Joe Walker
@evojfwalker.bsky.social
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Assistant professor in the biology department at the University of Illinois Chicago. Lab website https://walkerlab-uic.github.io/. All opinions, spelling mistakes, and grammatical errors are still my own.
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jembrown.bsky.social
Another exciting #SSB2026 workshop to highlight:

A Primer for Phylogenetic Causal Inference

with @oschwery.bsky.social & @pseudacris.bsky.social

Also, lots of new info on the website and more soon:

ssb2026.github.io

Follow for the latest updates!

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evojfwalker.bsky.social
Not to shamelessly promote lab stuff, but if anyone is teaching evolution or phylogenetics, Karolis’ program has been great for students learning about trees. Its user interface is more like a basic calculator instead of a scientific calculator, which helps when learning. github.com/karolisr/tre...
GitHub - karolisr/treehouse: View and edit gene trees and phylogenies
View and edit gene trees and phylogenies. Contribute to karolisr/treehouse development by creating an account on GitHub.
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evojfwalker.bsky.social
There are many amazing tree viewers out there, and this is one the lab's developing for navigation of large trees, looking at you @blackrim.bsky.social. Karolis will be at Botany, so please see his talk or put any issues on GitHub for features you'd like. It’s early and is being actively developed.
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plantporn.bsky.social
#phylogenetics Mac users alert: TreeHouse opens trees with >500k+ tips and it is very FAST. The initial version can open, sort, root/unroot, & save multitree newick files (Nexus+ coming soon). Karolis is soliciting features. Apple-certified installer here: github.com/karolisr/tre...
Release v0.3.1 · karolisr/treehouse
This is very much a work in progress. Currently: TreeHouse will only open files with .tre and .newick extensions, and will treat them as NEWICK (multi-tree files are supported). NEXUS support comi...
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ckrieg.bsky.social
🚨 I’m thrilled to share that I am starting as an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University this Fall!
👀 Opportunities coming soon as I re-root my research program in plant ecophysiology and evolution at Wake 🌿 🌲🌱
#NewPI #plantecophys #botany @wfubiology.bsky.social
@wakeforest.bsky.social
evojfwalker.bsky.social
Awesome news, congrats!
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philcarella.bsky.social
New Postdoc position (2yrs) available in our #EvoMPMI lab @JohnInnesCentre. Come and work with on harnessing the diversity of immune mechanisms to protect plants. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…
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blackrim.bsky.social
In recognizing that lots of students (undergrads and grads) are unaware of the dire situation created by the recent executive / DOGE actions, I am trying to compile a list of how these will impact folks so I can make materials and spread the word and get more advocates. 1/2
evojfwalker.bsky.social
Thanks! Yeah, TransRate is great. A grad student in my lab has made an updated version (github.com/ericbretz/tr...) to incorporate the newer mappers. Credit to Steve Kelly for the help on how all the stuff works. Snap can be a bit temperamental so HiSat and others can help with some of the issues.
GitHub - ericbretz/transrate2
Contribute to ericbretz/transrate2 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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edelplopez.bsky.social
🎙️Season 2 of our podcast is here! Kicking things off with the mind-blowing study below.
This research shatters the assumption that herbarium specimens are unsuitable for transcriptomics, successfully extracting mRNA from historical plant samples:
open.spotify.com/episode/1cqA...
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philcarella.bsky.social
RNA from herbarium specimens is more stable than you think. Cool new study from @atyszka.org @evojfwalker.bsky.social and team. @khongsamchia.bsky.social and I were happy to contribute by functionally validating an NLR immune receptor last expressed in 1956 : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
evojfwalker.bsky.social
A former undergraduate, Miles Woodcock-Girard, made a transcriptome assembly pipeline (doi.org/10.1093/bioi...) and is looking for features people may want. He’s a big advocate for maintaining software, so please reach out to him on GitHub if there’s anything you would find helpful.
Semblans: automated assembly and processing of RNA-seq data
AbstractMotivation. Recent advancements in parallel sequencing methods have precipitated a surge in publicly available short-read sequence data. This has e
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yangyayy.bsky.social
New pre-print from the lab on the natural history, phylogenomics, and allopolyploidy of North American Drosera. This work was from the pre-COVID field work graduate student Rebekah Mohn did in peatlands across the US and fell into muddy pits many, many times.