Happy to share that this year we will teach the course in Colombia. Please share this information with students, postdocs, and PIs interested in learning how to analyze genomic data. @ibiogen-latam.bsky.social More information: biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com

Looking back to a wonderful week of teaching biodiversity genomics in Mendoza, Argentina. The participants from 8 South and Central American countries learned the basics of biodiversity genomics from assessing data quality to performing population and comparative genomics analysis.

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

Happy to share that the second edition of our course will take place in Argentina from November 24th to 28th. Application deadline: September 1st, 2025. biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com

Super excited to see the published Editorial for our Special Issue on Ecology of Gene Expression. We began working on this in 2023, and we have some excellent papers to share (1) Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Our latest work on selfish centromeres is published @currentbiology.bsky.social 🐭🧬We found that the spindle checkpoint contributes to non-Mendelian segregation! Huge congrats to our lab manager, Zaak Walton, who led the project🎉 Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQzN3QW8S...

Our latest paper is out: rdcu.be/ev6Ym — one of my favorite projects. It began about 8 years ago when Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel asked me: what transcription factors regulate new genes? I had no idea then. Now we have some answers.

We are just starting sessions at the 2025 Workshop on Lepidopteran genetics in Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. During the week, researchers from around the world (Europe, Americas, China & Japan, etc) present research on moths and butterflies. events.gwdg.de/event/880/ #lepgencrete

Join us on the Wellcome Genome Campus of the Sanger Institute and EBI for a symposium on biodiversity genomics from 27th-29th October! Abstract deadline on 14 July. There is also an option to join via Zoom, but in-person is much nicer if you can make it.

Very excited about this paper led by Erika Castro. She has shown that Heliconius were ancestrally plastic in how they acquired their cyanogens, but some species have lost the ability to biosynthesise toxins, and have lost genes involved www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Meet our Postdocs who have recently won a Sanger Accelerator Award 🎉 The Awardees will receive funding to further their research and gain valuable experience in project management and grant writing. Find out more ⬇️ www.sanger.ac.uk/about/career...

Since I'm stuck backing up and transferring to a non-crashing laptop might as well spend a bit of today doodling something for International Day of Women and Girls in Science, now more than ever! #WomenInScience #IDWGS #SciArt

🐛 We have a new pre-print up on genomic evolution during repeated transitions to gregarious behaviour in Heliconiini caterpillars 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...