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In the second episode from @popgroup2026.bsky.social in Lille, plenary speakers @clairemerot.bsky.social & Denis Roze tell us about their talks and their experience at the conference.

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ExE 2026

Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Then you cannot miss #ExE2026! Hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall, this #conference has a stellar line-up of speakers and lots of pre-and post-conference workshops. Space is limited, so register now at evoxeco.uk!

Cover image ‘Female leopard in the Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape’, copyright [Cape Leopard Trust], used with kind permission [Jeannine Hayward, Cape Leopard Trust]

February issue out now

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📸 © Jeannine Hayward, Cape Leopard Trust

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Registrations are now OPEN! Join us in Newcastle for the “RNA in Physiology and Disease” conference, an international meeting bringing together world-leading RNA biologists and emerging researchers.

Early bird deadline: 1 May
Abstract deadline: 30 June
Register now: genetics.org.uk/events/rna-i...

Come celebrate our Anniversary Day in Edinburgh, 25 & 26 June!

Join us for talks from our Honorary Members, Prize & Medal winners, and our Summer Students.

Programme & registration details: genetics.org.uk/events/anniv...

Relaunch of our London Fly Meeting - whole afternoon of amazing science @ucl @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social sponsored by @gensocuk.bsky.social

Pleasure giving a recap of a wonderful PopGroup conference, and the opportunity to talk about my research.
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🎙️🔊📻 New Heredity podcast!

From PopGroup 59 in Lille.

Plenary speaker Florencia Camus talks about:
1. The conference
2. Conflict and coadaptation between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes

Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species - Heredity Heredity - Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species

Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species
@caitismuheil.bsky.social

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Genetic diversity and structure lag the effects of contemporary environmental changes in a platypus meta-population - Heredity Heredity - Genetic diversity and structure lag the effects of contemporary environmental changes in a platypus meta-population

Genetic diversity and structure lag the effects of contemporary environmental changes in a platypus meta-population

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pleased to be able to offer a summer placement at the Exeter Centre for Hyperinsulinism Genetics through this scheme. The Research Access Placements programme is open to undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds
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Pleased to be able to offer a summer placement at the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics @cardiffuni.bsky.social through this scheme.
Research Access Placements are open to undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds
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Dwarfism in Pinus taeda originates from independent somatic mutations co-localized in a shared genomic region - Heredity Heredity - Dwarfism in Pinus taeda originates from independent somatic mutations co-localized in a shared genomic region

Dwarfism in Pinus taeda originates from independent somatic mutations co-localized in a shared genomic region

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Balancing selection maintains intraspecific diversity in a deep-sea fish - Heredity Heredity - Balancing selection maintains intraspecific diversity in a deep-sea fish

Balancing selection maintains intraspecific diversity in a deep-sea fish

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rapid evolution of a large structural polymorphism during a bacterial epidemic - Heredity Heredity - Rapid evolution of a large structural polymorphism during a bacterial epidemic

Rapid evolution of a large structural polymorphism during a bacterial epidemic

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⭐ Check out our January issue ⭐

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Glad to receive a PhD prize from the @gensocuk.bsky.social for the work I lead on the origin and diversification of stratified epithelia.
Thanks to @frelab.bsky.social , the lab, and all collaborators involved.
Special thanks to @candice-merle.bsky.social for her help throughout the project.

Congratulations to our student prize winners!

All winners will present their work at out Anniversary Day event on 25 and 26th of June in Edinburgh: genetics.org.uk/events/anniv...

Congratulations to Daniel Malawsky, the winner of our 2026 postgraduate Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Prize for their work with Dr @hilarycmartin.bsky.social!

genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...

Congratulations to Dr @robinjournot.bsky.social, the winner of our 2026 Bruce Cattanach Prize for his PhD research into the genetic and evolutionary basis of epithelial stratification!

genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...

Congratulations to Shaoqi Wang, the winner of the 2026 Undergraduate Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Prize for her work with Prof Anne Ferguson-Smith.

genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...

Deadline extended! You now have more time to apply for our Communicating Your Science workshop (15–17 April).

Apply today and take your communication skills to the next level: genetics.org.uk/grants/comm-...

Incorporating spatial and genetic competition into breeding pipelines with the R package gencomp - Heredity Heredity - Incorporating spatial and genetic competition into breeding pipelines with the R package gencomp

Honorable mention: Methods paper

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triangulaR: an R package for identifying AIMs and building triangle plots using SNP data from hybrid zones - Heredity Heredity - triangulaR: an R package for identifying AIMs and building triangle plots using SNP data from hybrid zones

Honorable mention: Computer Note

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Annual Heredity prize for the Best Student Paper 2025 We are pleased to announce the winners of the annual prize for the best student-led paper in Heredity for 2025. As before the quality of papers was very high ...

Check out the shortlisted "student paper prize" manuscripts from 2025

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Five millennia of mitonuclear discordance in Atlantic bluefin tuna identified using ancient DNA - Heredity Heredity - Five millennia of mitonuclear discordance in Atlantic bluefin tuna identified using ancient DNA

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1st runner up: Well done Emma Falkeid Eriksen! @biovitenskap.bsky.social #bluefin tuna

Rate of de novo mutations in the three-spined stickleback - Heredity Heredity - Rate of de novo mutations in the three-spined stickleback

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 2nd runner up - Great work Chaowei Zhang @ University of Hong Kong and University of Helsinki

Too big to purge: persistence of deleterious Mutations in Island populations of the European Barn Owl (Tyto alba) - Heredity Heredity - Too big to purge: persistence of deleterious Mutations in Island populations of the European Barn Owl (Tyto alba)

1st prize - well done Eléonore Lavanchy @unil.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Image of two barn owls copyright Quentin Fort. Accompanying the winning paper of the 2025 student paper prize "Too big to purge: persistence of deleterious Mutations in Island populations of the European Barn Owl (Tyto alba)".

Congratulations 🎉

We are pleased to announce the winners of the annual prize for the best student-led paper in Heredity for 2025. The award for this year goes to Eléonore Lavanchy from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Check out the latest episode of the Heredity Podcast where @tillypemburysmith.bsky.social and @rhondasnook.bsky.social talk about their recent paper examining the effects of heat stress on mating systems!