Stephen I. Wright

Plant Evolutionary Geneticist

[Stephen I. Wright @stepheniwright]

Congrats to Dr. Meng Yuan @imengyuan !! Outstanding defence of her PhD thesis today on investigating the genome-wide scope for conflict between the diploid and haploid stages of the plant life cycle. Great work!

[Stephen I. Wright @stepheniwright]

I am recruiting postocs to my lab at @eebtoronto ! This includes work on the historical and contemporary population genomics of invasive capeweed, collaborative work with
@shaky_dingo, Tim Conallon, Akane Uesugi, and Allan Ellis, please share with your networks!

[Stephen I. Wright @stepheniwright]

New work led by @imengyuan shows evidence for much greater scope for conflict between the sexes within a tissue than between life stages (pollen and leaf) within a sex, given more genetic concordance of eQTL effects between the sexes

[Meng Yuan 袁梦 @imengyuan]

Check out our new preprint "Cis-regulation of gene expression between sexes and life stages in Rumex hastatulus" with @JohnStinchcombe @stepheniwright et al. https://t.co/MaqjbToE6t

[Evolution Letters @EvolLetters]

What forces drive genome evolution in groups with young sex chromosomes?”
https://t.co/OYbuGYzwAZ

Now in @EvolLetters by @reject_resubmit, @JoannaRifkin, @bichoudhury, O Voznesenska, B Sacchi, @imengyuan, Y Gong, SCH Barrett, and @stepheniwright

📷: Joanna Rifkin

[Gavin Douglas @gavin_m_douglas]

I'm excited to be starting as an Assistant Professor (@BiologyUnb) at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, Canada) in July 2025!

My group will be exploring the evolutionary forces driving pangenome variation in prokaryotes.

Details here: https://t.co/6u0awfT99w

[Asher Cutter @asherdcutter]

PhD and MSc application portal @eebtoronto opens tomorrow Nov 1! Check our outstanding faculty and research for open positions! Toronto is a great place to be https://t.co/fY6har4MGa
https://t.co/gVdIomtLb8
https://t.co/0NKeZ96YRY

[Stephen I. Wright @stepheniwright]

Fantastic news!!

[Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @OfficialSMBE]

Congratulations @aoifemcl, science adviser to the Irish Government!

https://t.co/1rBeTC6MPC

[Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @OfficialSMBE]

Congratulations @aoifemcl, science adviser to the Irish Government!

https://t.co/1rBeTC6MPC

[University of Toronto @UofT]

#UofT Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton has won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics.

Hinton shares the prize with John J. Hopfield “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” #NobelPrize https://t.co/NkWyAwi3eZ

[Stephen I. Wright @stepheniwright]

Does intra-locus conflict between the life cycles lead to genome-wide signatures of selection? Find out in this study led by @imengyuan !!

[Meng Yuan 袁梦 @imengyuan]

Check out our preprint on testing for intra-locus conflict between the haploid and diploid phases of plant life cycle in Rumex hastatulus and Ceratodon purpureus! W/ @JohnStinchcombe @stepheniwright @mcdaniellab and many others

[Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @reject_resubmit]

I'm recruiting students / postdocs to join my new lab at the University of Rochester for Fall 2025 onwards! If you're interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, genome evolution, and/or computational biology, please get in touch! More info:

https://t.co/YqAB88jbEA

[Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @OfficialSMBE]

📢 SMBE 2025 Call for Symposia - Deadline November 5th, 2024 Details on https://t.co/rDXJPhSEyE and https://t.co/qVIb2AAMUt

#SMBE25
@SMBEmeetings

[Grace Yuh Chwen Lee @mobilepurin]

Widely observed negative correlation between recombination rate and TE abundance is usually interpreted as recombination rate being the "cause," influencing the efficacy of selection purging TEs. Yet, our recent study "flipped" this causality! https://t.co/skk0F52uAP… (1/5)

[Julia Kreiner @jmkreiner]

New work out, on the evolution and diversity of sex in waterhemp!

[Stephen I. Wright @stepheniwright]

Thank you Julia! Very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with so many stellar scientists like you.

[Julia Kreiner @jmkreiner]

Congratulations @stepheniwright!! Such a well deserved accomplishment :)

[Asher Cutter @asherdcutter]

Check out my review on Haldane's rule, thinking about sex-biased hybrid dysfunction with ESD, homomorphic GSD, haplodiploidy, & hermaphrodites in @eLife https://t.co/kvL2aOdI08

[Andres Moreno-Estrada @morestrada]

Did you enjoy #SMBE2024 in Mexico? You can now revive it here! https://t.co/IhJqXlRh1o Thanks everyone for making #SMBE2024 a great success and special thanks to our PCO @AnnetteIAB from ARTEFACTO for a top-level organization! Viva México! 🇲🇽 #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth 🌎🧬

[Stephen I. Wright @stepheniwright]

@bmsacchi
will be speaking about the extent of Y chromosome degeneration and regulatory evolution in Rumex hastatulus, Sun, July 28 4:15 PM 524A

[Stephen I. Wright @stepheniwright]

I'm sorry to be missing #evolution2024 , but the lab will be well represented, check out these presentations:

@reject_resubmit will be speaking Monday at 5:15 in room 520B about the effect of recombination landscape heterogeneity on sex chromosome turnover

[SMBE IDEA taskforce @SMBE_IDEA]

Deadline is fast approaching!

Please help us spread the word as far and wide as possible and consider submitting your idea to receive @OfficialSMBE funding this year!!

Only 800 words or less are required for the first stage of application!
#Funding #Grants #SMBE #DEI

[Stephen I. Wright @stepheniwright]

and Zoë Humphries has a poster on transposable element invastion and epigenetic consequences for Y chomosome degeneration in Rumex Poster Board J2 Poster Session 1 (July 27th, 5:30 - 8pm)

[Stephen I. Wright @stepheniwright]

@bmsacchi @imengyuan Will be speaking about testing for genetic trade-offs in expression between the sexes and life stages (sporophyte and gametophyte) Sunday at 12:00 in 524B