Did you ever wonder whether/how the genetic architecture of a trait gets remodeled by the environment? Well, here is a treat! GxE interactions, dietary stress, cryptic genetic variation, outbred #Drosophila and more in our new paper! 🪰🧬 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Great to come back from easter break to find our paper on the relevance of host-specific plasmid evolution out 🐰🤩 This is a major part of my phd at ETH Zurich. I'm extremely grateful to Alex Hall for this journey. Summary below and full read here: pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

New preprint! Really happy with how this turned out. Hana knocked it out of the park. Colab with Carlos Martí and David M. McCandlish biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

PLEASE WELCOME THE MONSTER ITSELF: Perucetus colossus, a colossal super heavy-weighted cetacean! This has been a giganormous work of titanic proportions and we are extremely happy to see it published in nature

LA BALLENA COLOSAL DEL PERÚ 🇵🇪 Tras casi 10 años de excavaciones y un arduo trabajo presentamos hoy en la revista nature a Perucetus colossus: un gigantesco basilosaurio de 38 millones de años y quizás el animal mas pesado que alguna vez haya existido 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…

For mutations to have good chances of entering the gene pool of a population of 🪼🌴🐸🐞🦙☘️ the cells in which such mutations arise need to thrive in their developmental contexts. Development may thus be an evolutionary agent behind mutation rate biases academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

We are happy to share our new preprint (with Leander Goldbach & Andreas Wagner)! It is a tale of apparently complicated landscapes and bacterial regulation. Want to know more? Follow the 🧵biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A feeding electric eel can cause transfection of plasmids from the surrounding environment into nearby organisms - natural, eel induced, electroporation. peerj.com/articles/16596/

#Postdoc alert! wanna come do some postdoc-ing with us in beatiful Tübingen!? #Evolution & #genomics enthusiasts, we want you! 🧬🖥️🧪 You don't need to love #Drosophila 🪰, but if you do, it is a plus :) pallareslab.org/we-are-hiring-…

📢📢 Very excited to announce that the Evolutionary Microbiology group is moving to Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) in September! We are looking for a postdoctoral resarcher and a lab manager (ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/j…), come and join our team🧫🧪🔬💻! Please RT

Anticipation is an important part of life. A paper in Evolution Letters by Steve Frank shows how a simple biological circuit makes calculations about trend momentum and anticipation. Such a circuit may be applied to life from a simple cell to complex brains. doi.org/10.1093/evlett…

My favorate piece of my postdoc work is published! We fused our favorite TFs with a deaminase domain that induces point mutations in DNA, mutagenizing TF binding sites across the genome. Will be a great reagent for exp. evo., as its name suggests :) academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41…

Our latest paper is out Current Biology ! About #ctenophore fusion!! Fused ctenos synchronized muscle contractions and shared their digestive canal! Tommi Anttonen @maruca221 Oscar Arenas The Grass Foundation Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)

The Nobel Committee has decided to make the case for Trump’s war on Venezuela, giving its “Peace Prize” to Maria Corina Machado, a US govt-funded regime change activist who’s helped lead failed military coups, violent street riots, and has likely promised her country’s oil and

Le propongo a los pueblos que habitan en este territorio demarcado en 1819, realizar a través del poder constituyente y el acuerdo entre gobiernos, la reconstrucción de esta idea qué hoy sería una confederacion de Nñnaciones soberanas: la idea de Bolívar de una Gran Colombia, con