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Reappraising the role of whole genome duplication and rediploidisation in eukaryotic evolution. Funded by BBSRC Strategic Longer and Larger scheme. Check out our website for information about the project, team and more! https://www.rediploidisation.org/

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Apr 4

We are excited to announce the 'official' start of our BBSRC funded sLoLa project, where we aim to uncover the role of rediploidisation in shaping evolution after genome duplication events across the tree of life!

Find out more:
www.rediploidisation.org

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#WGDip #BBSRC

Experts examine DNA changes that shaped life on Earth

Four-year collaborative project seeks to understand key process linked to evolution.

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · 6d

📢Meet the team!

Lora Downes is a Project Manager in the Tree of Life Programme (buff.ly/ytXalMi) at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She will support the delivery of chromosome-level assemblies for key species in WGDip!

Find her on LinkedIn: buff.ly/WewE2bz

WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · 13d

📢Meet the team!

Dr. Manu Kumar Gundappa is a #WGDip Project Partner from Wageningen University & Research. Using fish as a model system, his research focuses on developing comparative & functional genomic approaches to explore fundamental biological questions.

Find out more:🐟
shorturl.at/OC8OU

WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · 20d

📢Meet the team!

Dr. Zoe Vance is a Post-Doc from the University of Bath. With a background in genetics, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics, she will develop methods and approaches for examining rediploidisation across systems.

Find out more about her research:💻🧬
shorturl.at/MOcfe

WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · 27d

📢Meet the team!

Dr. Tom Williams is a project co-lead from the University of Bath. As a computational evolutionary biologist, his research focuses on reconstructing the history of life and studying genome evolution in Archaea, Bacteria and Microbial Eukaryotes

Find out more: 💻🌱
shorturl.at/Wr1Yv

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Sep 3

📢Meet the team!

Dr. Morgane Milin is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. Her past research has focused on recurrent polyploidy and diploidization, looking to detect and date WGD events in grasses. As part of this work, she developed a bioinformatics tool called WGD_Tracker.🌾💻

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Aug 28

📢Meet the team!
Dr. Drew Larson is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on evolutionary processes such as adaptation, divergence, gene duplication & introgression, which shape organisms’ genomes & biodiversity across phylogenetic scales🌐🧬

Find out more: shorturl.at/FzmPD

WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Aug 19

The WGDip team had a great first day at #ESEB2025!

It was great to see everyone who attended our symposium yesterday on “Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions” 💬🧬

Still an exciting week ahead for all!🤗
#WGDip @eseb2025.bsky.social

Image of a presentation titled "Whole Genome Duplicatio, diploidisation and macroevolution in land plants". By Dr. James Clark.

Image of presentation "Rediplopidisation: Uncoding the evolutionary potential of whole genome duplication". By Prof. Aoife McLysaght

Crowd at Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions symposium

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · Aug 17

#eseb2025 has started. So many friends and colleagues around. This is amazing. Welcome everyone to Barcelona!

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Aug 12

📝New Publication🧪
Congratulations to team members Finn McHale and Peter Holland for their paper exploring the evolution of duplicated Hox Gene clusters in land snails and slugs, showing similar retention patterns following WGD in vertebrates and invertebrates🐌
@jezb1904.bsky.social
shorturl.at/AM5AB

Evolution of Duplicated Hox Gene Clusters in Land Snails and Slugs

Molluscs of the order Stylommatophora underwent an ancient genome duplication. We show that stylommatophoran snails and slugs have two broken and incomplete Hox gene clusters; HoxA generally has 9 ge...

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Aug 6

Dr Nicola Stock is a public engagement specialist at the University of Edinburgh. After starting her career in bioscience research, she followed her passion for communicating science, joining the Roslin Institute in 2012 and building a vibrant, inclusive public engagement with research programme 🗣️💬🧬

WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Jul 31

📢Meet the team!

Dr. Dearbhaile Casey (@dervc.bsky.social) is a Research Co-Lead from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on whole genome duplications and their consequences in Acipenseriformes and lesser-studied invertebrates.

Find out more about her research: 🧬🐟
shorturl.at/TBM5J

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The Roslin Institute @roslininstitute.bsky.social · Jul 15

Roslin Reels - The Roslin Institute's Professor Dan Macqueen talks about his team's work on fish health and evolution.

For more information on our research, check out our website: www.roslin.ed.ac.uk

#RoslinReels #Aquaculture #FishHealth

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Jul 23

📢Meet the team!

Prof. Phillip Donoghue is a project co-lead from the University of Bristol. He is a palaeontologist who has long been fascinated by the timing and nature of major evolutionary transitions, especially following WGDs.

Learn more about his research:🦴
scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Jul 18

📢Meet the team!

Prof. Mark Blaxter is a Project Co-Lead from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where he leads the Tree of Life (TOL) Programme, which is producing reference genome assemblies for target species in WGDip.

Find out more about Mark's work: 💻🧬
scholar.google.com/citations?us...

WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Jul 11

📢Meet the team!

Dr. Richard Taylor, a post-doc from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on applying bioinformatic and genomic approaches to questions in biomedicine & animal health. He will use single cell transcriptomics to explore functional outcomes of whole genome duplications💻🧫

WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Jul 4

📢Meet the team!

Dr. Lucas Freitas, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Bristol. He will help to estimate the timing of WGD events and understand how delayed rediploidisation affects phenotypic traits in different species.

Find out more about his past research:💻⏰
shorturl.at/bPUZ1

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Jun 29

From the quantum jungle to DNA origami, take a look at the galaxy of live talks, hands-on activities and more that you can discover at our free Summer Science Exhibition from 1-6 July. Take a look: #SummerScience

What's on | Royal Society

Explore the daily talks and activities of the Summer Science Exhibition.

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Jun 26

📢Meet the team!

Prof. Peter Holland is a project co-lead from the University of Oxford. Peter is a molecular evolutionary biologist with many years of experience researching genome duplication events and tandem gene duplication events across the animal kingdom.

Find out more:🐌🧬
shorturl.at/BjGWR

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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · Jun 13

🌍 Interesting #Biodiversity #Genomics conference this October @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - "Understanding life: Using largescale biodiversity reference genomes" 🧬

Register today! coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/unders...

@eventswcs.bsky.social @engagewcs.bsky.social

Understanding life: Using largescale biodiversity reference genomes — 20251027

Understanding life: Using largescale biodiversity reference genomes

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Jun 19

📢Meet the team!

Dr. Alex Twyford, a project co-lead from the University of Edinburgh, and research fellow at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. He is an evolutionary biologist interested in speciation, hybridisation and polyploidy in plants.

Find out more on Alex's work: 🌼🧬
biology.ed.ac.uk/twyford

WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Jun 17

We were also lucky enough to be given a tour of both the University of Edinburgh's Natural History Collection, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social guided by project-co lead Mark Blaxter. 🐌🦴
www.nhc.ed.ac.uk

And the Easter Bush Science Outreach Centre @ebsoc.bsky.social, by Nicola Stock. 🤝🧫
shorturl.at/0i81Q

WGDip touring University of Edinburgh's Natural History Collection and Easter Bush Science Outreach Centre

WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Jun 17

We held the first (mostly) in person meeting of the WGDip project. It was a great opportunity to foster discourse across the consortium and align our goals for the project. We are all eager to get started and delve into whole genome duplication and rediploidisation in eukaryotic evolution!☀️ 🌍
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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · Jun 9

📢Meet the team!

Eilidh Elliot is our project support coordinator, based at the University of Edinburgh, and will be providing administrative support to the project leadership team, as well as supporting the design and organisation of (exciting!) public engagement activities. 📝⚙️

WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · May 30

📢Meet the team!

Dr. Emily Haley is returning to the University of Edinburgh as a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Biological Sciences. She will be using bioinformatic analyses to explore the occurrence of rediploidisation, focussing on plants.🧬🪻

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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · May 21

Taylor, @roseruizdaniels.bsky.social & Macqueen use single-nucleus RNAseq of salmon liver to show cell-specific expression divergence of thousands of gene duplicates, showing the diverse evolutionary pressures that followed whole-genome duplication.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf076

#genome #WGDip

Cell Type Resolved Expression of Duplicate Genes Retained From Whole Genome Duplication in Atlantic salmon

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