Camille Roux

I am happy to announce the launch of a new Arabidopsis genomics resource! Check out arabidopsislyrata.org Now you can easily look at the natural genetic variation across the entire species range of A. lyrata and A. arenosa.

Up to what degree of interspecific genetic distance is it possible to form viable and fertile hybrids? A strange species of paramecium breaks the record:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary Simulations Across Multiple Chromosomes and Full Genomes Abstract. Evolutionary simulations of multiple chromosomes, even up to the scale of full-genome simulations, are becoming increasingly important in populat

Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Do you like your learned society and what it does for you and your research community? Then publish in their journal!

This paper by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social & Co shows that it will only do good, and comes with a handy database of academy-friendly journals. 👇

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

Responsible publication of your research!

To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

🚨Hiring a postdoc!

Are you interested in #evolutionarygenomics, #sexchromosomes, #transposableelements & #Sexspecific #recombination in 🐸🧬?

Join my lab @vubrussel.bsky.social
🔹 @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social funded up to 3y
🔹 Deadline 10/3/2026
🔹 Start ~1/6/2026

Apply 👉: jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

Musicians warm up for the popGroup gala at ‘chaud bouillon’ #popgroup59 #ppg59 #pgg59 (maps.app.goo.gl/mEp8d9dWbJ6k...)

Looking for a post doc on cutting-edge methods in genomics?
Contact Hannes Becher #pgg59 #popgrouo59

#popGroup59 is starting now at Lille. Delighted to see the conference come to fruition !

I didn't know about this challenge, it's a really fun initiative! Thanks for organizing events like this !

And then I see Leonie's message...

Repeated Adaptive Introgression at a Gene under Multiallelic Balancing Selection Author Summary The role of natural selection in promoting or preventing genomic divergence between nascent species remains highly debated. As long as reproductive barriers remain incomplete, genetic m...

Perhaps I am seeing your message too late, and what's more, I am coming to you with what may be a very unusual case... journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

DAFNEE, a useful database of academic-friendly journals in #Ecology and Evolutionary #Biology

academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Improving two-step cancer treatment strategies based on evolutionary models, but above all a nice evolutionary rescue model that should be of interest to everyone. #PopGen #CanEcoEvo

Seeking a postdoc position?
​Balancing selection is a fascinating process: malaria resistance, self-incompatibility,etc. Yet, countless examples remain hidden in genomes!
​If this question intrigues you, the project led by Laure Segurel and Violaine Llaurens (Paris + Lyon) is perfect! urlr.me/Huj2De

Looking forward to the next POPGROUP meeting ? Still a few more days for registration.
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Only a few days left to register and join us in Lille for this first ever French edition of PopGroup!

We left the US and moved to France Hello readers, I got big updates! Some of you already know this, but it’s getting more real and more official every month: my family and I have left the US and moved to France! A few months ago I q…

I started a new job in Montpellier, France!
Happy about new opportunities, sad about the state of things in the US.

abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/w...

Sexual selection and speciation: a meta-analysis of comparative studies Abstract. Understanding the drivers of biodiversity is a central goal in evolutionary biology. In particular, sexual selection has long been proposed as a

Does #SexualSelection fuel #Speciation?

Our new #meta-analysis of comparative studies finds support for a positive relationship, but the rather moderate global effect suggests it’s not necessarily a dominant force.

doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Wonderful day ending with @couplingdmi.bsky.social who spoke about dock mussels and how anthropogenic hybridization altered marine habitats

Thanks, now I want to go diving in commercial ports in Brittany to see them

What a nice start and amazing first day of Jacques Monod conference on bridging the micro macroevolution gap #cjm25 plenty of fascinating talks and posters

Didn't react quickly enough to illustrate all of them, just catch a few

Just took my breakfast at the #cjm25 speciation conference and around me in a 50m2 breakfast room were seated Nick Barton, Craig Moritz, Amaury Lambert, Maud tenaillon, Ludovic Orlando, Stuart Baird, John Welch, Daniel Matute etc... This density of 🤯🤯🤯 !

What a nice start to the Jacques Monod conference #cjm25 on speciation in Roscoff, Britany. What an inspiring lineup of talks and scientists. Even the weather is remarkably welcoming, for now, at least. 🤩

Arrived at Roscoff in Brittany for the conference Jacques Monod on #speciation. What a view ! Do we have a hashtag? #cjm25? First plenary lecture was tonight on our (in)hability to predict diversification rates from microevolutionary processes.

Very happy to announce that the next POPGROUP meeting will take place in Lille on 7-9 January !

Follow ‪@popgroup2026.bsky.social for all updates.

📢 Please share widely ! 📢‬

Exciting news!
The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris.

This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics.

More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk

See you there !

Object: Postdoc Position Building a phylogenetic model for horizontal transfers of transposable elements A postdoctoral position (24 months) is available to work at EGCE (Gif-sur-Yvette, France, CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay) from January 2026. Transposable elements (TEs) are repetitive DNA sequences capable of promoting their own mobility. They are widespread across the tree of life and often represent a substantial fraction of eukaryotic genomes. Beyond their ability to invade genomes, TEs are frequently reported to undergo horizontal transfer, enabling their colonization of new hosts. However, understanding and predicting how horizontal transfers shape the distribution of TEs among species is far from straightforward. In particular, estimates of transfer rates based on documented cases are both biased and approximate, since transfers occurring close to speciation events are virtually undetectable. This project aims to develop explicit phylogenetic models of TE evolution that incorporate horizontal transfers, and to use these models to obtain statistical estimates of key evolutionary dynamics of TE families across species (e.g., horizontal transfer and extinction rates). The postdoctoral project will focus on exploring the impact of horizontal transfers on the distribution of TE presence/absence among related species, using statistical and/or computational approaches.

Context The position will be part of a 4-year collaborative project funded by the French National Agency (ANR). The research consortium gathers two departments (from Paris-Saclay university and from Université Lyon 1), and involves 7 Pls and 5 postdocs and PhD students devoted to distinct workpackages of the project. The postdoc will be based at EGCE, which is part of the Institute for Ecology and Evolution (IDEEV). The institute offers an exciting and active scientific life, it is located on the new research campus of Paris-Saclay, 35 km south of Paris. Relevant references Gilbert C et al. 2018. Horizontal acquisition of transposable elements and viral sequences: patterns and consequences. Cur. Opin. Genet. Dev. 49:15-24. Le Rouzic A et al. 2013. Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Transposable Elements. Genome Biol. Evol. 5:77-86. Wallau GL et al. 2016. VHICA, a New Method to Discriminate between Vertical and Horizontal Transposon Transfer: Application to the Mariner Family within Drosophila. Mol Biol Evol 33:1094-1109. Profile We are looking for a motivated early career theoretical biologist, with a PhD in theoretical evolutionary biology. Skills in statistics, programming, bio-informatics, and phylogenetic models will be appreciated. Application Formal applications (CV and cover letter) have to be deposited on the CNRS job portal https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR9191-ARNLER-006/Default.aspx?lang=EN.

Come and join our team! A 2-year postdoc position is available in our "Genome Evolution" department at Univ Paris Saclay. We want to play with phylogenetic models accounting for horizontal transfers of transposable elements. Application& details on the official portal: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...