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Jukka-Pekka Verta @jpverta.bsky.social · 2d

One week to apply for our fully funded PhD position in Norway! This is a really exciting project in collab. with University of Helsinki and Benchmark Genetics.

Samples are ready - you do (read: learn) everything - functional genomics, bioinformatics, genotype-phenotype associations 🤩

Please RT!

Jukka-Pekka Verta @jpverta.bsky.social · Aug 21

How do regulatory genes control alternative life histories? We have an open PhD position to answer this question using functional genomics in Atlantic salmon.

Apply by October 15th through www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Please share widely! 🧬🦑🖥️

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Julia Kreiner @jmkreiner.bsky.social · 3d

Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social

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Sam Bogan @snbogan.bsky.social · 23d

New preprint led by undergrad Owen Moosman! We uncover extensive haplotype diversity in antifreeze protein gene copy number in polar Zoarcoidei fishes, and report new tools to evaluate assembly uncertainty and switch error in phased genomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 24d

Very excited to see this work in press! I think there is a reason to believe that this is a common means of stabilizing large-effect polymorphisms in general and might be an important reason for why diploidy is so common. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

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Marianna Karageorgi @mkarag.bsky.social · 24d

How do populations maintain an evolutionary memory? I am happy to share that our work with Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social, Paul Schmidt, and colleagues on dominance reversal and stabilization of insecticide resistance in changing environments over time is now published at Nature EE.

Beneficial reversal of dominance maintains a large-effect resistance polymorphism under fluctuating insecticide selection - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Measuring selection and dominance in fitness of the insecticide-resistant Ace alleles in Drosophila melanogaster, the authors show evidence for beneficial reversal of dominance, a mechanism that can s...

www.nature.com

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Skyler Berardi @skylerberardi.bsky.social · Jul 31

Check out our paper in Evolution Letters!

We used D. melanogaster pigmentation as a focal trait to explore parallelism in phenotypic and genomic responses to environmental change - read more at the link below 👇

Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · Jul 31

How predictably does complex trait adaptation proceed over space and time in wild populations?
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @skylerberardi.bsky.social, @paulrschmidt.bsky.social et al.

📷: Dr. Rush Dhillon

Figure showing the experimental overview as a graphic. Remaining alt text taken from the figure caption in the paper: (A) we sampled flies from six wild orchard populations ranging from Homestead, FL, to Lancaster, MA, and established isofemale lines in the laboratory. (B) We returned to a focal orchard in Media, PA, at early- and late-season timepoints and collected flies to capture evolutionary patterns following winter and summer conditions. (C) We then seeded outdoor mesocosms (N = 9) with an outbred population originating from early-season collections in Media, PA, and sampled flies at the end of summer (mid-season) and fall (late-season) to determine if seasonal patterns are recapitulated in experimental populations controlled for migration, drift, and cryptic population structure. (D) Across each wild or experimental context, we sampled flies, established lines in the lab, completed common garden treatment to remove environmental effects, and scored females for abdominal pigmentation. We also conducted pooled DNA sequencing on additional flies sampled from each population to map genomic patterns for candidate pigmentation SNPs.

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Nandita Garud @nanditagarud.bsky.social · Jul 22

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

Garud Lab

garud.eeb.ucla.edu

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · Jul 23

Come join us at UCLA!!! We have a growing population genetics community here and Nandita and her lab are outstanding!

Nandita Garud @nanditagarud.bsky.social · Jul 22

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

Garud Lab

garud.eeb.ucla.edu

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · Jun 27

We are recruiting students who are thinking of applying to Biology PhD programs this fall to apply for the Stanford Biology Preview Program. Please spread the word!

The Stanford Biology Preview Program @stanfordbpp.bsky.social · Jun 24

Applying to Biology PhD programs this year? Let us help!

At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!

Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...

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Manuel Razo @mrazo.bsky.social · May 15

1/n 🧵 Excited to share our new paper! We developed a framework to reveal hidden simplicity in how organisms adapt to different environments, particularly focusing on antibiotic resistance evolution. #EvolutionaryBiology #MachineLearning

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · May 7

Learning the Shape of Evolutionary Landscapes: Geometric Deep Learning Reveals Hidden Structure in Phenotype-to-Fitness Maps https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.07.652616v1

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Ben Moran @ben-moran.bsky.social · May 1

1/9 Excited to share the preprint for the second half of my PhD with @mollyschumer.bsky.social: Connecting human environmental impacts to hybridization in swordtail fish through genomics, GIS, water chemistry, and histology. Thread below!

#SciSky

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Increased rates of hybridization in swordtail fish are associated with water pollution

Biodiversity loss can occur when disturbance compromises the reproductive barriers between species, causing them to collapse into a single population through hybridization. Recent research has documen...

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James Hemker @jahemker.bsky.social · Apr 25

Excited to share the first manuscript from my PhD in which we leveraged ultra-long Nanopore sequencing, D. melanogaster inbred lines, and a ton of manual validation to investigate the effects of long-read length on population-level structural variant (SV) calling accuracy! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Manual validation finds only ultra-long long-read sequencing enables faithful, population-level structural variant calling in Drosophila melanogaster euchromatin

The increasing accessibility of long-read sequencing and the rapid development of automated variant callers are promoting the generation of population-level structural variation data. However, the eff...

doi.org

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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · Apr 7

Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out.

It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly | PNAS

Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly

www.pnas.org

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Maike Morrison @maikemorrison.bsky.social · Mar 14

1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

5 relative abundance plots arranged to have increasing compositional variability (variability across relative abundance samples, here vertical bars)

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lisacouper.bsky.social @lisacouper.bsky.social · Feb 20

Thank you for the coverage! Excited that this work, in collaboration with @markcbitter.bsky.social and many others, is now out!

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UC Berkeley School of Public Health @berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social · Feb 20

A new study led by #EnvironmentalHealth postdoc Lisa Couper finds #mosquitoes may genetically adapt to #ClimateChange more than expected. Her team's findings show increasing risk of #WestNileVirus, #Malaria & other diseases due to the insects' heat tolerance. #GlobalWarming ow.ly/Uzro50V3BRl

New research shows mosquitoes may be able to adapt to warming temperatures

The heat tolerance the research team saw “exceeds that of projected climate warming,” according to the published paper.

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Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · Feb 10

Late-stage PhD students:

We want to bring you to NYU Biology to meet peers and make connections with potential postdoctoral mentors. Apply to be part of our Emerging Scholars Symposium!

Emerging Scholars Symposium 2025

as.nyu.edu

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Jan 28

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.

Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

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Charikleia Karageorgiou (Clio) @evobioclio.bsky.social · Jan 28

Join us at the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics in Tuscany, co-chaired by @jcbnunez.bsky.social and me.
If you’d like to present your research and be considered for a talk, make sure to submit your application before April 6th!

2025 Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (GRS) Seminar GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (GRS) will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.

www.grc.org

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Seungsoo Kim @seungsookim.bsky.social · Jan 20

Hello Bluesky friends! I am a #newPI starting at UC Irvine in April, interested in gene regulation and functional genomics in stem cell models of development (esp neural crest). We are hiring at all levels – please reach out/spread the word! sskimlab.org

Kim Lab at UC Irvine

Visit the post for more.

sskimlab.org

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Marianna Karageorgi @mkarag.bsky.social · Jan 22

How is functional variation at large-effect loci maintained in natural populations?

Thrilled to share our work showing how beneficial dominance reversal helps fruit flies maintain a resistance polymorphism as selection varies in their environment! A thread 🧵 1/n

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dominance reversal maintains large-effect resistance polymorphism in temporally varying environments

A central challenge in evolutionary biology is to uncover mechanisms maintaining functional genetic variation1. Theory suggests that dominance reversal, whereby alleles subject to fluctuating selectio...

www.biorxiv.org

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Mark Bitter @markcbitter.bsky.social · Jan 21

Thrilled to see this work, led by @lisacouper.bsky.social now out!
We quantified variation in thermal tolerance in the mosquito, Aedes sierrensis, to quantify how adaptation may alter disease vector distributions under warming. 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

www.pnas.org

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Mark Bitter @markcbitter.bsky.social · Jan 21

In sum, quantifying the adaptive potential of mosquito populations to global warming is critical to accurately forecast changes to disease vector distributions under warming. Stay tuned for exciting extensions of this work!

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Mark Bitter @markcbitter.bsky.social · Jan 21

Finally, we used the parameters quantified from experiment in an evolutionary rescue model and found that our focal population has the potential to track warming as projected under moderate emissions scenarios.

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