Fish evolution and ecology. Assistant Professor of Biology at University at Buffalo.
This week our exciting International Forum for Computer Vision (CV) i #ecology and #evolution will take place at the Department of Biology (Lund University, Sweden). Main organizer is our postdoc Moritz Lürig in #SvenssonLab
#AI #CV #ML #artificialintelligence #computervision #machinelearning #EvolutionaryBiology
Check out the exciting programme:
https://cv-eeb.netlify.app/?fbclid=IwAR2Tu2yKqiRGN9sqYHYzTblWf131LJK8ofqMcFmIizmu7uTjjAnHItUsPMQ
Read this month's Highlight to learn about recent genomic insights into the past and future of the black rhinoceros https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad197 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper
@clairemerot This looks really cool - congrats!
We have a new paper in #AppsPlantSci's upcoming #Bioinformatics issue: GOgetter: A pipeline for summarizing and visualizing GO slim annotations for plant genetic data with Emily Sessa, Rishi Masalia, @arrigon, and Jessie Pelosi
https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aps3.11536
@phylogenomics Because of selection or neutral(ish) homoplasy?
New postdoc position available! Evolution of mutation rates! 🚨🚨🚨
Please apply, but also feel free to get in touch with me--or past and present members of the lab--directly.
(ReToots appreciated)
Exciting work from Chloe Mikles' undergraduate thesis is finally out in
conservation genetics! Chloe sequenced whole genome sequences from 39 Song Sparrows in the San Francisco Bay Area
to explore the genetic basis of local adaptation and adaptive capacity among the 5 subspecies
found in the region.
Evolutionary divergence and adaptive capacity in morphologically distinct song sparrow subspecies
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10592-023-01547-w
As #NSF #GRFP application windows open, potential applicants should check out this amazing repository of previous applications. A great reference to help calibrate before application preparation. And don't forget about #NDSEG too!!
#fellowships #academicChatter #NSFGRFP
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xoezGhbtcpg3BvNdag2F5dTQM-Xl2EELUgAfG1eUg0s/edit?usp=drivesdk
Female (left) and male Ox beetles, photographed in Arizona.
A reminder to submit your symposium proposal for the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, to be held in Montreal in July 2024. The Joint Congress will bring together researchers from the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, the Society for the Study of Evolution, the American Society of Naturalists, and the Society of Systematic Biologists. (1/2)
There are important implications of this study for fisheries management in the Great Lakes: these data show that there is historic precedent to the hypothesis that restoring native prey species (Coregonus spp.) is key to driving expansion of large populations of predators (i.e., lake charr morphs).
To the best of my knowledge this is the first empirical evidence that endemic Great Lakes fish diversity formed cyclically, through glacial advances and retreats, rather than all occurring after the Last Glacial Maximum. This fauna might be older than previously thought (e.g, >80,000 years divergence time for Great Lakes Coregonus species).
These empirical data are consistent with the 'Upward Adaptive Radiation Cascade' model formulated by Brodersen et al. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.09.016) and suggest coevolution of predators (lake charr) and prey (ciscoes) as they adapt to a newly available depth gradient following deglaciation.
We sequenced genomes of Coregonus species (ciscoes) and Salvelinus (lake charr) morphs and present a new reference genome for Coregonus artedi. Historical demography analyses present a timeline of diversification and population expansion relative to glacial cycles.
New preprint led by Nate Backenstose. Great Lakes salmonids (Coregonus spp.) likely diversified prior to, rather than after, the Last Glacial Maximum: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2978383/v1
The Effect of Methodological Considerations on the Construction of Gene-Based Plant Pan-genomes https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad121 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper
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