Excited to see our FML Research Group Leader
@luisapallares.bsky.social
in the latest Max Planck Research! 🎉
The article follows her journey from Colombia to Germany and her work on how genes and environment shape complex traits using fruit flies.
Read the full story: www.mpg.de/26180374/W00...
Come join us!
We are looking for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London.
Details 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Post funded by UCL Health Strategy.
Join us at UCL @ugiatucl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social 👇🧵
Mi gente latino!
Ya llegó ya está aquí. La primera reunión de Biomoleculas antiguas en Latinoamerica patrocinada por el @official-smbe.bsky.social . Reserven la fecha y estén al pendiente de las fechas importantes. Mas info en nuestra pagina web smbeperu.github.io/SMBEperu-esp/
Please get in contact if you are interested in studying the evolution of plants and their pathogens combining contemporary and ancient DNA! #aDNA Check our latest publications here: www.burbanolab.org/publications
Images of a female student, a microscope slide, and a pipette dropping liquid. Text reads 'The Division of Biosciences presents: How To Get a Master's. Thursday 5 February 2026, 16:00-17:00, JZ Young Lecture Theatre, UCL Anatomy Building. Register by scanning the QR code.'
Current UCL students – join us for an information event about Bioscience master’s degrees with refreshments. “How to get a Master’s” will be held on Thursday 5 February starting at 4pm in UCL Anatomy Building G29 JZ Young Lecture Theatre.
Register here: https://forms.office.com/e/s3BV1AvKXD
Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework?
Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.
A slide from the Teaching Tool. What are botanical collections? Types of collections. Herbaria, Living Collections, Seed, pollen, and spore banks; DNA and tissue banks; Palnological collections, Digital Collections, Ethnobotanical collections.
New Teaching Tool!
blog.aspb.org/new-teaching...
Check out the latest unit in the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology series, “Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections: Opportunities and Challenges,” by M. Deglialberti, C. Paleni, F. Fainelli, C. Lambertini, & Silvia Manrique. @tank-silvia.bsky.social
See UGI's Dr Marina Escalera Zamudio (Rosetrees Fellow) and Dr Cenk Celik (Research Fellow) @cenkcelik.bsky.social presenting at the Norwich Science Festival @niscifest.bsky.social session on "Reimagining Health with Big Data".
norwichsciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on/rei...
#NISF26
A new preprint from the lab, with postdoc @deboraycb.bsky.social and collaborators @aidaandres.bsky.social and Tim Connallon:
“Characterising the detectable and invisible fractions of genomic loci under balancing selection”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New species of oomycete named after Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social 🥳 🥳
Peter and Rosemary Grant conducting research
Join Peter Grant FLS FRS & Rosemary Grant FRS on Wed 4 March as they discuss their landmark research on Darwin’s finches and how new species form. Peter and Rosemary are renowned evolutionary biologists, having studied these finches on the Galápagos islands since 1973.
buff.ly/ZbYnmf2
NLR-like immunity in bacteria
A new study from the Alex Gao lab. The scope of this work is incredible!!!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
View from a window overlooking a busy university street flanked by brick buildings, with students walking along the path.
Welcome to Term 2! ❄️
We hope you had a restful break and are feeling ready for the weeks ahead. As the campus comes back to life this winter, we’re excited to welcome back our returning students and say a warm hello to those joining us for the first time this term.
#WelcomeToUCL
📸: @yuislucky
Congrats Saskia! @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social
Beautiful study of the population history of Sudan, including a striking signature of adaptive admixture in the Duffy-null blood group gene, potentially as a mechanism of local adaptation to Plasmodium. Congratulations @lvilavalls.bsky.social, what a great regal de reis!
Proud to announce SimPhyNI, a new tool for bacterial GWAS with higher precision and scalability than existing tools. Try it out and let us know what you think!!
The distinction between virulent & temperate phages gets fuzzier if one can find so many virulent phages in the sequences of bacterial genomes coming from standard lab "pure" cultures. Check Peter's thread on our work and the N&V by Carson & Hynes: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#phagesky #microsky
New preprint on pop #genomics of #spittlebug—the main insect vector of Xylella, the bacterium that has ravaged olive groves in southern Italy 🇮🇹 🫒
Take-home: problematic insect vector may be less widespread than initially thought—important implications for disease control 💥
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Congratulations to Johannes for his #LeibnizPreis, Germany’s most prestigious research funding award. @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
Rewriting the code of plant immunity-
New approaches to engineering plant immunity can more broadly protect crops against pathogens and disease, once they get through regulatory hurdles.
@resurrectbio.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
ICYMI, this new preprint is just awesome.
"Here, we show that O-antigen–dependent trade-offs between pathogenicity and interbacterial competition have persisted for over two centuries in natural P. viridiflava populations."
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen.
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Cool work from my colleagues @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social just dropped! Merlin Szymanski, @janetk.bsky.social et al. developed quicksand, a fast, accurate and beautifully designed Nextflow pipeline for taxonomic classification of mammalian mtDNA from ancient sediment DNA. doi.org/10.1093/molb...
Boris Shraiman points a physicist’s eye on biological quandaries news.ucsb.edu/2025/022264/... 🧪
A PNAS Special Feature exclusively about dogs? Woof!
Here are 3 of the 8 that we were involved with. Congrats to @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social & @undeaddandy.bsky.social
Dingoes!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
German Shepherds!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Imputation!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
An amazing paper! Give it a read - you won’t be disappointed.
Thank you, Daniel!
We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes.
Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
And now we have Arabidopsis plants with 8 chromosomes instead of 10 and no obvious phenotypic differences, this week in @science.org
#PlantScience
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
