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 👇

Very much looking forward to this fantastic conference on Lepidoptera at Ikiam in Ecuador. k_nasvall, NICOL RUEDA and I will teach a course on biodiversity genomics before the conference starts.

Our #phylogenomics study on the evolutionary relationships of birds 🦉🦃🦆🦜based on whole genome analysis of 363 species is now available as a preview article in nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

No global research conference should be held in a country which inflicts such indignities. This madness must end. nature.com/articles/d4158…

👉 ¡Atención! marzo es el último mes para registrarse anticipadamente al VIII ELEN en Tena - Ecuador. No pierdas la oportunidad de acceder a costos reducidos de inscripción.
elen-lepidoptera.org/es/financial-s…

A particular gene plays a critical role in visual preference for mate choice between closely related Heliconius butterflies, a new Science study finds.

Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/6j5

'School was not easy for me.'

Carol Greider achieved success in molecular biology in the same way she overcame dyslexia as a child: with persistence and creativity. Greider is one of many Nobel Prize laureates that have dyslexia.

#IWD2024

Very much looking forward to the next speciation seminar tomorrow. Please retweet and join us! speciation-network.pages.ist.ac.at/seminar-series/

Our study sequencing stickleback enviromental genomes sampled from the Late Pleistocene transition of a marine bay to a freshwater lake is available to read online in Current Biology:
cell.com/current-biolog…

Delighted that our work on chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera is published today! ✨🦋

The process of speciation is at the heart of evolutionary biology. The aim of this meeting & associated Special Issue is to move towards a more integrated understanding of speciation by bringing together speakers from a wide range of disciplines. ow.ly/8tAW50QG6HL

We have three positions open in the Tree of Life Assembly team Wellcome Sanger Institute Wellcome Sanger Tree of Life Programme working on biodiversity genome assembly for Darwin Tree of Life, European Reference Genome Atlas, Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), Earth BioGenome Project.

Postdoc Sexual Selection in stalk-eyed flies, Univ Sheffield and UCL, with Alison Wright Alison Wright jobs.ac.uk/job/DFW388/res…

spread the word… Wellcome Sanger Institute excellence fellowship call is open! and how amazing is it that there is support for four fellows.

What happens when three labs stumble upon the same phenomena?! You don’t sit down and cry - you reach out and collaborate and offer three complimentary angles! Now on biorxiv! A mechanistic role for non-coding elements driving adaptive changes in butterfly wings.

In Peru, a 20-year study charted Amazon forests—and revealed how warming has changed them

science.org/content/articl…

We are hiring! 🌟
Two PhD positions opened on species diversification and evolution of hymenopteran parasitoids in multi-trophic systems. Join our team at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿. Happy for retweets! Details: parasitoidwasps.com/uncategorized/…

FWIW, Re: GATK's new missing format, looks like it began in v4.2.3 as of around 2021 (I just personally seeing encountering issues as of Sept 2023!).

Please RT!

Come join my research group in Bonn LIB & Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn on an European Research Council (ERC)-funded PhD position to study population dynamics of the fascinating germline-restricted chromosome of songbirds. You can DM Yifan Pei and me for questions.

8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2024-01-Ph…

Just a reminder📢📢📢: there is still time to apply for this cool 2-y postdoc position, fully funded by FAPESP!!