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Its out in the world and I am so excited!! This was my pandemic baby in collaboration with Robert Kofler eric lai Jeffrey Vedanayagam Bernard Kim FilipWierzbicki journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

We are excited to announce that the annual 57th #PopGroup meeting is taking place from 08 - 10 January 2024 and will be hosted by the University of St Andrews. 🗓️ Registration is already open and can be found at populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk Looking forward to seeing you all there!

The Career Development Fellowship is a four-year, postdoctoral research fellowship, and will initially run as a pilot for researchers from Black heritage backgrounds. Find out more about the scheme here: royalsociety.org/grants-schemes…

Introducing the Entomoscope! 🦟🔬 DIY microscope for getting detailed images of tiny insects in ethanol. Do this: 1️⃣ 3D-print the case 2️⃣ Order parts online 3️⃣ Assemble 4️⃣ Begin imaging! 📸Perfect for entomologists keen on training AI! tinyurl.com/bdh86krz #DIYMicroscopy🐜

With Hannah Gellert, Sam Church, Anton Suvorov, Dmitri Petrov and others, we use low-input (down to 30ng), single-insect Oxford Nanopore sequencing to help do 184 new genomes and address the near absence of genomic data for drosophilid species that cannot be cultured in the lab.

Oxford Nanopore We are continuing our sequencing with the goal of hitting 1,000 drosophilid genomes by the end of next year. Please reach out if you are interested in collaborating on genomes: no cost to you and the only stipulation is open data.

If you can catch a drosophilid, Bernard Kim will sequence it!

The second Darwin Tree of Life #Drosophila genome: wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-437

The third Darwin Tree of Life #Drosophilid genome! Chymomyza fuscimana! wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-477…

For fans of flies... 🪰🦟 On Saturday 18th November, we're co-hosting the next Dipterists Day with Dipterists Forum & the #MallochSociety! Join us in-person or online for a great day of talks (plus collections access on Friday 17th): dipterists.org.uk/events/dipteri…

"Taxonomy and ecology of the British species of drosophila" 1954 thesis by Vera Radaslava (Demerec) Dyson-Hudson has just been digitised! May be of interest to #Drosophila people! ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d…

I always assumed that the P-element was the latest invader in D.mel. -> I was wrong, there is Spoink; many thanks to Dr. Sarah Signor Riccardo Pianezza Almorò for super fun collaboration :) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fantastic opportunity for African undergraduate students to undertake a fully funded internship in genomics at Wellcome Sanger Institute . University of The Gambia & UTG Science Students’ Association

Thrilled to share our new preprint bioRxiv!! In this work we investigated how host-virus interactions influence intestinal homeostasis, cellular turnover, and longevity in Drosophila. Follow along to learn about what we found! 📜🪰(1/11) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Who will be going to PopGroup 57 in St. Andrews next week? I was planning on using BlueSky, but without hashtags such as #PGG57 #Evolution #PopGen, I'm not sure how it will work?

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New update of Cenote-Taker 3 (v3.3.1) now on bioconda 🐍 This version feels really good in terms of performance and user interface. Cenote-Taker 3: Discover and annotate the virome github.com/mtisza1/Cenote… anaconda.org/bioconda/cenot…

Paper from my PhD with Darren Obbard is bluesky, describing our experiment looking at the fitness costs of non-isolated Drosophila viruses, is now out in Proc. B - doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…. 5 viruses associated with reduced lifespan in Dmel females, and 3 with total no. of adult offspring

There's a 1.5 year postdoc position working on msprime/background selection models open in my group in Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… Closing date is **June 12th**, so please do get in contact if you're interested, or send on to anyone who might be interested!

Extremely happy and honored to have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant European Research Council (ERC). Many thanks to lab members for brainstorms, discussions and their patience, and especially @miesenp @RebeccaHaaaa ezgitaskopru for help drafting the proposal. radboudumc.nl/en/news-items/…