We're delighted to announce the poster prize winner for our 2026 #Biodiversity25 conference🥇
Congratulations to Loveday Lewin, University Of Sussex for your work on: A comparative analysis of long-term effective population sizes across eukaryotes🌳👏
Join us to showcase your work: bit.ly/4nCc8Fl
Congratulations to Loveday Lewin, University Of Sussex for your work on: A comparative analysis of long-term effective population sizes across eukaryotes🌳👏
Join us to showcase your work: bit.ly/4nCc8Fl
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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We’re learning so much from these gull genomes, and there’s still plenty more to discover! 🪶✨🧬
Keep an eye on the #LarOmics project!
#Genomics #Evolution #Biodiversity25
Keep an eye on the #LarOmics project!
#Genomics #Evolution #Biodiversity25
Elisa Ramos brings us a presentation about #gulls at the #biodiversity25. The large white-headed gulls lineage has one of the faster #radiation processes of the birds of the northern hemisphere. LarOmics project aims to elucidate the genetic base of the gull #evolution.
October 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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We close the #biodiversity25 conference with a keynote presentation by Ute Hentschel Humeida about the basis of #sponge #symbiosis. “Life has evolved in a sea of microbes”. Microbial diversity already existed before the diversification of Eukaryotes. Host-microbes symbiosis appeared early in time.
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Sam Speak closes the session at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about #tilapia and the gene positive #selection for saline environments. There are 70 tilapia species with variation in saline tolerance. They sequenced several genomes within this group finding twelve positive selected genes.
October 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Beam Danneels continues at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about resistant chemical pollutants and induced defenses in #marine_mammals (#chemical_defensome, Chad). Cetaceans lost 2 keys TF involved in the ChD. They have developed a different path. Comparative genomics gave us some insights.
October 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Ashwini V. Mohan follows at the #biodiversity25 presenting about the #limbless Layard’s snake skink. Snakes and caecilians lost their limbs due variations in one gene, but limbless #lizards have multiple evolutionary paths. They sequenced the Nessia layardi genome (1.55Gb) native to SriLanka.
October 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Amanda Gardiner follows at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about #genetic_diversity in sharks, rays and other vertebrates. She analyzed ROH, homozygous regions in vertebrates genomes produced by the VGP. Critically endangered species have more frequently long ROH than other species.
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Niklas Wahlberg opens last day session at the #biodiversity25 with a wonderful presentation about diversification in #Lepidoptera. More than 1000 Lepidoptera #genomes have been sequenced! Some families have more than 100 reference genomes. They have been able to learn many things from them.
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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🎉 Congratulations to our Understanding Life conference bursary winners! We’re proud to support this talented cohort of researchers.
🔍 Interested in future opportunities to join our conferences through bursary support? Explore more: https://bit.ly/3JpQNQR
#Biodiversity25 #ScientificConference
🔍 Interested in future opportunities to join our conferences through bursary support? Explore more: https://bit.ly/3JpQNQR
#Biodiversity25 #ScientificConference
October 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Simona Buonanno closes the 2nd day session at #biodiversity25 presenting benthic genomes in #ascidians. Botryllus schlosseri is a #species_complex. They sequenced 9 ascidian species, including 2 clades of B. schlosseri. BUSCO was higher than 90% for all the genomes.
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Elisa Ramos brings us a presentation about #gulls at the #biodiversity25. The large white-headed gulls lineage has one of the faster #radiation processes of the birds of the northern hemisphere. LarOmics project aims to elucidate the genetic base of the gull #evolution.
October 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Callum Thomas follows in the afternoon session at #biodiversity25 talking about the development of a #black_soldier_fly #pangenome. They can be used to produce protein for animals feeding. They can be fed by food waste. They are building a pangenome with individuals from different populations.
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Camilla Mazzoni follows at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about #sloths. Analysis of these genomes revealed that sloths have the higher content of LTR/copia in mammals, some impacting metabolic mitochondrial genes. Genomic studies can help to implement more efficient conservation actions.
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Claire Merot opens the afternoon session at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about the structural genetic diversity across the tree of life. Structural variants (SVs) are in order de magnitude higher than SNPs. TEs accounts for many SVs. SVs are different across different lineages.
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Eniko Kiss closes the symbiosis genomics session at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about #convergent_evolution. Mycorrhiza symbiosis is a good example of convergent evolution. Gene family analysis failed to find gene gains rather than losses. PCOC & ESL-PSC methods were used to overcome it
October 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Merce Montoliu brings us a presentation about wonderful #lichens at the #biodiversity25. Lichens are associations between mycobionts (fungi), photobionts (green algae or cianobacteria) and microbiomes. 38 different lichens were sequenced in DToL & ASH. Results show complex multiorganismal scenarios
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Jose V. Lopez follows at the #biodiversity25 presenting about the giant barrel #sponge genome. We are facing massive extinction event in marine reefs so we need to study sponges before they disappear. Sponges have distinctive #symbiotic microbiomes providing important ecosystem services.
October 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Amjad Khalaf follows the symbiosis genomics session at #biodiversity25 presenting about #microsporidia tetraploid genomes. Most of them are recent autotetraploids. An interesting model of reproduction is proposed with two different paths: sexual and asexual reproduction.
October 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Symbiosis genomic session at #biodiversity25 begins with a presentation by Mike Sweet about the #coral genome project. The coral reef bleaching is growing at alarming rate reaching 84% this year. By 2030, they may disappear. Some tools have been developed to slow down the process and allow survival.
October 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Start of the Symbiosis Genomics session at #Biodiversity25 !
October 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Second day at the #biodiversity25 starts either a presentation by Arnau Sebe-Pedros about #cell_types. Cell types are functional and evolutionary units of animal multicellularity. Biodiversity Cell Atlas aims to scale up the application of single cell method across the tree of life.
October 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Kai Ye closes the first session at the #biodiversity25 presenting about genome architecture evolution derived from 1000 species HiC data analysis. They use zoom-out approach. Checkerboard score (structural complexity) correlates with species complexity.
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Nomar Waminal brings us a plant-based presentation at #biodiversity25 talking about a #crocus pan-repeatome. Crocus has an ancestral WGD prediversification. Then specific lineages have another more recent WGD. Repeats facilitated descending dysploidy and genome size expansion.
October 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Tomas Hron follows at #biodiversity25 with a presentation about #avian evolution and #dot_chromosomes. Ten years ago new “hidden avian” genes appeared like the chicken genome. They are mostly associated to micro and dot chromosomes. Dot chromosomes are repeated-rich and a high gene loss rate.
October 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Aleksandra Bliznina follows at #biodiversity25 with a presentation about the #evolution of the chromosomes in dark-winged fungus gnats. Autosome and GRCs chromosomes vary across different species. 3 genomes wasn’t enough to elucidate de origins of these chromosomes, so they went for 20!
October 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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