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Ready to present my poster at the Genetics Society meeting on TE regulation in Leicester! Pass by if you want to hear about cascades of TE invasions in flies 🪰

Congrats to Rob! 🏅A richly deserved recognition for many pioneering discoveries in epigenetic control of transposable elements 👏

I'm very happy to announce that the MCHelper (tool for the curation of transposable element libraries) paper has finally been published in Genome Research! I will be happy to receive your feedback! genome.cshlp.org/content/early/…

Well done Riccardo Pianezza :) our novel tool for finding recent TE invasions without repeat library

Great work by PopGen Vienna PhD student Riccardo Pianezza and MS student Anna Haider in the Robert Kofler lab published in Genome Biology: a tool to detect recent TE invasions without a repeat library #evolution #popgen

Preprint alert #2. We used individual-based modeling and cool surrogate models to better understand P-element invasion dynamics in experimental Drosophila populations. Evolution, machine learning and SLiM for the win 🙂😎 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A phage gene encoding a DNase I homolog was horizontally transferred to a Drosophila ananassae ancestor 21 mya and is used against parasitoids. Rebecca Tarnopol put it into D. melanogaster and expressed in fat body. It moved humorally to wasp serosa just as in Dmel! tinyurl.com/2k9ypyxr

The 1001G+ project: A curated collection of Arabidopsis thaliana long-read genome assemblies to advance plant research biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genomic

Super proud - our new work about two troublesome TEs spreading into several Droso species in just a few decades; it was so much fun to work with the amazing Riccardo Pianezza Almorò Dr. Sarah Signor rdcu.be/d5G1M

Our work is finally out! Two TEs that triggered a cascade of invasion after introduction to cosmopolitan species of Drosophila. Almorò Riccardo Pianezza Robert Kofler are such a pleasure to work with. nature.com/articles/s4146…

happy to share the published version of our work on genome defense against selfish genes 😊 PNASNews "Escalation of genome defense capacity enables control of an expanding meiotic driver" pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Anyone out there have Turrelli's Riverside or Watsonville strains of dsim? Often called DSR and DSW?

📢Paper alert ‼ Nature Communications Robert Kofler→ Genom-Invasoren Shellder und Spoink: Von Menschen gemachter double-trouble #Drosophila vetmeduni.ac.at/universitaet/i…

The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (Mar-Jun). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

Our new paper on the P-element invasion in D.simulans mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Experimental evolution reveals dynamics of horizontal transfer of a transposable element between D. melanogaster and D. simulans. In Mobile DNA led by Filip Wierzbicki (alum of our PhD program) and current student Riccardo Pianezza from the Kofler lab PopGen Vienna

Super proud of amazing PhD Student Sarah Saadain winning the Carl von Schreibers prize with her cockroach project :) Vetmeduni NHM-Wien nhm-wien.ac.at/presse/pressem…

wow super cool - congrats Philipp!