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Sishuo Wang

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sessional prof at chinese univ of hong kong (cuhk), alumni beijing agric univ & ubc. phylogenetics, computational molecular evolution sishuowang2022.wordpress.com

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Nov 25

use Feeds to track #phylogenetics posts:
bsky.app/profile/sish... #phylo #phylogenetics

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · 11d

Last days for submission

ISCB News @iscb.bsky.social · 24d

🌍 Join us in Hong Kong for GIW ISCB-Asia! Dive into #bioinformatics and #computationalbiology, meet top minds, and explore cutting-edge topics.

📆 Submission deadline: Sept 29, 2025

Submit your work now: https://www.iscb.org/asia2025/call-for-submissions/abstracts

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Aug 26

thx for the suggestion! will talk to the committee and hopefully there will be an update soon.

Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Eukaryotic Pathogen, Vector, and Host Informatics Resources (VEuPathDB) launched a subscription service to cover half its budget. If you feel the db is useful for your research, pls consider a subcription. veupathdb.org/veupathdb/app/

VEuPathDB

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Aug 26

[conf alert] The 4th AsiaEvo Conf. in Kunming, China, Dec 8-11, 2025. Join scholars and young researchers to explore cutting-edge #evobio. Free registration for researchers from SouthEast Asia countries. For submission see instructions at
2025asiaevoconf.casconf.cn #AsiaEvo2025 #AsiaEvo

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · Aug 25

I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Aug 21

an excellent companion study by Demotte, @mariodosreis.bsky.social & minh developed super efficient IQ2MC for a similar purpose. Our research align & complement: accurate molecular dating needs right substitution models, particularly with highly divergent sequences ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

IQ2MC: A New Framework to Infer Phylogenetic Time Trees Using IQ-TREE 3 and MCMCTree with Mixture Models

ecoevorxiv.org

Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Aug 21

github repository github.com/evolbeginner...

GitHub - evolbeginner/phyloHessianWrapper

Contribute to evolbeginner/phyloHessianWrapper development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Aug 21

New preprint! phyloHessian enables complex subs models (e.g. C60) in molecular dating via MCMCtree. Sims & real-data analysis show profile-homogeneous models (LG+G) likely cause biased time and rate estimates for deep or fast-evolving phylogenies.
#phylogenetics #JuliaLang doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Molecular Clock Dating of Deep-Time Evolution Using Complex Mixture Models

Molecular clocks are a fundamental technique in evolutionary biology for establishing the timing and tempo of organismal divergence. However, currently available molecular clock methods, which often r...

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Zhou Qi @zhouqi1982.bsky.social · Aug 18

We are organizing a symposium in the 4th AsiaEvo Conferenence this December in #Kunming about #appendage featuring the Palentologist Xing Xu at IVPP, Dev. biologist Cheng-Ming Chung from USC and evodevoist @MonteiroLab Antonia Monteiro from NUS. Submit your abstract now!

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ISCB News @iscb.bsky.social · Aug 18

🌏 Join us in Hong Kong this December for GIW / ISCB-Asia 2025!
🧬 Present your latest research and connect with the global bioinformatics and computational biology community.
📅 Submit by Sept 29: https://www.iscb.org/asia2025/call-for-submissions

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Aug 10

Modeling site-and-branch-heterogeneity with GFmix https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669136v1

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DEEMteam_Orsay @deemteam.bsky.social · Jul 23

Check out our paper to explore how the evolutionary history of SELMA supports or challenges various hypotheses on the origin of red complex plastids.

academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

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Jing Li (李婧） @jingli-0512.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is my first time to attend SMBE annual meeting and co-organize the Symposium. Thanks to @official-smbe.bsky.social
and really enjoyed to discuss science with friends and colleagues during these days :-)

Jia-Xing Yue (岳家兴) @iamphioxus.bsky.social · Jul 22

Super honored to have chance to co-organize the #SMBE2025 Symposium on Experimental Evolution, together with @jingli-0512.bsky.social and Dao-Qiong Zheng. Thank @petrovadmitri.bsky.social for serving as our invited speaker. Also thank all the oral/poster presenters and audience. @OfficialSMBE

Prof. Dmitri Petrov delivering his talk.

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Jul 23

Dinner in Beijing local restaurant after day 3 poster session #smbe2025

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Jul 22

Day2 #smbe2025 started!

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Jul 20

Ziheng kicks off #smbe2025 with 6 impossibles before breakfast.

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PCI Genomics @genomics.peercommunityin.org · Jul 19

📑 New @genomics.peercommunityin.org recommendation, by @sishuowang.bsky.social
genomics.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

On the work of David Robelin et al. (2025) localScore: an R package to highlight optimal and suboptimal segment in a sequence with associated p-values computation

#OpenAccess

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Jul 19

Coming to #smbe2025 by train transferring at guangzhou 广州with kid. Look forward to seeing you in Beijing. Thx @official-smbe.bsky.social for free day care.

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Jul 18

during #smbe2025, hastag #smbe2025 will automatically be re-posted in this feed

Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Nov 25

use Feeds to track #phylogenetics posts:
bsky.app/profile/sish... #phylo #phylogenetics

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Zhou Qi @zhouqi1982.bsky.social · Jul 15

There will be a special session during @official-smbe.bsky.social 2025 this year to introduce the Mol Biol Evol studies in China: smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/index.... My student Huangyi and postdoc Jing Liu will be giving a talk in two other symposiums. See u in Beijing!

Reminder

https://smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/index/2…

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Jul 14

i guess "straightforward" is a better word; updated in the blog post

Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Jul 11

some thoughts on new methods to root a phylogenomic tree: the smart, the symbiotic, the violent

sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/n...

#phylo
@tweethinking.bsky.social @andrewjroger.bsky.social

New Ways to Root Phylogenomic trees: the Smart, the symbiotic, the violent

To root a phylogenomic tree is very important to study the evolutionary relationship between species. However, typically the substitution models (say GTR, LG, etc.) people use are time-reversible m…

sishuowang2022.wordpress.com

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Jul 10

#smbe2025: train travel? note that in summer, train tickets only sold 15 days before in china. can book ahead, but no guarantee of success so do check its status 15 days before your travel.

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · Jun 23

The first Keynote speech of #SMBE2025 will be given by SMBE's President Ziheng Yang (@zihengyang.bsky.social).

"Six impossible things to believe before breakfast, about gene flow"

20.07.2025 | 18h00

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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · Jun 20

so pleased to host the visit of @mariodosreis.bsky.social to my dept. amaizingly great talk with many beautiful discoveries on positive selection and molecular clock! typhoon Wutip (the butterfly 蝴蝶) just grazed hong kong, so enjoyed a great hiking and much brainstorm in the tropical storm!