Link your genomes with GIGA-NCBI BioProject and Genomes on a Tree (GOAT): gigacos.org/wp-content/upl…

Our paper on the Berghia genome is now out. It documents the prevalence of previously annotated genes pointing to the need to study a wider diversity of life. Dr. Jessica Goodheart Deirdre Lyons Desmond Ramirez rdcu.be/dwhNr

Check out the genome of the Kellet's whelk: datadryad.org/stash/dataset/…

GIGA elections are happening now. GIGA members check your e-mail to vote for open GIGA board positions.

Check out our recent publications on the genome and transcriptome of Kellet's whelk as well as the challenges of extracting high quality DNA from marine invertebrate tissue! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… via Frontiers - Marine Science and peerj.com/articles/16510/ via PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment Cal Poly Bailey College of Science and Mathematics

Interested in low-input genomics? Nickellaus Roberts et al. posted a pre-print showing a simple MDA-based method to get HiFi reads and nice assemblies from e.g., 1/2 C. elegans with negligible coverage bias or chimeras. FEZ - Frontiers in Evolutionary Zoology UA Dept. of BSC QIAGEN PacBio doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Feeling very honored by my awesome colleagues Thiago Araújo and Rick Hockberg who named this gorgeous gastrotrich from Florida Crasiella kocoti. This really made my day💙 mapress.com/zt/article/vie…

GIGA Election Results: President: Carlos Prada VP of Conferences: Jean-Francois Flot VP of Scholarships/Early Developments: Sadye Paez VP of External Development/Fund Raising: Joe Lopez Graduate Student/Postdoc representatives: Lisa Mesrop and João Gabriel R. N. Ferreira

Please share our obituary of the wonderful Claus Nielsen. A huge contributor to the study of animal evolution + a very nice man. Happy to have known him for almost 30 yrs since I first wrote to him (a letter!) during my PhD. With Andreas Hejnol + Arendt Lab. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Exciting Opportunity Alert! 📢 Are you a highly motivated individual passionate about #genomics and #bioinformatics training? 🧬💻 Join our team in #Edinburgh! We have an opening for a Genomics & Bioinformatics Training Coordinator! Apply by March 11th at: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Working with non model animals? Feeling depressed every time the genes from your favourite tardigrade/velvet worm/Gordian worm/whatever worm/sponge/jellyfish/[insert your fav invertebrate here] do not have any functional annotations? Keep calm and continue reading! 🧬🪱🪲1/10

So, there they are, the WoRMS top-10 marine species of 2023! Do you have a favorite? lifewatch.be/en/worms-top10… #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies

Here's a job opening for senior data scientist to work on the Earth BioGenome Project: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

Here is a post doc position working on the Ocean DNA Initiative at the Smithsonian Marine Field Station trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/79…

Another marine invertebrate (HT Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA)) genome from the Hong Kong Biodiversity Genomics Consortium. Chromosome-level genome assembly of the common chiton, Liolophura japonica (Lischke, 1873) doi.org/10.46471/gigab…

We've re-opened this PhD student position on Oxford Nanopore transcriptomics, meiofauna biodiversity discovery, and large-scale phylogenetics, joint with me at the Natural History Museum and Yannick Wurm 🐜🐝🦋 @[email protected] at QMUL. Closing 19 May. UK Home status req'd. RT plz! NHM_Students findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

Please check out and share this PhD opportunity, looking at the effects of rising CO2 levels on freshwater mussel biology: findaphd.com/phds/project/i… in a project co-supervised by Dr Christopher Cornwall and scientists from NIWA, and working alongside hapori Māori

Hello folks! With exciting new grants and new projects in our lab, ✨we are hiring!✨ Please share with prospective Ph.D. students and/or postdocs interested in evolution, genetics, and microbes!

If your University or organization is hiring invertebrate genomic positions this fall please share with us. We would love to help you get the word out!