Claire Mérot
@clairemerot.bsky.social
CNRS Researcher - France - Europe
Evolutionary Biology - Genomics - Ecology
Evolutionary Biology - Genomics - Ecology
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Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
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🚨 We are hiring!
🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution
Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project
🔬 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English
📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025
📧 aurora.ruizherrera@uab.cat
🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom
🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution
Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project
🔬 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English
📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025
📧 aurora.ruizherrera@uab.cat
🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom
September 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🚨 We are hiring!
🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution
Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project
🔬 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English
📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025
📧 aurora.ruizherrera@uab.cat
🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom
🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution
Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project
🔬 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English
📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025
📧 aurora.ruizherrera@uab.cat
🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom
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A new article of the team published in @heredityjournal.bsky.social #PopGen #MarEvol
Congratulations to Hedvig for her brilliant work on this project.
Atlantification is dead, long live genetic atlantification!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulations to Hedvig for her brilliant work on this project.
Atlantification is dead, long live genetic atlantification!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genome sequence analysis provides evidence that a boreal crustacean colonised Svalbard well before the ongoing Atlantification of the Arctic - Heredity
Heredity - Genome sequence analysis provides evidence that a boreal crustacean colonised Svalbard well before the ongoing Atlantification of the Arctic
www.nature.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A new article of the team published in @heredityjournal.bsky.social #PopGen #MarEvol
Congratulations to Hedvig for her brilliant work on this project.
Atlantification is dead, long live genetic atlantification!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulations to Hedvig for her brilliant work on this project.
Atlantification is dead, long live genetic atlantification!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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My lil' baby turns 3.0 today! Most notable features:
- autodetection of linked-read types (and not linked-read WGS too!)
- more debuggin' and troubleshootin' options
#bioinformatics #genomics #linkedreads
- autodetection of linked-read types (and not linked-read WGS too!)
- more debuggin' and troubleshootin' options
#bioinformatics #genomics #linkedreads
August 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
My lil' baby turns 3.0 today! Most notable features:
- autodetection of linked-read types (and not linked-read WGS too!)
- more debuggin' and troubleshootin' options
#bioinformatics #genomics #linkedreads
- autodetection of linked-read types (and not linked-read WGS too!)
- more debuggin' and troubleshootin' options
#bioinformatics #genomics #linkedreads
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For those interested: 🚀 BayPass v3.1 released!
🔹 Improved MCMC adaptive phase
🔹 Computation reduced >6X with default (recommended) options, while keeping similar accuracy
🔹 Plus other minor edits
📖 Details in the manual / changelog
🔗 Repo: forge.inrae.fr/mathieu.gaut...
🔹 Improved MCMC adaptive phase
🔹 Computation reduced >6X with default (recommended) options, while keeping similar accuracy
🔹 Plus other minor edits
📖 Details in the manual / changelog
🔗 Repo: forge.inrae.fr/mathieu.gaut...
GAUTIER Mathieu / baypass public · GitLab
GitLab Community Edition
forge.inrae.fr
August 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
For those interested: 🚀 BayPass v3.1 released!
🔹 Improved MCMC adaptive phase
🔹 Computation reduced >6X with default (recommended) options, while keeping similar accuracy
🔹 Plus other minor edits
📖 Details in the manual / changelog
🔗 Repo: forge.inrae.fr/mathieu.gaut...
🔹 Improved MCMC adaptive phase
🔹 Computation reduced >6X with default (recommended) options, while keeping similar accuracy
🔹 Plus other minor edits
📖 Details in the manual / changelog
🔗 Repo: forge.inrae.fr/mathieu.gaut...
Useful warning on pangenomes by Resco Hogers... Now your application to pick which flavour of pangenome to need
August 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Useful warning on pangenomes by Resco Hogers... Now your application to pick which flavour of pangenome to need
Join us today and tomorrow in room 117 #ESEB2025, starting with Dr Neda Barghi at 11am about adaptive architecture of complex traits in Drosophila. And the poster session today at 5pm. 😊
A few days left to send your abstract to #eseb2025 !
If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV
If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV
August 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Join us today and tomorrow in room 117 #ESEB2025, starting with Dr Neda Barghi at 11am about adaptive architecture of complex traits in Drosophila. And the poster session today at 5pm. 😊
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This week, the capital of Evolution is Barcelona!
Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025.
Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n
Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025.
Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n
August 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
This week, the capital of Evolution is Barcelona!
Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025.
Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n
Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025.
Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n
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Join the TIBBE team at #ESEB2025 on Monday in room 115 for S17 *The evolution of behavioural diversity: from ecology to genes and neural systems* - lots of great talks, and more excellent posters throughout the evening sessions! 🧠
This is TIBBE – The Integrative Biology of Brain Evolution network.
We bring together researchers on brain evolution to exchange ideas, share expertise on tools and methods, share data and discuss new findings.
Discover & join TIBBE on our website and a short video tibbe-network.github.io
We bring together researchers on brain evolution to exchange ideas, share expertise on tools and methods, share data and discuss new findings.
Discover & join TIBBE on our website and a short video tibbe-network.github.io
August 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Join the TIBBE team at #ESEB2025 on Monday in room 115 for S17 *The evolution of behavioural diversity: from ecology to genes and neural systems* - lots of great talks, and more excellent posters throughout the evening sessions! 🧠
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Interested in host-associated microbiomes? Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social? Then come check out Symposium S07 on Monday August 18th and hear all about how microbiomes contribute to adaptation. Gut microbiomes, climate change, thermal physiology, behaviour, invasion biology, blood-feeding, and more!
August 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Interested in host-associated microbiomes? Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social? Then come check out Symposium S07 on Monday August 18th and hear all about how microbiomes contribute to adaptation. Gut microbiomes, climate change, thermal physiology, behaviour, invasion biology, blood-feeding, and more!
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🎤 Symposium: Evolution in Small Populations
I’ll be speaking on Evolutionary legacies of population collapse
🗓 Thursday, 11:00–13:15, Room 115
Looking forward to this #ESEB2025 week!
@hologenomics.bsky.social
I’ll be speaking on Evolutionary legacies of population collapse
🗓 Thursday, 11:00–13:15, Room 115
Looking forward to this #ESEB2025 week!
@hologenomics.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🎤 Symposium: Evolution in Small Populations
I’ll be speaking on Evolutionary legacies of population collapse
🗓 Thursday, 11:00–13:15, Room 115
Looking forward to this #ESEB2025 week!
@hologenomics.bsky.social
I’ll be speaking on Evolutionary legacies of population collapse
🗓 Thursday, 11:00–13:15, Room 115
Looking forward to this #ESEB2025 week!
@hologenomics.bsky.social
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So excited to be in Barcelona for #eseb2025! If you’re interested in 3D genome evolution, gene regulation, and the evolution of cephalopod novel traits, come to my talk on Tuesday at 11.30 in room 117 🐙🦑🧬
August 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
So excited to be in Barcelona for #eseb2025! If you’re interested in 3D genome evolution, gene regulation, and the evolution of cephalopod novel traits, come to my talk on Tuesday at 11.30 in room 117 🐙🦑🧬
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A reminder too that we have an open Junior Professorship position at the ECOBIO lab in Rennes, so do reach out if you might be interested in applying for that, I'd be happy to chat www.univ-rennes.fr/sites/www.un...
www.univ-rennes.fr
August 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A reminder too that we have an open Junior Professorship position at the ECOBIO lab in Rennes, so do reach out if you might be interested in applying for that, I'd be happy to chat www.univ-rennes.fr/sites/www.un...
On my way to @eseb2025.bsky.social ! 🌞
Please join us for symposium 47 about the interplay of genetic architecture and the evolution of biodiversity in room 117 on Tuesday. I'm very much looking forward to seeing so many cool talks and posters, and catch up with some of you 😊
Please join us for symposium 47 about the interplay of genetic architecture and the evolution of biodiversity in room 117 on Tuesday. I'm very much looking forward to seeing so many cool talks and posters, and catch up with some of you 😊
August 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
On my way to @eseb2025.bsky.social ! 🌞
Please join us for symposium 47 about the interplay of genetic architecture and the evolution of biodiversity in room 117 on Tuesday. I'm very much looking forward to seeing so many cool talks and posters, and catch up with some of you 😊
Please join us for symposium 47 about the interplay of genetic architecture and the evolution of biodiversity in room 117 on Tuesday. I'm very much looking forward to seeing so many cool talks and posters, and catch up with some of you 😊
Reposted by Claire Mérot
Retrouvez les biologistes Marc-André Selosse @isyeb.mnhn.fr & Audrey Dussutour @cnrs.fr Univ.Toulouse, dans un podcast @sciencecqfd.bsky.social sur @franceculture.fr ,
diffusé le 29/04/2025.
Les champignons sont partout : de la confiture aux réacteurs de Tchernobyl.....
diffusé le 29/04/2025.
Les champignons sont partout : de la confiture aux réacteurs de Tchernobyl.....
Champignons : cèpes à la maison
Les champignons sont partout : de la confiture aux réacteurs de Tchernobyl. Ils sont essentiels aux écosystèmes et ont permis l’apparition de la vie sur Terre. S’ils peuvent être bénéfiques, ce sont a...
www.radiofrance.fr
May 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Retrouvez les biologistes Marc-André Selosse @isyeb.mnhn.fr & Audrey Dussutour @cnrs.fr Univ.Toulouse, dans un podcast @sciencecqfd.bsky.social sur @franceculture.fr ,
diffusé le 29/04/2025.
Les champignons sont partout : de la confiture aux réacteurs de Tchernobyl.....
diffusé le 29/04/2025.
Les champignons sont partout : de la confiture aux réacteurs de Tchernobyl.....
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Just three more days to apply to this post-doc position (Deadline 8 May 2025). Not only is the subject matter stunning 🤯 but, you know, life in Montpellier is great too 😎.
Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel
Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel
#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894
Post-Doctoral Researcher – Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel (M/F)
- work environment: Host-Pathogen-Environment Interactions Laboratory (UMR5244 IHPE), Montpellier - main mission:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
May 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Just three more days to apply to this post-doc position (Deadline 8 May 2025). Not only is the subject matter stunning 🤯 but, you know, life in Montpellier is great too 😎.
Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel
Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel
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It is with joy and exhaustion I'd like to announce the release of Harpy v2 🎆.
What's different? Uh, almost everything. The changelog is so long that even I don't want to read it. BUT. IT WORKS WITH WGS DATA. AND MOST LINKED READ TECH. it just works 🙂
github.com/pdimens/harpy
What's different? Uh, almost everything. The changelog is so long that even I don't want to read it. BUT. IT WORKS WITH WGS DATA. AND MOST LINKED READ TECH. it just works 🙂
github.com/pdimens/harpy
GitHub - pdimens/harpy: Process linked-read data, from raw sequences to phased haplotypes, batteries included. Works with WGS too!
Process linked-read data, from raw sequences to phased haplotypes, batteries included. Works with WGS too! - pdimens/harpy
github.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
It is with joy and exhaustion I'd like to announce the release of Harpy v2 🎆.
What's different? Uh, almost everything. The changelog is so long that even I don't want to read it. BUT. IT WORKS WITH WGS DATA. AND MOST LINKED READ TECH. it just works 🙂
github.com/pdimens/harpy
What's different? Uh, almost everything. The changelog is so long that even I don't want to read it. BUT. IT WORKS WITH WGS DATA. AND MOST LINKED READ TECH. it just works 🙂
github.com/pdimens/harpy
10 more days to send your abstract to ESEB 2025 in Barcelona @eseb.bsky.social (deadline 05/05/2025).
A few days left to send your abstract to #eseb2025 !
If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV
If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV
April 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
10 more days to send your abstract to ESEB 2025 in Barcelona @eseb.bsky.social (deadline 05/05/2025).
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Abstracts for @eseb2025.bsky.social due next week! Milk, ejaculates, skin secretions, regurgitate, microbes ...our symposium will have it all, with invited speakers @berasymbionts.bsky.social and @jennyperry.bsky.social ...and you?
Organised w/ @joriskoene.bsky.social and @wolfnerlab.bsky.social
Organised w/ @joriskoene.bsky.social and @wolfnerlab.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Abstracts for @eseb2025.bsky.social due next week! Milk, ejaculates, skin secretions, regurgitate, microbes ...our symposium will have it all, with invited speakers @berasymbionts.bsky.social and @jennyperry.bsky.social ...and you?
Organised w/ @joriskoene.bsky.social and @wolfnerlab.bsky.social
Organised w/ @joriskoene.bsky.social and @wolfnerlab.bsky.social
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Harpy v2.0 is almost across the finish line, and I wrote a lil' post about what linked-read sequencing actually is and how we evaluate the data differently than standard short-read data. It's a quick and easy read (with pictures!), highly recommend 🤓 #PopGen
pdimens.github.io/harpy/blog/l...
pdimens.github.io/harpy/blog/l...
A kind introduction to linked-read data | Harpy haplotag
What you ought to know about linked reads
pdimens.github.io
March 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Harpy v2.0 is almost across the finish line, and I wrote a lil' post about what linked-read sequencing actually is and how we evaluate the data differently than standard short-read data. It's a quick and easy read (with pictures!), highly recommend 🤓 #PopGen
pdimens.github.io/harpy/blog/l...
pdimens.github.io/harpy/blog/l...
A few days left to send your abstract to #eseb2025 !
If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV
If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV
April 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A few days left to send your abstract to #eseb2025 !
If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV
If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV
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New preprint! We investigated the evolution of supergenes and mechanisms underlying distyly in Linum species that diverged ca 33 Mya. 1/8
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April 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
New preprint! We investigated the evolution of supergenes and mechanisms underlying distyly in Linum species that diverged ca 33 Mya. 1/8
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Looking forward to this symposium, lots to learn and discuss about genome structure and evolution #SVs #ESEB2025 ( and thanks for the invitation)
Organized by @aruizherrera.bsky.social and Thea Rogers with the wonderful speakers @clairemerot.bsky.social and Harris Lewin
NEW FRONTIERS IN GENOME DIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION: if you have work on 3D organization and function of genomes submit your abstract to our symposium!
April 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Thanks for the invitation! I learnt a lot about Clunio fascinating biological clocks and the genetics of it 🙂
This week, the Clunios @clocksevolution.bsky.social had the pleasure of hosting @clairemerot.bsky.social and hear about her awesome research on the role of inversions in adaptive evolution! We explored the baltic sea and found wrackbeds full of seaweed flies. Thanks again for visiting us, Claire!
April 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Thanks for the invitation! I learnt a lot about Clunio fascinating biological clocks and the genetics of it 🙂