@wgdip.bsky.social
Reappraising the role of whole genome duplication and rediploidisation in eukaryotic evolution. Funded by BBSRC Strategic Longer and Larger scheme. Check out our website for information about the project, team and more! https://www.rediploidisation.org/
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#WGDip hosted @andrewhmlloyd.bsky.social (U. of Aberystwyth), who discussed the evolution of meiotic stability after polyploidisation. Many cellular processes must coordinate so that each cell receives the proper chromosomes during division. Populations can evolve to get better at this over time!
03.12.2025 09:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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WGDip project lead Dan Macqueen joined the #EuroFaang Research Infrastructure final conference (eurofaang.eu). He introduced #WGDip, explaining the importance of rediploidization in salmonids (and across the tree of life), and reflected on current opportunities and barriers in comparative genomics 🧪
28.11.2025 09:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Come and do a PhD on 'Genome duplication, extinction and diversification in the evolution of flowering plants' with myself @jameswclark.bsky.social and Ilia Leitch @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social and join the @wgdip.bsky.social studying rediploidisation. Apply: tinyurl.com/26pmfvvc by Jan 8
20.11.2025 09:26 — 👍 17 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0📢New Opportunity🧪
Are you interested in studying how whole genome duplication has shaped the evolution of grasses? Looking for a PhD? Then check out this great opportunity to join #WGDip with some of our fantastic researchers at the Universities of Bath & Bristol!
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📢Meet the team!
Dr. Tom Lewin is a post-doc from the University of Oxford. Recently returning from his research in Taiwan on marine invertebrates, @tomlewin.bsky.social will be focusing on understudied animal phyla as part of the #WGDip project
Find out more about his research 🪸:
shorturl.at/A5lHn
Genome duplication, innovation and macroevolution in grasses - with myself, @phil-donoghue.bsky.social and Tom Williams. bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
A great chance to get involved with @wgdip.bsky.social via the SWBioDTP. Please apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho...
📝New Publication🧪
Congratulations to team member Alex Twyford for his review article with colleagues, exploring the concept of a "polyploid continuum" which expands upon the current binary classification of autopolyploids or allopolyploids!
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#WGDip
@botsocamerica.bsky.social
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📢Meet the team!
Róisín Long is a PhD student with Prof.Aoife McLysaght at Trinity College Dublin. This comes after completing an undergrad in Human Genetics at TCD. Her PhD research focuses on rediploidisation following WGD in vertebrates. She's excited to be involved in public engagement for #WGDip
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📢Meet the team!
Dr. Anthony Redmond is a #WGDip project partner from the University College Dublin. His research focuses on the immune system, devising phylogenomic approaches to resolve the tree of life, & defining the role of gene & genome duplication in evolution
Read more:🧬
shorturl.at/d3brV
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📢Meet the team!
Molly Carter is the Project Manager of the Darwin Tree of Life project. She’ll support the delivery of chromosomal-level assemblies of the giant genomes for the #WGDip project! She used to be a natural sciences museum curator and loves all manner of arthropods!🕷️🐛
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📢Meet the team!
Dr. Rosa Fernández is a #WGDip project partner from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology. Her research focuses on understanding how genome architecture and large-scale genomic rearrangements allow animals to adapt to new environments.
Find out more:🕷️🦂
shorturl.at/OZdOl
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📢Meet the team!
Lora Downes is a Project Manager in the Tree of Life Programme (buff.ly/ytXalMi) at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She will support the delivery of chromosome-level assemblies for key species in WGDip!
Find her on LinkedIn: buff.ly/WewE2bz
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📢Meet the team!
Dr. Manu Kumar Gundappa is a #WGDip Project Partner from Wageningen University & Research. Using fish as a model system, his research focuses on developing comparative & functional genomic approaches to explore fundamental biological questions.
Find out more:🐟
shorturl.at/OC8OU
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📢Meet the team!
Dr. Zoe Vance is a Post-Doc from the University of Bath. With a background in genetics, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics, she will develop methods and approaches for examining rediploidisation across systems.
Find out more about her research:💻🧬
shorturl.at/MOcfe
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📢Meet the team!
Dr. Tom Williams is a project co-lead from the University of Bath. As a computational evolutionary biologist, his research focuses on reconstructing the history of life and studying genome evolution in Archaea, Bacteria and Microbial Eukaryotes
Find out more: 💻🌱
shorturl.at/Wr1Yv
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📢Meet the team!
Dr. Morgane Milin is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. Her past research has focused on recurrent polyploidy and diploidization, looking to detect and date WGD events in grasses. As part of this work, she developed a bioinformatics tool called WGD_Tracker.🌾💻
#WGDip
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📢Meet the team!
Dr. Drew Larson is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on evolutionary processes such as adaptation, divergence, gene duplication & introgression, which shape organisms’ genomes & biodiversity across phylogenetic scales🌐🧬
Find out more: shorturl.at/FzmPD
Image of a presentation titled "Whole Genome Duplicatio, diploidisation and macroevolution in land plants". By Dr. James Clark.
Image of presentation "Rediplopidisation: Uncoding the evolutionary potential of whole genome duplication". By Prof. Aoife McLysaght
Crowd at Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions symposium
The WGDip team had a great first day at #ESEB2025!
It was great to see everyone who attended our symposium yesterday on “Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions” 💬🧬
Still an exciting week ahead for all!🤗
#WGDip @eseb2025.bsky.social
#eseb2025 has started. So many friends and colleagues around. This is amazing. Welcome everyone to Barcelona!
17.08.2025 20:23 — 👍 73 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
📝New Publication🧪
Congratulations to team members Finn McHale and Peter Holland for their paper exploring the evolution of duplicated Hox Gene clusters in land snails and slugs, showing similar retention patterns following WGD in vertebrates and invertebrates🐌
@jezb1904.bsky.social
shorturl.at/AM5AB
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Dr Nicola Stock is a public engagement specialist at the University of Edinburgh. After starting her career in bioscience research, she followed her passion for communicating science, joining the Roslin Institute in 2012 and building a vibrant, inclusive public engagement with research programme 🗣️💬🧬
06.08.2025 13:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📢Meet the team!
Dr. Dearbhaile Casey (@dervc.bsky.social) is a Research Co-Lead from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on whole genome duplications and their consequences in Acipenseriformes and lesser-studied invertebrates.
Find out more about her research: 🧬🐟
shorturl.at/TBM5J
Roslin Reels - The Roslin Institute's Professor Dan Macqueen talks about his team's work on fish health and evolution.
For more information on our research, check out our website: www.roslin.ed.ac.uk
#RoslinReels #Aquaculture #FishHealth
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📢Meet the team!
Prof. Phillip Donoghue is a project co-lead from the University of Bristol. He is a palaeontologist who has long been fascinated by the timing and nature of major evolutionary transitions, especially following WGDs.
Learn more about his research:🦴
scholar.google.com/citations?hl...
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📢Meet the team!
Prof. Mark Blaxter is a Project Co-Lead from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where he leads the Tree of Life (TOL) Programme, which is producing reference genome assemblies for target species in WGDip.
Find out more about Mark's work: 💻🧬
scholar.google.com/citations?us...
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📢Meet the team!
Dr. Richard Taylor, a post-doc from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on applying bioinformatic and genomic approaches to questions in biomedicine & animal health. He will use single cell transcriptomics to explore functional outcomes of whole genome duplications💻🧫
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📢Meet the team!
Dr. Lucas Freitas, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Bristol. He will help to estimate the timing of WGD events and understand how delayed rediploidisation affects phenotypic traits in different species.
Find out more about his past research:💻⏰
shorturl.at/bPUZ1
From the quantum jungle to DNA origami, take a look at the galaxy of live talks, hands-on activities and more that you can discover at our free Summer Science Exhibition from 1-6 July. Take a look: #SummerScience
29.06.2025 10:56 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 2
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📢Meet the team!
Prof. Peter Holland is a project co-lead from the University of Oxford. Peter is a molecular evolutionary biologist with many years of experience researching genome duplication events and tandem gene duplication events across the animal kingdom.
Find out more:🐌🧬
shorturl.at/BjGWR
🌍 Interesting #Biodiversity #Genomics conference this October @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - "Understanding life: Using largescale biodiversity reference genomes" 🧬
Register today! coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/unders...
@eventswcs.bsky.social @engagewcs.bsky.social
