Giacomo Potente
@gpotente.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Zurich | Plant evolutionary genomics 🌱🧬 | Studying supergenes in angiosperms & sex chromosomes in liverworts
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Giacomo Potente
@gpotente.bsky.social
· Apr 9
Insights into convergent evolution of cosexuality in liverworts from the Marchantia quadrata genome
Insights into convergent evolution of cosexuality in liverworts from the Marchantia quadrata genome
Potente et al. show that in the liverwort M. quadrata, the evolution of cosexuality involves the retention of the male (V) sex chromosome and the complete loss of the female (U) sex chromosome. This pattern parallels observations in another species, suggesting that transitions to cosexuality may be predictable in liverworts.
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👋 Hi Bluesky!
As a first post, I'm happy to share our new paper exploring what happens to sex chromosomes when a species transitions from separate sexes to cosexuality, using the liverwort Marchantia quadrata 🧬
Proud to share first authorship with Yukiko Yasui, with Péter Szövényi as senior author.
As a first post, I'm happy to share our new paper exploring what happens to sex chromosomes when a species transitions from separate sexes to cosexuality, using the liverwort Marchantia quadrata 🧬
Proud to share first authorship with Yukiko Yasui, with Péter Szövényi as senior author.
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I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖
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And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯
October 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯
- "What should I say if someone calls - like, you’ve won the Nobel prize or something?"
- "Just tell them I’m living my best life"
- "Just tell them I’m living my best life"
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid
Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable
The Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray.
Fred Ramsdell shared Monday’s prestigious prize with Mary Brunkow of Seattle, Washington and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries related to the functioning of the immune system. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
- "What should I say if someone calls - like, you’ve won the Nobel prize or something?"
- "Just tell them I’m living my best life"
- "Just tell them I’m living my best life"
New preprint! In collaboration with @ergabiodiv.bsky.social, we explored the convergent #evolution of the S-locus #supergene controlling distyly in the #primrose family.
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#heterostyly #genomics #preprint #bioRxiv
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#heterostyly #genomics #preprint #bioRxiv
October 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
New preprint! In collaboration with @ergabiodiv.bsky.social, we explored the convergent #evolution of the S-locus #supergene controlling distyly in the #primrose family.
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#heterostyly #genomics #preprint #bioRxiv
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#heterostyly #genomics #preprint #bioRxiv
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✨Don't miss the N&V✨
📰The dawn of bryophyte genomics is here.
By Giacomo Potente, Yuling Yue & Péter Szövényi.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📰The dawn of bryophyte genomics is here.
By Giacomo Potente, Yuling Yue & Péter Szövényi.
⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The dawn of bryophyte genomics is here - Nature Genetics
Bryophytes are a widespread group of land plants that occupy nearly all biomes, yet their genetics and evolutionary history have long remained underexplored. Now, a study that generates extensive genomic data for bryophytes highlights de novo gene formation and horizontal gene transfer as key forces that shape bryophyte diversity and adaptation.
www.nature.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
✨Don't miss the N&V✨
📰The dawn of bryophyte genomics is here.
By Giacomo Potente, Yuling Yue & Péter Szövényi.
⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📰The dawn of bryophyte genomics is here.
By Giacomo Potente, Yuling Yue & Péter Szövényi.
⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
September 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
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Check out our new preprint! We compare sequence versus synteny approaches for resolving a challenging #phylogenetic problem. In this case, synteny is far more informative! Also includes the first chromosome-level #genome for the enigmatic #fish family Gyrinocheilidae. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Check out our new preprint! We compare sequence versus synteny approaches for resolving a challenging #phylogenetic problem. In this case, synteny is far more informative! Also includes the first chromosome-level #genome for the enigmatic #fish family Gyrinocheilidae. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Excited to share that my first News & Views is out in @natgenet.nature.com!
Together with Yuling Yue and @peterszovenyi.bsky.social, we highlight a landmark study presenting 100+ bryophyte genome assemblies and what they reveal about plant evolution.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Together with Yuling Yue and @peterszovenyi.bsky.social, we highlight a landmark study presenting 100+ bryophyte genome assemblies and what they reveal about plant evolution.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The dawn of bryophyte genomics is here - Nature Genetics
Bryophytes are a widespread group of land plants that occupy nearly all biomes, yet their genetics and evolutionary history have long remained underexplored. Now, a study that generates extensive geno...
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Excited to share that my first News & Views is out in @natgenet.nature.com!
Together with Yuling Yue and @peterszovenyi.bsky.social, we highlight a landmark study presenting 100+ bryophyte genome assemblies and what they reveal about plant evolution.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Together with Yuling Yue and @peterszovenyi.bsky.social, we highlight a landmark study presenting 100+ bryophyte genome assemblies and what they reveal about plant evolution.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Giacomo Potente
Where does pollen go after leaving a flower? Our paper on pollen fates in buzz pollinated flowers is out. Congrats to the three brilliant undergrads that carried out this study from beginning to end!
pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...
pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...
September 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Where does pollen go after leaving a flower? Our paper on pollen fates in buzz pollinated flowers is out. Congrats to the three brilliant undergrads that carried out this study from beginning to end!
pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...
pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...
🌱 How does polyploidy shape plant reproduction?
Excited to have contributed to a new study in @molbioevol.bsky.social on the loss of distyly in the polyploid Primula grandis!
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
Excited to have contributed to a new study in @molbioevol.bsky.social on the loss of distyly in the polyploid Primula grandis!
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
Genomic Patterns of Loss of Distyly and Polyploidization in Primroses
Abstract. Transitions from outcrossing to selfing and from diploidy to polyploidy often co-occur in plants, likely because the ability to produce selfed se
doi.org
August 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🌱 How does polyploidy shape plant reproduction?
Excited to have contributed to a new study in @molbioevol.bsky.social on the loss of distyly in the polyploid Primula grandis!
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
Excited to have contributed to a new study in @molbioevol.bsky.social on the loss of distyly in the polyploid Primula grandis!
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
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*Job alert*
Come work with us! We have a fully funded 4yr #PhD position in #alpine & #Arctic plant #ecology available in our group @unibas.ch. The project includes fieldwork & connects to other ongoing projects on species range shifts & microclimate.
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
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Come work with us! We have a fully funded 4yr #PhD position in #alpine & #Arctic plant #ecology available in our group @unibas.ch. The project includes fieldwork & connects to other ongoing projects on species range shifts & microclimate.
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
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🌐🧪
Universität Basel: PhD position in alpine and arctic plant ecology
The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a fully funded four-year PhD position in alpine and arctic pla...
jobs.unibas.ch
August 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
*Job alert*
Come work with us! We have a fully funded 4yr #PhD position in #alpine & #Arctic plant #ecology available in our group @unibas.ch. The project includes fieldwork & connects to other ongoing projects on species range shifts & microclimate.
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
Please repost!
🌐🧪
Come work with us! We have a fully funded 4yr #PhD position in #alpine & #Arctic plant #ecology available in our group @unibas.ch. The project includes fieldwork & connects to other ongoing projects on species range shifts & microclimate.
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
Please repost!
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Delighted to see this piece celebrating 60 years of the University of Leicester’s Department of Genetics! 🧬
I spent a few months there as an Erasmus student and I have great memories of the brilliant people met there. Here’s to the next 60! 🥂
I spent a few months there as an Erasmus student and I have great memories of the brilliant people met there. Here’s to the next 60! 🥂
Lovely article by @edhollox.bsky.social in the @gensocuk.bsky.social magazine about the University of Leicester's Department of Genetics reaching the grand old age of 60! 🧬😊
July 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Delighted to see this piece celebrating 60 years of the University of Leicester’s Department of Genetics! 🧬
I spent a few months there as an Erasmus student and I have great memories of the brilliant people met there. Here’s to the next 60! 🥂
I spent a few months there as an Erasmus student and I have great memories of the brilliant people met there. Here’s to the next 60! 🥂
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🚨Preprint🚨
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
July 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🚨Preprint🚨
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
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Some months later, work is now published @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Some months later, work is now published @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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'They say there's a need to create such a service in case U.S. funding is curtailed or the quantity or quality of its 37 million citations fall victim to politicization, or a DOGE-like chain saw attack of its trained personnel, sources told MedPage Today.'
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www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Germany Plans Global Alternative to PubMed
In the wake of a brief PubMed outage, team launches project to ensure uninterrupted access
www.medpagetoday.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
'They say there's a need to create such a service in case U.S. funding is curtailed or the quantity or quality of its 37 million citations fall victim to politicization, or a DOGE-like chain saw attack of its trained personnel, sources told MedPage Today.'
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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The WorkflowHub registry has a global reach, with hundreds of research organisations involved, and more than 800 workflows registered. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #bioinformatics #FAIR
WorkflowHub: a registry for computational workflows - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - WorkflowHub: a registry for computational workflows
www.nature.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The WorkflowHub registry has a global reach, with hundreds of research organisations involved, and more than 800 workflows registered. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #bioinformatics #FAIR
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fire ant social chromosome exerts a major influence on genome regulation academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
The fire ant social chromosome exerts a major influence on genome regulation
Abstract. Supergenes underlying complex trait polymorphisms ensure sets of coadapted alleles remain genetically linked. Despite their prevalence in nature,
academic.oup.com
May 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
fire ant social chromosome exerts a major influence on genome regulation academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
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RAxML-NG v2.0 beta is here
github.com/amkozlov/rax...
Features
1. Difficulty prediction
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2. Adaptive search academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
3. Early Stop
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4. Model selection
5. Rapid bootstrapping academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
github.com/amkozlov/rax...
Features
1. Difficulty prediction
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2. Adaptive search academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
3. Early Stop
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4. Model selection
5. Rapid bootstrapping academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Release RAxML-NG v2.0-beta2 · amkozlov/raxml-ng
Main new features
Adaptive tree search heuristic (Togkousidis 2023) , (Togkousidis 2024)
Multiple fast branch support measures
Integrated model testing
Full Changelog: 1.2.2...2.0-beta2
github.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
RAxML-NG v2.0 beta is here
github.com/amkozlov/rax...
Features
1. Difficulty prediction
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
2. Adaptive search academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
3. Early Stop
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
4. Model selection
5. Rapid bootstrapping academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
github.com/amkozlov/rax...
Features
1. Difficulty prediction
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
2. Adaptive search academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
3. Early Stop
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
4. Model selection
5. Rapid bootstrapping academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
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Adventures in nature's nonbinary botany, with a side of Emily Dickinson – the poetic science of "perfect flowers" (the actual botanical term) www.themarginalian.org/2021/07/02/p...
Perfect Flowers: Adventures in Nature’s Nonbinary Botany, with a Side of Emily Dickinson
Rewilding the landscape of possibility for the poetry of being.
www.themarginalian.org
May 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Adventures in nature's nonbinary botany, with a side of Emily Dickinson – the poetic science of "perfect flowers" (the actual botanical term) www.themarginalian.org/2021/07/02/p...
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The average American has three friends
May 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The average American has three friends
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Researchers in the US are seeking career opportunities abroad as President Donald Trump’s administration slashes science funding and workforce numbers, finds an analysis of Nature’s jobs-board data. #Academicsky 🧪
Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain
A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.
go.nature.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Researchers in the US are seeking career opportunities abroad as President Donald Trump’s administration slashes science funding and workforce numbers, finds an analysis of Nature’s jobs-board data. #Academicsky 🧪
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doi.org/10.1002/saj2... Most transformative scientific solutions often emerge from curiosity-driven research, not just problem-focused/use-inspired approaches. #Soil science's greatest contributions will come from maintaining intellectual freedom to truly understand 1 of Earth's most complex systems
April 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
doi.org/10.1002/saj2... Most transformative scientific solutions often emerge from curiosity-driven research, not just problem-focused/use-inspired approaches. #Soil science's greatest contributions will come from maintaining intellectual freedom to truly understand 1 of Earth's most complex systems
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New OA Letter: "Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/eiJVL
...engineered the tobacco rattle virus to express the RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and guide RNA for transgene-free germline editing.
...engineered the tobacco rattle virus to express the RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and guide RNA for transgene-free germline editing.
April 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
New OA Letter: "Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/eiJVL
...engineered the tobacco rattle virus to express the RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and guide RNA for transgene-free germline editing.
...engineered the tobacco rattle virus to express the RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and guide RNA for transgene-free germline editing.
Reposted by Giacomo Potente
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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Our @cp-cellreports.bsky.social paper was featured by the UZH Faculty of Science!
We explore how sex chromosomes evolve during transitions to cosexuality, using the liverwort Marchantia quadrata 🧬
🔗 www.mnf.uzh.ch/de/news/arti...
We explore how sex chromosomes evolve during transitions to cosexuality, using the liverwort Marchantia quadrata 🧬
🔗 www.mnf.uzh.ch/de/news/arti...
artikel
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April 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our @cp-cellreports.bsky.social paper was featured by the UZH Faculty of Science!
We explore how sex chromosomes evolve during transitions to cosexuality, using the liverwort Marchantia quadrata 🧬
🔗 www.mnf.uzh.ch/de/news/arti...
We explore how sex chromosomes evolve during transitions to cosexuality, using the liverwort Marchantia quadrata 🧬
🔗 www.mnf.uzh.ch/de/news/arti...