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.School of Biological Sciences, Monash scientists have found that ragweed's strong ability to adapt and thrive in new environments may have implications for hay fever sufferers. bit.ly/2FHMpLX #hayfever

A lack of genetically compatible mates constrains the invasion of Solidago (American goldenrod) in Australia. By Kay Hodgins and her group. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Is the #SARSCoV2 #virus undergoing adaptive #evolution during the #COVID19 #pandemic? Troy Day Sylvain Gandon, Sébastien Lion & @sarperotto put the evidence in perspective here: cell.com/action/showPdf…

It is finally out! Gigantic haploblocks/inversions do all the heavy lifting in sunflower adaptation (well, a lot of it)! Congrats to all involved Natalia Bercovich Gregory Owens, PhD JS Légaré Shaghayegh Soudi - PhD, MSc Sam Yeaman jmb, phd Stephane Munos Marcianuz 🌻🐇🦜 Kaichi Huang nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thanks for the perspective piece by John Stinchcombe and Meng Yuan 袁梦 on our recent paper on parallel patterns of adaptation in invasive ragweed Lotte van Boheemen x.com/evol_genomics/… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Congrats to Hanna Rosinger for publishing her first paper. She did a fantastic job! The tip of the iceberg: genome wide marker analysis reveals hidden hybridization during invasion onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

In this preprint on plant invasiveness, during 5 years Vanessa Bieker sequenced 650 ragweed genomes, incl. 300 historic herb. specimens! With an equal number of shotgun metagenomes, we investigate the enemy release hypothesis. Work with Kay Hodgins. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1st paper of the #GlobalUrbanEvolution project came out today in Science Magazine. How fitting to have clover on the cover for St. Paddy's Day 🍀☘️🍀☘️! We show that urbanization leads to similar enviro changes and repeated adaptation across the world science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/8

Achoo! Check out this massive effort led by Vanessa Bieker Mike Martin and I to uncover the genomic basis of invasion in ragweed using hundreds of historic and modern genomes @chocci_boi School of Biological Sciences, Monash science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

It's finally out! Vanessa Bieker's enormous popgen study of recent rapid adaptation in 655 resequenced invasive plant genomes AND leaf metagenomes, using >300 historic herbarium specimens! With Kay Hodgins Jaelle Brealey @chocci_boi & many others. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Structural variants continue to emerge as important mechanisms to investigate for plant invasions - Johnathan Wilson(@chocci_boi) Invasomics Hub

How FAB is this lineup for our @midsumma Science at the Edge lecture series?!🌈🥳 We're so excited to hear from Deanne Fisher, Kay Hodgins & Krystal De Napoli! Only a couple of days left, so get your tickets now! 🎟️bit.ly/3kosLcx 🗓️ Wed 8 Feb, 6.30pm 📍 Victorian Pride Centre

I giving a public talk this Wednesday. It is about my research and my late partner's contribution to this research and so much more 🐇. Please come if you are in Melbourne bit.ly/3kosLcx QueersInScience

Rogue ragweed multiplies as a result of species supergenes 🌱🧬: Supergenes present in ragweed enable the invasive species to adapt to foreign environments, research by School of Biological Sciences, Monash's Dr Paul Battlay, Jonny Wilson and Dr Kay Hodgins in Nature Communications shows: bit.ly/40DLTmB

Our #ragweed haploblocks paper is out! We used #herbarium samples to show that this major cause of hay fever has used large inversions to adapt during its invasion of Europe. Super proud of this work nature.com/articles/s4146… Mike Martin Vanessa Bieker @chocci_boi Nature Communications

#TansleyReview Plant invasion genomics Hodgins et al. Kay Hodgins Dan G. Bock 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…