What does a typical workflow look like for @ugiatucl.bsky.social researchers studying pathogen diversity? See our microbial genomics theme poster featuring the groups of @lucyvandorp.bsky.social @proffballoux.bsky.social @gemmamurray.bsky.social & Marina Escalera-Zamudio. Poster: Phoebe Cunningham

A sneak peek of some of the cool work done at UCL UGI!

UCL Genetics Institute@ugiatucl.bsky.social · 4w ago

Want to know the kind of work we do in @ugiatucl.bsky.social ? Here’s a poster from our recent away day, showcasing research from @aidaandres.bsky.social and Garrett Hellenthal’s groups using population genetics to study human evolution. Poster led by @alicebalard.bsky.social. #popgen #humanevo

On our 250th birthday, celebrating the contribution of immigrants and international collaboration —46% of people with doctoral-level degrees working in US science and engineering fields are foreign-born

Just published our new paper: “The reliability of inferred archaic segments” 🎉🧬💀 www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/6/2/000... We systematically compare several published methods and our new method "cp-archaic" using simulations and 1000 Genomes data

Today at ECR CompBio SkillS, Dr Angharad Green told us about her microbiology career and her role of data steward at ARC. Thanks UCL Grassroots Research Culture Seed Fund tinyurl.com/2sy7umj5 for sponsorship of our events bringing the computational community together! @ugiatucl.bsky.social

Q. for scientists: how do you efficiently supervise undergrads for fully computational projects? Less 1:1 supervision time than wet lab can mean less support if they don't actively ask for it, more use of AI to produce loads of code without full understanding, loss of motivation... Any tips welcome!

🚨Save the Date: CEE Spring Symposium 2026, Thurs 28th May afternoon, ‘Molecular Frontiers in Wildlife, Ecology and Evolution’. How emerging 🧬 and 💻 tools are transforming our ability to study eco-evo in wild systems Please sign in to our free Eventbrite: tinyurl.com/Ceespring and share!

🚨 New preprint alert 🚨 I’m excited to share our study presenting a non-invasive method for sexing sea turtle hatchlings via DNA methylation - the culmination of many years of work! Huge thanks to our fantastic co-authors, whose dedication made this possible doi.org/10.64898/202...

DNA methylation reveals evolved buffering responses to climate-driven sex ratio skew in sea turtles

Species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), including all sea turtles which produce females at warmer temperatures, face projections of demographic collapse under climate-driven sex ra...

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Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al: "Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited" doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology

Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

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1/ I’m very excited to share my postdoc work with @kseskv.bsky.social, in collaboration with @oligriffith.bsky.social. We explore embryonic DNA methylation reprogramming in the fat-tailed dunnart, an Australian marsupial 🦘🌏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9

Adenine DNA methylation associated with transcriptionally permissive chromatin is widespread across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics

Long-read sequencing in 18 unicellular eukaryotes reveals that 6mA is widespread across eukaryotes and is enriched at transcriptionally permissive regions, which are also marked by H3K4me3.

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You want to learn about all of the amazing ways epigenetics 🧬can inform wildlife 🐻🐟 research? Check the online presentations me and colleagues will give 16-18th of Sept! Thanks NKV, and Chloé Nater from @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social for putting together this great learning & networking workshop!

Come to join a great team and a super exciting project!

Lucy van Dorp@lucyvandorp.bsky.social · last yr.

If you like generating genomic data from unusual medical samples, past and contemporary epidemiology and advancing methods in phylo/population genetics please get in touch. Group website: www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpvan/ Closing date Sept 25th 2025. #aDNA #microbialgenomics #ISBA #popgen #UCL

If you want to know more about DNA methylation in conservation, especially temperature-sex dependent species, check this cool video & the paper tinyurl.com/yvspkzp6! It was a pleasure to be part of such cool collaboration, very well done for the intense work @eugeniecyen.bsky.social you're a queen!

Charley Yen, PhD@eugeniecyen.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks @gigascience.bsky.social for the cool video opportunity, and thanks again to all co-authors! @alicebalard.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social @qmulsbbs.bsky.social et al

A nice review paper from the lab!

Nancy Bird@nancybird1.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out our recent review 'Power and Limitations of Inferring Genetic Ancestry'- what do we even mean by the term 'genetic ancestry' and what do commonly-used methods actually tell us?

You can catch UGI post-doc @nancybird1.bsky.social presenting at @official-smbe.bsky.social #SMBE next week on her work: "A flexible and efficient new model to infer multiple admixture dates via joint analyses of modern and/or ancient individuals".

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · last yr.

#SMBE2025 Symposium 27: Population genetics through time session B 🔗 smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/program/25070

✨🧬 Sharing our UCL Genetics Institute starter pack of researchers, friends and alumni past and present 🧬 ✨ #UGISKY (DM us to be added) go.bsky.app/Gw1NqRa

Great to see this published in @gigascience.bsky.social! Using @nanoporetech.com, we generated genome and methylome resources simultaneously to drive molecular insights for conservation of loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde 🐢🧬🇨🇻 doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Chromosome-level genome assembly and methylome profile yield insights for the conservation of endangered loggerhead sea turtles

AbstractBackground. Characterizing genetic and epigenetic diversity is crucial for assessing the adaptive potential of threatened populations and species i

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Tomorrow is the first #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk this semester, with @alicebalard.bsky.social from UCL @ucl.ac.uk who will be talking about the role of methylation in adaptive response to environmental pressures. Join us! Details: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5