Funded by BBSRC Strategic Longer and Larger scheme.
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https://www.rediploidisation.org/
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Dr. Tom Lewin is a post-doc from the University of Oxford. Recently returning from his research in Taiwan on marine invertebrates, @tomlewin.bsky.social will be focusing on understudied animal phyla as part of the #WGDip project
Find out more about his research 🪸:
shorturl.at/A5lHn
Dr. Tom Lewin is a post-doc from the University of Oxford. Recently returning from his research in Taiwan on marine invertebrates, @tomlewin.bsky.social will be focusing on understudied animal phyla as part of the #WGDip project
Find out more about his research 🪸:
shorturl.at/A5lHn
A great chance to get involved with @wgdip.bsky.social via the SWBioDTP. Please apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho...
A great chance to get involved with @wgdip.bsky.social via the SWBioDTP. Please apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho...
Congratulations to team member Alex Twyford for his review article with colleagues, exploring the concept of a "polyploid continuum" which expands upon the current binary classification of autopolyploids or allopolyploids!
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#WGDip
@botsocamerica.bsky.social
Congratulations to team member Alex Twyford for his review article with colleagues, exploring the concept of a "polyploid continuum" which expands upon the current binary classification of autopolyploids or allopolyploids!
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#WGDip
@botsocamerica.bsky.social
Róisín Long is a PhD student with Prof.Aoife McLysaght at Trinity College Dublin. This comes after completing an undergrad in Human Genetics at TCD. Her PhD research focuses on rediploidisation following WGD in vertebrates. She's excited to be involved in public engagement for #WGDip
Róisín Long is a PhD student with Prof.Aoife McLysaght at Trinity College Dublin. This comes after completing an undergrad in Human Genetics at TCD. Her PhD research focuses on rediploidisation following WGD in vertebrates. She's excited to be involved in public engagement for #WGDip
Dr. Anthony Redmond is a #WGDip project partner from the University College Dublin. His research focuses on the immune system, devising phylogenomic approaches to resolve the tree of life, & defining the role of gene & genome duplication in evolution
Read more:🧬
shorturl.at/d3brV
Dr. Anthony Redmond is a #WGDip project partner from the University College Dublin. His research focuses on the immune system, devising phylogenomic approaches to resolve the tree of life, & defining the role of gene & genome duplication in evolution
Read more:🧬
shorturl.at/d3brV
Molly Carter is the Project Manager of the Darwin Tree of Life project. She’ll support the delivery of chromosomal-level assemblies of the giant genomes for the #WGDip project! She used to be a natural sciences museum curator and loves all manner of arthropods!🕷️🐛
Molly Carter is the Project Manager of the Darwin Tree of Life project. She’ll support the delivery of chromosomal-level assemblies of the giant genomes for the #WGDip project! She used to be a natural sciences museum curator and loves all manner of arthropods!🕷️🐛
Dr. Rosa Fernández is a #WGDip project partner from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology. Her research focuses on understanding how genome architecture and large-scale genomic rearrangements allow animals to adapt to new environments.
Find out more:🕷️🦂
shorturl.at/OZdOl
Dr. Rosa Fernández is a #WGDip project partner from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology. Her research focuses on understanding how genome architecture and large-scale genomic rearrangements allow animals to adapt to new environments.
Find out more:🕷️🦂
shorturl.at/OZdOl
Lora Downes is a Project Manager in the Tree of Life Programme (buff.ly/ytXalMi) at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She will support the delivery of chromosome-level assemblies for key species in WGDip!
Find her on LinkedIn: buff.ly/WewE2bz
Lora Downes is a Project Manager in the Tree of Life Programme (buff.ly/ytXalMi) at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She will support the delivery of chromosome-level assemblies for key species in WGDip!
Find her on LinkedIn: buff.ly/WewE2bz
Dr. Manu Kumar Gundappa is a #WGDip Project Partner from Wageningen University & Research. Using fish as a model system, his research focuses on developing comparative & functional genomic approaches to explore fundamental biological questions.
Find out more:🐟
shorturl.at/OC8OU
Dr. Manu Kumar Gundappa is a #WGDip Project Partner from Wageningen University & Research. Using fish as a model system, his research focuses on developing comparative & functional genomic approaches to explore fundamental biological questions.
Find out more:🐟
shorturl.at/OC8OU
Dr. Zoe Vance is a Post-Doc from the University of Bath. With a background in genetics, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics, she will develop methods and approaches for examining rediploidisation across systems.
Find out more about her research:💻🧬
shorturl.at/MOcfe
Dr. Zoe Vance is a Post-Doc from the University of Bath. With a background in genetics, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics, she will develop methods and approaches for examining rediploidisation across systems.
Find out more about her research:💻🧬
shorturl.at/MOcfe
Dr. Tom Williams is a project co-lead from the University of Bath. As a computational evolutionary biologist, his research focuses on reconstructing the history of life and studying genome evolution in Archaea, Bacteria and Microbial Eukaryotes
Find out more: 💻🌱
shorturl.at/Wr1Yv
Dr. Tom Williams is a project co-lead from the University of Bath. As a computational evolutionary biologist, his research focuses on reconstructing the history of life and studying genome evolution in Archaea, Bacteria and Microbial Eukaryotes
Find out more: 💻🌱
shorturl.at/Wr1Yv
Dr. Morgane Milin is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. Her past research has focused on recurrent polyploidy and diploidization, looking to detect and date WGD events in grasses. As part of this work, she developed a bioinformatics tool called WGD_Tracker.🌾💻
#WGDip
Dr. Morgane Milin is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. Her past research has focused on recurrent polyploidy and diploidization, looking to detect and date WGD events in grasses. As part of this work, she developed a bioinformatics tool called WGD_Tracker.🌾💻
#WGDip
Dr. Drew Larson is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on evolutionary processes such as adaptation, divergence, gene duplication & introgression, which shape organisms’ genomes & biodiversity across phylogenetic scales🌐🧬
Find out more: shorturl.at/FzmPD
Dr. Drew Larson is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on evolutionary processes such as adaptation, divergence, gene duplication & introgression, which shape organisms’ genomes & biodiversity across phylogenetic scales🌐🧬
Find out more: shorturl.at/FzmPD
It was great to see everyone who attended our symposium yesterday on “Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions” 💬🧬
Still an exciting week ahead for all!🤗
#WGDip @eseb2025.bsky.social
It was great to see everyone who attended our symposium yesterday on “Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions” 💬🧬
Still an exciting week ahead for all!🤗
#WGDip @eseb2025.bsky.social
Congratulations to team members Finn McHale and Peter Holland for their paper exploring the evolution of duplicated Hox Gene clusters in land snails and slugs, showing similar retention patterns following WGD in vertebrates and invertebrates🐌
@jezb1904.bsky.social
shorturl.at/AM5AB
Congratulations to team members Finn McHale and Peter Holland for their paper exploring the evolution of duplicated Hox Gene clusters in land snails and slugs, showing similar retention patterns following WGD in vertebrates and invertebrates🐌
@jezb1904.bsky.social
shorturl.at/AM5AB
Dr. Dearbhaile Casey (@dervc.bsky.social) is a Research Co-Lead from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on whole genome duplications and their consequences in Acipenseriformes and lesser-studied invertebrates.
Find out more about her research: 🧬🐟
shorturl.at/TBM5J
Dr. Dearbhaile Casey (@dervc.bsky.social) is a Research Co-Lead from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on whole genome duplications and their consequences in Acipenseriformes and lesser-studied invertebrates.
Find out more about her research: 🧬🐟
shorturl.at/TBM5J
For more information on our research, check out our website: www.roslin.ed.ac.uk
#RoslinReels #Aquaculture #FishHealth
For more information on our research, check out our website: www.roslin.ed.ac.uk
#RoslinReels #Aquaculture #FishHealth
Prof. Phillip Donoghue is a project co-lead from the University of Bristol. He is a palaeontologist who has long been fascinated by the timing and nature of major evolutionary transitions, especially following WGDs.
Learn more about his research:🦴
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Prof. Phillip Donoghue is a project co-lead from the University of Bristol. He is a palaeontologist who has long been fascinated by the timing and nature of major evolutionary transitions, especially following WGDs.
Learn more about his research:🦴
scholar.google.com/citations?hl...
Prof. Mark Blaxter is a Project Co-Lead from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where he leads the Tree of Life (TOL) Programme, which is producing reference genome assemblies for target species in WGDip.
Find out more about Mark's work: 💻🧬
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Prof. Mark Blaxter is a Project Co-Lead from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where he leads the Tree of Life (TOL) Programme, which is producing reference genome assemblies for target species in WGDip.
Find out more about Mark's work: 💻🧬
scholar.google.com/citations?us...
Dr. Richard Taylor, a post-doc from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on applying bioinformatic and genomic approaches to questions in biomedicine & animal health. He will use single cell transcriptomics to explore functional outcomes of whole genome duplications💻🧫
Dr. Richard Taylor, a post-doc from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on applying bioinformatic and genomic approaches to questions in biomedicine & animal health. He will use single cell transcriptomics to explore functional outcomes of whole genome duplications💻🧫
Dr. Lucas Freitas, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Bristol. He will help to estimate the timing of WGD events and understand how delayed rediploidisation affects phenotypic traits in different species.
Find out more about his past research:💻⏰
shorturl.at/bPUZ1
Dr. Lucas Freitas, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Bristol. He will help to estimate the timing of WGD events and understand how delayed rediploidisation affects phenotypic traits in different species.
Find out more about his past research:💻⏰
shorturl.at/bPUZ1
Prof. Peter Holland is a project co-lead from the University of Oxford. Peter is a molecular evolutionary biologist with many years of experience researching genome duplication events and tandem gene duplication events across the animal kingdom.
Find out more:🐌🧬
shorturl.at/BjGWR
Prof. Peter Holland is a project co-lead from the University of Oxford. Peter is a molecular evolutionary biologist with many years of experience researching genome duplication events and tandem gene duplication events across the animal kingdom.
Find out more:🐌🧬
shorturl.at/BjGWR