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📢#BoB2023 STUDENT AWARDS📢 The scientific committee and chairwomen/chairmen selected 3 best student talks (sponsored by @pensoft) and 3 best student posters (sponsored by Bushman)! The list of awardees below 👇🧵

How do moths and butterflies see?🦋👀 Our new preprint looks at the evolution of #opsin genes across #Lepidoptera. We uncover fascinating patterns of opsin duplication, translocation, and expression by analysing 219 genomes (most from Darwin Tree of Life) 🔗tinyurl.com/mr2xh7cx

First preprint of my PhD is out! We survey all publicly available microsporidian datasets on the SRA and show that polyploidy is widespread in Microsporidia! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@KamilSJaron @BGAcademy23 Super grateful for @KamilSJaron Blaxter Lab mara lawniczak for all their help, and my colleagues at Darwin Tree of Life

🆕 Butterfly and moth genomes have remained remarkably intact over 250 million years of #evolution, despite huge diversification we see today 🦋 Some rare species have defied these rules, offering clues into their distinct biology and evolution 🧬 sanger.ac.uk/news_item/butt…

Butterflies and moths make up 10% of all named species on planet Earth 🌍 They are vital pollinators, herbivores, and indicators of ecosystem health 🌳 Project Psyche will sequence the genomes of all 11,000 European species, aiding #conservation 🧬 projectpsyche.org

📰 Read ‘Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera’ with Wellcome Sanger Institute Wellcome Sanger Tree of Life Programme Darwin Tree of Life Blaxter Lab Charlotte Wright mara lawniczak @phylewgenetics The University of Edinburgh @thymelicus in NatureEcoEvo ⤵️ nature.com/articles/s4155…

Delighted that our work on chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera is published today! ✨🦋

📰 Butterfly genomes have barely changed for 250m years, study reveals ✍️ Patrick Greenfield The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

A wonderful writeup on our study also out today in The Guardian Guardian Environment, it was great to talk to Patrick Greenfield about butterfly genomics and why sequencing their genomes is so vital!

Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera nature.com/articles/s4155…

[Please RT] 🚨Deadline Alert: The 10th edition of the “Evolutionary Biology of Caenorhabditis and other Nematodes” meeting 🪱#EvoWorm24 will take place in Vienna, Austria (June 17-20). Travel and childcare grants are available. More info about the meeting oeaw.ac.at/imba/seminars-…

We're advertising for a PhD on somatic evolution in plants! Come and work with me ARU_Biology and Alex Cagan GeneticsCambridge. It's a fully funded 3 year PhD position starting in September. Advert here: findaphd.com/phds/project/s… Please share widely!

The talk abstract deadline for EvoWorm 2024 is today! Don't forget to submit an abstract!! oeaw.ac.at/imba/seminars-… #evoworm24

In addition to the basic steps of genome assembly, we also added a "check for contamination" step using #BlobToolKit. Here you can see how we used #BTK to clean up a genome contaminated by contigs of bacterial origin. Thanks to richard challis & Blaxter Lab for this resource!

Our review "Genome evolution in intracellular parasites: Microsporidia and Apicomplexa" is now out in Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology! This could not have been possible without orefrancis and Blaxter Lab <3 - art by me and the talented Petra Korlevic

𝘊. 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘴 paved the way for genetic research, and was the first animal to have its entire #DNA sequenced. Now, researchers are sequencing the genomes of hundreds more nematode species to study evolution and genetic diversity. Find out more ⤵️ sangerinstitute.blog/2024/05/30/the…

📰Startling genome discovery in butterfly project reveals impact of climate change in Europe ✍️Robin McKie The Observer Charlotte Wright Blaxter Lab theguardian.com/environment/ar…

It was a pleasure to talk to Robin McKie The Observer about Project Psyche which is striving to sequence all 11,000 species of European butterflies and moths. A huge community effort! 🦋 Project Psyche theguardian.com/environment/ar…