Dr Alice Balard
@alicebalard.bsky.social
Molecular (esp. DNA methylation) 🧬 ecology 🌱 & evolution 🦠🪱🐭🐟🤸♀️, biostatistics 📊 she/her
UCL, London, UK https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/99848-alice-balard
UCL, London, UK https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/99848-alice-balard
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1/ I’m very excited to share my postdoc work with @kseskv.bsky.social, in collaboration with @oligriffith.bsky.social. We explore embryonic DNA methylation reprogramming in the fat-tailed dunnart, an Australian marsupial 🦘🌏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
1/ I’m very excited to share my postdoc work with @kseskv.bsky.social, in collaboration with @oligriffith.bsky.social. We explore embryonic DNA methylation reprogramming in the fat-tailed dunnart, an Australian marsupial 🦘🌏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9
Adenine DNA methylation associated with transcriptionally permissive chromatin is widespread across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics
Long-read sequencing in 18 unicellular eukaryotes reveals that 6mA is widespread across eukaryotes and is enriched at transcriptionally permissive regions, which are also marked by H3K4me3.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9
You want to learn about all of the amazing ways epigenetics 🧬can inform wildlife 🐻🐟 research? Check the online presentations me and colleagues will give 16-18th of Sept! Thanks NKV, and Chloé Nater from @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social for putting together this great learning & networking workshop!
September 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
You want to learn about all of the amazing ways epigenetics 🧬can inform wildlife 🐻🐟 research? Check the online presentations me and colleagues will give 16-18th of Sept! Thanks NKV, and Chloé Nater from @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social for putting together this great learning & networking workshop!
Come to join a great team and a super exciting project!
If you like generating genomic data from unusual medical samples, past and contemporary epidemiology and advancing methods in phylo/population genetics please get in touch.
Group website: www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpvan/
Closing date Sept 25th 2025.
#aDNA #microbialgenomics #ISBA #popgen #UCL
Group website: www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpvan/
Closing date Sept 25th 2025.
#aDNA #microbialgenomics #ISBA #popgen #UCL
New preprint on the early evolution of BA.2.86
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Come to join a great team and a super exciting project!
If you want to know more about DNA methylation in conservation, especially temperature-sex dependent species, check this cool video & the paper tinyurl.com/yvspkzp6! It was a pleasure to be part of such cool collaboration, very well done for the intense work @eugeniecyen.bsky.social you're a queen!
Thanks @gigascience.bsky.social for the cool video opportunity, and thanks again to all co-authors! @alicebalard.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social @qmulsbbs.bsky.social et al
Watch this new explainer video from @eugeniecyen.bsky.social on her labs work on on conservation #genomics and #epigenomics of endangered Loggerhead Turtles youtu.be/3C4D43mEBBk?...
August 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you want to know more about DNA methylation in conservation, especially temperature-sex dependent species, check this cool video & the paper tinyurl.com/yvspkzp6! It was a pleasure to be part of such cool collaboration, very well done for the intense work @eugeniecyen.bsky.social you're a queen!
A nice review paper from the lab!
Check out our recent review 'Power and Limitations of Inferring Genetic Ancestry'- what do we even mean by the term 'genetic ancestry' and what do commonly-used methods actually tell us?
An Early View: Dr @nancybird1.bsky.social , Prof @turiking.bsky.social, & Prof Hellenthal examine the methodological advances and interpretive limits of genetic ancestry inference. The authors emphasize the need for a stronger focus on conveying uncertainty to mitigate risks of over-interpretation.
July 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A nice review paper from the lab!
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You can catch UGI post-doc @nancybird1.bsky.social presenting at @official-smbe.bsky.social #SMBE next week on her work: "A flexible and efficient new model to infer multiple admixture dates via joint analyses of modern and/or ancient individuals".
#SMBE2025 Symposium 27: Population genetics through time session B
🔗 smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/program/25070
🔗 smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/program/25070
July 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
You can catch UGI post-doc @nancybird1.bsky.social presenting at @official-smbe.bsky.social #SMBE next week on her work: "A flexible and efficient new model to infer multiple admixture dates via joint analyses of modern and/or ancient individuals".
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✨🧬 Sharing our UCL Genetics Institute starter pack of researchers, friends and alumni past and present 🧬 ✨
#UGISKY
(DM us to be added)
go.bsky.app/Gw1NqRa
#UGISKY
(DM us to be added)
go.bsky.app/Gw1NqRa
July 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
✨🧬 Sharing our UCL Genetics Institute starter pack of researchers, friends and alumni past and present 🧬 ✨
#UGISKY
(DM us to be added)
go.bsky.app/Gw1NqRa
#UGISKY
(DM us to be added)
go.bsky.app/Gw1NqRa
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Great to see this published in @gigascience.bsky.social! Using @nanoporetech.com, we generated genome and methylome resources simultaneously to drive molecular insights for conservation of loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde 🐢🧬🇨🇻
doi.org/10.1093/giga...
doi.org/10.1093/giga...
Chromosome-level genome assembly and methylome profile yield insights for the conservation of endangered loggerhead sea turtles
AbstractBackground. Characterizing genetic and epigenetic diversity is crucial for assessing the adaptive potential of threatened populations and species i
doi.org
June 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Great to see this published in @gigascience.bsky.social! Using @nanoporetech.com, we generated genome and methylome resources simultaneously to drive molecular insights for conservation of loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde 🐢🧬🇨🇻
doi.org/10.1093/giga...
doi.org/10.1093/giga...
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Tomorrow is the first #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk this semester, with @alicebalard.bsky.social from UCL @ucl.ac.uk who will be talking about the role of methylation
in adaptive response to environmental pressures.
Join us! Details: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar...
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
in adaptive response to environmental pressures.
Join us! Details: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar...
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Tomorrow is the first #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk this semester, with @alicebalard.bsky.social from UCL @ucl.ac.uk who will be talking about the role of methylation
in adaptive response to environmental pressures.
Join us! Details: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar...
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
in adaptive response to environmental pressures.
Join us! Details: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar...
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
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Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5