📝New Publication🧪 Congratulations to team member Alex Twyford for his review article with colleagues, exploring the concept of a "polyploid continuum" which expands upon the current binary classification of autopolyploids or allopolyploids! doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #WGDip @botsocamerica.bsky.social

📢Meet the team! Róisín Long is a PhD student with Prof.Aoife McLysaght at Trinity College Dublin. This comes after completing an undergrad in Human Genetics at TCD. Her PhD research focuses on rediploidisation following WGD in vertebrates. She's excited to be involved in public engagement for #WGDip

📢Meet the team! Dr. Anthony Redmond is a #WGDip project partner from the University College Dublin. His research focuses on the immune system, devising phylogenomic approaches to resolve the tree of life, & defining the role of gene & genome duplication in evolution Read more:🧬 shorturl.at/d3brV

📢Meet the team! Molly Carter is the Project Manager of the Darwin Tree of Life project. She’ll support the delivery of chromosomal-level assemblies of the giant genomes for the #WGDip project! She used to be a natural sciences museum curator and loves all manner of arthropods!🕷️🐛

📢Meet the team! Dr. Rosa Fernández is a #WGDip project partner from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology. Her research focuses on understanding how genome architecture and large-scale genomic rearrangements allow animals to adapt to new environments. Find out more:🕷️🦂 shorturl.at/OZdOl

📢Meet the team! Lora Downes is a Project Manager in the Tree of Life Programme (buff.ly/ytXalMi) at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She will support the delivery of chromosome-level assemblies for key species in WGDip! Find her on LinkedIn: buff.ly/WewE2bz

📢Meet the team! Dr. Manu Kumar Gundappa is a #WGDip Project Partner from Wageningen University & Research. Using fish as a model system, his research focuses on developing comparative & functional genomic approaches to explore fundamental biological questions. Find out more:🐟 shorturl.at/OC8OU

📢Meet the team! Dr. Zoe Vance is a Post-Doc from the University of Bath. With a background in genetics, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics, she will develop methods and approaches for examining rediploidisation across systems. Find out more about her research:💻🧬 shorturl.at/MOcfe

📢Meet the team! Dr. Tom Williams is a project co-lead from the University of Bath. As a computational evolutionary biologist, his research focuses on reconstructing the history of life and studying genome evolution in Archaea, Bacteria and Microbial Eukaryotes Find out more: 💻🌱 shorturl.at/Wr1Yv

📢Meet the team! Dr. Morgane Milin is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. Her past research has focused on recurrent polyploidy and diploidization, looking to detect and date WGD events in grasses. As part of this work, she developed a bioinformatics tool called WGD_Tracker.🌾💻 #WGDip

📢Meet the team! Dr. Drew Larson is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on evolutionary processes such as adaptation, divergence, gene duplication & introgression, which shape organisms’ genomes & biodiversity across phylogenetic scales🌐🧬 Find out more: shorturl.at/FzmPD

The WGDip team had a great first day at #ESEB2025! It was great to see everyone who attended our symposium yesterday on “Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions” 💬🧬 Still an exciting week ahead for all!🤗 #WGDip @eseb2025.bsky.social

#eseb2025 has started. So many friends and colleagues around. This is amazing. Welcome everyone to Barcelona!

📝New Publication🧪 Congratulations to team members Finn McHale and Peter Holland for their paper exploring the evolution of duplicated Hox Gene clusters in land snails and slugs, showing similar retention patterns following WGD in vertebrates and invertebrates🐌 @jezb1904.bsky.social shorturl.at/AM5AB

Dr Nicola Stock is a public engagement specialist at the University of Edinburgh. After starting her career in bioscience research, she followed her passion for communicating science, joining the Roslin Institute in 2012 and building a vibrant, inclusive public engagement with research programme 🗣️💬🧬

📢Meet the team! Dr. Dearbhaile Casey (@dervc.bsky.social) is a Research Co-Lead from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on whole genome duplications and their consequences in Acipenseriformes and lesser-studied invertebrates. Find out more about her research: 🧬🐟 shorturl.at/TBM5J

Roslin Reels - The Roslin Institute's Professor Dan Macqueen talks about his team's work on fish health and evolution. For more information on our research, check out our website: www.roslin.ed.ac.uk #RoslinReels #Aquaculture #FishHealth

📢Meet the team! Prof. Phillip Donoghue is a project co-lead from the University of Bristol. He is a palaeontologist who has long been fascinated by the timing and nature of major evolutionary transitions, especially following WGDs. Learn more about his research:🦴 scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

📢Meet the team! Prof. Mark Blaxter is a Project Co-Lead from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where he leads the Tree of Life (TOL) Programme, which is producing reference genome assemblies for target species in WGDip. Find out more about Mark's work: 💻🧬 scholar.google.com/citations?us...

📢Meet the team! Dr. Richard Taylor, a post-doc from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on applying bioinformatic and genomic approaches to questions in biomedicine & animal health. He will use single cell transcriptomics to explore functional outcomes of whole genome duplications💻🧫

📢Meet the team! Dr. Lucas Freitas, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Bristol. He will help to estimate the timing of WGD events and understand how delayed rediploidisation affects phenotypic traits in different species. Find out more about his past research:💻⏰ shorturl.at/bPUZ1

From the quantum jungle to DNA origami, take a look at the galaxy of live talks, hands-on activities and more that you can discover at our free Summer Science Exhibition from 1-6 July. Take a look: #SummerScience

📢Meet the team! Prof. Peter Holland is a project co-lead from the University of Oxford. Peter is a molecular evolutionary biologist with many years of experience researching genome duplication events and tandem gene duplication events across the animal kingdom. Find out more:🐌🧬 shorturl.at/BjGWR

🌍 Interesting #Biodiversity #Genomics conference this October @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - "Understanding life: Using largescale biodiversity reference genomes" 🧬 Register today! coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/unders... @eventswcs.bsky.social @engagewcs.bsky.social

📢Meet the team! Dr. Alex Twyford, a project co-lead from the University of Edinburgh, and research fellow at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. He is an evolutionary biologist interested in speciation, hybridisation and polyploidy in plants. Find out more on Alex's work: 🌼🧬 biology.ed.ac.uk/twyford

We held the first (mostly) in person meeting of the WGDip project. It was a great opportunity to foster discourse across the consortium and align our goals for the project. We are all eager to get started and delve into whole genome duplication and rediploidisation in eukaryotic evolution!☀️ 🌍 #WGDip

📢Meet the team! Eilidh Elliot is our project support coordinator, based at the University of Edinburgh, and will be providing administrative support to the project leadership team, as well as supporting the design and organisation of (exciting!) public engagement activities. 📝⚙️

📢Meet the team! Dr. Emily Haley is returning to the University of Edinburgh as a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Biological Sciences. She will be using bioinformatic analyses to explore the occurrence of rediploidisation, focussing on plants.🧬🪻 #WGDip

Taylor, @roseruizdaniels.bsky.social & Macqueen use single-nucleus RNAseq of salmon liver to show cell-specific expression divergence of thousands of gene duplicates, showing the diverse evolutionary pressures that followed whole-genome duplication. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf076 #genome #WGDip

📢Meet the team! Dr. Ilia Leitch, a project co-lead from Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Her work focuses on understanding the vast ~13,000-fold variation in genome size in plants, the processes underpinning such diversity (including polyploidy), and associated evolutionary and ecological consequences.

📢Meet the team! Dr. James Clark is a Project Co-Lead from the University of Bath. His group will apply phylogenomics and comparative methods to characterise WGD events and quantify their macroevolutionary outcomes across the tree of life. Find out more about James’s work: 💻🌱 shorturl.at/U892B

📝 New Publication 🧪 Congratulations to team members Richard Taylor and Dan Macqueen for their paper exploring the functional and evolutionary outcomes of whole genome duplication using single cell transcriptomics! @genomebiolevol.bsky.social #WGDip academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

📢Meet the Team! Brianna Banting is returning to the University of Edinburgh to pursue a PhD with Dan Macqueen and Alex Twyford. Previously graduating with an MSc in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis, focusing on introgression and species barriers among a group of montane willows.🌳🌲

Our scientists are leading a four-year, £5m study to understand how a fundamental process whereby a species’ entire DNA code can be duplicated, becoming four strands instead of the usual two, before reforming over millions of years into two chains once more. #DNADay edin.ac/44bDBrq

🚨Abstract Submission Deadline Extended🚨 You have until the 5th May to submit your abstract and join us in sunny Barcelona at #eseb2025 ☀️ WGDip symposium (S13) - Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions. @eseb2025.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social

📢Meet the Team! Dr. Kevin Bird, starting this summer as a post-doctoral researcher at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He will be looking for signs of asynchronous diploidization across angiosperms. Find out more about his research: 🥬🍓 kevinabird.github.io @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social

Meet our project lead Professor Dan Macqueen! Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, who’s broadening his taxonomic horizons beyond fish to investigate evolution after whole genome duplication events across the tree of life. Find out more about his research at: 🐟🌳 www.macqueenresearchgroup.com

📢 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/

Join us at #ESEB2025 in Barcelona for ‘Evolution After Whole Genome Duplication: Transformative Advances and New Directions’ – a symposium organised by WGDip, with talks from project members. Abstract deadline: April 25th. We look forward to hearing about your WGD discoveries! @eseb2025.bsky.social

We are excited to announce the 'official' start of our BBSRC funded sLoLa project, where we aim to uncover the role of rediploidisation in shaping evolution after genome duplication events across the tree of life! Find out more: www.rediploidisation.org vet.ed.ac.uk/roslin/news-... #WGDip #BBSRC