New #HeredityPodcast: Targeted conservation of endangered chimps Peter Frandsen & Clàudia Fontserè discuss a new molecular approach to conservation Listen now bit.ly/2zDk6vV Read the study go.nature.com/3gt2x2c Copenhagen ZOO marques-bonet lab Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) The Genetics Society

I have written a small article for #ellipse about our recent publication on chimpanzee and conservation. Available in Catalan, Spanish and English. Check it out 🙉 ellipse.prbb.org/when-genomics-…

I am very excited to share that our work on Drosophila male reproductive ageing is now out in PNASNews. This work was 6-years in the making with @StuartWigby, Ben Hopkins, Eleanor Bath 🏳️‍🌈, Harrison Ostridge, Benedikt Kessler & others, funded by @bbsrc. 1/14 pnas.org/content/early/…

Stop by the posters of three PhD students in the group, all today at #SMBEv2021 #SMBE2021. Room 2-14 Alfie Gleeson on selection in primate face morphology genes. Room 2-13 Harrison Ostridge on local adaptation in chimpanzees. Room 10-16 Jas Rees on evolution of a Selenoprotein.

Tomorrow at 12pm EST! Join us for the last #ClubEvMed of 2021. Aida Andrés will discuss genetic adaptation to zoonotic viruses using SIV/HIV as a case study. Register now for the meeting link! 👇

Two great talks on local adaptation by PhD students in the group today #pgg55 #popgroup. Both in the 13:15 session! T19 Jas Rees will talk about human adaptation to micronutrients in the diet. T20 Harrison Ostridge will talk about local adaptation in wild communities of chimpanzees.

Check out the latest #HeredityPodcast to hear a little about my PhD project investigating local adaptation in chimpanzees!

We are hiring THREE postdocs to work on balancing selection and sexual antagonism, with @MaxReuterEvo at University College London. An exciting opportunity to investigate balancing and directional selection in genomes, both in the lab and in natural populations. Please RT.

After 6 very long years, I am very pleased to share with the community our paper entitled: “Population dynamics and genetic connectivity in recent chimpanzee history”. Last chapter of my PhD thesis is out (1/13) #noninvasive #chimpanzee #genomics #popgen doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen…

Fantastic The Royal Society & National Academies event on "Bringing Nature into Decision Making" this Thursday & Friday (16-17 June). Speakers from TNFD ipbes IUCN World Economic Forum World Bank Global Environment Facility (GEF) ClientEarth & many others. Full agenda + livestream: royalsociety.org/topics-policy/… #valuingbiodiversity

Three talks from the group at #ESEB2022! Today, Harrison Ostridge Harrison Ostridge presents on fine-scale local adaptation in wild chimpanzees across habitats, at 16:00 in S11. On Friday, Jamin Rees Jas Rees shows evidence of genetic adaptation to diet in humans, at 12:15 in S24.

Our paper on genetic adaptation to SIV across chimpanzee populations is now published in PLOS Genetics! Wonderful work by Harvinder Pawar, who did a fantastic Masters’ project, Harrison Ostridge and Josh Schmidt. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…. Harvi's nice thread (she's not on Twitter):

Our new study: Sexually-selected traits tend to be more condition-dependent. *But* is this relationship causal? We manipulated sexual selection to test how condition-dependence evolves in flies OpenAccess academic.oup.com/evolut/article… Eleanor Bath 🏳️‍🌈 @WayneRostant Harrison Ostridge Judith Mank

I’m really proud to share that our paper on the diversity of social complexity in termites has been published!!!