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Roberto Biello
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Evolutionary biologist | #Conservation #Genomics #PopGen | #Tortoises et al 🐢🐸🐳🐻🐉🦋
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Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
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September 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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This is now published at #MolecularEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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August 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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🚀 PhD Opportunity 🎓: Why do some species survive #climatechange while others vanish?

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🐚Unravel rapid #evolution & #adaptation, biological invasions & extinction
🐚Integrate #PopGen, #consgen, ecology & more
🐚Turn science into conservation action

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Interested in joining the group as a student or researcher? Are you looking for support in applying for funding opportunities? Do you see opportunities for collaborations and synergies? Please ...
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May 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🐻New preprint🐻
We analysed WGS data from the Apennine brown bear—a small and isolated population which has coexisted with humans for millennia—and found unique genomic diversity, including adaptation associated with reduced aggressiveness.
#ConsGen #Genomics #Bears
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May 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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We have a new pre-print!

If you are interested in #smallpopulations, here we show how selection may shape behavioral traits in small isolated populations. We also show selective signatures at genes associated with reduced aggressiveness, possibly involving alternative splicing
#consgen #popgen
Coexisting with humans: genomic and behavioural consequences in a small and isolated bear population https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654188v1
May 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I'll be teaching in the SIBE Summer School in Ferrara, from the 7th to 11th of September.
Great place to learn about PopGen, comparative genomics and ✨Conservation Genomics✨
🚨Deadline to apply: 11th of May🚨
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SIBE summer school
SIBE SUMMER SCHOOL 2025 7th − 11th September 2025 FERRARA (ITALY) Overview The analysis of genomic data has become increasingly feasible, even in non-model organisms, thanks to the “omics” revolution...
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May 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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What can genome sequence data reveal about population viability? (And equally important, what CAN'T it reveal??) These are key questions that @martykardos.bsky.social, Lukas Keller, and I address in our new paper in a Molecular Ecology special issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#congens
December 18, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social) on the molecular mechanisms on plant-aphid interactions. Here we show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anaesthetic to suppress the plant perception of aphid attack
November 18, 2024 at 9:58 AM