Associate Editor for Methods in Ecology and Evolution
DFG Walter Benjamin Position
SMBE member | BES member | DBG member | MAdLand Associate
2025 - Present, Research Fellow, University of Gรถttingen
2020 - 2025 Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Ghent University
Hengchi Chen
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Thrilled to share our latest land plant deep divergence paper on SMBE!! @jandevries.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/offi...
Very excited to be presenting at @official-smbe.bsky.social in Copenhagen. I'll be talking about evolutionarily conserved mechanisms in UV acclimation in the context of plant terrestrialization. Looking forward to connecting with other researchers interested in #evolution. #SMBE2026
#SMBE2026
S12: Reconstructing the deep Tree of Life: challenges and new approaches
๐๏ธ Tue Jun 30, 3:50pm
๐ smbe2026.org/programme
Now online! The rise of polyploids during environmental upheaval
Could duplicate genomes (polyploidy) have helped saved some flowering plants from the dinosaur-killing asteroid?
Read more in Cell: spkl.io/63320AA0h2
@heche.bsky.social, @yvdp.bsky.social & colleagues
@cp-cell.bsky.social
Happy to be part of the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social on #plant #evolution with @jandevries.bsky.social @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social @heche.bsky.social!
Check out our review on the evolution of Archaeplastida:
Hengchi Chen
When a protist engulfed a cynaobacterium, Earth changed forever!
@jandevries.bsky.social, @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social,
@heche.bsky.social & colleagues review the origins and
evolution of archaeoplastids, the lineage that arose from this event, including plants & co
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Baลtรผrk et al. review the major progress that has been made in our understanding of
Archaeplastida, the primary plastid-bearing photosynthetic eukaryotes that include
the land plants, highlighting lon...
www.cell.com
Cell Press
#SMBE2026
S17: Unicellular organisms in major evolutionary transitions
๐๏ธ Wed Jul 1, 1:20pm
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Nida Baลtรผrk (she/her)
Our latest issue just dropped! It's green & special!
And super meaty, even though it is about #plants #evolution!
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This is all you need to read this week!
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Current Biology
Current Biology
#SMBE2026
S12: Reconstructing the deep Tree of Life: challenges and new approaches
๐๏ธ Tue Jun 30, 3:50pm
๐ smbe2026.org/programme
From the dating of 132 ancient whole-genome duplication events across 470 angiosperms, paleopolyploidization events cluster around pivotal periods of environmental upheaval and extinction, notably the Middle Miocene Disruption, the Eocene-Oligocene Transition, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, and different oceanic anoxic events.
