Evolution, genomics, butterflies and moths 🦋
Postdoc in the Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute &
Research fellow at Darwin College, University of Cambridge
Charlotte Wright
We are thrilled to announce the next ECR (and apparently butterfly)-themed session of the Integration of Speciation seminar, featuring @charlottewright.bsky.social and @thymelicus.bsky.social + careers Q&A with Dr Sally Potter. Find the link on the Ios website & mailing list.
A study of South American butterflies and moths shows they reused the same genetic cheat sheet for 120 million years. 📝
Learn more about this collaborative work via the link below ⤵️
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/evolution-has-reused-the-same-genes-for-120-million-years/
📸 Arif Maulana
Social dinner: where science meets fish and chips at Cambridge 🐟🍟🍻😀 Our stay ended- but the real takeaway? Two weeks of #HiC #genomic mapping, now safely packed into our brains 🧬 🧠☺️ … and already in use at home👩🏼💻🧑🏻💻☺️ @10klepgenomes.bsky.social
As we prepare for a 2nd get-together, the report of the 1st in-person workshop of LepEU, a consortium to study population genomics of European Lepidoptera, is just out.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Thanks to COST Action @10klepgenomes.bsky.social for funding for these workshops.
Day 3 of the @projectpsyche.bsky.social spring meeting at @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Summary sessions brought together the ideas we’ve developed so far, followed by a visit to the entomological collection 🧬🦋
#10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #Genomics
Excited that the first genome assembly of a Lonomia spp. moth has been published @genetics-gsa.bsky.social by first authors @diler.bsky.social + @samridhi.bsky.social w/our wonderful colleagues at Universidad de los Andes led by Dr. Camila Gonzalez (thanks @cdanielcadena for introducing us!). 1
That's a wrap! Thank you to everyone that came and exchanged ideas and experience and for @petermulhair.bsky.social for superbly hosting this meeting. Great things happen when >50 researchers come together to plan and do analysis for a week! Exciting times for @projectpsyche.bsky.social 🦋🦋🦋
Very excited to be part of this important symposium later this month!
An excellent two day @royalsociety.org meeting packed with discussion about how pangenomics is revolutionising evolutionary biology. Thank you to all the amazing speakers and attendees who contributed to the rich discussions and @henrylnorth.bsky.social & @joanameier.bsky.social for co-organising!
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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LepEU, the European Lepidopteran Population Genomics Consortium, was launched in 2023 to coordinate continental-scale collections and generate population-level genomic data for butterflies and moths ...
Integration of Speciation (ESEB Special Topic Network)
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Milica Zlatkovic
10kLepGenomes
Charlotte Wright
Charlotte Wright
Charlotte Wright
Noah Whiteman
KamilSJaron.bsky.social
Today we close the @projectpsyche.bsky.social spring meeting at @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Final discussions and the summary session helped define our strategy for the coming months of data analysis 🧬🦋!
#10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #Genomics
#SMBE2026
IDEA Symposium: Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Molecular Biology and Evolution
🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 3:50pm
🔗 smbe2026.org/programme
