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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 10d

🌱 Using ‘compelling’ methods, including #CryoET, researchers mapped spinach thylakoid membranes at single-molecule precision, revealing how photosynthetic complexes are organised and settling long-standing debates on chloroplast architecture.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Sep 3

Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!

Homepage - Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference

Visit our website to learn more.

genetics-gsa.org

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · Aug 26

A nice profile of the wonderful Annie Schmitt

www.ucdavis.edu/news/among-a...

Among the Academies: Studying How Plants Adapt

How can plants adapt to their environment, and how will they be able to adapt to climate change? Those are among the biggest questions Johanna Schmitt has sought to answer during her career as a plant...

www.ucdavis.edu

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Aug 20

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · Jun 4

Same here… I often ask to print the Arabic word for dick when error-catching… 🙈

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Jim Shaw @jimshaw.bsky.social · May 28

Announcing myloasm, a new long-read (ONT R10/PacBio) metagenome assembler that I've been working on during my postdoc in the Heng Li lab (@lh3lh3.bsky.social).

myloasm-docs.github.io

myloasm - metagenomic assembly with (noisy) long reads

myloasm-docs.github.io

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Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · May 14

How to deal with our own poison: How plant genomes regulate deleterious genetic elements? A seminar by Dr Taiko To (School of Life Science & Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo)

tinyurl.com/48yt9ary

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Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · May 10

To address the underrepresentation of women in our School’s genetics program and pursuant to a special measure under Section 12 (1) of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (VIC), this position is only open to female-identifying candidates.

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Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · May 8

The School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne is recruiting a female-identifying genomicist in a teaching and research academic role. Come and work with us!
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92007...

Details : Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Genomics : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

jobs.unimelb.edu.au

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Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) @ardc.edu.au · Mar 20

Learn about @biosecuritycommons.bsky.social at a webinar hosted by Australia's Chief Plant Protection Officer, Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith!
📅 Tues 25 March, 2pm AEDT
✍ Add the event to your calendar via this link:
ardc.edu.au/event/austra...

#NCRISimpact #biosecurity

Australian Chief Plant Protection Officer Webinar: Biosecurity Commons | ARDC

Learn about Biosecurity Commons - an open-access, cloud-based platform for modelling and analysing biosecurity risk and response.

ardc.edu.au

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Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · Feb 27

Please explain?

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Mike Haydon 🌱 🌾 🧬 ⏰ @hikemaydon.bsky.social · Feb 10

The School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne is recruiting a continuing academic (level B/C) in Biotechnology.
This is a research and teaching role.
Come join us!
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91875...

Details : Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Biotechnology : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

jobs.unimelb.edu.au

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Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · Feb 2

Thanks for voicing that, don’t keep quiet.

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Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · Jan 25

📣 New Paper out!!! 📣
When is ML outperforming good old parametric regression for genomic predictions? Go check 👇

doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Trait genetic architecture and population structure determine model selection for genomic prediction in natural Arabidopsis thaliana populations

Abstract. Genomic prediction applies to any agro- or ecologically relevant traits, with distinct ontologies and genetic architectures. Selecting the most a

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Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · Jan 20

Cool in freezer first 😎

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Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · Jan 16

A lot of pangenome graph at #PAG32

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Juan Moral @juanmoral.bsky.social · Jan 8

While the per capita consumption of olive oil has remained steady (increasing with population), the consumption of kiwis or pistachios has seen its rise alongside population growth. Interestingly, increased fruit and vegetable consumption is often associated with economic improvement.

Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · Nov 25

The world population grew fast over the last 60 years, but farmers grew fruits and vegetables even faster

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ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social · Jan 1

📢 New publication 'The #genome of Citrus australasica reveals #disease resistance and other species specific genes' by Upuli Nakandala, Agnelo Furtado, Ardashir Kharabian Masouleh, Malcolm Smith, Darren Williams and Robert Henry in BMC Plant Biology.

The genome of Citrus australasica reveals disease resistance and other species specific genes - BMC Plant Biology

Background The finger lime (Citrus australasica), one of six Australian endemic citrus species shows a high natural phenotypic diversity and novel characteristics. The wide variation and unique…

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Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · Dec 31

Gene drives can have non-trivial intermediate behaviours in a population. We better model it to get it right!
academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

Controlling the frequency dynamics of homing gene drives for intermediate outcomes

Abstract. Gene drives have enormous potential for solving biological issues by forcing the spread of desired alleles through populations. However, to safeg

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Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · Dec 19

To remind us all that the land is the fragile media that gives the purpose to all our science.

www.theland.com.au/story/883070...

Remembering Bob Hawke, honouring Landcare and sustainable agriculture

Meet two farming families competing for the Bob Hawke Landcare Award.

www.theland.com.au

Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · Dec 4

Apollo bay?

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Luis-Miguel Chevin @lmchev.bsky.social · Nov 29

Was nice to collaborate on this one, to predict the evolution of plasticity under a combination of cyclical (e.g. seasonal) and stochastic (random) fluctuations!

School of Biological Sciences, Monash @MonashBiol @monashbiol.bsky.social · Nov 28

How does incorporating adaptive development plasticity affect the evolution of environmental tolerance?
Cristobal Gallegos, @lmchev.bsky.social Kay Hodgins
and Keyne Monro develop and test a model here besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Predicting adaptation and evolution of plasticity from temporal environmental change

Environmental change can drive evolutionary adaptation and determine geographic patterns of biodiversity. Yet at a time of rapid environmental change, our ability to predict its evolutionary impac...

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Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · Nov 21

Plants have good memory!

Warm temperature perceived at the vegetative stage affects progeny seed germination in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana - New Phytologist

doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Warm temperature perceived at the vegetative stage affects progeny seed germination in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana

Temperatures perceived early in the life cycle of mother plants can affect the germination of the offspring seeds. In Arabidopsis thaliana, vernalisation-insensitive mutants showed altered germinati...

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Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · Mar 9

Amazed by the work done on C. elegans or S. cerevisae at #TAGC24. Why don’t we hear more about these illuminating systems in #Australia ´s research? #ARC should stop deterring it’s scientists from studying model organisms.

Adaptive Evolution Lab @adaevo.bsky.social · Feb 20

Academic job in #genomics at beautiful melbourne
Come and play with us!

Details : Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Genomics (Multiple Opportunities) : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

jobs.unimelb.edu.au

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