We discovered an endogenous retrovirus that's still spreading in natural D. melanogaster populations! It was horizontally transferred from D. erecta in Central Africa, so we named it "Kuruka", which means "jump" in Swahili. Read its cool story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Rapid emergence of non-autonomous elements may stop P-element invasions in the absence of a piRNA-based host defence
Author summary Transposable elements (TEs) are short, self-replicating DNA sequences found in nearly all genomes. While they can be harmful to their hosts, many organisms have evolved defence systems,...
Germline defence from TEs largely relies on piRNAs. Yet, @divyaselvaraju.bsky.social and I monitored a P-element invasion in Drosophila that was stopped by an internally deleted copy, no host intervention required!
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Many thanks to @rpianezza.bsky.social & @rokofler.bsky.social
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Evolutionary Biology. Adaptation Genomics. Transposable Elements. Drosophila. @IBB_Botanic @CSIC @Dros_EU @LCATMon #melanogasterCTF #ERCgrantee
Lab web: gonzalezlab.eu
Science outreach: www.melanogaster.eu
DrosEU: www.droseu.net
PhD student in marine symbiosis. Coral reef scientist. Microbial ecologist at University of Vienna, @dome-vienna.bsky.social. Dancer too!
PhD student at popgen vienna
PhD student @crg.eu Interested in #bioinformatics #genomics #generegulation #transposons #evolution #popgen
Fascinated by plant evolution and genomics. Moving gradually from transposable elements to plant resilience and climate change. Happy researcher at Agroscope, Switzerland.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6668-3321
Evolutionary geneticist, studying polygenic adaptation, Group leader at MPI for Evolutionary Biology, mum to a fun toddler, loves books & traveling
https://www.evolbio.mpg.de/3792274/Max-Planck-Research-Group-Evolution-of-polygenic-trai
PhD candidate @ popgen Vienna
working on polygenic adaptation using Drosophila as a system
art and science enthusiast
CAT/ESP/ENG
Evolutionary Biologist | Doctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
Lecturer in Statistics at the University of St Andrews. Interested in statistical/computational population genetics and phylogenetics. Math enthusiast. He/him. 🇵🇹🇱🇻🇬🇧 https://mrborges23.github.io/mypage/
PhD student decoding the secret lives of fruit flies—mostly staring, occasionally pretending I get it. PopGen Vienna
PhD candidate in Population Genetics.
Microbial ecologist.
Population genetics & transposable elements 🧬
The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional PhD program in evolutionary and population genetics in Vienna, Austria
Postdoctoral researcher at Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna. Transposable elements, bioinformatics, genome evolution
Head of the Crop Genome Dynamics Group at Agroscope, Switzerland.
Studying plant epigenetics and transposable elements and their use for crop breeding.
Views are my own.
#epigenetics #TransposableElements #breeding #crops #GMO #ClimateEmergency
Evolutionary Biologist at Stanford. Rapid Evolution, Adaptation, and Genomics. Open Science advocate.
Biologist
A little obsessed by aphid galls
Run a little lab @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
Moving to @stowersinstitute.bsky.social Feb 1, 2026
Provide unsolicited advice to improve your science (or any) talk at howtogiveatalk.com
Prof at Cornell, #firstgen, immigrant 🇫🇷🇺🇸. Transposons, viruses, and all the cool stuff genomes are made of. https://www.feschottelab.com
Assistant professor at NDSU. I love all things Drosophila & TEs & Gene regulation. Mostly bioinformatics but you'll find me with a pipette.
