Absolute tour de force led by @ymalovichko.bsky.social, with contributions from many in the lab @leonhilgers.bsky.social @xuelingyi.bsky.social @mich-albertini.bsky.social Alejandro Gonzales-Irribarren, Evgeny Leushkin and many others Check #TOGA2 out: github.com/hillerlab/TO...

GitHub - hillerlab/TOGA2: TOGA2: A faster, more versatile successor of Tool to infer Orthologs from Genome Alignments

TOGA2: A faster, more versatile successor of Tool to infer Orthologs from Genome Alignments - hillerlab/TOGA2

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Michael Hiller@hillermich.bsky.social · 4w ago

The #TOGA2 preprint is now at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... Describes the new method and the comparative genomics resource (annotations, orthologs, gene losses/dups, retrogenes and more) generated using a total of 9420 TOGA2 runs for 2173 vertebrate genome assemblies.

See you @official-smbe.bsky.social in Copenhagen!

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Talks by: Katrine Worsaae Joy Love @xuelingyi.bsky.social Shazia Parveen Michael Martin Wendy-Shirley Bayaert @wenjuanma84.bsky.social Gianni Castiglione @peter-c-mckeown.bsky.social DaeNia La Rodé @lara-pereira.bsky.social Andres Iriarte Roberto Arbore

Happy to announce the release of TOGA2 data for 68 turtle genomes, generated with a cryptodiran and a pleurodiran turtle reference. The combined TOGA2 annotation consistently improves annotation completeness compared with RefSeq. All data at genome.senckenberg.de/download/TOGA2. Genome browsers ...

Should we measure trait evolution in unit of time or in unit of substitutions? Our new paper in @evolletters.bsky.social looks at this from a theoretical perspective. #Evolution #Phylogenetics DOI: doi.org/10.1093/evle... 🧵 thread below 🧵

Phylograms better fit neutrally evolving traits than chronograms

Many species are characterized by trait differences between each other. For example, the brain size of different primate and human lineages varies. The que

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Nature research paper: Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome go.nature.com/3LT1Und

Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome - Nature

AlphaGenome, a deep learning model that inputs 1-Mb DNA sequence to predict functional genomic tracks at single-base resolution across diverse modalities, outperforms existing models in variant effect prediction and enables comprehensive genomic analysis.

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Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary Simulations Across Multiple Chromosomes and Full Genomes

Abstract. Evolutionary simulations of multiple chromosomes, even up to the scale of full-genome simulations, are becoming increasingly important in populat

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Long-read sequencing can revolutionise the way we monitor #biodiversity. A comprehensive guide for using #ONT & #PacBio for analysis of biodiversity through #eDNA, #metabarcoding, metagenomics Just published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 The Call for Abstracts for #EMPSEB31 is now open! 🔗 Full details & submission info on our website. ✈️ Applying for an ESEB Travel Grant? ⏰ Abstract deadline for travel-grant applicants: January 15, 2026 ⏳ General abstract deadline: February 1, 2026 #EvoBio #PhD #EMPSEB31

Pleased to share our latest paper led by @tomlewin.bsky.social, now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We present the first chromosome-level genome of a phoronid and show that shared chromosomal fusions unite phoronids and bryozoans as sister groups. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)

My Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoc officially starts! My research project is on the genomic adaptations to sugar-rich diets in the New World leaf-nosed bats (family Phyllostomidae), hosted by the Hiller Lab. Appreciated and proud of being a Humboldt Fellow! @humboldt-foundation.de

An example: properly aligning homologous coding sequences to run dN/dS tests of positive selection is a deceptively difficult task. I have been doing it for ~20 years and still finding ways to improve the process. It is not a flashy task, and won't get CNS papers, but it is still absolutely vital.

David Enard@denard.bsky.social · 10mo ago

1/2) With hindsight, many previous publications on genomic adaptation and claims made were 10 to 20 years premature. Data (sequencing, alignment, annotation, etc.) quality was simply not there, and will likely only fully happen with long read, individual level assemblies.

Exciting times ahead - I'm beyond delighted to be joining @bristolbiosci.bsky.social in 2026! 🎉🕷️🎉🐌🎉 I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇

Funded PhD - The impacts of light pollution on plasticity and evolution in spider visual systems at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Funded PhD - The impacts of light pollution on plasticity and evolution in spider visual systems at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com

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MultiplEye Lab@multipleye-lab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🎉 Big news! 🎉 We will be moving to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social in 2026!! We're so excited to be joining such a dynamic and thriving department, university, and city - thank you to everyone who has already been so welcoming! 📢 But that's not all - come and join us! 👇

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

A lot of pressure on the different grant schemes, and pretty much independent of career stage.

Nature@nature.com · 10mo ago

Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining as a surge in applications far outweighs the funds available go.nature.com/479Sni6

📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

We have a #NewPaper in Evolution (@journal_evo), led by Xueling Yi, on the #evolution of dietary preferences across (but not only) Phyllostomid #bats. 🦇 https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpaf154/8222499

We offer a fully funded 4-yr contract for a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology to join our group (www.eco-evo-devo.com). The project will combine genomics and ecophysiology to understand the evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. For requisites and contact info please check 👇

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT! Find the positions here: su.varbi.com

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Proposals are due next week for the Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! These grants provide up to $3500 US in funding for PhD students. Contact communications@evolutionsociety.org with any questions. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓 I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction. 👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates! Reposts appreciated 🙏

🚨JOB ALERT!🚨 Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics! Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬 Apply here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution! Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!

New PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋 The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes. Deadline: September 12, 2025 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. PhD position (full-time doctoral funding) We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our team. The goal of the project is…

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Aurelien Tellier presenting the details of #eseb2027 which will be a hub meeting, with connected and local sessions in 4 hubs (Gothenburg, Munich, London, Istanbul) eseb2027.org #eseb2025