Adaptive Evolution Lab
@adaevo.bsky.social
We are a research group at the University of Melbourne. We investigate how the Environment alters the expression of Genetic Variation in Natural Populations.
PI: Alex Fournier-Level
https://adaptive-evolution.biosciences.unimelb.edu.au/
PI: Alex Fournier-Level
https://adaptive-evolution.biosciences.unimelb.edu.au/
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I’m very pleased to share our latest work, led by the talented @cbuckley.bsky.social as part of his PhD. It’s our first attempt at studying #circadian rhythms in wheat with the help of some great collaborators @jesshyles.bsky.social @adaevo.bsky.social et al. #plantsci 🌾⏰ 1/7
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
A circadian transcriptional subnetwork and EARLY FLOWERING 3 control timing of senescence and grain nutrition in bread wheat
Circadian clocks control daily and seasonal timing of physiology and development. Because of their influence on photoperiodic flowering, variants in circadian clock genes have been selected for ph...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I’m very pleased to share our latest work, led by the talented @cbuckley.bsky.social as part of his PhD. It’s our first attempt at studying #circadian rhythms in wheat with the help of some great collaborators @jesshyles.bsky.social @adaevo.bsky.social et al. #plantsci 🌾⏰ 1/7
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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🌱 Using ‘compelling’ methods, including #CryoET, researchers mapped spinach thylakoid membranes at single-molecule precision, revealing how photosynthetic complexes are organised and settling long-standing debates on chloroplast architecture.
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September 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
🌱 Using ‘compelling’ methods, including #CryoET, researchers mapped spinach thylakoid membranes at single-molecule precision, revealing how photosynthetic complexes are organised and settling long-standing debates on chloroplast architecture.
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Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!
Homepage - Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
genetics-gsa.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!
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Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 20, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Announcing myloasm, a new long-read (ONT R10/PacBio) metagenome assembler that I've been working on during my postdoc in the Heng Li lab (@lh3lh3.bsky.social).
myloasm-docs.github.io
myloasm-docs.github.io
myloasm - metagenomic assembly with (noisy) long reads
myloasm-docs.github.io
May 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Announcing myloasm, a new long-read (ONT R10/PacBio) metagenome assembler that I've been working on during my postdoc in the Heng Li lab (@lh3lh3.bsky.social).
myloasm-docs.github.io
myloasm-docs.github.io
How to deal with our own poison: How plant genomes regulate deleterious genetic elements? A seminar by Dr Taiko To (School of Life Science & Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo)
tinyurl.com/48yt9ary
tinyurl.com/48yt9ary
May 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
How to deal with our own poison: How plant genomes regulate deleterious genetic elements? A seminar by Dr Taiko To (School of Life Science & Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo)
tinyurl.com/48yt9ary
tinyurl.com/48yt9ary
The School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne is recruiting a female-identifying genomicist in a teaching and research academic role. Come and work with us!
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92007...
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92007...
Details : Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Genomics : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
jobs.unimelb.edu.au
May 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne is recruiting a female-identifying genomicist in a teaching and research academic role. Come and work with us!
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92007...
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92007...
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Learn about @biosecuritycommons.bsky.social at a webinar hosted by Australia's Chief Plant Protection Officer, Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith!
📅 Tues 25 March, 2pm AEDT
✍ Add the event to your calendar via this link:
ardc.edu.au/event/austra...
#NCRISimpact #biosecurity
📅 Tues 25 March, 2pm AEDT
✍ Add the event to your calendar via this link:
ardc.edu.au/event/austra...
#NCRISimpact #biosecurity
Australian Chief Plant Protection Officer Webinar: Biosecurity Commons | ARDC
Learn about Biosecurity Commons - an open-access, cloud-based platform for modelling and analysing biosecurity risk and response.
ardc.edu.au
March 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Learn about @biosecuritycommons.bsky.social at a webinar hosted by Australia's Chief Plant Protection Officer, Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith!
📅 Tues 25 March, 2pm AEDT
✍ Add the event to your calendar via this link:
ardc.edu.au/event/austra...
#NCRISimpact #biosecurity
📅 Tues 25 March, 2pm AEDT
✍ Add the event to your calendar via this link:
ardc.edu.au/event/austra...
#NCRISimpact #biosecurity
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The School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne is recruiting a continuing academic (level B/C) in Biotechnology.
This is a research and teaching role.
Come join us!
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91875...
This is a research and teaching role.
Come join us!
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91875...
Details : Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Biotechnology : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
jobs.unimelb.edu.au
February 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne is recruiting a continuing academic (level B/C) in Biotechnology.
This is a research and teaching role.
Come join us!
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91875...
This is a research and teaching role.
Come join us!
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91875...
📣 New Paper out!!! 📣
When is ML outperforming good old parametric regression for genomic predictions? Go check 👇
doi.org/10.1093/gene...
When is ML outperforming good old parametric regression for genomic predictions? Go check 👇
doi.org/10.1093/gene...
Trait genetic architecture and population structure determine model selection for genomic prediction in natural Arabidopsis thaliana populations
Abstract. Genomic prediction applies to any agro- or ecologically relevant traits, with distinct ontologies and genetic architectures. Selecting the most a
doi.org
January 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
📣 New Paper out!!! 📣
When is ML outperforming good old parametric regression for genomic predictions? Go check 👇
doi.org/10.1093/gene...
When is ML outperforming good old parametric regression for genomic predictions? Go check 👇
doi.org/10.1093/gene...
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While the per capita consumption of olive oil has remained steady (increasing with population), the consumption of kiwis or pistachios has seen its rise alongside population growth. Interestingly, increased fruit and vegetable consumption is often associated with economic improvement.
The world population grew fast over the last 60 years, but farmers grew fruits and vegetables even faster
January 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
While the per capita consumption of olive oil has remained steady (increasing with population), the consumption of kiwis or pistachios has seen its rise alongside population growth. Interestingly, increased fruit and vegetable consumption is often associated with economic improvement.
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📢 New publication 'The #genome of Citrus australasica reveals #disease resistance and other species specific genes' by Upuli Nakandala, Agnelo Furtado, Ardashir Kharabian Masouleh, Malcolm Smith, Darren Williams and Robert Henry in BMC Plant Biology.
The genome of Citrus australasica reveals disease resistance and other species specific genes - BMC Plant Biology
Background The finger lime (Citrus australasica), one of six Australian endemic citrus species shows a high natural phenotypic diversity and novel characteristics. The wide variation and unique…
doi.org
January 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Gene drives can have non-trivial intermediate behaviours in a population. We better model it to get it right!
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Controlling the frequency dynamics of homing gene drives for intermediate outcomes
Abstract. Gene drives have enormous potential for solving biological issues by forcing the spread of desired alleles through populations. However, to safeg
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December 31, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Gene drives can have non-trivial intermediate behaviours in a population. We better model it to get it right!
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To remind us all that the land is the fragile media that gives the purpose to all our science.
www.theland.com.au/story/883070...
www.theland.com.au/story/883070...
Remembering Bob Hawke, honouring Landcare and sustainable agriculture
Meet two farming families competing for the Bob Hawke Landcare Award.
www.theland.com.au
December 19, 2024 at 6:18 AM
To remind us all that the land is the fragile media that gives the purpose to all our science.
www.theland.com.au/story/883070...
www.theland.com.au/story/883070...
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Was nice to collaborate on this one, to predict the evolution of plasticity under a combination of cyclical (e.g. seasonal) and stochastic (random) fluctuations!
How does incorporating adaptive development plasticity affect the evolution of environmental tolerance?
Cristobal Gallegos, @lmchev.bsky.social Kay Hodgins
and Keyne Monro develop and test a model here besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Cristobal Gallegos, @lmchev.bsky.social Kay Hodgins
and Keyne Monro develop and test a model here besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Predicting adaptation and evolution of plasticity from temporal environmental change
Environmental change can drive evolutionary adaptation and determine geographic patterns of biodiversity. Yet at a time of rapid environmental change, our ability to predict its evolutionary impac...
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November 29, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Was nice to collaborate on this one, to predict the evolution of plasticity under a combination of cyclical (e.g. seasonal) and stochastic (random) fluctuations!
Plants have good memory!
Warm temperature perceived at the vegetative stage affects progeny seed germination in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana - New Phytologist
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Warm temperature perceived at the vegetative stage affects progeny seed germination in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana - New Phytologist
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Warm temperature perceived at the vegetative stage affects progeny seed germination in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana
Temperatures perceived early in the life cycle of mother plants can affect the germination of the offspring seeds. In Arabidopsis thaliana, vernalisation-insensitive mutants showed altered germinati...
doi.org
November 21, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Plants have good memory!
Warm temperature perceived at the vegetative stage affects progeny seed germination in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana - New Phytologist
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Warm temperature perceived at the vegetative stage affects progeny seed germination in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana - New Phytologist
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Amazed by the work done on C. elegans or S. cerevisae at #TAGC24. Why don’t we hear more about these illuminating systems in #Australia ´s research? #ARC should stop deterring it’s scientists from studying model organisms.
March 9, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Amazed by the work done on C. elegans or S. cerevisae at #TAGC24. Why don’t we hear more about these illuminating systems in #Australia ´s research? #ARC should stop deterring it’s scientists from studying model organisms.
Academic job in #genomics at beautiful melbourne
Come and play with us!
Come and play with us!
Details : Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Genomics (Multiple Opportunities) : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
jobs.unimelb.edu.au
February 20, 2024 at 4:41 AM
Academic job in #genomics at beautiful melbourne
Come and play with us!
Come and play with us!
To all #chia seeds enthusiast: Tandem duplication of SAD gene clusters is the main hypothesis to explain high Omega-3 content. A reference #genome fresh from the press!
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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February 13, 2024 at 1:10 AM
To all #chia seeds enthusiast: Tandem duplication of SAD gene clusters is the main hypothesis to explain high Omega-3 content. A reference #genome fresh from the press!
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Pop genomics greatly helps to fine-tune invasion risk prediction across environments for different source populations of ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eva.13632
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January 2, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Pop genomics greatly helps to fine-tune invasion risk prediction across environments for different source populations of ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Very proud of the work of Ganesh Nawkar & Martina Legris
with invaluable help from many others: Air channels create a directional light signal to regulate hypocotyl phototropism. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
with invaluable help from many others: Air channels create a directional light signal to regulate hypocotyl phototropism. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 25, 2023 at 3:14 PM
Very proud of the work of Ganesh Nawkar & Martina Legris
with invaluable help from many others: Air channels create a directional light signal to regulate hypocotyl phototropism. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
with invaluable help from many others: Air channels create a directional light signal to regulate hypocotyl phototropism. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Feels good to be here! 😀
November 3, 2023 at 4:48 AM
Feels good to be here! 😀