Diyar H. (He/Him)
@diyarhamidi.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Evolutionary Immunogenomics at the University of Hamburg
M.Sc in Molecular Biology and Evolution
Kiel University - MPI for Evolbio
into Population genomics, Molecular evolution, Ancient DNA, and Primates 🦧🦕🖥️🧬
M.Sc in Molecular Biology and Evolution
Kiel University - MPI for Evolbio
into Population genomics, Molecular evolution, Ancient DNA, and Primates 🦧🦕🖥️🧬
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Step back and think about this…it’s INCREDIBLE
We can sequence DNA from an extinct species that’s been dead for thousands of years. Not only that, we can sequence DNA from another extinct species that first extinct species ate as its last meal…to learn about population dynamics of the extinct prey.
We can sequence DNA from an extinct species that’s been dead for thousands of years. Not only that, we can sequence DNA from another extinct species that first extinct species ate as its last meal…to learn about population dynamics of the extinct prey.
A rare sample from a woolly rhinoceroses reveals how the population changed in the lead-up to the species’ extinction
go.nature.com/4qWohHb
go.nature.com/4qWohHb
Wolf pup’s stomach yields DNA from one of world’s last surviving woolly rhinos
A rare sample from a woolly rhinoceroses reveals how the population changed in the lead-up to the species’ extinction.
go.nature.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Step back and think about this…it’s INCREDIBLE
We can sequence DNA from an extinct species that’s been dead for thousands of years. Not only that, we can sequence DNA from another extinct species that first extinct species ate as its last meal…to learn about population dynamics of the extinct prey.
We can sequence DNA from an extinct species that’s been dead for thousands of years. Not only that, we can sequence DNA from another extinct species that first extinct species ate as its last meal…to learn about population dynamics of the extinct prey.
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A fantastic meeting is coming 🥳
This year DZG Evo Bio Graduate meeting will be in Hamburg, chase the red queen 🍎 @dzg-evol.bsky.social
This year DZG Evo Bio Graduate meeting will be in Hamburg, chase the red queen 🍎 @dzg-evol.bsky.social
Please share: We are hosting the 2026 DZG evolutionary biology graduate meeting at Uni Hamburg on March 25-27: "Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species". #PhD students, early postdocs and advanced Master students in evolutionary biology are welcome to register! t1p.de/dzg2026evolbio
January 15, 2026 at 7:54 AM
A fantastic meeting is coming 🥳
This year DZG Evo Bio Graduate meeting will be in Hamburg, chase the red queen 🍎 @dzg-evol.bsky.social
This year DZG Evo Bio Graduate meeting will be in Hamburg, chase the red queen 🍎 @dzg-evol.bsky.social
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Really grateful to the people in Hamburg for hosting the graduate meeting this year. Join them it will be great!
This year, we are hosting and organizing the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology at Hamburg Uni with an exciting theme and amazing invited speakers!
For more information and registration, please visit our website:
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung...
For more information and registration, please visit our website:
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung...
Please share: We are hosting the 2026 DZG evolutionary biology graduate meeting at Uni Hamburg on March 25-27: "Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species". #PhD students, early postdocs and advanced Master students in evolutionary biology are welcome to register! t1p.de/dzg2026evolbio
January 15, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Really grateful to the people in Hamburg for hosting the graduate meeting this year. Join them it will be great!
This year, we are hosting and organizing the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology at Hamburg Uni with an exciting theme and amazing invited speakers!
For more information and registration, please visit our website:
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung...
For more information and registration, please visit our website:
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung...
Please share: We are hosting the 2026 DZG evolutionary biology graduate meeting at Uni Hamburg on March 25-27: "Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species". #PhD students, early postdocs and advanced Master students in evolutionary biology are welcome to register! t1p.de/dzg2026evolbio
January 14, 2026 at 7:11 AM
This year, we are hosting and organizing the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology at Hamburg Uni with an exciting theme and amazing invited speakers!
For more information and registration, please visit our website:
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung...
For more information and registration, please visit our website:
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung...
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Same-sex sexual behaviour is part of the normal social life of some primates and could play an important part in their long-term success
go.nature.com/4qNGo1I
go.nature.com/4qNGo1I
Same-sex sexual behaviour can help primates to survive — and reproduce
Bonds between same-sex individuals help apes and monkeys to manage conflict and strengthen alliances, especially in dry habitats and predator-rich landscapes.
go.nature.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Same-sex sexual behaviour is part of the normal social life of some primates and could play an important part in their long-term success
go.nature.com/4qNGo1I
go.nature.com/4qNGo1I
I participated in the amazing PopGroup @popgroup2026.bsky.social for the first time in Lille, and it was a great experience to present my work for the first time.
Many thanks to everyone who organized and participated.
I am already very excited for the next ones!
Many thanks to everyone who organized and participated.
I am already very excited for the next ones!
January 10, 2026 at 7:18 AM
I participated in the amazing PopGroup @popgroup2026.bsky.social for the first time in Lille, and it was a great experience to present my work for the first time.
Many thanks to everyone who organized and participated.
I am already very excited for the next ones!
Many thanks to everyone who organized and participated.
I am already very excited for the next ones!
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SMBE2026 Symposium 14 | Evolution of host-pathogen interactions in the genomic age
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
December 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
SMBE2026 Symposium 14 | Evolution of host-pathogen interactions in the genomic age
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
We are very excited to be organising this symposium at SMBE @official-smbe.bsky.social next year! We look forward to your abstracts and to being in Copenhagen!
Organisers
- @jcwinternitz.bsky.social | @uni-hamburg.de
- @arcova.bsky.social | @uni-hamburg.de
- @michalvinkler.bsky.social | @sciencecharles.bsky.social
- Diyar Hamidi | @uni-hamburg.de
Invited Speaker
- Katherine Belov | @sydney.edu.au
- @jcwinternitz.bsky.social | @uni-hamburg.de
- @arcova.bsky.social | @uni-hamburg.de
- @michalvinkler.bsky.social | @sciencecharles.bsky.social
- Diyar Hamidi | @uni-hamburg.de
Invited Speaker
- Katherine Belov | @sydney.edu.au
December 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
We are very excited to be organising this symposium at SMBE @official-smbe.bsky.social next year! We look forward to your abstracts and to being in Copenhagen!
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For a nice overview of what ancient DNA can tell us about pathogens (produced by undergraduate and graduate students in my lab!) see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOE...
Ancient DNA Analysis: Why Study ancient Disease?
YouTube video by StoneLab
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
For a nice overview of what ancient DNA can tell us about pathogens (produced by undergraduate and graduate students in my lab!) see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOE...
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New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
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💀+🧬+🤖 = 🎬🔥
Makalemiz artık sadece okunmuyor, izleniyor! Kurgu değil, gerçek bilim 😍😎
Teşekkürler Hacettepe ❤️
@science.org
👇 Yapay zeka animasyonumuza acil bakın:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3_C...
Makalemiz artık sadece okunmuyor, izleniyor! Kurgu değil, gerçek bilim 😍😎
Teşekkürler Hacettepe ❤️
@science.org
👇 Yapay zeka animasyonumuza acil bakın:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3_C...
Çatalhöyük Animasyonu
YouTube video by Hacettepe Üniversitesi
www.youtube.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
💀+🧬+🤖 = 🎬🔥
Makalemiz artık sadece okunmuyor, izleniyor! Kurgu değil, gerçek bilim 😍😎
Teşekkürler Hacettepe ❤️
@science.org
👇 Yapay zeka animasyonumuza acil bakın:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3_C...
Makalemiz artık sadece okunmuyor, izleniyor! Kurgu değil, gerçek bilim 😍😎
Teşekkürler Hacettepe ❤️
@science.org
👇 Yapay zeka animasyonumuza acil bakın:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3_C...
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Es ist Pride Week in Hamburg! 🌈 Dieses Mal unter dem Motto: „Wir sind hier, um zu bleiben. Queere Menschen schützen.“ Und auch dieses Jahr heißt es wieder: #HamburgzeigtFlagge Wir sind dabei und haben vor dem Hauptgebäude und vor der Verwaltung im Mittelweg gehisst! 🏳️🌈
July 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Es ist Pride Week in Hamburg! 🌈 Dieses Mal unter dem Motto: „Wir sind hier, um zu bleiben. Queere Menschen schützen.“ Und auch dieses Jahr heißt es wieder: #HamburgzeigtFlagge Wir sind dabei und haben vor dem Hauptgebäude und vor der Verwaltung im Mittelweg gehisst! 🏳️🌈
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🌾 Agriculture didn’t always spread with mobility of people.
New ancient DNA research shows that in western Anatolia, while communities stayed put, farming and village life spread through the movement of ideas and practices.
New ancient DNA research shows that in western Anatolia, while communities stayed put, farming and village life spread through the movement of ideas and practices.
June 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
🌾 Agriculture didn’t always spread with mobility of people.
New ancient DNA research shows that in western Anatolia, while communities stayed put, farming and village life spread through the movement of ideas and practices.
New ancient DNA research shows that in western Anatolia, while communities stayed put, farming and village life spread through the movement of ideas and practices.
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Detecting and quantifying rare sex in natural populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657731v1
June 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Detecting and quantifying rare sex in natural populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657731v1
An effective marker for water frog systematics, including complex systems and hybrids 🤔
“Structure and Evolution of the uqcrfs1 Gene in Western Palearctic Water Frogs (Genus Pelophylax) and Implications for Systematics of Eastern Mediterranean Species”
DOI: doi.org/10.1155/jzs/...
“Structure and Evolution of the uqcrfs1 Gene in Western Palearctic Water Frogs (Genus Pelophylax) and Implications for Systematics of Eastern Mediterranean Species”
DOI: doi.org/10.1155/jzs/...
Structure and Evolution of the uqcrfs1 Gene in Western Palearctic Water Frogs (Genus Pelophylax) and Implications for Systematics of Eastern Mediterranean Species
The Rieske protein, encoded by the nuclear uqcrfs1 gene, is an essential subunit of the cytochrome bc1 complex involved in electron transfer. Despite its vital function, studies on the structure and ....
doi.org
June 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
An effective marker for water frog systematics, including complex systems and hybrids 🤔
“Structure and Evolution of the uqcrfs1 Gene in Western Palearctic Water Frogs (Genus Pelophylax) and Implications for Systematics of Eastern Mediterranean Species”
DOI: doi.org/10.1155/jzs/...
“Structure and Evolution of the uqcrfs1 Gene in Western Palearctic Water Frogs (Genus Pelophylax) and Implications for Systematics of Eastern Mediterranean Species”
DOI: doi.org/10.1155/jzs/...
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June 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Stärkung für die Forschung am UKE: Die @dfg.de hat zwei neue Sonderforschungsbereiche zum mütterlichen Immunsystem und zu Nierenfiltern bewilligt. Diese werden in den kommenden vier Jahren mit insgesamt 29 Millionen Euro gefördert. Auch Forschende aus Lübeck, Berlin, Köln und Münster sind beteiligt.
UKE-Forschungen zum mütterlichen Immunsystem und zu Nierenfiltern werden gestärkt
www.uni-hamburg.de
May 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Stärkung für die Forschung am UKE: Die @dfg.de hat zwei neue Sonderforschungsbereiche zum mütterlichen Immunsystem und zu Nierenfiltern bewilligt. Diese werden in den kommenden vier Jahren mit insgesamt 29 Millionen Euro gefördert. Auch Forschende aus Lübeck, Berlin, Köln und Münster sind beteiligt.
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🚨 Don’t miss the 1st HAAM-radio symposium: "Ethics in Human DNA Research"
📅 May 29 (next week!)
🕒 LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm)
🎙️ With @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jenniferraff.bsky.social @marisolespitia.bsky.social & Tomás Gozález Zarzar
📝 Register by May 28
🔗 shorturl.at/1VScZ
📅 May 29 (next week!)
🕒 LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm)
🎙️ With @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jenniferraff.bsky.social @marisolespitia.bsky.social & Tomás Gozález Zarzar
📝 Register by May 28
🔗 shorturl.at/1VScZ
May 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🚨 Don’t miss the 1st HAAM-radio symposium: "Ethics in Human DNA Research"
📅 May 29 (next week!)
🕒 LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm)
🎙️ With @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jenniferraff.bsky.social @marisolespitia.bsky.social & Tomás Gozález Zarzar
📝 Register by May 28
🔗 shorturl.at/1VScZ
📅 May 29 (next week!)
🕒 LA (7am) l Berlin (4pm) | Singapore (10pm)
🎙️ With @paleogenomics.bsky.social @jenniferraff.bsky.social @marisolespitia.bsky.social & Tomás Gozález Zarzar
📝 Register by May 28
🔗 shorturl.at/1VScZ
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Genomic Insights into Derived Dwarfism and Exudivory in a Genus (Callithrix) of the World's Smallest Anthropoid Monkeys https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654637v1
May 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Genomic Insights into Derived Dwarfism and Exudivory in a Genus (Callithrix) of the World's Smallest Anthropoid Monkeys https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654637v1
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Marmosets are diverse in morphology and diet. We study these differences through an evolutionary lens and implications for marmoset conservation and husbandry. This work took 10 years thru major world events, moving across three continents, and driving all over Brazil. Check out the pre-print!
May 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Marmosets are diverse in morphology and diet. We study these differences through an evolutionary lens and implications for marmoset conservation and husbandry. This work took 10 years thru major world events, moving across three continents, and driving all over Brazil. Check out the pre-print!
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This is a great opportunity to compare the headline they use to get you to click through to the actual substance of the article.
These aren't dire wolves. They're gene-edited "99.9% grey wolves." This isn't a scientific breakthrough, it's CRISPR editing with a marketing wing.
These aren't dire wolves. They're gene-edited "99.9% grey wolves." This isn't a scientific breakthrough, it's CRISPR editing with a marketing wing.
A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences. cnn.it/3EcYuru
April 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
This is a great opportunity to compare the headline they use to get you to click through to the actual substance of the article.
These aren't dire wolves. They're gene-edited "99.9% grey wolves." This isn't a scientific breakthrough, it's CRISPR editing with a marketing wing.
These aren't dire wolves. They're gene-edited "99.9% grey wolves." This isn't a scientific breakthrough, it's CRISPR editing with a marketing wing.
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We just succeeded in formally linking a specific rodent species - the otherwise charming fire-footed rope squirrel - to the onset of a mpox outbreak in a primate species - sooty mangabeys. Here Kai’s report on the preprint we released yesterday 1/2
Researchers have been trying for a long time to nail down where in nature mpox lurks.
Now they appear to have caught the virus that causes mpox in the act of spilling over from squirrels to monkeys.
“It is the best clue so far for what the reservoir might be”, says @kgandersen.bsky.social
#IDsky 🧪
Now they appear to have caught the virus that causes mpox in the act of spilling over from squirrels to monkeys.
“It is the best clue so far for what the reservoir might be”, says @kgandersen.bsky.social
#IDsky 🧪
How do mpox outbreaks start? Dead baby monkey provides important clue
“Landmark” study fingers fire-footed rope squirrel as a reservoir of fatal disease
www.science.org
April 9, 2025 at 6:24 AM
We just succeeded in formally linking a specific rodent species - the otherwise charming fire-footed rope squirrel - to the onset of a mpox outbreak in a primate species - sooty mangabeys. Here Kai’s report on the preprint we released yesterday 1/2
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Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released!
(Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
(Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models
ecoevorxiv.org
April 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released!
(Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
(Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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📢 new paper alert for the primate and genomics nerds. telomere to telomere ape genomes. I led MHC annotations on this work w/ @biotobi.bsky.social and @meyerbritta.bsky.social And hey it’s my first nature paper 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Complete sequencing of ape genomes - Nature
Complete sequences of chromosomes telomere-to-telomere from chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan and siamang provide a comprehensive and valuable resource for future evol...
www.nature.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
📢 new paper alert for the primate and genomics nerds. telomere to telomere ape genomes. I led MHC annotations on this work w/ @biotobi.bsky.social and @meyerbritta.bsky.social And hey it’s my first nature paper 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The call for PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology is now open, including one in my group! www.evolbio.mpg.de/3017297/appl.... If you are interested in playing with ancestral recombination graphs, please reach out!
How to apply
www.evolbio.mpg.de
January 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The call for PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology is now open, including one in my group! www.evolbio.mpg.de/3017297/appl.... If you are interested in playing with ancestral recombination graphs, please reach out!