Marine Evolution & Conservation Group

Applying genetic and genomic approaches to research in marine evolution and conservation at the University of Groningen and the Center for Coastal Studies

[Marcos @marcos_srz]

Excited to share that part of my master's and PhD at the @univgroningen, led by @MarEvoCon & @CCSPtown is out in @ScienceMagazine! We used pedigrees to estimate mutation rates in baleen whales with surprising results! See more in https://t.co/MZpwj86M2n #ScienceResearch

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

@MGabualdi gave a talk on the ocean-wide population genetic structure of North Atlantic humpbacks, using ~3,000 samples from multiple locations across the Atlantic Ocean 3/3

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

We were at the #ECS2023 !! Our master students @YakamozKizildas and @MGabualdi presented their project outputs. It was all about North Atlantic humpbacks 🐋 1/3

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

@YakamozKizildas presented a poster on the effects of different post-whaling recovery on the population structure of the North Atlantic humpback whales, using an Approximate Bayesian Computation framework 2/3

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

In case you are in need of some distraction. https://t.co/dAgUIY1Z0K
@CCSPtown @univgroningen

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

Andrea's last doctoral thesis chapter out to day https://t.co/zJz8iRan1e @AndreaACabrera4 @IMRuiPrieto @CCSPtown @univgroningen

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

https://t.co/Jx27OuEfDY
Started as a PhD introductory essay 🙂

[Andrea A Cabrera @AndreaACabrera4]

Our review on cetaceans evolution is now officially published. A nice overview of what have we learned from applying molecular methods, future perspectives and challenges. @ElineLorenzen @marie__louis @MarEvoCon https://t.co/I7jLhei35Q

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

Green sea turtle paper (from Jurjan's thesis) out with a Heredity pod cast about the paper as well.

[Heredity @HeredityJournal]

New HeredityPodcast: A genomic approach to oceanography

Dr Jurjan van der Zee (@univgroningen) searches for a warm-water corridor between the Atlantic and Indian oceans in #turtle genomes

Listen now: https://t.co/gFpf7wUw5Y

Read the study: https://t.co/BpDKshf645

@GenSocUK

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

And... one more chapter of Jurjan (van der Zee's) PhD published Demographic changes in Pleistocene sea turtles were driven by past sea level fluctuations affecting feeding habitat availability, https://t.co/nSXdhtJ37Q

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

@loumgarcia great work!

[Lou Martínez-García @loumgarcia]

I am really excited and happy to share my first PhD paper on mitogenomic variation and population demography on Atlantic cod 🐟💧
We disentangled a bit more of this story using ancient DNA.
Check it out in Frontiers: https://t.co/N8OBZEjnyD

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

5 tenure-track positions in Evolutionary Biology at Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Life Sciences
https://t.co/y1KJJkOenh

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

@whale_nerd Curiously, the Dutch eat lots of bread, but mostly the yeasty, soft, pre-sliced kind. As a result it's challenging finding strong bread flour (high protein content), which I think is far more common in the UK/S. So the flour becomes more expensive

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

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[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

Our on-line, bi-weekly journal club (Wed 13-14, European Central Time), where we discuss recent publications and issues in "molecular" ecology and conservation is open to anybody with an interest in critical interpretation of genetic/omic data. Just let me know.

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

@whale_nerd Who's collecting biopsies ;-)

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

Long-term isolation at a low effective population size greatly reduced genetic diversity in Gulf of California fin whales https://t.co/InKhRoqYwA

[Marine Evolution & Conservation Group @MarEvoCon]

PhD position available @MarEvoCon @univgroningen (with Dr. Camilla Speller @UBCAnth and Dr. Eduardo Secchi @FURG) as part of @SeaChangesITN. Applying genomics to historic and modern samples to assess the effects of industrial whaling. See https://t.co/E9xBJT29TC.