to share this preprint from the Rosin lab in collaboration with the Hawley lab and @eelcotromer.bsky.social on moth spermatogenesis! We investigate the meiotic errors that occur during the formation of apyrene sperm (that have no DNA) in silkworms!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!
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The aim of this proposal is to place population genomic insights into a comparative framework to gain fundamental insights into the determinants of evolutionary outcomes. The project will work within LepEU, the European Lepidopteran Population Genomics Consortium (https://lepeu.github.io/). LepEU provides access to field samples from European populations of diverse species. Chromosome-scale reference genomes are provided by Project Psyche (https://www.projectpsyche.org/). Networking during the postdoc will be facilitated by participation in the 10kLepGenomes COST Action (https://10klepgenomes.eu/). Existing datasets await analysis, while additional samples need DNA extraction and submission for sequencing. Functional validation capability (CRISPR/Cas9 gene manipulations) is also available to test emergent hypotheses of allele-to-phenotype impacts. Personal research interests of the postdoc will be important to determine the exact project, as the project has a generous sequencing budget.
The successful applicant should have a PhD (obtained within 6 years of the application deadline) in a suitable subject area, such as evolutionary biology or population genomics. A strong interest in population genomics, local adaptation, comparative analyses, and experience working with genomic-scale data is essential. The candidate must have a documented publication record demonstrating relevant skills. Experience working with bioinformatic pipelines (e.g., Snakemake), or working with butterflies is welcome but not essential. The net salary is 28,000 SEK/month (~2,430 Euro, not subject to Swedish income tax) and comes directly from the Carl-Trygger Foundation stipend, which is paid out directly to the postdoc. Only PhD candidates acquired outside of the host department can apply. Currently, the lab of Prof. Wheat consists of 3 postdoctoral researchers, while the Dept. of Zoology provides a vibrant and excellent research environment of active, dynamic researchers. Applications should include: i) a succinct description of research interests and experience, detailing your contribution to any relevant publications (max 1 page), ii) why you are the ideal candidate for this position in the lab (max 1 page); iii) a CV including a list of publications, and iv) the name and contact information of two personal references. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with a deadline of 23 August 2025. The project is planned to start on 1 October, but flexibility in the starting date can be provided for a suitable candidate. Please contact Prof. Wheat for additional information.
🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies
2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ.
Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct.
Details:
christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com
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We're hiring an entomology collections manager @nhm.org ! I have nothing to do with the search, but happy to answer questions about the museum & LA!
🧪🦋🐝🐞🐜🦗🪰🪲🪳🕷️
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@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social Corbin Jones, & I give huge thanks to Frank McNally, Christoph Haag, Andy Kern, Bengt Hansson, @takashiakeralab.bsky.social & @scienceleah.bsky.social for being guests in our #Meiosis, Recombination, & Evolution of Sex class at UNC. A pic from our final session w/ students
25.04.2025 19:45 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
Happy to share a new preprint from my lab! We characterize the on/off kinetics, light dosage-dependence, and more for a suite of optogenetic signaling activators in zebrafish embryos 💡 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
21.04.2025 13:47 — 👍 105 🔁 36 💬 9 📌 4
I’m excited to share a new preprint from some of my work in the lab of @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social ! 😄
We dived into young KZFP gene clusters in different mouse strains and species to uncover mechanisms that facilitated their evolution and diversification in mice
Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class @uncchapelhill.bsky.social loved talking w/ @scienceleah.bsky.social about her lab's @plos.org Genetics paper on a unique chromosome segregation mechanism in holocentric moths. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
11.04.2025 19:31 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Image of three covers of Journal of Cell Science
Did you know…
It’s free to publish in Journal of Cell Science – there are no submission charges, page charges or colour fees. We also plant a tree for every peer-reviewed article we publish🌳
For details, visit our website:
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New preprint drop! Check out work from @jimmy-ly.bsky.social et al for how protein isoforms generated by alternate translation initiation create dual localization, contribute to mitochondrial function, and are mutated in disease. "Blue-tutorial" thread below.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We are all so upset about this, Needhi. 😓
26.03.2025 02:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
She should apply to the NIH postbac program! We can’t bring new trainees in at the moment but I’m hoping that changes by the summer 🤞
www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨
🐜 How did ants evolve their highly specialized queens and workers?
With @adriatica.bsky.social, we reveal a key evolutionary innovation: adult control over larval feeding unlocked extreme caste dimorphism and complex societies. 🧵👇
🔗 Read in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
First mouse paper out from Elissa Lei’s lab! Congrats Dahong and all authors 🐭🐁🧬👀
“CTCF regulates global chromatin accessibility and transcription during rod photoreceptor development”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Check out our super cool paper on aneuploidy in cells lacking Bub3. Congratulations to fantastic student Pallavi Gadgil and alum Olivia Ballew. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
21.02.2025 18:41 — 👍 39 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 4
I am thrilled to share our new review on holocentric chromosomes. It was a lot of fun to write it together with Ines Drinnenberg!
Same but different: Centromere regulations in holocentric insects and plants doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
This is so cool!!
Congrats @roneilllab.bsky.social and team! 🦀🧬
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Do you love meiosis? Have a cool story to share? Join us for the XVth British Meiosis Meeting 26-27 of March in Liverpool! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You only have till Sunday to submit an abstract for a talk! ECRs are prioritised for speaking slots so the odds are in your favour 😁 #meiosis4eva
19.02.2025 11:30 — 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0Almost 200 people signed up already - add your name soon before we have to stop registration for this once in a life time conference! docs.google.com/forms/d/1dm8...
09.02.2025 15:40 — 👍 29 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1I just heard the news that R Scott Hawley, meiosis enthusiast and founding Dean of the Grad School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, passed away today. Such a loss for the science and education community. I will miss our zooms and his deep, deep wisdom
31.01.2025 18:50 — 👍 103 🔁 14 💬 10 📌 4
Feeling very lost today with the news of the passing of my undergrad advisor Scott Hawley. He had a huge impact on the field and on me personally. He was the first person to see me as a scientist and gave me the confidence to apply to grad school. I am so grateful to be a part of his legacy.
31.01.2025 16:36 — 👍 153 🔁 14 💬 17 📌 3
Sadly, our colleague and friend Scott Hawley passed away this morning. He was an irreplaceable presence and force for good in the meiosis an Drosophila communities and will be sorely missed.
31.01.2025 15:45 — 👍 125 🔁 44 💬 27 📌 13Scientists of Bluesky - qPCR machine recs?
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A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water
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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A multi-colored UMAP projection on a white background of single-cell transcriptomes, colored by major tissues.
Our #SpotlightZebrafish this week is on Dr. Abhinav Sur, a #postdoc w/ Dr. Jeff Farrell @ NICHD. His research uses single-cell transcriptomes to identify & map distinct populations across 62 stages of zebrafish embryogenesis & early larval development. (1/3)
25.09.2023 15:05 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Our paper on a centromere-enriched retroelement is out! link.springer.com/article/10.1... Congratulations to all the authors! Comments and reposts welcome and appreciated 🧬🔬
18.11.2024 17:50 — 👍 80 🔁 45 💬 4 📌 1
2024 Mid-Atlantic Meiosis Mini-Symposium!! 🐭🪱🪰🧬🦠Co-organized with @scienceleah.bsky.social and @florpratto.bsky.social at NIH. Amazing talks from trainees and new PIs🎉 #meiosis4eva
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