Ryan Weaver

I study evolutionary bioenergetics, focused mainly on mitochondria and mitonuclear interactions
still trying to keep my foot in the bird/animal coloration world

[Geoffrey Hill @Geoffrey_E_Hill]

A new paper with big news in the world of red carotenoid ornamentation: House Finches do not utilize CYP2J19/BDH1L to produce red feather pigments. Why is this big new?...(1/6)
https://t.co/QUmYzhFqhZ

[Ryan Weaver @ryanjweaver_]

@OroborosI Thanks for the fun and informative workshop! Looking forward to using the new O2K modules soon. 🤞

[Ryan Weaver @ryanjweaver_]

I'm recruiting PhD students to work on mitochondrial bioenergetics. Check out my talk from #Evol2024 on HGT of an alternative mito pathway
https://t.co/6HiaWsBWXD
We do other cool mito evolution and physiology, plz get in touch!

[National Academy of Sciences @theNASciences]

Congratulations Jonathan Wendel of @IowaStateU, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS161 #plantbiology #genomics

[Ryan Weaver @ryanjweaver_]

@grahamallie1 @UnivOfKansas Congrats Allie!

[Ryan Weaver @ryanjweaver_]

@wang_phil1 @BWHPsyResidency @CleClinicLCM Congratulations, Philip!

[IowaStateUNews @IowaStateUNews]

An ISU research team has created organoids from turtle livers, the 1st-ever turtle organoids. The discovery will speed up turtle genetic research, including traits with potential human benefit such as resistance to oxygen deprivation. #IowaStateInnovates
📰https://t.co/nSpM4xRl9s

[Havird Lab @HavirdLab]

Anytime I talk about extreme rate variation in plant mtDNA evolution, people ask why some lineages evolve fast. @KendraZwonitzer took that personally. Her paper out today @PNAS offers some evidence for one possibility.

https://t.co/rhq2EFyeFO

[Jeanne Serb @jeanne_serb]

Opening for Professor & Department Chair in Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology @eeob_isu @IowaStateU. Be part of a highly-collaborative, resource-rich environment! Please spread the word. #academicjobs #FacultyJob #ecologyjob
https://t.co/eu67ZnkJ4n

[Havird Lab @HavirdLab]

Our great work led by the Schumer lab is finally out @Nature This is some of the best evidence out there that mitonuclear interactions can lead to speciation.

Article: https://t.co/AESms76so2

Summary: https://t.co/n90ynuGdKD

[Ryan Weaver @ryanjweaver_]

Hi #SICB2024, I'm recruiting graduate students interested in evolutionary bioenergetics. Check out my talk on chytrid fungus mitochondria Fri, 8:45 , rm 604.
Visit https://t.co/CAPnHKOHKv to learn about projects ready for students to pickup on mitonculear evol and mito physiology

[Dr. Allison McDonald @AEMcDonaldWLU]

Check out this new publication by @ryanjweaver_ and I about the amazing enzyme alternative oxidase! https://t.co/VoEJUwZZJQ A wonderful collaborative research and writing experience!

[Havird Lab @HavirdLab]

Sex determination is incredibly varied! In this new paper led by @Texas_Mussels, we find a small RNA encoded in the mtDNA of male (not female) bivalves may interact with nuclear genes to determine sex. More work is needed, but weird nonetheless...
https://t.co/ddxVlg8Ggo

[Ryan Weaver @ryanjweaver_]

@jsharbro @peterdfields @JosephJalinsky @KE_McElroy @chemay52 @mneiman @johnlogsdon Congrats to all. It's cool to see Nmt genes showing resistance to gene flow

[Ryan Weaver @ryanjweaver_]

@WildlifeMcCoy @Ecol_Evol @ajshultz622 @Dionne_Group @sonkelab Very cool!

[Ryan Weaver @ryanjweaver_]

We also highlight cases of sequence contaminants that falsely attribute AOX sequences to taxa that do not have them. But the thing I’m most jazzed about is putative repeated independent horizontal gene transfer of AOX into metazoan genomes from fungi and protists.

[Ryan Weaver @ryanjweaver_]

.@AEMcDonaldWLU and I have a new paper out reviewing the wide taxonomic distribution of an understudied aspect of mitochondrial physiology, the alternative oxidase AOX. We update, clarify, and correct the record of which taxa encode AOX in their genomes.

https://t.co/JraAFuHzOA

[Ryan Weaver @ryanjweaver_]

Why such a low-tech approach? 1stbecause it works. 2nd because we hope to increase AOX awareness of researchers who might be put off by model-based tools (which we also used) to help them determine if their critter of interest has AOX.