Vidya Vuruputoor

Archaea go multicellular under pressure A microbe from the Dead Sea switches to a tissue-like form when compressed

💪Everyone behaves differently under pressure, but this archaeon takes it to the next level!

Haloferax volcanii, an archaeon from the Dead Sea, can switch to a tissue-like multicellular form when exposed to mechanical pressure. Read more about this fascinating twist doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Loved #PAG33! I was a co-organizer of the ORG.one conservation genomics workshop and I had a talk in the non-seed plant workshop ( #WholeGenomeDuplication in #moss), and the forest tree workshop on disease resistance in #EasternHemlocks

Loved meeting old and new friends in sunny San Diego ☀️

So excited for #PAG33!! (and some sun)

I’m giving talks at the non-seed plant and forest tree workshop :D see you there!

@vuruputoor.bsky.social is a plant geneticist focused on advancing genetic resources and conservation for conifers. As part of the USDA-funded GIFT SEED project, she generates and analyzes genomic data for fir species to improve #Christmas tree #breeding. 🎄 🎄 🎄

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finally got my hands on this book! SO EXCITED TO READ!! the illustrations are incredible 😍🌿

Performance metrics based on 50 artificial datasets simulating an allotetraploid species.

HOBIT: LRT to detect homeolog expression shifts in allopolyploids

Sun et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Genome assembly fresh of the supercomputer, total size = 29,892,519,935 base pairs 🦎🧬

🌲🧬🦀 Calling conservation genomics scientists! 🦀🧬🌲

@uconneeb.bsky.social & @nanoporetech.com's ORG.one hosts “Genomes for Conservation of Endangered Species” workshop at #PAG33. Submit abstracts by Monday, Oct 27! Join us to advance genomic resources for conservation. #PAG2025

Celebrating the first 1000 genomes of Lepidoptera in Europe, sequenced at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social in collaboration with sampling hubs across the UK via the DToL project www.darwintreeoflife.org & across Europe via
@projectpsyche.bsky.social www.projectpsyche.org &
@10klepgenomes.bsky.social

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

A milestone for plant genomics just out @natgenet.nature.com

130 bryophyte genomes!

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

pangenome 'expansion' curves for cotton and soybean

Determining presence-absence variation (PAV) across reference genomes is a major goal of pangenome analysis. It turns out that A LOT of gene PAV is due to methodological artifacts.

We explore the causes of this in soybean and cotton datasets in our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very excited to announce @vuruputoor.bsky.social upcoming #PhD defense in @uconneeb.bsky.social ! #genomics marathon on land plant genome evolution, from the smallest to largest - special focus on conservation genomics in #hemlocks @nature.org @ebpgenome.bsky.social @uconnresearch.bsky.social

One week to go!!! So excited to host our colleagues next week in the Happy Valley of Pennsylvania! Over 150 registrants from around the world!! If you’re interested in coming but unable to join in person - email me to learn about virtual options forestgeneticsconference2025.com #forestgenetics2025

Thanks, @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social and Bernard Goffinet, for guiding us through it all!! I

A high definition picture of the moss, Funaria hygrometrica

Thrilled to share our new paper as co-first author with @nikishapatel.bsky.social 🌱🧪

We explore whole genome duplication and its effect on gene expression in moss as it shifts from haploid (n) to diploid (2n) gametophyte via apospory.

Please check it out: doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Perfect spring day in the conifer collection @arnoldarboretum.bsky.social for the @nature.org Trees In Peril meeting: inspiring discussions to continue conservation efforts @uconnresearch.bsky.social @vuruputoor.bsky.social @meghanmyles.bsky.social @airianna-mcguire.bsky.social #beech #hemlock #ash

Polyploidy Webinar 2 April 2025 YouTube video by Mike Barker

The recording of last week's #PolyploidyWebinar featuring @raymondcast.bsky.social and @erichagen.bsky.social is now up! youtu.be/zmUyTO3jN6s

I’m really excited to share an update on my work with the eastern hemlocks! Please join if you can! 🌲

Arnold Clifford, Navajo Botanist, holds up a pressed herbarium specimen of an undescribed species of thistle found in Carrizo mountain.

The roof of Carrizo Mountain Herbarium caving in, leaving herbarium cabinets inside vulnerable to snow and rain.

🚨Urgent: Help Save Decades of Work by Navajo Botanists🚨

For decades, Arnold Clifford has built up the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. Now, this collection is at risk—snowstorms are causing the roof to cave in, putting >30,000 specimens in danger.

#IndigenousScience #Conservation #MutualAid #botany

Genome Assembly of a Living Fossil, the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab Limulus polyphemus, Reveals Lineage-Specific Whole-Genome Duplications, Transposable Element-Based Centromeres, and a ZW Sex Chromosome ... Abstract. Horseshoe crabs, considered living fossils with a stable morphotype spanning ∼445 million years, are evolutionarily, ecologically, and biomedical

Really happy that the @marineevoeco.com lab played a very small part in this really cool paper published with the @roneilllab.bsky.social, @vuruputoor.bsky.social, @noahreid.bsky.social, @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social and others! Big thanks to Gabe Barrett for connecting UConn and URI research teams

Biology Associate Professor Awarded Nation’s Highest Honor for Early-Career Researchers - UConn Today Jill Wegrzyn, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, earned recognition from former President Joe Biden

Biology Associate Professor Awarded Nation’s Highest Honor for Early-Career Researchers https://buff.ly/4hxplMW

Photos & bar codes can’t do this! Herbarium collections can be used in ways the collectors never imagined. This is why natural history collections are still relevant in the 21st century. #botany 🌾🧪

Congratulations to everyone!!! Shout out to my superstar supervisor @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social being one of the awardees 🤩🤩

Study shows hot leaves can’t catch carbon from the air. It’s bad news for rainforests – and Earth An experiment in the Daintree rainforest found the rate of photosynthesis in leaves warmed by 4°C dropped by an average of 35% compared to non-warmed controls.

Check out our new article just out in The Conversation highlighting the effects of warming leaves +4°C in tropical trees. 🌿🌡️ theconversation.com/study-shows-...

Looking for fabulous seminar speakers to give keynotes and invited talks? Check out the WOCinEEB speaker list! www.wocineeb.org/resources.ht...

Nice presentation by Meghan Myles on cartograplant integrating masses of genotypes, phenotypes and environmental data all in place. At the digital tools session at #PAG32

I just spent the last half hour catching up on posts about #PAG32- I’m missing out on all the fun! Enjoy the conference everyone! Keep posting about your work on Bluesky!! ✨

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this