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Not a Bat1K member yet but the >100 genomes and working groups start your interest? Then sign up here bat1k.com/sign-up/ (takes 3min, remember all this work is only possible by our wonderful and diverse members.. you don’t need to be a genetics expert to get involved!)

⁉️Are you still not sure how to get involved or join a Bat1K working group? Then please email our project coordinator Meike 📧

Excited to give a today talk at isem about #bats, genomes, #ConvergentEvolution, and more!

Distinct Genes with Similar Functions Underlie Convergent Evolution in Myotis Bat Ecomorphs buff.ly/3z7sdQh #science #evolution #biology #genome

The Lauterbur EvoEco Lab at UVM Biology is recruiting Fall 2025 PhD students! Interested in computational evolutionary ecology and how animals adapt to pathogens, toxins, and other threats OR interested in hacking complex biological systems with creative code? Please reach out!

RGGS Comparative Biology Ph.D. program, Graduate Student Fellowship, Postdoctoral Fellowship and Kade Applications NOW OPEN! Details: amnh.org/research/richa…

Our new species, Rhinolophus webalai, is featured in the news! 🦇⬇️ miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo… Bruce Patterson, Paul Webala @tdemos7 Cecilia Montauban 🦇🐾 Amanda Grunwald Javier Juste Julian Kerbis Peterhans, Molly McDonough, Carl Dick, Michael Bartonjo, M. Corrie Schoeman & Luis Ruedas

We made it to the cover!! Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution #ConvergentEvolution #Bats 🦇 academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/41/10 doi.org/10.1093/molbev…

📢Preprint Alert! 🦇Bat wings are one of the most striking evolutionary adaptations 🦇 In our latest work, brilliantly let by @M_Schindler_ & Christian Feregrino , we discover mechanisms involved in the formation of this amazing structure. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A 🧵 below 👇

What?🤯 Our incredibly talented steering committee member Kendra Phelps, PhD is on the lookout for her next position ⁉️Any team would be beyond lucky to have her onboard!! 😌 linkedin.com/in/kendra-phel…

#BG24 is in full swing and our co-director Prof Sonja Vernes, Bat Boffin🦇🌈 will be presenting our Phase 1 data release during Thursday‘s VGP Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) session at 2pm CET & 10am EST 🦇🧬 don’t miss it! Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) Earth BioGenome Project

🚨Join us today at BG24 to hear Prof Sonja Vernes, Bat Boffin🦇🌈 discuss the completion of the Bat1K Phase 1 and our release of the „103 best bat assemblies“@ 3pm CET / 10am EST Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) Earth BioGenome Project Darwin Tree of Life Michael Hiller Bat Biology Foundation Wellcome Sanger Institute MPI-CBG Dresden

Happy Batty Halloween! ;) 🦇😉

Always and forever.

Super excited to give a talk today Eco and Evo Biology on the evolution of mammalian tooth classes and novelties using bats as a model system 🦇🦷European Research Council (ERC) Thanks Molly C. Womack for the invitation!

The Sanger Prize Competition for undergraduates from low and middle income countries, 3 month internship at the Sanger Institute, all expenses paid sanger.ac.uk/about/the-sang…

(iii) Unexpectedly, ISG15 function can differ substantially, not only between human and bats, but also between closely-related, even co-roosting, bats --> one cannot generalize from a few bat species to all bats.

🚨Bat1K Paper Alert🚨We’re excited to share "Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance", JUST published in Nature! 🦇📜Work led by Bat1K executive committee member Michael Hiller and Ariadna Morales🔥nature.com/articles/s4158…

news & views for a quick summary of our latest article. nature.com/articles/d4158…