Very excited to share my final PhD chapter. This has been many years of work and I’m thrilled that this is out. With brilliant Dominik Laetsch, Konrad Lohse and Mike Ritchie. Question: How common is the allopatric model of speciation? 1/n

The new call at Mainz University for fourteen new PhD students is open! You = one of them? We offer funding & a really cool environment for studying evolution, epigenetics, sex determination etc, often combining theory and molecular tools. Browse genevo-rtg.de/application/pr… and apply!

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of parent-of-origin intragenomic conflict! Despite differences in the timing and spatial extent of imprinting, eutherians and angiosperms exhibit remarkable convergence in the molecular machinery involved. academic.oup.com/jhered/advance…

The maternal embrace: the protection of plant embryos bit.ly/3wAa6R2

This collaboration coming to a theater near you in 2025 👊🤩🎉! Can’t wait to join the Cetacean Communication and Cognition Group, University of Bristol Biological Sciences, and Shark Bay Dolphin Research!

Why do pangenomes vary so much across bacteria? 🦠🧬

We show that bacterial lifestyle is the key factor shaping pangenome fluidity.

Read more in our paper out now in PNAS:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

With Chunhui Hao Dr Laurie Belcher Melanie Ghoul Stuart West

Varroa mites escape the evolutionary trap of haplodiploidy biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation Special Topic Network funded by ESEB.

We meet again tomorrow, May 14 at 3pm UTC / 11am EST.

Talks by Graeme Keais (UBC) and Clément Lafon Placette (Charles University).

Here's a thread about our new preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… on human germline mutation.

Our brand new 2-year international Evolutionary Biology MSc program here in Mainz*) starts in October. Apply by May 15th ...or why not today or tomorrow? blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-biologie-…
*) a city that our today's visitor Audrey Proenca called 'adorable'. See how happy she looks with us😍

How does limited dispersal influence the substitution rate of adaptive alleles? Charles Mullon and I look at this in our new study in Genetics: doi.org/10.1093/geneti… In contrast to previous findings, we show that adaptation can be faster under limited dispersal!

Dear ICE2024 presentation applicants. You have received an email informing you of the presentation style, session, and scheduled date and time. Please check it.

We're currently seeking postdocs (3 years) to work on biodiversity change under environmental variability. Please let your colleagues know about it!
riken.jp/en/careers/res…

New paper: kinship and individual condition shape intraspecific variation in masting phenotype Royal Society Publishing Michał Bogdziewicz jakubszymkowiak.wordpress.com/2024/04/23/new… #masting

Databases for finding independent biology/ecological postdoctoral fellowships:
- docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u…
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- cbs.umn.edu/academics/depa…
- asntech.github.io/postdoc-fundin…

【４月15日～21日は「第65回科学技術週間」です🔬】
📢盛山大臣から科学技術週間の御案内

▼詳しくはこちら
mext.go.jp/stw/

Effective population size of X chromosomes and haplodiploids under cyclical parthenogenesis biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Super-amazing work by Takanori Nishino, Hiromi Mukai, Minoru Moriyama and other colleagues on a novel insect-microbe symbiosis is now available as preprint
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The programme from EHBEA 2024 in Montpellier is looking fantastic, and registrations are still open for a few days!!

Make sure you register ASAP!

I am delighted to share a preprint of our *Guide to k-mer approaches for genomics across the tree of life*
By Katie Jenike, Lucía Campos Marilou Boddé José Cerca Christina Hodson Michael Schatz & myself.
arxiv.org/abs/2404.01519
Some of the things you can find inside 👇