Do you love genomes? Sex chromosomes? Speciation? Beetles? This could be the postdoc position for you! The Bracewell Lab is hiring. Don’t hesitate to reach out if interested.

Bittersweet moment as the last chapter of my PhD is out now in GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution)! Ken Halanych and I investigated the utility of deep learning networks in protein clustering and annotation, developing a VQ-VAE for unaligned protein sequences! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15…

New urchin genome out in wild with Echinometra lucunter. Thanks for the awesome collaboration Carlos Prada 🐡🐠🐋

Looking forward to more adventures examining the regulatory basis for beetle horn variation! Erica Nadolski Armin Moczek U.S. National Science Foundation

🚨We are recruiting a PostDoc and a PhD to investigate how larvae evolved! Supported by The Leverhulme Trust, join a terrific group of people Queen Mary University of London QM_SBBS to investigate fascinating marine 🪱🪱! PhD ad: alturl.com/i64ue DM/e-mail ([email protected]) for more info!

Hot of the online presses a short review on plasticity evodevo in your favorite insect. Great fun writing this with Erica Nadolski and Phillip Davidson Please DM if trouble getting pdf doi.org/10.1016/j.cois… @nsf IU Biology The College at IU

I am exited to share that my first-author paper is online on Nature Communications ! 👩‍🔬 🐭 🐸 🐟 🐵 We compared strategies for cross-species integration of scRNA-seq data, offered guidelines for effective integration and ideas for future method development nature.com/articles/s4146… 🔽more

Hello Retweet & Share: Hiring a postdoc for Traylor-Knowles Lab for 3yrs on coral #cell culture. Experience in #corals not necessary. Full benefits, and salary between $53-60K & negotiable depending on experience. APPLY!!!!! careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R100…

Our next meeting will be in Chile! A joint meeting between EvoDevo PanAm LatinAmerica DevBiol International Society of Differentiation and SBDch. Mar 17-20, 2024. Exciting invited speakers! Register from this link by 11/30. panamevodevo.org

The PacBio Nanobind PanDNA kits are out! The team worked hard to integrate everything into a single kit that generates beautiful HiFi data across the board. You should see the panel of critters and plants we tested in development! pacb.com/wp-content/upl…

It took us forever to get a new lab picture, but here we finally are! Such a fantastic group to be part of! Find out more at ecodevodevo.com The College at IU IU Biology U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Science Education

Check out our recent work exploring the role of chromatin accessiblity and genome evolution during plastic trait development/diversification: journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a… . Plus three new chromosome-resolved dung beetle genomes to boot! Beetle horns rock! U.S. National Science Foundation PLOS Genetics

Very excited to announce that #EarlGrey has been accepted for publication Molecular Biology and Evolution 🥳 thanks to @zanderhayward and James Galbraith for all the work, amazing to share this after many years of work! doi.org/10.1093/molbev… #bioinformatics #transposons #research

Dung beetle central went back to the source today, so to speak! National Center for Science Education Erica Nadolski Patrick Rohner Eduardo Zattara @PipettuaJones

Dung beetle central’s newest pets!

We're proud to announce that Veronica Seastar will be joining us as the new director of FLORIDA's #WhitneyLab, starting January 1, 2025! news.ufl.edu/2024/07/whitne…

Moczek-lab members and various hangers on went on a rather unusual field trip this weekend!

Hope this becomes required reading for grad classes!

Our lab at Mississippi State University Biological Sciences is recruiting graduate students (PhD/MSc) to join us in Spring or Fall 2026! If you—or someone you know—are interested in researching evo-devo and comparative genomics of horned dung beetles, check out our site & get in touch! davidsonlab-msu.github.io