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How do SVs, satellite DNA & gene content shape avian genome evolution? We analyzed 45 HiFi genomes across 3 Scrub-Jay species with distinct population sizes. Grateful to be on this incredible team led by Scott V Edwards! "Comparative population pangenomes" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Call for Papers! Special Issue: Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation in Heredity 📅 Submission Deadline: 1st April 2025 Guest Editors: @ellenleffler, Megan Dennis, Omer Gokcumen, and myself Please check the link for details: nature.com/collections/de…

We are looking forward to welcoming #MehmetSomel to Vienna as part of the #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics next Monday the 17th March at 10:30 CET. Registration and information is on our website 🔗👇 Pinhasi Lab CompEvo & HumanG Labs heas.at/events/heas-se…

Adaptive Increase of Amylase Gene Copy Number in Peruvians Driven by Potato-rich Diets biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_genetic

New paper from the lab in Animal Genetics! We developed a new method to detect chromosome rearrangements (in this case reciprocal translocations) in pigs using Hi-C. Great job by Frances Burden , in collaboration with PIC. #chromosomerearrangements onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ag…

Last day to apply for a talk at the upcoming GRS on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics! Applications submitted after today will still be considered for poster presentations.

Interested in New Frontiers in Genome Diversity and Evolution? Join us at ESEB2025 in beautiful & sunny Barcelona 🌞 Submit your abstract to Symposium #38 - Organized by Thea Rogers (University of Vienna), Rui Faria (Rui M) (University of Porto), and myself (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 👇

⏰ Only 2 Days Left! ⏰ This is it: your last chance to submit your abstract for hashtag#ESEB2025! Don’t miss the opportunity to showcase your research and be part of one of the most important events in Evolutionary Biology. 📬 Submit now: eseb2025.com/call-for-abstr…

Save the date! ProbGen 2026 will be hosted at UC Berkeley, March 25 to March 28, 2026, featuring keynote speakers Jonathan Pritchard and Sally Otto. Help spread the message to people who are not this dystopian hellsite.

Evolutionary Influences on Local Patterns of Genetic Relatedness biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_evobio

You can still submit an abstract for the 2025 Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics GRS to be considered for a poster. If you’ve been accepted for a talk or poster, don’t forget to register via the GRC website. We look forward to seeing many of you in Lucca this summer.

🔥 Tree of Sex consortium: A global initiative for studying the evolution of reproduction in eukaryotes 👇 academic.oup.com/jeb/article/do…

The official program for the 2025 Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics GRS is now live! grc.org/ecological-and… Poster submissions are still open through June 14, 2025.

Today in Science Magazine we report the development of a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase (evoCAST) that supports therapeutically relevant levels of RNA-programmable gene insertion in human cells, a collaboration with Sternberg Lab. 1/13 drive.google.com/file/d/1I-UbCR…

New findings in Science demonstrate that successful mitosis may draw on more mechanisms than commonly assumed. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/43MSoYJ

Come say hi at the Evolutionary Theory I session tomorrow at 10:15am in Athena AB! I’ll be presenting our latest findings on the structural, mutational and functional dynamics of the amylase locus across primates. #Evol2025

Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo! Please get in touch if you are interested. And happy to discuss projects - ranging from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab. riken.jp/en/careers/res… Lab page: speidellab.github.io

Excited to share that I’ve been selected as a Spring 2025 recipient of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics! Very grateful to the Genetics Society Genetics Society of America of America for their support.

Happy to share our new study from my PhD on the spread of farming across Anatolia and into the Aegean and then into Europe. CompEvo & HumanG Labs science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 👇🏽

Avian germline-restricted chromosomes are reservoirs for active long-terminal-repeat retroviruses biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_evobio