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Alice Laigle
@alicelaigle.bsky.social
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Looking for a position in science communication 🎨 or as a research assistant/bioinformatician 🧬| Currently living in🇨🇭| Interested in whatever linked to biodiversity, evolution, genomics and interactions | 🪂🧗‍♀️🗻 | She/her
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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · Apr 20
Super happy to see it out with all the hard work of everyone ! Such a nice story ! 🔥
borglab.bsky.social Michael Borg @borglab.bsky.social · Apr 18
Our preprint has now found a wonderful home in @molbioevol.bsky.social. Shout out to our collaborators in the Mozgova lab too 💚
molbioevol.bsky.social Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · Apr 17
New study with @petrollromy.bsky.social @borglab.bsky.social traces the evolution of epigenetic silencing in plants. Deep conservation of PRC2-mediated H3K27me3 marks across green algae suggest ancient, conserved networks of gene repression.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb...

#evobio #molevol #plants
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maikbischoff.bsky.social
So excited to share this as a new junior PI:

My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com

Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊

And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!

#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science
The brand new website of the Bischoff lab ... together with my SciArt Gallery :)
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Great talk by @delphinem-p.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social yesterday: “Hijacking the Plant #Spliceosome” on how alternative splicing drives #viral infection and #tomato fruit development 🍅

Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏
Delphine Pott (left) and Marco Incarbone (right) standing in front of a yellow wall and next to a window facade in an office building. Both are smiling.
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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gorizaola.bsky.social
🦋 🧬 Feature review @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social: "Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social : reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe", with @erebiologa.bsky.social and @entomoprofessor.bsky.social from @universidadoviedo.bsky.social

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found in Europe. Here, we describe t...
www.cell.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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esthervanhulsen.bsky.social
A poster with all the whale and dolphin species found around Andenes, Norway. It was a nice challenge depicting the animals in a dynamic way, keeping the scale of each whale correct.
Drawings are made in Copic Marker and colored pencil

#sciart #animalart #animalillustration
November 22, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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oliverio.bsky.social
Introducing ** Incendiamoeba **, a eukaryote that can live at temperatures well beyond what we thought possible. 63C!!

Read @hbrappap.bsky.social thread to see what we’ve already started to learn from this amazing organism!

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#MicroSky #protistsonsky 🧪 #evobio
hbrappap.bsky.social H. B. Beryl Rappaport @hbrappap.bsky.social · 13d
So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Nature research paper: Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals

go.nature.com/4i0i61w
Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals - Nature
Comparisons of 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and outgroups have been used to reconstruct ancestral adaptation to life on land across 11 distinct terrestrialization events, revealing strong evidence for convergent genomic evolution across the animal kingdom and recurring periods of terrestrial colonization.
go.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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jurriaanton.bsky.social
🌿 3 new PhD positions in the Ton lab @PPS_UoS. Part of the ERC project '#PlantMemo', exploring how plants remember & respond to stress.
🧬 PhD 1 (UK only)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🦠 PhD 2 (UK & EU)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🌱 PhD 3 (UK only)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PhD
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
alicelaigle.bsky.social
Some mushrooms we identified at the Society of Mycology of Neuchâtel and around (www.smne.ch).

❓how to memorise them all?

🎨 My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are!

🍄🐡 #Sciart #fungifriends #mushrooms #illustrations #watercolor
Page of my sketchbook with 3 watercolours of fungi: 1. Up left: Caloboletus calopus agg., 2. Up right: Neoboletus erythropus (other names: Boletus erythropus, Neoboletus luridiformis), 3. Middle down: Hypholoma fasciculare. All descriptions are from keys of the book "Champignons Guide de terrain" 2nd edition by Jean-Claude Gerber and Nicolas Schwab, which are in French. Page of my sketchbook with 3 watercolours of fungi: 1. Up left: Hymenopellis radicata (other names: Xerula radicata, Oudemansiella radicata), 2. Up right: Panus conchatus, 3. Middle down: Amanita rubescens. All descriptions are from keys of the book "Champignons Guide de terrain" 2nd edition by Jean-Claude Gerber and Nicolas Schwab, which are in French. Page of my sketchbook with 3 watercolours of fungi: 1. Up left: Marasmius rotula agg., 2. Up right: Inosperma erubescens (other name: Inocybe erubescens), 3. Middle down: Russula cyanoxantha. All descriptions are from keys of the book "Champignons Guide de terrain" 2nd edition by Jean-Claude Gerber and Nicolas Schwab, which are in French. Page of my sketchbook with 3 watercolours of fungi: 1. Up left: Crepidotus applanatus, 2. Up right: Fomitopsis pinicola, 3. Middle down: Phallus impudicus. All descriptions are from keys of the book "Champignons Guide de terrain" 2nd edition by Jean-Claude Gerber and Nicolas Schwab, which are in French.
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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michaelhabig.bsky.social
Want to understand how entire fungal chromosomes can be horizontally transferred?
Join us to unravel the mechanism/consequences of horizontal chromosome transfer in a fungal pathogen as part of an ERC-funded project. Postdoc/PhD positions available.
fungal-evolutionary-genetics.de/open-positio...
Open Positions
ERC-funded project on the mechanism of horizontal transfer of entire fungal chromosomes PhD PostDoc
fungal-evolutionary-genetics.de
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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slavi-jan.bsky.social
📣 I’m excited to share two open positions in my lab @leibniz-hki.de. For this interdisciplinary project with @luziagyr.bsky.social, I’m seeking (1) an enthusiastic PhD student interested in fungal natural product research and genetic engineering, as well as (2) a technical assistant 👇🏻
October 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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fnucleosome.bsky.social
🎃We are ready & excited for the new #FragileNucleosome seminar session tomorrow with @alicelaigle.bsky.social and @seungsookim.bsky.social ! How about you ?
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
alicelaigle.bsky.social
I am very excited to present you our work, which will also be very soon on biorxiv!! ✨️
fnucleosome.bsky.social FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Oct 14
👀Next Wednesday, Oct 22nd, at #FragileNucleosome seminar, we are excited to host @alicelaigle.bsky.social and @seungsookim.bsky.social to tell us about amazing work they are doing!
🗓️Register here for upcoming session and the entire series:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
alicelaigle.bsky.social
Nice Coprinus comatus found this weekend 🤗 Not edible at this stage 🥲
#FungiFriends #nature
Picture of two Shaggy Ink Cap found near the mountain road, one is more advance than the other one. Picture from a friend of the same Shaggy Ink Caps, with me in front and the relater page of guide book used to identify mushrooms (VAPKO one)
September 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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rm0sher.bsky.social
Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...
We are hiring! Oxford biology has three associate professorships available as we move to new state-of-the-art facilities
www.biology.ox.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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vscooper.micropopbio.org
Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting..

Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪

Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science

cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
August 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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gates.bsky.social
🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social

We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.

📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species
Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.
www.science.org
July 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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teamthomma.bsky.social
📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exBSp
Starship giant transposons dominate plastic genomic regions in a fungal plant pathogen and drive virulence evolution
Nature Communications - Giant transposons, known as ‘Starships’, mediate horizontal gene transfer between fungal genomes. Here, Sato et al. show that Starships occupy genome regions...
rdcu.be
July 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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edmhill.bsky.social
⚠️ Closing soon! 2 x Postdoctoral Research Associate roles in Infectious Disease Modelling #JobOffer #PDRA

🧪 Develop data-driven mathematical models for modelling avian influenza outbreaks in Great Britain #IDSky #EpiSky

🗓️ Application deadline 12:00 noon BST on Friday (04 July 2025)

More details👇
edmhill.bsky.social Ed Hill @edmhill.bsky.social · May 16
1/ 📣 #JobOffer Postdoctoral Research Associate in Infectious Disease Modelling (two posts) 📣

🧪 Develop data-driven mathematical models for modelling avian influenza outbreaks in Great Britain #IDSky #EpiSky

⏳ Application deadline: 12:00 noon BST, 04 July 2025

🔗: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/71795
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Infectious Disease Modelling | Mathematical Institute
www.maths.ox.ac.uk
July 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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jromeijn.bsky.social
The first paper of my PhD is now available as a preprint! 🎉

Transposable elements (TEs) don't just jump within fungal genomes, they also move extensively between species. In this study, we screened over 1,300 fungal genomes and found a conservative estimate of 5,500+ horizontal transfer events.
www.biorxiv.org
June 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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mostfun.bsky.social
Biodiversity is in crisis—so let's act smarter 🌍

💧🍄 Aquatic fungi are key yet overlooked. Help us bring them into conservation & monitoring plans.

Take our quick survey (10–15 min)
🔗 forms.office.com/e/UjCrG1L8YV

#biodiversity #conservation #monitoring #aquaticfungi
June 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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currentbiology.bsky.social
The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery – a long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces the special issue on ‘The Fungi’. www.cell.com/current-biol...
The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery
Long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces this special issue on ‘The Fungi’.
www.cell.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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sishuowang.bsky.social
final version of our study "Dating the Bacterial Tree of Life Based on Ancient Symbiosis" doi.org/10.1093/sysb... particularly thx to haiwei luo for his guidance during my postdoc!

see sishuowang2022.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/a... for a brief summary and comparison w/ others #phylo #molecular_clock
Dating the Bacterial Tree of Life Based on Ancient Symbiosis
Abstract. Obtaining a timescale for bacterial evolution is crucial to understand early life evolution but is difficult owing to the scarcity of bacterial f
doi.org
June 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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teamthomma.bsky.social
📣 We have a postdoc position in fungus-microbiota interactions! Apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/2197
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For more details, visit: bewerbungsmanagement.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
bewerbungsmanagement.uni-koeln.de
June 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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ceesdekker.bsky.social
Latest #CDlab paper out now in Nucleus: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

This short article sketches the state of the art of the field that studies the structure and dynamic gating mechanism of the nuclear pore complex
June 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM