Asst Prof @ UL Lafayette in evolutionary biology. Sex chromosomes, polyploidy, genomics. New Orleans native. Volleyball player. Travel and cooking enthusiast. Toddler wrangler.
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Melissa Toups
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#SMBE2026
S09: New frontiers in sex evolution: evolutionary patterns and innovations
🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 10:20am - Part 1
🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 1:20pm - Part 2
🔗 smbe2026.org/programme
The lab is en route to #Evol2026! We’ve got several talks:
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
NYT: "no one has ever thought of teaching ranching at university"
Every ag school: um, would you like to meet our cows
NYT: "No, not like that. More romantic. More dilletante. Ugh, we're not /farmers/."
Please circulate: I will have a postdoc opening soon, ideally with a start date sometime this summer or fall. If you're interested in empirical population genetics, computational methods development, and/or evolutionary modeling via simulation, don't hesitate to reach out.
For more info on the lab:
Megan Smith
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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