Hajk-Georg Drost
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Hajk-Georg Drost
@hajkdrost.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Digital Biology, @royalsociety.org Wolfson Fellow at School of Life Sciences @dundee.ac.uk‬, Fellow of @camphilsoc.bsky.social. Former Group Leader at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social and PostDoc at @cam.ac.uk‬ and Trinity College Cambridge.
🚀 philentropy v0.10.0 is on CRAN!

Now with long-awaited parallel distance computation & a full speed-optimized refactor thanks to Andrew Gene Brown.
Compute 50+ distances/divergences in R faster than ever.

📦 CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
💻 Code: github.com/drostlab/phi...
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Last year, our collaboration effort with @sodail.bsky.social and Susana Coelho highlighted that Brown Algae are a promising model system to study the evolution of multicellularity and emergence of embryogenesis as a constrained developmental process shaping body plans.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Thrilled to share what we learned from re-annotating the mobilome of the brown algae model [Ectocarpus] 🌊🌿🏖️

genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

A wonderful collaboration with @ericadinatale.bsky.social, @cssmartinho.bsky.social, @rorycraig.bsky.social, and Susana Coelho! 🎉
October 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM