🎓🪲We would like to offer our warmest congratulations to Dr Zoe Länger on successfully completing her PhD. We were delighted to have you as a PhD student in our GEvol Group. We wish you all the best for the future.🐞

We’re looking for a new colleague in Würzburg! 🌱 W3 Professorship in Plant Metabolism 💊 Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology 🧪 Head of the Metabolomics Core Unit jobs.zeit.de/jobs/univers... Please spread the word! Questions? Feel free to contact me. www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/about-the...

Assistant Professor position at University of Michigan. Applicants in all areas of cellular/molecular biology in prokaryotes, plants, and animals are encouraged to apply. lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

MCDB Solicits Applications for an Assistant Professor | U-M LSA Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)

The faculty position will be tenure track with a university year appointment starting August 25, 2027 or January 1, 2028. Apply now through October 1, 2026.

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When we worked on the Argiope bruennichi genome, there were those odd sequences. A contamination? No: a symbiont. doi.org/10.1093/fems... thx to @miamynta.bsky.social @uhl-lab.bsky.social and Larissa Busch & everyone else. Great to see it published!

Es war eigentlich eine ganz normale Arbeitswoche, aber die Erlebnisse, die ich allein in den letzten Tagen mit Men In Academia hatte, könnten mal wieder ein ganzes unterhaltsames Buchkapitel füllen.

ERGA's COST Action is gathering momentum ahead of the kick-off meeting in Brussels 🟣 CONSENSA: Consensus Standards for Applied Biodiversity Genomics 🔵 Read about it here: www.cost.eu/actions/CA25... 🟢 ERGA members - make sure to apply in order to be eligible for grants, awards, meetings, and more!

Produced a #genome of a European species? Publishing a Genome Report for the assembly? Benefitted from ERGA @ergabiodiv.bsky.social resources or networking? If so, consider listing the Genome Report in the ERGA Collecion riojournal.com/topical_coll... Learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO6d...

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Community Genome Reports

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) is a pan-European initiative that aims to facilitate the generation of high-quality reference genomes for the continent’s biodiversity as part of the g...

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Biochemist Dr. Ida Stephens Owens mapped how human genes control drug metabolism. The first Black woman to earn a PhD from Duke (1967), she spent ~50 years at NIH. She identified the UGT1A gene complex, decoding how enzymes detoxify drugs & harmful toxins. She was born #OTD in 1939.🧵 #WomenInSTEM

The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley currently has two open Assistant Professor positions (aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 & aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522). Interested individuals are welcome to apply to one or both searches.

Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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With his program, Vipsania, Richard Krieg has shown, that it is possible to do unsupervised deep gene finding with masked language modeling The trick: use an HMM in the middle of the deep-learning architecture that knows the grammar of gene structures. preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are thrilled to share that our GPN-Star manuscript is now published and freely available: doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/n)

Predicting genome-wide functional constraints with GPN-Star - Nature

GPN-Star, a genomic language model with a phylogeny-aware architecture for whole-genome alignment data, is shown to be a scalable and flexible tool for genetic variant effect prediction across species...

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🎓🎓🎓 Last chance to apply: full professorship in English Literature, Heidelberg University, deadline September 15 🎓🎓🎓

Theresa Heyd@theresaheyd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Jetzt auch im Stellenmarkt der ZEIT: W3-Professur für Englische Philologie/Literaturwissenschaft am Anglistischen Seminar der Universität Heidelberg ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Andreas Weber is kicking off #BT2026 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de with very important messages about the roles of communities for excellent science @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

"Turning today’s genomes into analysis-ready resources requires species-dense sampling anchored in natural history collections" www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💥 Congratulations to ERGA members involved in developing this thoughtful review! #biodiversity #genomics

Species-dense genomics through natural history collections - Nature Reviews Genetics

Large-scale genome initiatives are transforming biodiversity genomics, but genomes remain taxonomically sparse and difficult to compare across species. Kapli and colleagues argue that natural history ...

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Sponsorship for 3 students in #genomics, evolutionary biology, ecology, and related fields with ambitions in innovation and entrepreneurship to attend Integrating Scales in Planetary Biology 2026 in Uppsala, Sweden. Deadline: 14 September 2026 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

GenomeVault Student Sponsorship · Integrating Scales in Planetary Biology 2026

In collaboration with SciLifeLab, we are sponsoring 3 students in genomics, evolutionary biology, ecology, and related fields with ambitions in innovation and entrepreneurship to attend Integrating Sc...

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🐦🧬 What does it take to complete the genome of a songbird? The Vertebrate Genomes Project has produced the first complete, fully phased reference genome of the zebra finch (𝘛𝘢𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘺𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘢). Getting there took more than simply generating more sequence. #T2T #VGP #Genomics #GenomeAssembly

🎉 New paper from our lab in Nature Comms! We compare 2 strategies—Join & Call vs Call & Join—across PacBio and ONT data, tissues, and 6 lrRNAseq transcript reconstruction tools. Take away: 👉Join & Call 4 novel isoforms 👉Call & Join 4 2 obtain highly replicated signals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We welcome rigorous implementation papers and case studies focused on cyberinfrastructure, data pipelines, repository architectures, interoperability frameworks, semantic technologies, FAIR-aligned workflows, and reproducible computational environments onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Ecology and Evolution Call for Papers: Cyberinfrastructure and Data Management in Ecology and Evolution

Ecology & Evolution is a broad open access journal welcoming research in ecology, evolution, and conservation science, and providing a forum for evidence-based views.

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This talk by @anaconesa.bsky.social was most inspiring. So glad I attended that session.

Sina Majidian@sinamajidian.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social is sharing her scientific journey to a full house at #ECCB2026, from the challenges of being a young PI to the success of BLAST2GO and much more on long read

Stop by poster G43 today at #ECCB2026 to learn about eukaryotic gene prediction with deep learning and evidence. I will also gladly tell you about the Vipsania genome foundation model developed by Richard Krieg, Joscha Diehl & @masta.bsky.social . Looking for a PhD student from 04/2027!

This morning we remembered four computational biology pioneers, who the world sadly lost over the past year. Thank you to all speakers for your moving tributes at ECCB. #ECCB2026 #Bioinformatics

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GitHub - Gaius-Augustus/Vipsania: Unsupervised Deep Gene Finding

Unsupervised Deep Gene Finding. Contribute to Gaius-Augustus/Vipsania development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Katharina Hoff@katharinahoff.bsky.social · 4w ago

A revolution in annotating protein coding genes in eukaryotes: Richard Krieg, Joscha Diehl & @masta.bsky.social developed Vipsania, a genome foundation model with integrated HMM-layer: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🎉💐 So impressive work! Congratulations!

A revolution in annotating protein coding genes in eukaryotes: Richard Krieg, Joscha Diehl & @masta.bsky.social developed Vipsania, a genome foundation model with integrated HMM-layer: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🎉💐 So impressive work! Congratulations!

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ERGA News #40 - August 2026

NewsEnd of Term: Thank You to Our Chair and Vice Chairs!As we approach the end of the current 3-year term, we want to thank our Chair Rob Waterhouse and Vice Chairs, Ann Mc Cartney and Olga Vinnere Pe...

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Produced a #genome of a European species? Publishing a Genome Report for the assembly? Benefitted from ERGA @ergabiodiv.bsky.social resources or networking? If so, consider listing the Genome Report in the ERGA Collecion riojournal.com/topical_coll... Learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO6d...

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Community Genome Reports

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) is a pan-European initiative that aims to facilitate the generation of high-quality reference genomes for the continent’s biodiversity as part of the g...

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