SMBE2026 Symposium 14 | Evolution of host-pathogen interactions in the genomic age 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

We are very excited to be organising this symposium at SMBE @official-smbe.bsky.social next year! We look forward to your abstracts and to being in Copenhagen!

For a nice overview of what ancient DNA can tell us about pathogens (produced by undergraduate and graduate students in my lab!) see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOE...

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

💀+🧬+🤖 = 🎬🔥 Makalemiz artık sadece okunmuyor, izleniyor! Kurgu değil, gerçek bilim 😍😎 Teşekkürler Hacettepe ❤️ @science.org 👇 Yapay zeka animasyonumuza acil bakın: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3_C...

Es ist Pride Week in Hamburg! 🌈 Dieses Mal unter dem Motto: „Wir sind hier, um zu bleiben. Queere Menschen schützen.“ Und auch dieses Jahr heißt es wieder: #HamburgzeigtFlagge Wir sind dabei und haben vor dem Hauptgebäude und vor der Verwaltung im Mittelweg gehisst! 🏳️‍🌈

🌾 Agriculture didn’t always spread with mobility of people. New ancient DNA research shows that in western Anatolia, while communities stayed put, farming and village life spread through the movement of ideas and practices.

Detecting and quantifying rare sex in natural populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657731v1

An effective marker for water frog systematics, including complex systems and hybrids 🤔 “Structure and Evolution of the uqcrfs1 Gene in Western Palearctic Water Frogs (Genus Pelophylax) and Implications for Systematics of Eastern Mediterranean Species” DOI: doi.org/10.1155/jzs/...

Our paper (w/ @smishra677.bsky.social) is now out in Genetics! academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Stärkung für die Forschung am UKE: Die @dfg.de hat zwei neue Sonderforschungsbereiche zum mütterlichen Immunsystem und zu Nierenfiltern bewilligt. Diese werden in den kommenden vier Jahren mit insgesamt 29 Millionen Euro gefördert. Auch Forschende aus Lübeck, Berlin, Köln und Münster sind beteiligt.

🚨 Don’t miss the 1st HAAM-radio symposium: "Ethics in Human DNA Research" 📅 May 29 (next week!) 🕒 LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm) 🎙️ With @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jenniferraff.bsky.social @marisolespitia.bsky.social & Tomás Gozález Zarzar 📝 Register by May 28 🔗 shorturl.at/1VScZ

Genomic Insights into Derived Dwarfism and Exudivory in a Genus (Callithrix) of the World's Smallest Anthropoid Monkeys https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654637v1

Marmosets are diverse in morphology and diet. We study these differences through an evolutionary lens and implications for marmoset conservation and husbandry. This work took 10 years thru major world events, moving across three continents, and driving all over Brazil. Check out the pre-print!

This is a great opportunity to compare the headline they use to get you to click through to the actual substance of the article. These aren't dire wolves. They're gene-edited "99.9% grey wolves." This isn't a scientific breakthrough, it's CRISPR editing with a marketing wing.

We just succeeded in formally linking a specific rodent species - the otherwise charming fire-footed rope squirrel - to the onset of a mpox outbreak in a primate species - sooty mangabeys. Here Kai’s report on the preprint we released yesterday 1/2

Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released! (Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

📢 new paper alert for the primate and genomics nerds. telomere to telomere ape genomes. I led MHC annotations on this work w/ @biotobi.bsky.social and @meyerbritta.bsky.social And hey it’s my first nature paper 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The call for PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology is now open, including one in my group! www.evolbio.mpg.de/3017297/appl.... If you are interested in playing with ancestral recombination graphs, please reach out!

New study from the Lab! Jinyang Liang assesses the possibility of inferring ancestral alleles (aka allele polarization) without outgroup sequence, using the ancestral recombination graph (ARG) alone. Here are some of our findings. (1/5)