Interested in #cockroaches & #termites research? Come to Münster, Germany on the 3-4 April 2023 for the icbr2023.com, organized by Mark C Harrison and I.

We are looking for a new postdoc: oist.jp/careers/postdo…

Don't miss the 1st ever #conference on #cockroaches and #termites #research the deadline is fast approaching 26th of February!!!! Register soon in icbr2023.com

This event might also serve as a springboard to create a Blattodea Research Society to synergize Blattodea research in all fields and hopefully make #cockroaches and #termites the model system of the 21st century!!!

Excited about all the exciting roach and termite science we'll be discussing today and tomorrow. uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?…

Great talk on cockroach phylogenies with @FredLeg10 talking about the importance of Museum specimens, morphological characters and fossil data #ICBR

This is Matias Rodriguez PhD student at the University of Münster. Matias works in developing a pipeline for TE annotation in ant genomes, and in a machine learning software for TE classification. 🐜💻

Thesis successfully defended and paper accepted in The Plant Journal Many congratulations to the PhD 🧑‍🎓!!@explorer_priya 🥳💐🥂Finkemeier lab @WWU_Muenster

Neutral Models of De Novo Gene Emergence Suggest that Gene Evolution has a Preferred Trajectory buff.ly/3LuuLva #science #evolution #biology #genome

Took a while, but this magnificent piece of work on novel small ORFs is finally out!

I am excited to announce the first SMBE Satellite Meeting on De Novo Gene Birth! Register and check out our wonderful lineup of speakers here: agriliferegister.tamu.edu/website/56645/ When: November 6-9, 2023 Where: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX More updates soon!

After ~7 yr of work, it's finally out! We present a molecular phylogeny of butterflies sampling >90% of genera & >2000 spp. Butterflies emerged ~100 million yr ago in North America and first fed on legumes. Thanks to all 87 co-authors from 28 countries! rdcu.be/dcaVU

We are looking for a postdoc in comparative genomics/bioinformatics! They will be working in a collaborative environment on an exciting project about synteny, orthology, evolution, gene loss and 🍅. Details: tinyurl.com/4fenkydr Please share! Dessimoz Lab @SebastianSoyk

check out our new preprint on the influence of domain rearrangements in the evolution of termite castes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

ALERT New paper!!! Age- and caste-independent piRNAs in the germline and miRNA profiles linked to caste and fecundity in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We had a really great first day of our annual GEvol meeting with great talks and socializing. We are looking forward two our second day.

You are an early career scientist interested in Evolution or Behavioural Ecology? Join our graduate meeting at the University of Bayreuth! Invited speakers are Jutta Schneider and Joel Meunier.

Check out our new review on the Genomic Signatures of Eusocial Evolution in Insects, just published in COIS with Alina Mikhailova & Sarah Rinke-Stack sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to share my first publication on a non-social insect: Mantids! Here we show the first species list of mantids in the Comoé Nationalpark. We found a total of 35 species, with many occuring far more north than expected and 2 being described for the first time in Ivory Coast!

Check our our new chapter on comparative evolutionary genomics in insects: link.springer.com/protocol/10.10…