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Big UVa Biology NSF GRFP successes this year! 🥳Congratulations to Myles Davoll and Irish Amundson (Irish Amundson) for their offers and to Juliana Jiranek for receiving honorable mention!!

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be joining UVa Biology as an Assistant Professor in January 2024! My lab will be studying the evolutionary genomics of sexual conflict using genetic engineering & experimental evolution in Caenorhabditis nematodes. More details to come! 🪱🧬🔬🧡💙

I'm delighted to announce that I'm starting UVa Biology as an Assistant Professor in January 2024! I'm thrilled to be joining such a wonderful department. My lab will study genomics, speciation, adaptation, and sex chromosome evolution in rattlesnakes, swallows, and other critters.

Happy #DNADay! Stay tuned for the 13th DrosEU meeting organized by Bas Zwaan and Joost van den Heuvel in Wageningen Wageningen U&R on the 8th and 9th of May!

Thanks to all the in person and virtual participants of the 13th DrosEU workshop, and to Bas, Joost and Marjan for hosting us Wageningen U&R. Two great days of talks and discussion in a friendly, collaborative, and constructive atmosphere #DrosEU23 #Wageningen #Drosophila #Genomics

Big News!!! Our first book, HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE FUNGI, will be filled with 70+ of our favorite presentations over the years! On sale 2/20/24 from @stmartinspress, it’s now available for preorder: bit.ly/NerdNiteBook #SciComm #Science #NerdNite

Registration is now OPEN! The SouthEastern Population Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Meeting in 2023 is at @MLBS_UV from September 22-24! Register here: mlbs.virginia.edu/SEPEEG-2023 Abstract submission will open soon. #SEPEEG

We are hiring multiple #Microbiology and/or #Infectiousdisease tenure-track Assistant Professors! Come join us in the interdisciplinary Department of Biology at University of Virginia! Questions to search chair at [email protected] or apply at apply.interfolio.com/130419

DrosEU wishes you happy holidays! 2024 will be our 10th anniversary, we are looking forward to celebrate with you! Thanks to LaCiènciaAlTeuMón for the design!

Happy to see this collaboration with Katja Kasimatis and Eddie Ho out Royal Society Publishing. Thanks to Arvid Ågren, Locke Rowe and Göran Arnqvist for the invitation to contribute to this special issue on the Resolution of Evolutionary Conflicts. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10… Brief 🧵

DrosEU members are meeting in Barcelona to celebrate the consortium 10th anniversary! Three days full of science, music and calçots! Welcome to Barcelona! #DrosEU24

Do you have a compost pile? 🍅🍇🍈🍉🍊🍏🍑🍌🍋 Sign up to be part of the Alan Bergland lab community science project working to understand compost pile flies! 🪰 It's free to participate and a fun learning experience #CitizenScience #communityscience #agriculture #compost

Sometimes we win professional awards. Other times we win the Chicken Salad competition hosted by our favorite local radio stations. WQSV

Interested in the UVa Biology PhD program? We're hosting a webinar on 9/11/2024 at 3PM EST. We'd love to see you there!

I am super excited to share the first paper out of my PhD! Here, we chose D. melanogaster pigmentation as a model phenotype to study the nature and repeatability of complex trait evolution in the field . . .🧵 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

I'm very thankful for the help of my mentor, Paul Schmidt, and my co-authors Jess Rhodes, Mary Catherine Berner, sharon greenblum Mark C. Bitter Emily Behrman Nicolas Betancourt, Alan Bergland Dmitri Petrov and Subhash Rajpurohit