It's out!! Using population and comparative genomics of Podospora fungi, we show that a class of genes called #NLRs display evolutionary signatures that are consistent with an immune function, much like in plants and animals! 1/n 🍄 #popgen #balancingselection #introgression doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

NOD-Like Receptor Genes Undergo Diversity-Enhancing Evolution in a Fungal Species Complex

Abstract. Fungi harbor diverse arrays of genes encoding NOD-like receptors (NLRs), key intracellular immune proteins found in plants, animals, and bacteria

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Fantastic final plenary at #SMBE2026 by Moises Exposito-Alonso; transplant experiments suggest that Arabidopsis populations are lagging in adaptation to rising temperature by 2°C; other species likely worse.

@moi #SMBE2026 Arabidopsis local adaptation is lagging behind on climate change 😢 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.02.729671v1

It's the last day of #SMBE2026, and after last night's party, some groggy eyes are spotted in the crowd... Thankfully, we have @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social to reinvigorate ourselves with an inspiring plenary talk on adaptation in the Anthropocene.

Evolution of genomes drives me. So does social justice. Had a blast speaking on LINE1s creating novelty in sloths genomes and Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Challenges to sequence all life on Earth with and for the benefit of all at #SMBE2026 Paper at: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Presenting my progress working with lichen genomics at #SMBE2026 in the symposium L04 Understanding adaptive evolution through the lens of hologenomics 🙆🏻‍♀️

It's fun watching #SMBE2026 from afar and seeing all the previous @evomics.bsky.social attendees doing great science - what a good foundation of knowledge and teaching they received... #evomics2026 ... #evomics2014

Talks by: @cpogoreutz.bsky.social Irina Velsko Søren B. Hansen Julien Martinez Amalia Bogri @mmontonerin.bsky.social Qing Xiang Charles Mak Linnéa Ekström André Bourbonnais Maximiliana Bogan @markella-morait.bsky.social

ERGA member Merce Montoliu Nerin @mmontonerin.bsky.social will present @official-smbe.bsky.social June 29 in session "L04 – Understanding adaptive evolution through the lens of hologenomics" #SMBE2026

Thank you for the great conversations and inspiring ideas during yesterday poster's session at #EESSymbiosis 🙆🏻‍♀️🧬

Next, @mmontonerin.bsky.social on the diversity of lichen-associated organsisms and the metagenomes produced from lichens during the Tree of Life project. I'm super excited about Merce's poster! #EESSymbiosis

On day 3️⃣ of the EMBO/EMBL symposium on #symbiosis, we focus on how symbionts become friend or foe. Excited for the talks ahead! @events.embl.org #EESSymbiosis

Such an amazing building, shaped as DNA strands! 🧬🤩 Really cool symbiosis research being presented in the symposium "The cellular mechanisms of symbiosis: sensing frinend from foe", at the EMBL advanced training centre in Heidelberg! 🙆🏻‍♀️ #EESSymbiosis

Welcome to Day 1 of #EESSymbiosis! ✨ 🔬🧫 From host cells to insects and marine unicellular eukaryotes, today’s discussions showcased innovative methods in symbiosis research. We’re excited to take you along on this journey as we explore the fascinating complexities of symbiotic function.

Forget complicated 'situationships'; read about symbioses - partnerships found everywhere in nature. I had access to some seriously expert brains @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social, @mmontonerin.bsky.social @utehentschel.bsky.social and others to discuss. Enjoy: sangerinstitute.blog/2026/02/13/n...

Nature’s power couples: Cosying up to symbiotic partnerships - Wellcome Sanger Institute Blog

From sponges to the human gut, partnerships in nature are everywhere. In this blog, we caught up with Sanger scientists who use genomics to study species that love living together.

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This Valentine's Day, meet some of nature's power couples — species like sponges and worms that form partnerships to survive and thrive ⤵️ https://sangerinstitute.blog/2026/02/13/natures-power-couples-cosying-up-to-symbiotic-partnerships/

Mark Blaxter from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social describes the ambition of the @ebpgenome.bsky.social to #Biology26 in Switzerland

Rosa Fernández (@rosafernandez.bsky.social) introducing the field of Phylogenomics to our participants 🙌🏽🧬🌳💻 #evomics2026

Morning lecture by Maliheh Mehrshad (@mehrshmali.bsky.social) on metagenomics and metatranscriptomics! 🧪🧬🦠 #evomics2026

The 2026 Workshop on Genomics comes to an end! It has been two intense and inspiring weeks of Genomics in Český Krumlov. We hope everyone is going back home with a renewed excitement for science and new friends and collaborations around the world! 🙆🏻‍♀️🧬 #evomics2026

Evening practical session with Madeline Chase on Population Genomics 🐦🐦🧬💻 #evomics2026

Very happy to see my good girl Cata making an appearance in the lecture on genome assembly 🤩🙌🏽🐶 #evomics2026

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A classic of the Workshop on Genomics, the Genome Assembly lecture by Camille Marchet (@camillemrcht.bsky.social) and Antoine Limasset (@npmalfoy.bsky.social), teaching us about overlapping sequences and genome assembly graphs 🧬💻 #evomics2026

We continued with an Introduction to Unix, by Mercè Montoliu Nerin (@mmontonerin.bsky.social), to make sure all the participants get comfortable in the computer environment in which they will spend many hours in the coming days! 👩🏻‍💻 #evomics2026

Our paper was included in the Collection "Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes" from the @microbiologysociety.org 🧬 😁 #genomics #longreadsequencing www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

S. Lorena Ament@loreament.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to see this out! "Reconstructing NOD-like receptor alleles with high internal conservation in #Podospora anserina using long-read sequencing", now in ‪@microbiologysociety.org‬! 🧬 Keep reading for a simple explanation 🧵 1/n #Fungi #Allorecognition www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Just 5 more days left to apply to the Workshop on Genomics 2026, in Cesky Krumov, Czechia! evomics.org/apply-worksh... (Deadline 20th of October) Do not miss your chance! 💻🤗 #Bioinformatics #Genomics #evomics2026

Do not miss this pre-print update! It has been an honor being part of it! 🤩🧬 Follow the thread ⬇️ to understand the power of #logan, and how you could apply it too! 🤗

Rayan Chikhi@rayanchikhi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open. doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution. #protistsonsky

Pierre Ramond@pierreramond.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Hello there 🦋 Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳ ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #protistsonsky

Caught enjoying some jamón at #ESEB2025 😅

ESEB 2025 Congress @eseb2025.bsky.social · 11mo ago

One week ago #ESEB2025 🕰️

Front row seat to the future of evolutionary biology 🌱 #ESEB2025

FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲 @gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...

FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life

Communications Biology - FANTASIA, a protein language model-based tool, enables large-scale functional annotation across ~1000 animal proteomes, revealing novel gene functions in both model and...

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