A new review on #evolution is online! Pavithra Venkataraman and Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social discuss a conceptual framework for the joint influence of coding and regulatory mutations in shaping fitness and impacting molecular #evolution. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Je suis d'accord. Il devrait aller vers Gaspé et Halifax :)

Talks by: @christianlandry.bsky.social @nadavmishol.bsky.social Jia Zheng @rmuniztrejo.bsky.social Olivier Tenaillon Solomon McShea Yiqiao Sun @megbehri.bsky.social Florian Mattenberger @ariannebabina.bsky.social Aleksandra Nivina

Outbreaks are inevitable. Being unprepared is NOT. When the world invests COLLECTIVELY in science and research, rapid development of vaccines and antivirals are possible www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/vid...

How to make poster sessions attractive, rn at www.febs.org/event/molecu...

New research integrates molecular simulations with mutational profiling to discover the resistance mechanism of echinocandins—drugs used for the treatment of fungal infections. 💊 Read more in the May issue of #GENETICS:🔗 buff.ly/h2xXO6g 📷️ credit: Romain Durand, @christianlandry.bsky.social

Louis (Bernatchez) was in his mid-forties and a highly influential and renowned researcher already at the time. Now that I am older than this, I realize how exceptional he was. I would still seek his advice if he were still around. A mentor is always a mentor, especially one who becomes a friend.

This is how serious we are about our national sport and the best professional sport franchise ever!

Exam marking done, grades entered into the system. Now what?

❗We recall that our Call for Volunteer Mentors for Undergraduate Awardees at SMBE2026 is ongoing. If you are interested in supporting the next generation of researchers, please contact Aya Takahashi ([email protected]) or Ravinder Kanda ([email protected]). #SMBE2026

Massive testing = bad idea www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Is this real?

Relance du gaz de schiste au Québec: des puits forés il y a plus de 15 ans laissent toujours fuir du méthane. La loi oblige les entreprises à les fermer, mais aucun des 29 puits n’a été fermé, malgré les millions de dollars de fonds publics pour financer les travaux. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...

I am looking for short papers using phylogenetic trees to test alternative hypotheses regarding evolution that can easily be grasped by undergraduate students in biochemistry. Please RT and share your ideas.

"genAI can be used to create podcasts from a paper to teach st-" Let me stop you right there. Before you feed somebody's paper to a slop machine, invite that somebody to talk to your students about their paper. We're right here. We academics won't shut up about our work, man. 🧪

Are there dates for the announcement of #NSERC DG and RTI funding decisions?

Has anyone tried the 'no filling forms strike', where you don't fill out any PDF forms unless the admin person sending them has already filled all the fields they know the answers to? #academicpaperoverload

Nice surprise this morning! A Dispatch on our paper on paralog interference now out in Current Biology! By Krishna Swamy and Jun-Yi Leu. www.cell.com/current-biol...

For those interested, the papers associated with my talk: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39146405/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41699381/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36735790/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36050399/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41763210/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31454312/

🧬 EvolCompGen presents: Christian Landry on the Evolution of gene duplication, from redundancy to dependency @christianlandry.bsky.social 🗓️ Join us on Monday, March 23 at 11:00 AM EDT 📌 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #society #compbio

I just gave a talk in front of my postdoc advisor. Last time was probably in a lab meeting almost 20 years ago. Weird feeling!

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

One of the few good news this week

Good luck to all CIHR applicants!

New paper alert: Paralog interference contributes to the preservation of genetic redundancy www.cell.com/current-biol...

Hooking on McDavid and other super fast players is always more tolerated, as if refs wanted to keep the game fair.

The February issue of #GENETICS highlights a model developed by @christianlandry.bsky.social and colleagues that demonstrates how physical interactions between alleles determine total protein activity and contribute to phenotypic dominance and fitness. buff.ly/qqcNPoO

On veut Desbiens avec les boys demain #goCanadago

Come visit Québec City in winter, if only to see the longest cantilever bridge floating over an iced Fleuve Saint-Laurent

Go Brazil go!

#DeepMutationalScanning (DMS) experiments are limited by gene size due to library complexity & costs. @christianlandry.bsky.social &co develop an efficient & cost-effective barcoded cloning strategy for plasmid-based DMS libraries that enables study of large genes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4abhyUf

Six fishermen who cast a line in the frozen Saguenay River in the Canadian province of Quebec worked for more than two hours to reel in an Atlantic halibut that broke local records. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/w...

In #GENETICS, a new model developed by @christianlandry.bsky.social and colleagues examines how molecular dominance determines total protein activity and contributes to phenotypic dominance. buff.ly/CfaTDp7

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Best gene synthesis company that does not involve sending #$CAD from taxpayers' money south of the border? #synbio

La différence entre le genre de trucs qu'il dit et ce qu'on rapporte dans les médias est frappante. On 'normalise' son comportement en donnant de la structure et du contenu à ce qu'il dit. C'est un phénomène intéressant toute cette banalisation dont il bénéficie. D'autres exemples sont connus?

Another way in which Denmark is helping the US!

Territorial integrity and sovereignty are fundamental principles of international law. They are essential for Europe and for the international community as a whole.

Are we allowed to celebrate anything with all that is happening down the border, to our friends and colleagues, and the fear spreading across the continent?

Let’s go! La Victoire nous visite!

Muller’s ratchet but for an entire society, in real time.

Going to the gym is risky!

Worrying about the copyright of published scientific figures we would like to use for teaching is so dissonant when you could legally use generative AI to produce ones that are based on stolen material.

I have been screening bioRxiv preprints for a few months and one thing I noticed: many of them don't have page numbers.

Organisers - @weieli.bsky.social | Stanford University - @jaguilarrod.bsky.social | Stanford University Invited Speaker - @christianlandry.bsky.social | @ulaval.ca

#CancerGenetics people: I am looking for examples of tumor suppressor genes that are inactivated in cancers by regulatory mutations (non-coding) rather than coding mutations. Please share.

We're hiring! My dept. is looking for a candidate with a research program focusing on plant systems. All areas of molecular and cellular biology research will be considered. Not sure if you'd fit? Reach out to me. Please share! #microsky

In #GENETICS, Romain Durand, Alicia Pageau, and @christianlandry.bsky.social present a new Snakemake-based workflow, gyōza, to analyze deep-mutational scanning data. This tool requires little programming knowledge and can automatically generate HTML reports. buff.ly/4dJJdva

Our department is hiring for 4 faculty positions! Come join a growing and dynamic group of scientists in a fun and engaging department! Assistant Professor of Cell Biology: bit.ly/4okizhq Assistant Professor of Microbiology:bit.ly/48ZVHz1 2 Lecturers of Microbiology: bit.ly/4qCwukr

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)