Philipp Hummer
@philipphummer.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist from Austria, working on insect museomics and horizontal transposon transfer
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Ioanna's research develops models to study the factors shaping adaptation and the evolutionary history of species, combining multi-species and multi-population data to model the evolution of protein-coding sequences.
Ioanna Kotari (@popgenviennaphd.bsky.social)
@janekay27.bsky.social
Ioanna Kotari (@popgenviennaphd.bsky.social)
@janekay27.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Ioanna's research develops models to study the factors shaping adaptation and the evolutionary history of species, combining multi-species and multi-population data to model the evolution of protein-coding sequences.
Ioanna Kotari (@popgenviennaphd.bsky.social)
@janekay27.bsky.social
Ioanna Kotari (@popgenviennaphd.bsky.social)
@janekay27.bsky.social
Reposted by Philipp Hummer
My awesome grad student Shashank and I wrote this paper trying to look at broader patterns of HT in TEs. HT is happening everywhere! DNA transposons jump further than other classes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Recent horizontal transfer of transposable elements in Drosophila
Transposable elements (TEs) are genetic elements also known as "jumping genes" that increase their copy numbers within a host through various mechanisms of transposition. TEs can also move between spe...
www.biorxiv.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My awesome grad student Shashank and I wrote this paper trying to look at broader patterns of HT in TEs. HT is happening everywhere! DNA transposons jump further than other classes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Philipp Hummer
We are excited to welcome our three new SMBE Fellows!
Ioanna Kotari, Shady Kuster, and Haoran Cai will join @molbioevol.bsky.social and @genomebiolevol.bsky.social as writing fellows.
Keep an eye on our next Highlight articles in MBE and GBE!
#society #scicomm #evobio #molbio #genome #evolution
Ioanna Kotari, Shady Kuster, and Haoran Cai will join @molbioevol.bsky.social and @genomebiolevol.bsky.social as writing fellows.
Keep an eye on our next Highlight articles in MBE and GBE!
#society #scicomm #evobio #molbio #genome #evolution
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We are excited to welcome our three new SMBE Fellows!
Ioanna Kotari, Shady Kuster, and Haoran Cai will join @molbioevol.bsky.social and @genomebiolevol.bsky.social as writing fellows.
Keep an eye on our next Highlight articles in MBE and GBE!
#society #scicomm #evobio #molbio #genome #evolution
Ioanna Kotari, Shady Kuster, and Haoran Cai will join @molbioevol.bsky.social and @genomebiolevol.bsky.social as writing fellows.
Keep an eye on our next Highlight articles in MBE and GBE!
#society #scicomm #evobio #molbio #genome #evolution
Reposted by Philipp Hummer
Take a look at my first preprint as a first author!
We analyse the effect of population structure in SMC methods and find two systematic biases that have indeed extra information about the population! We model the nature of these biases and find a link with the isolation of the population and Fst.
We analyse the effect of population structure in SMC methods and find two systematic biases that have indeed extra information about the population! We model the nature of these biases and find a link with the isolation of the population and Fst.
Performance of Sequential Markovian Coalescence Methods when Populations are Structured https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681379v1
October 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Take a look at my first preprint as a first author!
We analyse the effect of population structure in SMC methods and find two systematic biases that have indeed extra information about the population! We model the nature of these biases and find a link with the isolation of the population and Fst.
We analyse the effect of population structure in SMC methods and find two systematic biases that have indeed extra information about the population! We model the nature of these biases and find a link with the isolation of the population and Fst.
Reposted by Philipp Hummer
We discovered an endogenous retrovirus that's still spreading in natural D. melanogaster populations! It was horizontally transferred from D. erecta in Central Africa, so we named it "Kuruka", which means "jump" in Swahili. Read its cool story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 4, 2025 at 5:50 AM
We discovered an endogenous retrovirus that's still spreading in natural D. melanogaster populations! It was horizontally transferred from D. erecta in Central Africa, so we named it "Kuruka", which means "jump" in Swahili. Read its cool story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Philipp Hummer
This morning ended with the Graduate Student Excellence Symposium, where our eight awardees presented their great work.
👏 Congratulations to all GSEA recipients!
#SMBE2025
👏 Congratulations to all GSEA recipients!
#SMBE2025
July 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This morning ended with the Graduate Student Excellence Symposium, where our eight awardees presented their great work.
👏 Congratulations to all GSEA recipients!
#SMBE2025
👏 Congratulations to all GSEA recipients!
#SMBE2025
Reposted by Philipp Hummer
Call for #PhD students open! Apply by 14 May to start your research career in #evolution #genetics in beautiful #Vienna among a fun international and interdisciplinary crowd of peers #evolVienna #bioinformatics #bigdata #Drosophila #adaptation #popgen
April 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Call for #PhD students open! Apply by 14 May to start your research career in #evolution #genetics in beautiful #Vienna among a fun international and interdisciplinary crowd of peers #evolVienna #bioinformatics #bigdata #Drosophila #adaptation #popgen