Short video about the DDLS-funded Biodiversity Data Lab, based here at SystBio, featuring Tobias Andermann, Adrian Baggström, BeilunZhao, and Monica Guilera Recoder's hands pipetting.

Also from all of us at Systematic Biology Programme, a warm welcome to our new member BeilunZhao!!

#Fungi in the news! New record of Cortinarius glaucoelotus for 🇸🇪 by Sten Svantesson ⁦Systematic Biology Programme⁩ svt.se/nyheter/lokalt…

Congratulations to Tobias Andermann from Systematic Biology Programme for receiving a 4-year starting grant from Vetenskapsrådet for his project "A new frontier in biodiversity research: uncovering patterns of hidden diversity with eDNA and AI"

Our Systematic Biology Programme celebrity Sten Svantesson has once again made it onto the Swedish news, this times in an interview with channel 4 about a new species of Cortinarius mushroom he discovered on Gotland this year: tv4.se/artikel/6oDqlM…

So proud of our Aaron Vogan from Systematic Biology Programme for scoring an ERC consolidator grant!

Here we estimate the number of recent bird extinctions, including those that have gone unnoticed due to a lack of data/research effort. See the popular science summary of our study in The Guardian here: amp.theguardian.com/environment/20…

We are sad to announce that our long-standing colleague Inga Hedberg has passed away after many decades of dedicated research work at Systematic Biology. You will be missed by all of us!

📢 PostDoc Opportunity at Uppsala University! 🌿 Join our Biodiversity Data Lab (biodiversity.se) and delve into metabarcoding data and spatial biodiversity patterns 🧬🌐 🗓️ Apply by Feb 29 at uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo… #PostDoc #BiodiversityResearch #AcademicJobs

We've just published a comparative genomic analysis of Ascetosporean parasites (Rhizaria). We produced genomic data for two additional classes (Haplosporidia and Paramyxida), and the undescribed Cercozoa M6MM, and combined that to the available mikrocitids bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

New preprint on giant transposons from Aaron Vogan at SystBio: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Did you know there are biologists working on starships, including our Aaron Vogan? In case you want to learn more about this topic, here is a podcast about this intriguing new line of research posted by Aaron's collaborators: sites.libsyn.com/416264/s3e27-b… and sites.libsyn.com/416264/s3e28-b…

New paper: Tobias Andermann and collaborators published a biogeographic study on Himalayan spiny frogs, using them as a model system to infer plausible geological scenarios for the formation of the Himalayas and the connected uplift of the Tibetan plateau onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

New paper alert: Fabien Burki and collaborators published this article on benchmarking long read sequencing of the entire RNA operon for environmental samples, using a fully controlled mock community for this evaluation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Experimental models to study the evolution of primary sex-determining loci are scarce. This study led by Xuan Li shows that male-determining loci on polymorphic proto-Y chromosomes of the housefly can genomically diverge into regions of various complexity. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Gene transfers have been critical to the origin and evolution of endosymbiotic organelles. But just how much, and what are the challenges with detecting them. Fabien Burki co-authored this book chapter that delves into these questions. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

High rate of gene family evolution in proximity to the origin of #ectomycorrhizal symbiosis in #Inocybaceae 📖 ow.ly/GSgU50STELY by Khan et al. Faheema Kalsoom Khan Marisol Sánchez-García Hanna Johannesson Martin Ryberg Systematic Biology Programme #PlantScience

Exciting Opportunity in Spatial Biodiversity Modeling! We are thrilled to announce a fully funded, 4-year PhD position in spatial biodiversity modeling at our Biodiversity Data Lab (biodiversity.se), Uppsala University, Sweden uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…