@diyarhamidi
PhD candidate in Evolutionary Immunogenomics at the University of Hamburg M.Sc in Molecular Biology and Evolution Kiel University - MPI for Evolbio into Population genomics, Molecular evolution, Ancient DNA, and Primates ๐ฆง๐ฆ๐ฅ๏ธ๐งฌ
Dear all,
The deadline has been extended to 27 February!
We will host the 29th DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology!
Donโt miss this great opportunity to share your research, exchange ideas, and connect with other researchers in evolutionary biology.
Scan the QR for details๐
Just a quick reminder that the abstract deadline is approaching for the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology 2026: Feb 20! ๐
We still have a few places left ๐ค๐
๐ Hi #AcademicSky!
Together with @smbe-idea.bsky.social Iโm organizing a symposium at #SMBE2026 (Copenhagen) ๐ฉ๐ฐ
๐ Our mission is to ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐บ๐ผ๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ผ๐น๐ผ๐ด๐ & ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป
๐ฃ Call for abstracts ๐ข๐ฃ๐๐ก
โฐ Deadline: ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ ๐ฏ
โจ Hope to see you there! ๐
@official-smbe.bsky.social
Deadline for #SMBE2026 abstract submission is coming up (Feb 3)!
Consider symposium S14 "Evolution of Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Genomic Age", organized by @jcwinternitz.bsky.social, @arcova.bsky.social, @michalvinkler.bsky.social and @diyarhamidi.bsky.social.
Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961
Join the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Hamburg, March 25-27, 2026. Theme: Interactions and Coevolution. PhD students & early postdocs can register. More info: https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/evolutionaere-immungenomik/dzg-meeting.html #conference
Step back and think about thisโฆitโs INCREDIBLE
We can sequence DNA from an extinct species thatโs been dead for thousands of years. Not only that, we can sequence DNA from another extinct species that first extinct species ate as its last mealโฆto learn about population dynamics of the extinct prey.
A fantastic meeting is coming ๐ฅณ
This year DZG Evo Bio Graduate meeting will be in Hamburg, chase the red queen ๐ @dzg-evol.bsky.social
Really grateful to the people in Hamburg for hosting the graduate meeting this year. Join them it will be great!
This year, we are hosting and organizing the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology at Hamburg Uni with an exciting theme and amazing invited speakers!
For more information and registration, please visit our website:
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung...
Same-sex sexual behaviour is part of the normal social life of some primates and could play an important part in their long-term success
go.nature.com/4qNGo1I
I participated in the amazing PopGroup @popgroup2026.bsky.social for the first time in Lille, and it was a great experience to present my work for the first time.
Many thanks to everyone who organized and participated.
I am already very excited for the next ones!
SMBE2026 Symposium 14 | Evolution of host-pathogen interactions in the genomic age
SMBE2026 Symposium 14 | Evolution of host-pathogen interactions in the genomic age
๐จ Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
๐ Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
We are very excited to be organising this symposium at SMBE @official-smbe.bsky.social next year! We look forward to your abstracts and to being in Copenhagen!
For a nice overview of what ancient DNA can tell us about pathogens (produced by undergraduate and graduate students in my lab!) see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOE...
Depictions of evolution where a phylogeny often has humans on the far right or top can give an impression of evolution being progressive of leading to โincreased complexityโ when it does not. Top figure shows such a phylogeny which can look the same as โthe March of progressโ depiction most commonly used to depict evolution (showing monkey to man erroneous march of evolution) - instead swiveling some nodes on a phylogeny where humans are shown closer to the center (which doesnโt change relationships) can lead to better โtree thinkingโ
New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or โincreased complexityโ).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
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Makalemiz artฤฑk sadece okunmuyor, izleniyor! Kurgu deฤil, gerรงek bilim ๐๐
Teลekkรผrler Hacettepe โค๏ธ
@science.org
๐ Yapay zeka animasyonumuza acil bakฤฑn:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3_C...
Bunte Regenbogen-Pride-Flagge weht vor Bรผrogebรคude mit Glasfassade und grauen Wรคnden.
Es ist Pride Week in Hamburg! ๐ Dieses Mal unter dem Motto: โWir sind hier, um zu bleiben. Queere Menschen schรผtzen.โ Und auch dieses Jahr heiรt es wieder: #HamburgzeigtFlagge Wir sind dabei und haben vor dem Hauptgebรคude und vor der Verwaltung im Mittelweg gehisst! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
๐พ Agriculture didnโt always spread with mobility of people.
New ancient DNA research shows that in western Anatolia, while communities stayed put, farming and village life spread through the movement of ideas and practices.
Detecting and quantifying rare sex in natural populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657731v1
An effective marker for water frog systematics, including complex systems and hybrids ๐ค
โStructure and Evolution of the uqcrfs1 Gene in Western Palearctic Water Frogs (Genus Pelophylax) and Implications for Systematics of Eastern Mediterranean Speciesโ
DOI: doi.org/10.1155/jzs/...
Our paper (w/ @smishra677.bsky.social) is now out in Genetics!
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
Stรคrkung fรผr die Forschung am UKE: Die @dfg.de hat zwei neue Sonderforschungsbereiche zum mรผtterlichen Immunsystem und zu Nierenfiltern bewilligt. Diese werden in den kommenden vier Jahren mit insgesamt 29 Millionen Euro gefรถrdert. Auch Forschende aus Lรผbeck, Berlin, Kรถln und Mรผnster sind beteiligt.
๐จ Donโt miss the 1st HAAM-radio symposium: "Ethics in Human DNA Research"
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May 29 (next week!)
๐ LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm)
๐๏ธ With @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jenniferraff.bsky.social @marisolespitia.bsky.social & Tomรกs Gozรกlez Zarzar
๐ Register by May 28
๐ shorturl.at/1VScZ
Genomic Insights into Derived Dwarfism and Exudivory in a Genus (Callithrix) of the World's Smallest Anthropoid Monkeys https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654637v1
Marmosets are diverse in morphology and diet. We study these differences through an evolutionary lens and implications for marmoset conservation and husbandry. This work took 10 years thru major world events, moving across three continents, and driving all over Brazil. Check out the pre-print!
This is a great opportunity to compare the headline they use to get you to click through to the actual substance of the article.
These aren't dire wolves. They're gene-edited "99.9% grey wolves." This isn't a scientific breakthrough, it's CRISPR editing with a marketing wing.
We just succeeded in formally linking a specific rodent species - the otherwise charming fire-footed rope squirrel - to the onset of a mpox outbreak in a primate species - sooty mangabeys. Here Kaiโs report on the preprint we released yesterday 1/2
Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released!
(Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
๐ข new paper alert for the primate and genomics nerds. telomere to telomere ape genomes. I led MHC annotations on this work w/ @biotobi.bsky.social and @meyerbritta.bsky.social And hey itโs my first nature paper ๐ฅณ www.nature.com/articles/s41...