Join us for another exciting seminar by Dr. Samuel Yeaman (University of Calgary) about the repeatability of adaptation? on 30th July, 2026, 4 pm CET. Zoom link here: polygenic-adaptation-network.org/seminars/
Pepi (Josefa) González
@gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biology. Adaptation Genomics. Transposable Elements. Drosophila. @ibb-botanic.bsky.social @CSIC.es| @Embo.org member| #ERCgrantee Web: gonzalezlab.es Science outreach: melanogaster.eu| @lcatmon.bsky.social DrosEU: www.droseu.net
A question for my #Drosophila #TEsky friends: any clues as to why copia (doi.org/10.1101/SQB....) is called copia? copious amounts of RNA? copia as in 'plenty'?
Repeated Gene Families in Drosophila melanogaster
Detailed reviews describing work presented at the annual Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
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Excited to launch the first call for proposals focusing on policy and/or societal impact of evolutionary biology research. Activities might include: ✅ local meetings on policy and/or societal impact ✅ actions to influence policy 💰€500-2K available Read more here and apply: shorturl.at/ixlby
📣 📣 📣 📣 To all Drosophilists: the call for Workshop proposals at the 2027 European Drosophila Research Conference in Bonn (20-23 September 2027) is OPEN! Go to link below for instructions. Closing date: 30 September 2026. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 tinyurl.com/45y8trzd
Moltissimes gràcies! Molt contenta de ser part de l'equip IBB @ibb-botanic.bsky.social!
Ens fa molta il·lusió compartir que Josefa González (@gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social), investigadora de l’IBB, ha estat elegida membre d’@embo.org! 🧬 Un reconeixement a una trajectòria científica d’excel·lència. 🔗 Notícia aquí: www.ibb.csic.es/2026/06/30/j...
Thanks to the European Life Sciences research community for electing me! It's an honor to be part of @embo.org #evolution #transposons #Drosophila @ibb-botanic.bsky.social @lcatmon.bsky.social @csic.es
Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 11 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! They join a community of more than 2,200 leading scientists. 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/seventy-one-leading-scientists-elected-to-the-embo-membership/ #EMBOMembers2026
I am at booth #10 to present the destination for the SMBE 2027 meeting, come and see me there or anywhere in the congress center! #SMBE2026
It is finally time for #SMBE2026! Our team will be presenting 10 contributions (3 talks and 7 posters) spanning conservation genomics, temporal genomics, genomic erosion, AI, genome editing, and evolutionary forecasting. Here's where you can find us. See the 🧵 below for all the details.
I'll be presenting some results about loss of distyly in Linum at @official-smbe.bsky.social during poster session B on Tuesday! Where: Arkanden 6, poster no B340 🤗
Our brilliant PhD students are at #SMBE2026 ! S22: P334 Rachel Carboni with snMultiomics S22: P339 @xindih.bsky.social with epistasis vs modularity in GRNs (w/ @fishcongen.bsky.social) S22: talk at 17:45 @jennisiren.bsky.social with GxE in gene expression (w/ main sup @pyhatanja.bsky.social)
#SMBE2026 S22: Evolution of gene regulation: insights from novel molecular and statistical approaches 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 1:20pm - Part 1 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 3:50pm - Part 2 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme
For those interested in more sustainable (evolution) conferencing options like #NOFLYSMBE, consider the next @eseb.bsky.social meeting #eseb2027 which is a 4 city hub meeting aimed at allowing #nofly participation eseb2027.org #smbe2026 #Istanbul #London #Munich #Gothenburg
ESEB 2027 – Hub Congress
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Are you going to #SMBE2026 Copenhagen by train, or are you hesitating? Let's share experiences and give ideas to those who think to fly from Western or Central Europe with the hashtag #NoFlySMBE. If you're coming from 🇨🇭, there are night trains from Zürich or Basel to Hamburg. ✅🚆 ❌✈️
diari.uib.cat/w/especies-i... La UIB acull una reunió de la Xarxa InvaNET per identificar les amenaces principals d
La UIB acull una reunió de la Xarxa InvaNET per identificar les amenaces principals d'espècies exòtiques a les Illes Balears
Les espècies exòtiques invasores causen enormes impactes ecològics i socioeconòmics. Els impactes ecològics són especialment greus en illes, per la seva rica biodiversitat en espècies endèmiques.
diari.uib.cat
Estreno del capítulo 4 de "Relatos del Cambio Global: Menorca" Actividades tradicionales y la preservación de #ReservadelaBiosfera frente a la presión turística. 📅 29 de juny 🕡 18:30 h 📍 ICM-CSIC, 7 Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 🎟️ ENTRADA LLIURE Registre shorturl.at/5k0PE youtu.be/BuUoQuR2aJg
"Relatos del Cambio Global, Capítulo 4: Menorca" (Teaser)
YouTube video by La Ciència Al Teu Món
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A New Open Foundation for TE Research: GIRI is transitioning the full Repbase collection to an open-access license and joining the Dfam effort to help build a unified open resource for transposable element research. Full announcement: tinyurl.com/48665xss
This is great! Thanks GIRI!
A New Open Foundation for TE Research: GIRI is transitioning the full Repbase collection to an open-access license and joining the Dfam effort to help build a unified open resource for transposable element research. Full announcement: tinyurl.com/48665xss
Our last #PopGen Seminar speaker of this term is Andrea Betancourt! Tomorrow she will give a talk "Impact of P-element hybrid dysgenesis in male Drosophila simullans". Full schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #Drosophila #TransposableElements
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❗ PLEASE READ: An important message on the SMBE Code of Conduct 🔗 smbe2026.org/smbe-policies SMBE is dedicated to providing a safe environment for all. Accordingly, SMBE prohibits all forms of discrimination and harassment in all Society activities; such behaviour will not be tolerated. #SMBE2026
Thrilled to be participating in #SMBE2026 as both a council member and speaker! Looking forward to sharing our latest work on cell and regulatory plasticity in #malaria parasites
#SMBE2026 Open Symposium 6: Comparative genomics and phylogenetics 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 10:20am 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme
🧬 Excited to share our preprint: Regulatory landscape of widespread stop codon readthrough (SCR) in Drosophila 🪰 Stop codons supposedly mark the end of protein synthesis. Sometimes they don’t: >1,000 Drosophila genes undergo SCR, a process wherein translation continues past the stop.
Regulatory landscape of widespread stop codon readthrough in Drosophila
In stop codon readthrough (SCR), ribosomes continue to translate past the stop. While programmed SCR is rare in mammals, it appears remarkably widespread in insects, yet its regulation and biological ...
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Congrats Ana and team @anabferretti.bsky.social
Happy to share that a chapter of my PhD thesis is now officially published in Genetics! 🎉 Our study sheds new light on the genomic composition and epigenetic features of the Drosophila melanogaster B chromosome. I’m grateful to all collaborators and mentors who were part of this journey!
🔔 Our synthesis on what’s going on in the field of TE control and RIP in the fungal world! Out now in Trends in Genetics!
Nearly a year after our symposium on Repeat-Induced Point (RIP) mutations, I’m happy to share the fruit of some of our discussions. The fungal RIP hypermutator mechanism has deep eukaryotic roots www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We hope to spark interest in this underappreciated mechanism.
A new RepeatModeler release is available. It adds compatibility with RepeatMasker 4.2.4 and the Dfam 4.0 FamDB format. TETools containers have also been updated with the latest RepeatMasker, RepeatModeler, and FamDB releases. See repeatmasker.org for details
RepeatMasker Home Page
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📢 Last call - the deadline to cast your votes for the 2026 SMBE Election is tomorrow. You still have time to participate in shaping the future of SMBE - we're counting on you! 🗓️ June 12, 2026 🗳️ SMBE members - check your email (and SPAM folder) for the voting link ℹ️ smbe@am.kwglobal.com #society
🎬 17 de junio, 19 hs 📍 Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid ESTRENO #Doñana, el 2o capítulo de la serie #Documental #RelatosDelCambioGlobal Una mirada cinematográfica y científica a uno de los ecosistemas más emblemáticos de Europa y a los retos que afronta 🦩💧 🎟️ 👉 shorturl.at/HGcLi
Excited to announce the International Workshop "Transcriptional memory in health & disease" in Baeza (Spain) this Oct 20-22! Discover how chromatin & networks encode cellular memory with top speakers. unia.es/estudios-y-a... pic.x.com/fjhBUrtRgb
Dfam 4.0 has been released. With over 7 million TE families spanning 6130 species, Dfam continues to grow through genome sequencing and community submissions. This release also introduces an improved FamDB format, making it easier to obtain only the data you need. Release notes: tinyurl.com/6dzwu4w8
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RepeatMasker 4.2.4 released! This version adds support for the new FamDB format used in Dfam 4.0. FamDB's component-based framework allows users to download only the portions of the TE database they need. See the www.repeatmasker.org page for more release details.
RepeatMasker Home Page
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