Jackson Ridges

PhD Student in the Phadnis Lab

[Jackson Ridges @JacksonRidges]

I’m happy to spend my inaugural science tweet showcasing our labs’ featured article in the current issue of @GeneticsGSA GENETICS https://t.co/Z4COhx6qcI! @Jackson_Bladen, @flythecooper, and I use some clever genetics and pooled sequencing to expose a previously (1/2)

[Emiliano Martí 🇦🇷 @emilianomarti7]

Meiotic drive has long been considered as a genetic curiosity. Genomic "footprints" suggest otherwise.

Check out our new review https://t.co/R4jqUsygrl, a cross-taxa synthesis arguing that recurrent drive is a pervasive and underappreciated force in genome evolution.

[Jackson Ridges @JacksonRidges]

Check out our new preprint on the D. pseudoobscura SR chromosome!

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

Drive, suppression, and escape from suppression of a selfish chromosome https://t.co/PiyDLP5rIA #biorxiv_evobio

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

Drive, suppression, and escape from suppression of a selfish chromosome https://t.co/PiyDLP5rIA #biorxiv_evobio

[Emiliano Martí 🇦🇷 @emilianomarti7]

In a new Trends in Genetics piece, @AmLarracuente and I spotlight an amazing work lead by @peiwei_chen uncovering Trailblazer—a regulatory innovation in the in piRNA pathway to suppress the meiotic driver Stellate. Check it out: https://t.co/PjXdnrmDgq

[HHMI @hhmi_science]

HHMI Investigator Nels Elde (@ElEarlyBird) of @UUtah works at the crossroads of evolutionary genetics and cell biology to study one of the biggest battlefronts in science: host-pathogen interactions.

Learn more about the Elde lab’s research: https://t.co/NRXQcKqLjV

[Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer]

New paper led by @Yadirapga!

Even though opossums have kids at 0.5 years, they still have typical male-biased mutation (though not quite as high as humans).

[Prof. Nikolai Slavov @slavov_n]

Timescales in Cell Biology

[Jackson Ridges @JacksonRidges]

@Lewsiferase @LisaKursel @ElEarlyBird Welcome to SLC! Feel free to come visit us while you’re down here, I’d love to meet.

[Jackson Ridges @JacksonRidges]

@peiwei_chen Congratulations Peiwei, such an incredible story!

[Peiwei Chen @peiwei_chen]

Genome defense requires innovation in specificity factors that recognize emerging selfish genes

but does it require other types of innovations?

We think so!

Happy to share our preprint

“Escalation of genome defense capacity enables control of an expanding meiotic driver”

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[Jackson Ridges @JacksonRidges]

@peiwei_chen @Nitin_Phadnis Thank you so much Dr. Chen!

[Cedric🧬➰🧬Feschotte @CedricFeschotte]

Extremely cool talk by @MayaVoichek (@juliusbrennecke lab): Drosophila retrotransposons encode membrane-associated
micropeptide to traffic between somatic and germ cells!
#ICTE2024

[IMBA imbavienna.bsky.social @IMBA_Vienna]

Congratulations to Julius Brennecke for securing one of this year’s @ERC_Research Advanced Grants! Julius will study the arms race between transposons and host genomes. #ERCAdG More here: https://t.co/lpPytYNJpG

[Jackson Ridges @JacksonRidges]

@saracarioscia Never pick against UConn 😤

[Jackson Ridges @JacksonRidges]

unidentified hybrid incompatibility locus between D. melanogaster - D. sechellia. Huge thanks to @Nitin_Phadnis for making it all possible! (2/2)

[Jackson Ridges @JacksonRidges]

I’m happy to spend my inaugural science tweet showcasing our labs’ featured article in the current issue of @GeneticsGSA GENETICS https://t.co/Z4COhx6qcI! @Jackson_Bladen, @flythecooper, and I use some clever genetics and pooled sequencing to expose a previously (1/2)

[Emiliano Martí 🇦🇷 @emilianomarti7]

Happy to see this paper out! With @AmLarracuente, we review the implications of intragenomic conflicts mediating the co-amplification of gene families on sex chromosomes, and how this process might be fueled by sex-biased mutation. https://t.co/sxIF9BmBpe

[Maya Voichek @MayaVoichek]

If Darwin's finches were transposons, and the Galapagos islands were the Drosophila ovary, this cool new paper is all about the diversification of their beaks!🦜Congratulations Kirsten, @juliusbrennecke and all co-authors for this tour-de-force! 🥳👏
https://t.co/ZLBG2n57YM

[Hunter Hill @HunterH1ll]

I'm thrilled to share that our work on dicentric chromosome breakage has been published! If you're interested in DNA damage, chromosome fragility, centromeres, and spindle forces you might find this interesting. I sure do! 😄
https://t.co/gJHC7Kvvlf