University Lecturer in Biostatistics University Lecturer in Biostatistics

We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻
DL 14 September

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Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals How Plasticity and Genetic Differentiation Underlie Sympatric Morphs of Arctic Charr Salmonids have a remarkable ability to form sympatric morphs after postglacial colonisation of freshwater lakes. These morphs often differ in morphology, feeding and spawning behaviour. Here, we expl....

Arctic charr #genome - a highly polygenic basis of morph differentiation with population-specific selection on alleles linked to the development of similar morph phenotypes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

👇 This is an excellent opportunity to join this fantastic group led by our great new colleague Prof. Melissa Chapman @milliechapman.bsky.social at the USYS Department @usyseth.bsky.social ofETH Zürich @ethz.ch as doctoral student or postdoc!

Famous psychology trick works on octopuses too YouTube video by New Scientist

We discuss the startling news that the rubber hand illusion works on OCTOPUSES m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q8B...

Repressive cytosine methylation is a marker of viral gene transfer across divergent eukaryotes Abstract. Cytosine DNA methylation patterns vary widely across eukaryotes, with its ancestral roles being understood to have included both transposable ele

Happy to see our latest work out in @molbioevol.bsky.social. We revisit the evolution of 5-methylcytosine across neglected eukaryotic supergroups, establishing an ancestral repressive role silencing genome invaders, both transposons and viral elements👾: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-... 🧵 1/7

Just want to share this wild revision history of the Wikipedia page on Linkage Disequilibrium where Felsenstein himself debated people on the correct use of notations & definitions.

After 100 years of #popgen people does not seem to be totally agree on what LD is?

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Illustration depicting the ways in which fungi can exchange genetic material with each other. Starship mediated HGT is confirmed experimentally in this preprint.

We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The secret to what makes colours pop on dazzling songbirds Hidden layers of colour in the plumage of tanagers and some other songbirds explain what makes them so eye-catching

Painters often prime a canvas with a layer of white to make it smoother, stronger and to enhance the colours they will later layer on, but it seems this is a mechanism that birds were using long before humans picked up paintbrushes.

1/5 ✨Proud✨ to see our review with Katie Peichel as featured content in Trends_Ecol_Evo, with my beloved alpine lineages of Arabidopsis arenosa on the cover. Hope that you find it interesting! doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.007

Switzerland joins the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA) Following the successful demonstration of secure infrastructure for storing and sharing sensitive patient data, Switzerland has now officially joined the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEG...

🎉🧬🇨🇭 Researchers in Switzerland can soon deposit human genomics data in a secure national archive, and control access to researchers around the world, with Swiss FEGA joining the international FEGA network 👇

Swiss FEGA is consortium of six institutions, including at @ethz.ch, coordinated by SIB.

Lepidopteran genomes have denser transposable elements in smaller chromosomes, likely driven by non-allelic homologous recombination Abstract. Transposable elements (TEs) drive major genome size and structural variations, yet evolutionary forces affecting their accumulation and removal r

#TEsky Lepidopteran genomes have denser transposable elements in smaller chromosomes, likely driven by non-allelic homologous recombination doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

“Invest in data resources to make FAIR a reality”, a correspondence penned by our director, @dessimoz.bsky.social, @francesarnold.bsky.social‬, Richard J. Roberts, and @timjph.bsky.social, published in Nature.

Seen a potential problem in a published article? Wonder whether and how to respond? Here are some thoughts on how to figure out what's best for you. Happy to hear your thoughts...

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Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation

MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025

→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)

submit abstract by July 29

11.2 million francs for biodiversity The National Research Programme “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services“ (NRP 82) is supporting 15 research projects.

The National Research Programme “Promoting #Biodiversity and Sustainable Ecosystem Services for Switzerland” (NRP 82) is supporting 15 projects with a total of 11.2 million francs. And it is doing so with an approach that is completely new in #Switzerland.

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Job opportunity Postdoctoral Researcher (m/w/div) in “Microbial Infection Strategies” at Leibniz HKI Jobportal Wissenschaft/Forschung in Jena

📣 I’m recruiting a #Postdoc to help us further our understanding on the infection strategies of our human fungal pathogen. If you’re enthusiastic about research, our interdisciplinary group @leibniz-hki.de will be a good fit for you! Please share!
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Convergent Evolution of Sociality Causes Reduction of Mutation Rates in Spiders Germline mutations play a crucial role in determining the rate of molecular evolution. In the spider genus Stegodyphus, sociality has independently evolved three times within the past million years, e...

🕷️🕸️🧬 whole #genome sequencing of 202 parent-offspring trios from 34 families across 3 social & 4 subsocial species - sociality is associated with an approximately 50% reduction in germline mutation rate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #biodiversity #genomics

11 Funded PhD Positions in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen in Germany Explore 11 fully funded PhD opportunities in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen. Work on groundbreaking research in genome evolution, reproductive systems, and bioinformatics. Apply before September 1, 2025!

11 Funded PhD Positions in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen in Germany

Explore 11 fully funded PhD opportunities in Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Göttingen. Work on groundbreaking research in genome evolution, reproductive systems, and bioinformatics. Apply before…

In #G3journal, Ziming Zhong, Bruce A. McDonald, and @jessstapley.bsky.social identified genomic regions associated with colony growth and melanization under temperature conditions in the wheat pathogen, showing how the pathogenic fungi respond to temperature stress.

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Special Issue: Advancing species conservation and management through omics tools: Molecular Ecology Resources: Vol 25, No 5 Molecular Ecology Resources is a broad journal publishing computer programs, statistical & molecular advances & more for studies in evolution, ecology & conservation.

A great collection of papers here ... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17550998... Special Issue: Advancing species conservation and management through omics tools

An Increase in Male Recombination Rate With Age in Dairy Cattle Is Heritable and Polygenic Meiotic recombination is an essential process for shuffling genetic diversity in sexually reproducing organisms, can vary within and between individuals in response to intrinsic and extrinsic factors....

Milking it - leveraging large pedigree-SNP dataset to study age-related changes in Recombination in Dairy cattle. Finally out thanks to a very talented student Evelyn Jade and a dedicated academic @annasanture.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

13 PhD Positions in Food Science at University of Naples Federico II, Italy – Open for International Students The University of Naples Federico II has opened applications for the 41st PhD cycle (2025/2026), offering fully funded opportunities for international students. Deadline: July 7, 2025.

13 PhD Positions in Food Science at University of Naples Federico II, Italy – Open for International Students

The University of Naples Federico II has opened applications for the 41st PhD cycle (2025/2026), offering fully funded opportunities for international students. Deadline: July 7, 2025.

The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery Long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces this special issue on ‘The Fungi’.

The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery – a long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces the special issue on ‘The Fungi’. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...

Incredibly sad. Triste.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chinese nationals accused of smuggling 'biological pathogen' into US Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu allegedly brought into the US a fungus which damages a variety of crops and is toxic to humans and animals.

Two caught Smuggling Fusarium graminearum into US www.bbc.com/news/article...

184 PhD Funded Positions in All Research Fields at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy Discover 184 fully funded PhD opportunities across multiple disciplines at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Open to all nationalities. Apply online by June 30, 2025.

184 PhD Funded Positions in All Research Fields at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy

Discover 184 fully funded PhD opportunities across multiple disciplines at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Open to all nationalities. Apply online by June 30, 2025.

What joy & privilege to work with such amazing people - today a brilliant scientist I mentored successfully defended his PhD with NO REVISIONS!, a manuscript written by then undergrad was accepted, my beautiful group bought me a birthday cake and my dear friend and collaborator bought me flowers

Two academic (lecturer) positions available at the University of Otago in Aotearoa/New Zealand! One in Conservation Biology, another in Evolutionary Ecology. Links for positions below:
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Happy to announce that registration for the 2025 Stromlo Plant Pathology (and plant pests!) conference at ANU is now open (Nov 27-28). Plenary speakers confirmed include @yasukadota.bsky.social, Cecile Segonzac and@thamlab.bsky.social. Please go to tinyurl.com/2rdxuap3 to register - all are welcome!

Synteny Enabled Upgrade of the Galapagos Giant Tortoise Genome Improves Inferences of Runs of Homozygosity Here we update the reference genome for the Pinta Island Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis abingdonii) through rescaffolding against the most closely related chromosome-level genome assembly, the...

Upgraded CheloAbing_2.0 assembly resulted in individual estimates of inbreeding, including ROH proportion (FROH), number (NROH), and cumulative length (SROH), that were statistically different from those derived from the draft #genome onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🐢