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Christoph Bleidorn
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Professor for Animal Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Goettingen, and Scientific Director of the Forum Wissen Goettingen
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posnienlab.bsky.social
🧬 PhD Position: Evolutionary & Comparative Genomics 🕷️
Join us at @uni-goettingen.de for a 3-year PhD (65% TV-L E13).
We will investigate the genomic & phenotypic impact of gene duplication across 233 arthropod genomes!
More infos 👇 and s.gwdg.de/eDrAAY
#Evolution #Genomics #Bioinformatics
Posnien - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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November 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social
"The untapped potential of short-read sequencing in biodiversity research"
by Christoph Bleidorn (@cblei.bsky.social) et al

"Genomic resources have the potential to transform our understanding of the vast, still largely unknown diversity of species..."

More at:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Figure 1. Graphic summary of short-read applications discussed in this review.
October 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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molbioevol.bsky.social
Zancolli, @marcrr.bsky.social @agneeshbarua.bsky.social et al. show that venom glands in marine predatory snails evolved via functional divergence from digestive organs, involving gene expression shifts and enhanced secretory machinery.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf095

#evobio #venom #mollusca
May 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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matthiaswaltert.bsky.social
Neues Online-Angebot für Biodiversitätsinteressierte in Südniedersachsen!
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Home • FokusVielfalt
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May 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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posnienlab.bsky.social
And June will be closed by Ronald Jenner from @nhm-london.bsky.social on Thursday, June 26 at 2.15 pm (CET) (hosted by @cblei.bsky.social).
May 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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New paper by @mtaguado.bsky.social Two new species of Syllidae (Annelida) from Misaki Bay and Sugashima Island, Japan - including Virchowia christophi (picture below) www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...
Two new species of Syllidae (Annelida) from Misaki Bay and Sugashima Island, Japan | Zootaxa
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May 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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mtaguado.bsky.social
Just published! Gene expression patterns during reproduction in the remarkable branching annelid Ramisyllis kingghidorahi. What happens at the molecular level when a worm with multiple branches gets ready to reproduce? Find out here: bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Sex-specific differential gene expression during stolonization in the branching syllid Ramisyllis kingghidorahi (Annelida, Syllidae) - BMC Genomics
Background Ramisyllis kingghidorahi (Annelida, Syllidae) is one of few annelid species with a ramified body, one anterior end and hundreds of posterior ends. R. kingghidorahi belongs to the family Syl...
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April 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Check this job advertisement by @mtaguado.bsky.social for a 3-year position, in case you are interested to do your PhD at the @unigoettingen.bsky.social on the amazing branching annelid Ramisyllis www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...
April 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Prey and prejudice: predation by the European bee-eater Merops apiaster has species-specific effects on the ecology and genetics of bumblebees nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
April 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Today is the time to hear this song in repeat #Arminia #WirFahrenNachBerlin youtu.be/9PVI-4myKHM?...
Buttermaker- Arminia Bielefeld
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April 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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What happened here and who is Johann Friedrich Humboldt? I am curious if MDPI will publish this... www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
March 31, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Conserved leucine-rich repeat proteins in the adhesive projectile slime of velvet worms www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Conserved leucine-rich repeat proteins in the adhesive projectile slime of velvet worms | PNAS
The slime of velvet worms (Onychophora) is a protein-based bioadhesive that undergoes rapid, yet reversible transition from a fluid into stiff fibe...
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March 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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forumwissen.bsky.social
"Was zum Quant?!" - die neue Sonderausstellung im #ForumWissen der @unigoettingen.bsky.social vermittelt Einblicke in Anfänge der Quantenmechanik in #Göttingen.
Ab heute geöffnet!
🔗 Ein schöner Artikel dazu: shorturl.at/wy1wN
Ausstellung zeigt Geschichte der Quantenmechanik
www.sueddeutsche.de
March 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Unveiling the diversity of gut microbes in green lacewings (Chrysopidae: Neuroptera) and their role as protagonist in nutrition link.springer.com/article/10.1...
March 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Familienaktionstag mit unseren neuen Comic-Helden Pim, Pixel und Piku im Forum Wissen @forumwissen.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social Sonntag, 23.3., von 10-18 Uhr www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...
March 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Fundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Fundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature - Communications Biology
This paper identifies the top-50 priority questions for meiofaunal research, highlighting their critical roles in biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity. It calls for a balanced research agenda, inter...
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March 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Host ecology and phylogeny shape the temporal dynamics of social bee viromes www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Host ecology and phylogeny shape the temporal dynamics of social bee viromes - Nature Communications
Viromes, or viral communities, may evolve host-specificity. Here, the authors use 100 plant and insect viral sequences to find that plant-pollinator interactions and phenology shape the plant virus co...
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March 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Proportions of aposematic colouration in bees and wasps (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) and their main mimics – hoverflies, clearwing moths and longhorn beetles jhr.pensoft.net/article/1412...htt
March 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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An annotated catalog of Annelida types at the Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology. Part I: Annelida: Errantia: Aciculata: Eunicida, Myzostomida, Aciculata incertae sedis, and Errantia: Protodriliformia evolsyst.pensoft.net/article/1377...htt
March 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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forumwissen.bsky.social
Was sind #Quanten? Die Physik der Quantenmechanik ist allgegenwärtig: in Lasern, Solarzellen & Supermarkt-Kassen. Unsere kommende Sonderausstellung zeichnet die Erforschung quantenphysikalischer Prinzipien nach und blickt bis in die Gegenwart.
📅 27.03 – 5.10.2025
🔗 www.forum-wissen.de/was-zum-quant/
February 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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forumwissen.bsky.social
Den eigenen #Garten in ein #Insektenparadies verwandeln?! Mehr dazu im neuen Buch von Michael Schwerdtfeger „Nonplusultrapflanzen“ - präsentiert auf unserem Blog!
Dr.Schwerdtfeger stellt sein Buch morgen 27.2.2025, 17h im Forum Wissen @unigoettingen.bsky.social vor!

forum-wissen.de/blog/der-sch...
February 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Mit Hochdurchsatzsequenzierung das Biodiversitätsmonitoring ausbauen link.springer.com/article/10.1...
February 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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uni-goettingen.de
Automatic cell analysis using #AI

Researchers retrained existing AI-based software on over 17,000 microscopy images with over 2 million structures to develop this new model - Segment Anything for Microscopy: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

#NatureMethods research: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
This is a flat grey image with cell structures in darker grey. Some of the cells are coloured and shown in green boxes. This image - Segmentation of electron microscopy images with μSAM - shows how the model can segment nuclei, with points and boxes from the user and the corresponding masks predicted by the model. Photo: The underlying image comes from data published in Cell (S0092-8674(21)00876-X). Image created by Anwai Archit using the μSAM tool. This is a three dimensional representation with a cross-section showing dark patches in different colours and the outside of the structure with bright different colours (green, purple, blue, dark pink, yellow, orange). The image shows plant cells acquired with a fluorescence microscope that were segmented automatically with the model. The underlying data is three-dimensional and the image shows a rendering of the segmented cells, each represented by a different colour. Image from: Nature Methods: s41592-021-01249-6
February 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Phylogenomics of the rarest animals: a second species of Micrognathozoa identified by machine learning royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
February 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM