Fascinating talk by Joe Thornton JoeThornton on the memory length of (epistatic) mutations, the amount of sequence divergence over which the temporal correlation of a mutation’s effect is reduced by 50%. Very relevant for antibiotic resistance prediction! #EMBOPredictEvo

Get ready...get set... get excellent! The 2021 SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award Symposium is on Sunday 4 July: 02:30 UTC (Asia) and again at 09:30 UTC (EU/Africa). Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution #SMBEv2021 Alida de Flamingh, Ph.D. Mengyi sun Thea Rogers 👩🏼‍🔬 Amanda Kowalczyk Yeonwoo Park Michelle Harwood

Got excellence? Yeonwoo Park does. Hear him talk about his work during the 2021 SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award Symposium talks are on Sunday 4 July, starting at 02:30 UTC (Asia) and again at 09:30 UTC (EU/Africa). Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution , #SMBEv2021, #SMBE2021, Yeonwoo Park

Got a question about “Historical memory, epistasis, and contingency in long-term protein evolution”? Find Yeonwoo Park in the Grad Student Excellence Symposium Q&A room off Auditorium 1 in both the Asia/Pacific and EU/Africa hubs. Yeonwoo Park Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution #SMBEv2021 #SMBE2021

Our new paper: We measured changes in the effect of all possible mutations across 700 million years of protein evolution. Our goal was to comprehensively characterize epistasis, contingency and evolutionary predictability. Out today in Science Magazine.🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…