Group leader and Royal Society URF @Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
Aff. associate professor @University of Cambridge, UK
speciation, genomics, hybridisation
Joana Meier
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Look out for the associated special issue on "Pangenomics transforms evolutionary biology" in Philosophical Transactions B of the Royal Society
On my way back after 2 inspiring and thoughtprovoking days in Edinburgh where we hosted a @royalsociety.org meeting on Pangenomics. Many thanks to co-organisers @charlottewright.bsky.social, @henrylnorth.bsky.social, to Ash Carver for handling the logistics, the excellent speakers and all attendees.
Congrats to Nik Cunniffe and colleagues! Truly ambitious and impactful science
There are few researchers for whom an entire field is so clearly distinct before and after their work. The gap between evolutionary biology "before Joe" and "after Joe" is just awesome. It is a measurably different enterprise, and the reach of his influence doesn't end at the phylogeny. Hats off!
Delighted to announce that this year’s Schering Young Investigator Award has been awarded to Can Aztekin, Max-Planck-Research Group Leader. Congratulations Can!
Read the full article: www.bio.mpg.de/524116/can-a...
A big preprint from my group!
Muller Elements are considered to be conserved in flies. We tested it by reconstructing the ancestral dipteran karyotype using 340 chromosomal genomes and suprise suprise, they're not...
Led by @juliagries.bsky.social and Sam Ebdon. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.
🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders?
In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo
These days, you may have seen many Painted Ladies (Vanessa cardui) 👀🦋
But did you know they make an extraordinary journey of more than 10,000 km between Africa and Europe, across successive generations? 🌍
🔗 Download the poster here: catalanbms.org/en/recursos/
Jialin Wei: very nice results on convergence of genome evolution with terrestrialisation in animal evolution #EED2026
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09722-4
Joana Meier
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Why mammals cannot regenerate limbs like amphibians do presents a long-standing puzzle in biology. To uncover the underlying differences, we compared amputation responses of embryonic mouse (Mus musculus) and Xenopus laevis tadpole limbs. Lowering ...
Comparisons of 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and outgroups have been used to reconstruct ancestral adaptation to life on land across 11 distinct terrestrialization events, revealing strong evidence for convergent genomic evolution across the animal kingdom and recurring periods of terrestrial colonization.
MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory
KamilSJaron.bsky.social
Dejan Pantic
Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme
Professor Joe Felsenstein FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. After initially working on population genetics theory of recombination, of migration, and of speciation, his main focus has been on phylogenetic inference. #RSFellows https://royalsociety.org/people/joseph-felsenstein-38106/
