Beetle brood care looks exhausting, too link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Nicrophorus

Check out this new paper on horizontal gene transfer in termites, to which former group members Alina and Mark contributed. 🪳🧬 You can have a look here: doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Post 1/2 Our new preprint is out! 🧬 We’ve extended #Tiberius for accurate ab initio gene prediction across the eukaryotic tree, including Plants, Fungi, Insects, and Diatoms. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Study shows: Fish parasites influence the freshwater food chain. A research team from the Institute of Evolution and Biodiversity has found experimental evidence of how tapeworm infections of three-spined sticklebacks alter several levels of a food web.

Yesterday, some of our PhD students, who will be completing their PhDs at GEvol in the coming months, took part in a ‘career planning workshop’ led by Dr. Juliane Handschuh. It was very helpful in discovering the various options available to them. Personal coaching sessions will follow. Thank you.

BRAKER4 and GALBA2 took a walk, today. They learnt how to run RED for repeat masking and minisplice for alignment. github.com/Gaius-August... github.com/Gaius-August...

GALBA2 walks into the arena. We rewrote our protein-based genome annotation pipeline in Snakemake. Give it a genome + proteins from close relatives → get gene predictions. No RNA-Seq, no GeneMark needed. miniprot → AUGUSTUS, fully containerised, HPC-ready. github.com/Gaius-Augustus/GALBA2

You want to work on Transcriptional Regulation in Beetles 🐞? Join our GEvol Community and work with many great people ➡️ Two open PhD positions in @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social lab in Frankfurt: g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...

Congratulations to @stepbystepsolution.bsky.social to the manuscript on genome annotation of 200 insect genomes, a result his work within of @gevol.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Anlässlich des #DarwinTag am 12. Februar fordert der Evolutionsbiologe Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz im „Umdenken“-Podcast eine schnelle und entschlossene Antwort der Gesellschaft auf den #Klimawandel und den Verlust von #Biodiversität.

🚨 New paper in GBE! 🚨 This study analyzes two high-quality Cryptocercus genomes, the sister group to all termites, to investigate the transition to subsociality and wood-feeding (xylophagy) in Blattodea. 🪳 Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Check out our new review in Nature Reviews Genetics on de novo emerged genes and proteins. How they emerge, are lost and persist - and how de novo emerged proteins relate to randomized proteins! @bornberglab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heads up: Two of the PhD positions in our Germany-wide priority program "Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations (GEvol)" have application deadlines in a few days, see g-evol.uni-muenster.de

Gevol Job alert: 2 New PhD positions. You want to do Bioinformatics 💻, please check the job Mario Stankes lab in Greifswald, or maybe work on ant venoms 🐜, please check the job in Simon Tragust lab in Halle. These and more open jobs can be found g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...

🦋 i5k Annual Meeting: February 4th, 2026! Anyone with an interest in arthropod #genomics is encouraged to join this open meeting. More details here: i5k.github.io/2025_annual_... #i5k #arthropods #genomics #insects #biodiversity

📢🪳 New paper alert! Former group members Alina and Mark contributed to a new study just published in Nature Communications. The team generated 47 new high-quality genomes from termites and cockroaches, filling a major gap in available data. Check out the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GEvol Job Alert: PhD position in Robert Paxtons lab in Halle This research project focuses on the extent to which the origin of eusociality in the socially variable halictid bees is ascribable to changes in gene regulatory mechanisms. Find this and more open positions @ g-evol.uni-muenster.de

Postdoctoral Research Associates are sought for the GEvol project on evolutionary genomics. Candidates should have programming and data analysis skills. More info: https://g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positions/ #postdoc

📢 GEvol Job Alert: PhD position in Joachim Kurtzs lab in Münster in the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity. This research project focuses on the evolutionary flexibility of epigenetic regulation in insects. Find this and more open positions @ g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio... 🧬

PhD position available for theoretical and statistical modeling in my joint @gevol.bsky.social project with @luisapallares.bsky.social on the evolution of transcriptional variability and its role in adaptation and evolutionary innovation. See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...

***Super cool-project alert***⚠️ Come work with @dirkmetzler.bsky.social and me in trying to understand how transcriptional noise evolves in a phylogenetic context 🧬 Deadline 15th Dec 2025 (Project funded by @dfg.de @gevol.bsky.social)

📢 Job alert: Post-Doc Position in the project "Functional annotation of genomic🧬 innovations in a densely populated clade🪰 with deep learning 💻" Join the GEvol community in a collaborative project between @bornberglab.bsky.social and @katharinahoff.bsky.social lab. 👉 bornberglab.org/post-doc-pos...

#Climate and parasite pressure jointly shape traits mediating the #coevolution between an #ant social parasite and its #host: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Erwann et al. 2025

💻 The Project: We will integrate multi-omics (bulk/scRNAseq, long-reads, ATAC-seq) to explore how duplicated genes diverge in regulation and function. 🤝 You will be part of the DFG SPP 2349 @gevol.bsky.social consortium & the @imprsgs.bsky.social, with research visits to collaboration partners (👇).

🧬 PhD Position: Evolutionary & Comparative Genomics 🕷️ Join us at @uni-goettingen.de for a 3-year PhD (65% TV-L E13). We will investigate the genomic & phenotypic impact of gene duplication across 233 arthropod genomes! More infos 👇 and s.gwdg.de/eDrAAY #Evolution #Genomics #Bioinformatics

🧩 Thrilled to share our new paper in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social ! We present a comprehensive review of de novo gene emergence — providing a classification of current detection methods and a roadmap for addressing major challenges in the field of gene birth from non-genic sequences.

PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social

check out the accompanying paper doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... as well!

🚀We’re excited to share our new paper in Bioinformatics! We introduce a user-friendly toolkit that implements our novel DeNoFo file-format for standardised annotation of de novo gene detection workflows — enabling reproducible methodology descriptions and easier dataset comparison across studies.

🎉We are happy to announce that our wonderful GEvol SPP will be funded by @dfg.de for another 3 years. Included are 17 great projects all over Germany with amazing people. You want to be part of this fantastic community? Soon you can find new PhD/Post-Doc positions here & on our website. Stay tuned🎉

The DeNoFo format & toolkit for annotating, assessing and comparing the tools and tresholds used in studies of de novo evolved genes is out now in Bioinformatics! Great effort led by @drdomain.bsky.social and Anna Grandchamp! academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

📢 Check out our GEvol inspired Special Issue in JEZ-B: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15525015... 🚨

We have put together a comprehensive eQTL map for D. melanogaster using thousands of genetically diverse flies 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰 We hope this helps -as similar resources have done in yeast and humans- to understand how genetic variation 🧬 regulates complex traits variation 🪰 via transcriptional regulation ⬆️⬇️

Many thanks to all GEvol members for a truly wonderful annual meeting. It was really great to catch up with you all again.

Many thanks to Barbara Feldmeyer, Eckart @eckartstolle.bsky.social and Erich @bornberglab.bsky.social for organising and hosting our GEvol-inspired symposium @eseb2025.bsky.social 👏

Lots of inspiring talks & posters at our GEvol symposium at #ESEB2025 yesterday! Thanks to everyone who presented, especially our invited speakers @ahuylmans.bsky.social & @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social. From GEvol, Marie Lebherz, Elisa Israel and Barbara Feldmeyer gave talks about their work. (1/2)

Don't miss our symposium (S29: Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations) at @eseb2025.bsky.social tomorrow starting at 11. Hope to see many of you there!

A night full of fun, science and insects: We invite you to join our “Lange Nacht der Insekten” on Sept. 5th, 6pm until midnight, at LWL Museum of Natural History in Münster. Bring your family and friends and explore an ant farm, watch a science slam and visit the planetarium! Entrance is free.

@eseb2025.bsky.social We are looking forward to welcome four GEvol members presenting Tuesday 19.8. in S29 "Genomic Basis of evolutionary innovation": Invited Speaker @ahuylmans.bsky.social, Marie Lebherz @bornberglab.bsky.social, Elisa Israel (Prohaska Lab) and Barbara Feldmeyer @sgn.one. 🌞

🪰🚨 Check the new GEvol paper by our PhD students Andreas Remmel and Karl Kaether and PIs Peter Stadler und Steffen Lemke about stage-specific Genes at Life Stage Transitions in Flies: doi.org/10.1002/jez....

💻 The last days we had a really interesting workshop on "NEXT LEVEL SCIENCE USING AI ASSISTANTS!" by www.schillermertens.de. As excited as we are about the many possible applications of AI, it's also kind of scary👻.

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 🔬 Ever wondered how new genes emerge from scratch? Meet DESwoMAN, a fully automated pipeline to detect and analyze newly expressed ORFs (neORFs) from transcriptome data — giving us a window into the earliest stages of de novo gene emergence! (Thread 🧵👇)

You want to apply #ATACseq in your emerging model organism, but you don't know where to start? Is #ATACseq the best method for my research questions? Search no more! We got you covered with our new review: doi.org/10.1002/jez.... Excellent collaboration with @gevol.bsky.social

🕷️NEW cool GEvol Paper by our Spider Group: "Gene and Genome Duplication in Spiders" by GEvol student Chetan Munegowda, @pechmannm.bsky.social, Nikola Pripic-Schäper and @nturetz.bsky.social in JEZ-B.🕸️ doi.org/10.1002/jez....

NEW PAPER by GEvol member Jacqueline Heckenhauer and her colleques from @sgn.one about Convergence in the Major Silk Gene in Caddisflies. doi.org/10.1002/jez....

Check out the brand new Gevol Paper about epigenetic in the Potato Beetle by our students Zoe from the Kurtz lab (Münster) and Elisa from the Prohaska group (Leipzig). doi.org/10.1002/jez....

📢Last Chance: @eseb2025.bsky.social in Barcelona🏖️-->Abstract submission deadline Mai 5th. Please submit a abstract to our symposium #29 Genomic Basis of evolutionary Innovation eseb2025.com/list-of-symp.... With our invited speaker @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social and @ahuylmans.bsky.social.

A new paper from our Gevol tandem projects of @bornberglab.bsky.social and the lab of John Parsch (LMU). Check out "Expression of De Novo Open Reading Frames in Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogaster" bsky.app/profile/born...

📢 ONE WEEK LEFT for abstract submission! Don’t miss the chance to tell #Barcelona and the field of #EvolutionaryBiology all about your amazing work!  📝 Select from 51 approved symposia to submit your #Abstract: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

Annotation of 200 insect genomes. Work driven by @stepbystepsolution.bsky.social and Mario Stanke within @gevol.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...