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Recruitment news! Still time to apply to one of our Medical Research Council funded 4 year PhD studentships. Studentships available at University of Leicester Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN and Uni of Birmingham 📅Deadline midday (GMT) Friday 10 Jan 2025. All details more.bham.ac.uk/mrc-aim/phd-op…

By mapping the meanings of the words used to communicate emotions across more than one-third of the planet’s spoken languages, a study in Science found that there is significant variation in how emotions are expressed across cultures. #ScienceMagArchives scim.ag/4gGECui

🟠New #genome resources expand possibilities for #insect models 🟢Assembly quality varies in contiguity & completeness 🔵Technological advances support new models with high-quality #data 🟣Emerging models advance knowledge of insect #biology & #evolution sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨🚨🚨 If you're a bioinformatician who loves: 🧬 #SingleCell #LongReadSequencing & #AlternativeSplicing 🚀 Collaborating and travelling Apply to work with us at the spectacular MDC-BIMSB in Berlin + UPF Medicine and Life Sciences-Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona. Qs:transdevolab.com Please RT!🙏

Day 2 of my sabbatical at the The Francis Crick Institute! I’ll be in London more often—drop me an email if you’re up for lunch or a pint

Many congratulations to Clifton Lewis for defending the PhD thesis and huge thanks to the examiners, Alistair McGregor and Michael Tellier Michael Tellier

Research Associate in Biophysics/Computational Chemistry/Spin Chemistry jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ830/res… Please RT

Come join us! Admissions are rolling until filled, with a final deadline of February 27, 2025, for U.S.-based applicants who do not require a visa. Don't miss this opportunity—apply now and RT mbl.edu/education/adva…

How did vision evolve? In our latest study, we show that: Key phototransduction genes originated in the metazoan stem group A conserved transcriptional program in putative PRCs from ctenophores to mammals biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Mosquito Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our final paper is out! 🦟🩸 We show that hematophagy evolved at least twice independently in dipterans and that four gene families linked to neuromodulation, immunity, development, and iron metabolism expanded independently in mosquitoes and sandflies. doi.org/10.1093/gbe/ev…

We have open PhD positions in the lab to work in the Neuroscience of #Cephalopods and #Drosophila- please RT

🚨Registration for the UK #EvoDevo meeting is open! Join us on July 11th Queen Mary University of London to enjoy an exciting day of talks, posters, friends, and superb science! -Registration: shorturl.at/9cQGL -More info: londonevodevo.ac.uk Supported by Azenta Life Sciences Novogene Europe

Please see this new publication by Arthur Godino, Marine Salery, and others now online in nature. We show opposite roles for D1 vs D2 dopamine receptor- expressing neurons in ventral hippocampus in controlling approach-avoidance behavior. Friedman Brain Institute rdcu.be/ek2DS

Popular methods like UMAP & t-SNE are stochastic and distort data structure. Bonsai - a novel method - builds trees to relate high-dimensional objects, accounting for measurement noise. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

"If linkage groups are not supported statistically, they cannot reliably be used to identify shared derived chromosomal rearrangements, and hence phylogenetic hypotheses derived from them are suspect". biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Beautiful work on the evolution of GPCRs in choanoflagellates biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Registration for Transcription and Chromatin UK is OPEN! Taking place 17-19 September 2025, this conference will showcase cutting-edge research and is a ‘mustattend’ for anyone within the transcription and epigenetics community. Register now: ow.ly/7QQb50W9Alo

New publication from the lab! Smart-Plexer 2.0: Leveraging New Features of Amplification Curves to Enhance the Selection of Multiplex PCR Assays in Multi-Target Identification | Analytical Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… #DataDrivenMultiplexing #Diagnostics #PCR