Wei Chen

Professor at YNAU. Nutrition Gobbler, Science Nibbler, Exercise Taster, Darwinism Hugger.

[Wei Chen @wchenntr]

Super excited to present the work of the past 3 years from our international collaboration with 80+ researchers from 17 countries today in @ScienceMagazine. Congrats to everyone on this achievement.

@KristiMargaryan @G_DeLorenzis

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

In the largest ever genetic analysis of grapevine varieties, researchers provide new insights into how, when, and where wine and table grapevines were domesticated, which has been a longstanding question.

Read that study and more in Science: https://t.co/kadl6Pwm8m

[Wei Chen @wchenntr]

Excited that our ginger study made the cover story of @NaturePlants

[Nature Plants @NaturePlants]

The November issue is now fully online:
https://t.co/ywUIpQ419t

[Wei Chen @wchenntr]

@jtmatus @i2sysbio @ZhanwuDai @CAS__Science @david_np91 @antsanpaj Sure. You are always welcome.

[Wei Chen @wchenntr]

Excited to report in @NaturePlants the characterization of an angiosperm-conserved gene (SMPED1) in a wild ginger species that controls synchronized maturation of sex organs (dichogamy). Great collaboration with Drs Qingjun Li, Spencer Barrett, and John Kress.

[Nature Plants @NaturePlants]

New Article: "Ginger genome reveals the SMPED1 gene causing sex-phase synchrony and outcrossing in a flowering plant" https://t.co/geo38m30bY

SMPED1, located in a dichogamy-determining region in Alpinia species, controls the timing of sex-organ synchrony.

[Wei Chen @wchenntr]

@leo_speidel Congrats, Leo! It is a fantastic paper.

[Trevor Cousins @trevorcousins_]

In this preprint, Regev Schweiger, Richard Durbin and I discuss ancient (>5 million years ago) hominin demography
https://t.co/aMlZEsf63H

[Wei Chen @wchenntr]

@MadSealCutter This makes sense since 斋 in the original verse means fasting. I thought he made a wordplay on 斋。

[Wei Chen @wchenntr]

The domestication of rice ~11,000 years ago shown by phytolith data

Rice’s trajectory from wild to domesticated in East Asia | Science https://t.co/Zum37D6eYH

[Be the change you want to be @AgBioWorld]

Today is #BiodiversityDay2024! 🌍 Global agriculture centers have been the guardians of crop varietal diversity. Science helps in their conservation. Tools such as gene editing help create more diversity, adding value for crop improvement

[Wei Chen @wchenntr]

@MadSealCutter Just to establish chronology, nothing more. The sentence seems truncated. (Some guy in what year) called Liang Nian to Yangzhou Office for a few months. Nian carved many seals for this guy. This episode should not come before this year.

[Walter Salzburger Lab @WSalzburger]

The role of exploratory behavior (and it’s genetic basis) in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in Lake. See our latest work in @ScienceMagazine. Congrats to all including @emiliapsantos @_Bethan_Clark @m_matschiner @TschoppLab @millanek1 @WSalzburger @UniBasel_en

[Ed Hagen @ed_hagen]

1. Much human genetic variation is phenotypically meaningless. Why? Cooperative genes are locked in a forever war w/ selfish genes. The cooperative genes have won most battles but now our genomes are littered with the dead & decaying bodies of a million selfish genes. 🧵

[Yun S. Song @yun_s_song]

We are delighted to share our work on a robust, accurate method for sampling genome-wide genealogies (aka ARGs) from the full posterior distribution. This is a product of years of hard work by @YunDeng5, who is jointly advised by @ras_nielsen and me. https://t.co/BIDUnV8OeL
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[Wei Chen @wchenntr]

@MadSealCutter Congrats!

[Janet Iwasa @janetiwasa]

Check out the 2nd SnapShot of the ribosome biogenesis series featuring the 60S ribosomal subunit! This was a great collaboration w Ed Hurt & Roland Beckmann. Read the SnapShot & watch the animation w narration here: https://t.co/qp5R4sLXyL

[Wei Chen @wchenntr]

@MadSealCutter A nuanced difference between 弄/搞 and 做 is that the former has a connotation of 'mindless, disorderly, and not knowing where it's going/what I'm doing.' In some cases, they are not interchangeable. eg. 搞价=haggle (don't know if will succeed) vs. 做价=set a price.

[Wei Chen @wchenntr]

1. Another case in saltation. 2. Loss of tail associated with bipedalism and neural tube defect.

[nature @Nature]

This week in Nature: Tale of tails - How a genetic element aided tail loss in humans and apes

Browse the full issue: https://t.co/UdebaLcNxG

[Wei Chen @wchenntr]

Snake evolution:

1. Snake diversification associated with massive shifts in traits - saltation case. 2. Innovations occurred once and in quick succession. 3. Individual traits had minimal ability to explain speciation rate variation.

https://t.co/Kye6p0bp6y

[Shinichi Nakagawa | 中川震一 @itchyshin]

For all people who struggle with academic writing, Loisa Lagisz and I share our experiences and secrets, which helped 50+ students publish their first papers. Please share with your colleagues!
@Trends_Ecol_Evo
paper: https://t.co/w1qkPCW2XA
preprint: https://t.co/LryUIH2pY2

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