New opinion piece out! Happy to see it out in @royalsociety.org Long-read sequencing for epigenomic studies in ecology and evolution🧬 Great collaboration with colleagues from the epigenomics symposia in the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Long-read sequencing for epigenomic studies in the fields of ecology and evolution

Abstract. Epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation, play crucial roles in regulating gene expression, influencing phenotypic variation and facilita

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Two days of the conference have already gone by. Talks, discussions, and new ideas, all accompanied by a spirit of collaboration. We keep going, tomorrow is the final day! 📸 Photos: CIBIO Communication Office @eseb.bsky.social @strivestn.bsky.social

🚨 MANUSCRIPT ALERT 🚨 The VGP Phase I manuscript pre-print is now live on bioRxiv! 🧬 doi.org/10.64898/202... Over 8 years, the VGP generated reference genomes for more than 800 vertebrate species, spanning ~95% of vertebrate orders and delivering some of the highest-quality genomes ever produced.

Up next at TIBA STRIVE! 🌿🧬 ​Tuning in to the Mini Plenary: 🗣️ Ashwini V Mohan 🔬 "Genomic rearrangements underlie barriers to recombination in holocentric sedges" ​A deep dive into plant genomics and the fascinating chromosome dynamics of these unique species! ​#TIBASTRIVE #Genomics #PlantScience

1/🧵 With this paper finally published, I want to talk about the worst peer review experience of my career as a non-native English speaker, early-career researcher, and solo author, and why I think it matters. #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #EvoSky

Luís M. Silva@luismsilva.bsky.social · last mo.

1/🧵 Excited to finally share my latest paper (and my first solo paper)! 🎉 Pathogens evolve. Hosts respond. But does pathogen evolution simply change the magnitude of the host response, or does it reshape which host programmes are activated? 🤔 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s420... #Anopheles #EvoSky

@pedrogribeiro.bsky.social gave a wonderful talk about our initiative with @projectpsyche.bsky.social and #LepEU at @ece2026tours.bsky.social panel dedicated to COST Actions. Our goal is to sequence reference genomes from all European Lepidoptera. #10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #ECE2026Tours

🦋🚀 @marcinwiorek.bsky.social from the @iseapas.bsky.social, gave a successful talk on @projectpsyche.bsky.social and @10klepgenomes.bsky.social at the 48th Symposium of the Lepidoptera Section, Polish Entomological Society held in Góra Świętej Anny, Poland, June 19–21. #10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera

Exciting new preprint from my dear colleague Camille! It's been inspiring to see all the hard work and passion she poured into it. Congratulations! 🦋

Camille Cornet@camillecornet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧬🦋 New preprint out! 🦋🧬 What mechanisms underlie large-scale chromosomal rearrangements? Why do rearrangement rates vary so massively across taxa? We explored these questions in Erebia butterflies, a genus with extraordinary chromosome number diversity, from 7 to 52! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Latest paper lead by Asia Hoile with @peterhox.bsky.social is out! 🦋 Nymphalid butterflies have reduced forelegs. Gene expression patterns show support for more palp-like genes involved in sensory processes in the forelegs relative to the walking legs. doi.org/10.1111/imb....

Distinctive gene expression in the reduced first thoracic legs of a nymphalid butterfly

Transcriptome analysis reveals that the small non-walking front legs of a butterfly have distinct gene expression to the four walking legs. Reduced front legs express a gene with putative mechanosen...

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A big preprint from my group! Muller Elements are considered to be conserved in flies. We tested it by reconstructing the ancestral dipteran karyotype using 340 chromosomal genomes and suprise suprise, they're not... Led by @juliagries.bsky.social and Sam Ebdon. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵👇

"We found extensive non-Mendelian inheritance, including emergent epigenetic inheritance patterns, widespread sex-specific DNA methylation patterns localized to the liver, and five seemingly new autosomal and X-linked imprinted genes" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Non-Mendelian inheritance of DNA methylation patterns in mice - Nature Genetics

Davidovich et al. investigate allele-specific DNA methylation inheritance patterns in mouse liver and muscle. Most patterns are Mendelian, but ~7% are non-Mendelian, including new imprinted genes and ...

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Day 3 of the @projectpsyche.bsky.social spring meeting at @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Summary sessions brought together the ideas we’ve developed so far, followed by a visit to the entomological collection 🧬🦋 #10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #Genomics

Today we close the @projectpsyche.bsky.social spring meeting at @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Final discussions and the summary session helped define our strategy for the coming months of data analysis 🧬🦋! #10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #Genomics

Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

(1/3) The 2nd Genome Curation Workshop continues! Today, participants explored Merian elements and chromosome evolution in #Lepidoptera in a fantastic talk by @charlottewright.bsky.social More info below 👇🦋

📢 Today marks the start of the 2nd Genome Curation Workshop, organised by #10kLepGenomes and @projectpsyche.bsky.social From Feb 16–27, seventeen participants will learn how to interpret and edit Hi-C maps alongside senior curators at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Stay tuned for updates! 🦋🧬

MSc student Paula Tajada Lostao gave a fantastic talk today about her gut-brain axis work in honeybees and fruit flies at #Biology26. We are proud of you!

Inspiring talk by Mark Blaxter today at #Biology26 Neuchâtel!

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

Hoy se celebra el #DarwinDay para conmemorar el nacimiento del naturalista británico Charles Darwin.

ERGA-CH #Switzerland @ergabiodiv.bsky.social symposium with a great selection of presentations of diverse study systems using reference #genomes #biodiversity #genomics

Hi everyone! The talk I had the chance to give with @fnucleosome.bsky.social last October is now out on Youtube! If you like evolution, 3D genomics, biodiversity and/or fungi, I think you might like it! 🧬🧪🍄 The submission of this paper has never been that close! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plez...

Happy to be part of this amazing project!!

Charlotte Wright@charlottewright.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬 Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬 Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe

Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found in Europe. Here, we describe t...

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Sharing some pictures of last week in Roscoff at the Jaques Monod conference of speciation. I enjoyed the amazing talks and posters and I had the opportunity to meet very inspiring people, also remarkable food!

A severed ant head. A fly wing. A beetle abdomen. These body parts ripped from devoured insects festoon a newfound caterpillar’s protective coat.

This caterpillar wears the body parts of insect prey

Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar found on a Hawaiian island disguises itself while stalking spider webs for trapped insects to eat.

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Genome Size Reduction Under Non-Adaptive Evolution: How Evolution Halved Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Radiation. Today talk by Sara Guirao-Rico in @eseb2025.bsky.social congress, and accepted ms. in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

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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On Thursday at #ESEB2025 I will be giving a talk on "Cryptobiosis is associated with rapid chromosome restructuring in Panagrolaimus nematodes", and here is a little teaser of what to expect. For the rest, come to symposium S28.03 room 113 at 16:15. The last slide might make you fall off your chair!

My brilliant friend, Dr. María Recuerda, presenting her work on bird pangenomes at #ESEB2025!