Sergio Tusso
@stusso.bsky.social
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Postdoc. Speciation genomics, ecological speciation, experimental evolution and comparative genomics. Dogs!
Postdoc. Speciation genomics, ecological speciation, experimental evolution and comparative genomics. Dogs!
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Sergio Tusso
@stusso.bsky.social
· Apr 20
Do you like potatoes? Don't miss our most recent work on tetraploid potato genome!
@nature.com
#potato #genomics #history #evolution
@nature.com
#potato #genomics #history #evolution
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PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social
hoehnalab.github.io
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social
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🌱 Postdoc position in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics!
Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf.
More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position
Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf.
More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position
Career – Schneeberger Lab
schneebergerlab.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🌱 Postdoc position in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics!
Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf.
More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position
Love genome plasticity, computational methods, and solving big questions in plant biology? Join our newly established Institute for Crop Biology at HHU Düsseldorf.
More info on schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Nov. 30 | 3-year position
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@jochenwolflab.bsky.social Check out the latest paper spearheaded by @chyiyin.bsky.social. She explored different methods for target enrichment of DNA extracted from thousands of years old crow bones. Long live ancient DNA!
doi.org/10.1111/1755...
doi.org/10.1111/1755...
Performance of Two Custom Probe Kits for In‐Solution Enrichment of Ancient Avian DNA
Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis remains challenging due to low endogenous DNA content of degraded samples. Hybridisation-based in-solution enrichment has emerged as an effective tool for targeting genomi...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
@jochenwolflab.bsky.social Check out the latest paper spearheaded by @chyiyin.bsky.social. She explored different methods for target enrichment of DNA extracted from thousands of years old crow bones. Long live ancient DNA!
doi.org/10.1111/1755...
doi.org/10.1111/1755...
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Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry.
But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
🧵1/6
But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
🧵1/6
Genomic architecture of egg mimicry and its consequences for speciation in parasitic cuckoos
Host-parasite arms races facilitate rapid evolution and can fuel speciation. Cuculus cuckoos are deceptive egg mimics that exhibit a broad diversity of counterfeit egg phenotypes, representing host-ad...
doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry.
But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
🧵1/6
But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
🧵1/6
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
Tomorrow, October 28 | 4:00 p.m.
Research Colloquium: The use of ancient DNA and museum collections to understand speciation and introgression in crows
with Chyi Yin Gwee, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Join in person (Museum am Löwentor, #Stuttgart) or via zoom: t1p.de/d3y6j
Research Colloquium: The use of ancient DNA and museum collections to understand speciation and introgression in crows
with Chyi Yin Gwee, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Join in person (Museum am Löwentor, #Stuttgart) or via zoom: t1p.de/d3y6j
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Tomorrow, October 28 | 4:00 p.m.
Research Colloquium: The use of ancient DNA and museum collections to understand speciation and introgression in crows
with Chyi Yin Gwee, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Join in person (Museum am Löwentor, #Stuttgart) or via zoom: t1p.de/d3y6j
Research Colloquium: The use of ancient DNA and museum collections to understand speciation and introgression in crows
with Chyi Yin Gwee, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Join in person (Museum am Löwentor, #Stuttgart) or via zoom: t1p.de/d3y6j
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
Our paper was included in the Collection "Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes" from the @microbiologysociety.org 🧬 😁
#genomics #longreadsequencing
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
#genomics #longreadsequencing
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Our paper was included in the Collection "Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes" from the @microbiologysociety.org 🧬 😁
#genomics #longreadsequencing
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
#genomics #longreadsequencing
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
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Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
Applied Biostatistics
ybrandvain.github.io
October 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
NOD-like receptor genes evolve under diversity-enhancing mechanisms in a fungal species complex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679196v1
October 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
NOD-like receptor genes evolve under diversity-enhancing mechanisms in a fungal species complex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679196v1
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
September 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
🌎👩🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵
Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
September 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
🌎👩🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵
Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
Do not miss this pre-print update! It has been an honor being part of it! 🤩🧬 Follow the thread ⬇️ to understand the power of #logan, and how you could apply it too! 🤗
🌎👩🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵
Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
September 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Do not miss this pre-print update! It has been an honor being part of it! 🤩🧬 Follow the thread ⬇️ to understand the power of #logan, and how you could apply it too! 🤗
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...
Robust and accurate Bayesian inference of genome-wide genealogies for hundreds of genomes - Nature Genetics
SINGER is a method for creating ancestral recombination graphs to understand the genealogical history of genomes. The method has increased speed, and thus scalability, without sacrificing accuracy.
doi.org
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
*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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The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (Sep-Jan). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
September 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (Sep-Jan). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
Your daily Avian Hybrids story!
Do crows engage in extra-pair copulations to avoid hybridization?
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/d...
#ornithology
Do crows engage in extra-pair copulations to avoid hybridization?
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/d...
#ornithology
Do crows engage in extra-pair copulations to avoid hybridization?
Extra-pair copulations might be a suitable strategy to circumvent the fitness costs of interbreeding.
avianhybrids.wordpress.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Your daily Avian Hybrids story!
Do crows engage in extra-pair copulations to avoid hybridization?
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/d...
#ornithology
Do crows engage in extra-pair copulations to avoid hybridization?
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/d...
#ornithology
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
Why do males and females often differ in traits?
The expected answer: selection.
But our new paper in GENETICS shows that genetic drift alone can generate sexual dimorphism — even when male & female optima are the same
The expected answer: selection.
But our new paper in GENETICS shows that genetic drift alone can generate sexual dimorphism — even when male & female optima are the same
August 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Why do males and females often differ in traits?
The expected answer: selection.
But our new paper in GENETICS shows that genetic drift alone can generate sexual dimorphism — even when male & female optima are the same
The expected answer: selection.
But our new paper in GENETICS shows that genetic drift alone can generate sexual dimorphism — even when male & female optima are the same
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.
August 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
Interested in eukaryotic algal evolution, metagenomics, new plastid diversity, and more? Check out my poster (P175) today at #eseb2025 ! #protistsonsky
August 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Interested in eukaryotic algal evolution, metagenomics, new plastid diversity, and more? Check out my poster (P175) today at #eseb2025 ! #protistsonsky
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
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MEME alumni (www.evobio.eu) at #ESEB2025! We span so many generations now, from the first cohort (graduated in 2012) to those who are still studying, with master students, PhD students, postdocs, and PIs among us! So happy to get together in every ESEB 🤩
August 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
MEME alumni (www.evobio.eu) at #ESEB2025! We span so many generations now, from the first cohort (graduated in 2012) to those who are still studying, with master students, PhD students, postdocs, and PIs among us! So happy to get together in every ESEB 🤩
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This work shows the first overview on the population genetics and demographic history of the big European firefly, **Lampyris noctiluca**. Feeling very happy this work is out :) academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Sex-biased Migration and Demographic History of the Big European Firefly Lampyris noctiluca
Abstract. Differential dispersion between the sexes can impact the colonization process and demographic history of a species. Here, we explored the demogra
academic.oup.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This work shows the first overview on the population genetics and demographic history of the big European firefly, **Lampyris noctiluca**. Feeling very happy this work is out :) academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
Is there an independent role of epigenetic variation in speciation? We looked for answers in the crow hybrid zone.
In brief: DNA seems to be in the driving seat.
Congrats Justin! This was a long journey.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In brief: DNA seems to be in the driving seat.
Congrats Justin! This was a long journey.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Is there an independent role of epigenetic variation in speciation? We looked for answers in the crow hybrid zone.
In brief: DNA seems to be in the driving seat.
Congrats Justin! This was a long journey.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In brief: DNA seems to be in the driving seat.
Congrats Justin! This was a long journey.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
Happy to see this out! "Reconstructing NOD-like receptor alleles with high internal conservation in #Podospora anserina using long-read sequencing", now in @microbiologysociety.org! 🧬
Keep reading for a simple explanation 🧵 1/n
#Fungi #Allorecognition
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Keep reading for a simple explanation 🧵 1/n
#Fungi #Allorecognition
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Reconstructing NOD-like receptor alleles with high internal conservation in Podospora anserina using long-read sequencing
NOD-like receptors (NLRs) are intracellular immune receptors that detect pathogen-associated cues and trigger defence mechanisms, including regulated cell death. In filamentous fungi, some NLRs mediat...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
July 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Happy to see this out! "Reconstructing NOD-like receptor alleles with high internal conservation in #Podospora anserina using long-read sequencing", now in @microbiologysociety.org! 🧬
Keep reading for a simple explanation 🧵 1/n
#Fungi #Allorecognition
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Keep reading for a simple explanation 🧵 1/n
#Fungi #Allorecognition
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
Using simulations and empirical data, Thawornwattana, Flouri, @wtf-r-species.bsky.social & @zihengyang.bsky.social et al. evaluate the performance of the MSC-M model for inferring gene flow.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf121
#evobio #molbio #geneflow
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf121
#evobio #molbio #geneflow
Inference of Gene Flow between Species from Genomic Data When the Mode, Direction, and Lineages are Misspecified
Abstract. Thanks to genomic data, interspecific gene flow is increasingly recognized as a major evolutionary force that shapes biodiversity. Two models hav
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Using simulations and empirical data, Thawornwattana, Flouri, @wtf-r-species.bsky.social & @zihengyang.bsky.social et al. evaluate the performance of the MSC-M model for inferring gene flow.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf121
#evobio #molbio #geneflow
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf121
#evobio #molbio #geneflow
Reposted by Sergio Tusso
Job alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. Apply through this link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 15 August.
June 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Job alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. Apply through this link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 15 August.