Julian Catchen

assoc professor, evolution, ecology, & behavior, UIUC. computational biologist+population genomics practitioner. @[email protected] @jcatchen.bsky.social

[Josie Paris @josephine_paris]

Out today in @molecology! We explored the landscape of gene expression in the amazing adaptation of Emperor penguin's to the extreme conditions of Antarctica 🐧🧊 First paper from the @MSCActions Poly2Adapt project! 🇪🇺https://t.co/Wl4UrnNama

[Alida de Flamingh, Ph.D. @adeflamingh]

Famed lions’ full diet revealed by DNA — and humans were among their prey https://t.co/9rcteIa1wj (a round-about way to get into Nature 😍 it was nice chatting to Emma Marris about these lions!)

[Alida de Flamingh, Ph.D. @adeflamingh]

Paper out today! We used tiny hair fragments from the teeth of the historic #TsavoLions to identify their prey 🦓🦒🦁 @CurrentBiology @FieldMuseum @IGBIllinois @UofIllinois https://t.co/5czMO6JMBU

[Julian Catchen @jcatchen]

My first show.

[Kevin Shapiro @shapsio]

30yrs since #phish 10/9/94 A.J. Palumbo Center, Duquesne University (@duqedu) in Pittsburgh - their only show at this small basketball arena with a listed 4,190 capacity for this show. This performance of The Squirming Coil was released on A Live One.

[Rayan Chikhi @RayanChikhi]

Today we’re excited to freely share an early-version of, perhaps, the world’s most expansive genetics dataset: Logan.

#bioinformatics #petabase #genetics #genomics #openscience

https://t.co/CQSBmvn7se

[Julian Catchen @jcatchen]

Happy to release Stacks v2.67 today. This release updates process_radtags to make it easier to use SRA data and to filter poly-G (error) runs coming from Nextseq/Novaseq machines + bugfixes. We also added a genotype depth filter to populations #RADseq
https://t.co/uZHDLlyHMm

[Genetics Society of America @GeneticsGSA]

Catherine Wilson & @JohnPostlethw8 published research in #G3journal that explores unique features of the zebrafish sex chromosome, identifying a gene regulatory block of the zebrafish genome responsible for overseeing the maternal-to-zygotic-transition: https://t.co/UXdTmLjhnD

[Angel G. Rivera-Colón @arcolon14]

@adeflamingh talks about using #aDNA to investigate prey in the Tsavo Lions! @IGBIllinois #SMBE2024 #TheGhostAndTheDarkness

[Genomic Biology @IGBIllinois]

In a new study, Illinois researchers describe a hybrid zone between two manakin species in Panama that has overall remained relatively stable over the past 30 years.

Learn more at https://t.co/EKqsSIx2HE.

[Angel G. Rivera-Colón @arcolon14]

Excited to be at #SMBE2024!
I will be giving a talk on Thursday's Open Symposium 2 about our new genome and population genomic analysis of the Pacific acorn #barnacle. Come check it out!

Also, do you have access to barnacle samples? Let's chat!

[Kira Long @kmlong7]

Awesome article (and photos of manakins!) just released today, written by @Bird_Sock on my recent paper with @arcolon14, @KevinFPBennett, @jcatchen, Jeff Brawn and Mike Braun in @journal_evo
Check it out: https://t.co/aHZaFWuxc8
#ornithology #manakin #TeamManacus

[Alida de Flamingh, Ph.D. @adeflamingh]

Who’s going to #SMBE2024 in Puerto Vallarta? My talk is going to be about paleogenomic analysis of hair from cavities in the the teeth of lions featured in this (epic) movie 🦁come say hi! And share your presentation info so I can check out your talk! #TheGhostandTheDarkness

[Emily Beck @Stickle_Beck]

The Beck Lab is hiring an assistant researcher/lab manager or two @KUbiology. Position starts this August in Lawrence KS. We are a 50/50 wet/dry lab and are looking for people with a wide range of skills. Must love mitochondria. Helpful if you love fish. https://t.co/6BSSPIbbzR

[Molecular Ecology @molecology]

Out in MER!
𝐾𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑝𝑦: a new kmer-based tool by Gio Madrigal, @minhasbushra, & @jcatchen for evaluating and visualizing genome assemblies and sequence motifs using long-read sequencing data.
@WileyEcolEvol @iBioIllinois
Read More: https://t.co/op7sRcUNXn

[Julian Catchen @jcatchen]

Out today in Molecular Ecology Resources: https://t.co/TNR86dPuW9 (open access)

Congratulations to Gio on his first, first author paper and on publishing a useful tool for the community!

[Julian Catchen @jcatchen]

If you have a sequence that you love – a gene family, transposable element, regulatory feature – you probably spend a lot of time looking for it in different sets of sequence. If so, you might find our latest tool, Klumpy, useful. https://t.co/jAsG7GYC7J

[Kira Long @kmlong7]

I’m excited to share my first dissertation chapter and first, first-authored article “Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone” being published with Evolution! https://t.co/yHjglqPvkr
(1/4)

[Rachel Moran @Rachel_L_Moran]

Please share! My lab will be hiring 2-3 postdocs over the coming months to study the genetic basis of behavioral traits in darters using brain transcriptomics & population genomics. First ad is posted here: https://t.co/jBk67i6OK5 #behavior #popgen #evolution #neuroethology

[Josie Paris @josephine_paris]

Our preprint exploring the role of Ne and gene expression on purifying selection in penguins has been recommended by @PCIEvolBiol! Approaches can be extended to many non-model organisms, including using expression bins as a proxy for selection coefficients https://t.co/MHvpi0Zdsn

[Ewan Birney @ewanbirney]

As Zam says, this is impressive work by shows @nanopore consensus call accuracy being better than illumina (with a deep learning caller, in bacteria) - I have huge COI (long established consultant for @nanopore and shareholder) but wanted to put this in short+long term context

[Understanding Linux: The Kernel Perspective @unix_byte]

On the back pages of BYTE from Dec 1995, there was an article on FreeBSD by Jordan Hubbard. Jordan is the co-founder of the FreeBSD project and later became the director of Unix technology at Apple