Day 1 of #EPIC25
Interesting insights into the genetics behind certain traits and chemotypes in #thyme populations and how these can lead to local #adaptation by
@ErillGenis (AU)
We sequenced and analyzed the world's rarest large mammal, the #saola. That turned into a cool paper substantially increasing what we know about this elusive animal, its evolutionary history, population structure, and long-term decline.
Check it out here: https://t.co/icyVNXTSz6
Very happy to see our paper on saola genomics published! 🦄🐂 Congratulations and thanks to all co-authors, and specially to co-first author Shanlin Liu who started and led the project, to my PhD supervisors @HellerRasmus and @A_Albrechtsen and to co-senior author Tom Gilbert!
We sequenced and analyzed the world's rarest large mammal, the #saola. That turned into a cool paper substantially increasing what we know about this elusive animal, its evolutionary history, population structure, and long-term decline.
Check it out here: https://t.co/icyVNXTSz6
Are you an evolutionary/population geneticist in Denmark? The EPIC conference is back and it will take place on 11-12 August 2025 in Aarhus. Come along for two days of great talks and networking! #EPICdk25
Hosts: @MolBiolAU & @PopGenDK
Register now at: https://t.co/oSMHCpADME
New #BGE case study!👇
Thyme's diverse chemotypes provide adaptation to different habitats, and climate change drives shifts in these traits. A new #referencegenome will help protect this diversity and support ecosystems.
Visit:https://t.co/zNg7h0gvjn
@ErillGenis@REA_research
@sagitaninta@LauraDBertola@PopGenDK Yes I would say you need a fossil record that shows how the species has been over time to identify if there is stasis.
And I don't think there is a specified amount of change needed, I guess it must be little relative to other comparable lineages or time spans...
@sagitaninta@LauraDBertola@PopGenDK No, not necessarily, my understanding is that the main condition for evolutionary stasis is that the lineage has little morphological change over a long evolutionary time. It's a concept that comes from paleontology and is based on the fossil record
New paper out 🎉🎉🎉, lead by @XiWang91099530 and Casper-Emil Pedersen, and the @popgenDK group, exploring gene flow and reproductive isolation in an African antelope speciation model: the waterbuck
📷Moremi GR, Botswana
Very happy to see our work on impala's population genetics published! 🎉This was the first project I started working on during my PhD. See thread by co-author @LauraDBertola with the main findings and beautiful impala photos
New paper out, by @ErillGenis, @PopGenDK & friends 🎉🎉🎉
Extensive Population Structure Highlights an Apparent Paradox of Stasis in the Impala (Aepyceros melampus)
https://t.co/rc7yrfLjPb
We find that #impala is a potential paradox of evolutionary stasis.
A lineage that is static may be assumed to be so because of various processes leading to absence of sub-populations.
However we find evidence of high population structure in impalas
https://t.co/ThjPMr0JdG
I will be co-chairing the session on Plant Genome Applications next Tuesday October 1 at 14 CET, together with Katja Reichel @kr_botany and Katie Herron!
We will be talking about our genome assembly projects and its applications followed by an open discussion.
Reminder!
Join us for the 1st #BGE-@erga_biodiv Genome Applications Symposium! 🌍🧬
📅 Sept 30 & Oct 1, 2024
🕘 9:00-16:45 CEST
No registration needed, the event will be openly transmitted via Zoom!
▶️ Zoom links, programme and more: https://t.co/YBWEHyTLo0
@REA_research
I have a fully funded postdoc position open in my lab. The postdoc will get to work on a whole genome sequence based population genetics project focused on several Greenlandic land mammals. For details see https://t.co/dnXmbbq9xx. Application deadline is September 27. Please RT.
In last week's #SMBE2024 I had the opportunity the present our work on ecological genetics of thyme that we are planning to strenghten with the new reference genome!
We are participating in the @BioGenEurope "Enhancing Biodiversity Genomics Applications" program with our plan to assemble a high quality reference genome of common thyme (Thymus vulgaris)!
@REA_research@EUgreenresearch@ISBSIB@SBFI_CH
Join us! #SMBE24 Symposium on Conservation Genomics
Talks on innovations, applications, and future directions:
Conservation genomics in action🧬🎬
Adaptation to climate change🌡️🌍
Gene duplication and epigenetics🐢🐚
eDNA from footprints🐾🧪
Predicting pathogenic var with AI🤖🧬
Check out our new preprint! We've developed a simulation-framework that allows users to explore under what circumstances one can detect epidemic-driven selection using standard selection scan methods like Fst & iHS. All comments are welcome & appreciated! https://t.co/ggDqE1RVjp
This project is a collaboration between researchers in @AarhusUni_int and @CNRS@INRAE_OC_MPL@AgapInstitut among others!
Looking forward to adancing this work with @ThomasBataillon, Bodil Ehlers, John Thompson, Sylvain Santoni, @PalmadaMarc and many others!
We are participating in the @BioGenEurope "Enhancing Biodiversity Genomics Applications" program with our plan to assemble a high quality reference genome of common thyme (Thymus vulgaris)!
@REA_research@EUgreenresearch@ISBSIB@SBFI_CH
Our project will apply the reference genome to study how thyme populations use chemotype diversity for local adaptation and its implication for thyme responses to climate change!