Neda Barghi
@nedabarghi.bsky.social
Evolutionary geneticist, studying polygenic adaptation, Group leader at MPI for Evolutionary Biology, mum to a fun toddler, loves books & traveling
https://www.evolbio.mpg.de/3792274/Max-Planck-Research-Group-Evolution-of-polygenic-trai
https://www.evolbio.mpg.de/3792274/Max-Planck-Research-Group-Evolution-of-polygenic-trai
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https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/PostDocs//MPI-EvolBiol_Germany.PolygenicAdaptation
A Postdoctoral position is available in Evolution of Polygenic Traits
Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology-
Pl�n, Germany. Our group studies the genetic basis of adaptat...
evol.mcmaster.ca
We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work on a project focusing on adaptation and genetic basis of embryo size in Drosophila using our new large particle flow cytometer. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work on a project focusing on adaptation and genetic basis of embryo size in Drosophila using our new large particle flow cytometer. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/PostDocs//MPI-EvolBiol_Germany.PolygenicAdaptation
A Postdoctoral position is available in Evolution of Polygenic Traits
Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology-
Pl�n, Germany. Our group studies the genetic basis of adaptat...
evol.mcmaster.ca
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work on a project focusing on adaptation and genetic basis of embryo size in Drosophila using our new large particle flow cytometer. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
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Don't miss this issue's Editor's Choice article: "Gene network topology drives the mutational landscape of gene expression" by Sylvain Pouzet & Arnaud Le Rouzic. Free to read here: doi.org/10.1093/evol...
October 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Don't miss this issue's Editor's Choice article: "Gene network topology drives the mutational landscape of gene expression" by Sylvain Pouzet & Arnaud Le Rouzic. Free to read here: doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Reposted by Neda Barghi
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Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
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"Why is it called a hanging thief?" www.inaturalist.org/photos/10502...
September 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Why is it called a hanging thief?" www.inaturalist.org/photos/10502...
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Yesterday me and my lab celebrated #20years @mpi-cbg.de. There is a lot to say about that but the pictures from the event tell it better. Thanks city of #Dresden for the nice fireworks. That was unexpected. 10 more years or so? #LoPaTs 💕
September 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Yesterday me and my lab celebrated #20years @mpi-cbg.de. There is a lot to say about that but the pictures from the event tell it better. Thanks city of #Dresden for the nice fireworks. That was unexpected. 10 more years or so? #LoPaTs 💕
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New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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/
We are recruiting a PhD student to work on polygenic adaptation. Please share and apply if interested. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/GradStudentPositions//MPI-Germany.PolygenicAdaptation
A doctoral researcher position is available in Evolution of Polygenic
Traits Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Biology- Pl??n, Germany.
The position is available from the ea...
evol.mcmaster.ca
August 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We are recruiting a PhD student to work on polygenic adaptation. Please share and apply if interested. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
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Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with @shaky-dingo.bsky.social and colleagues
August 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with @shaky-dingo.bsky.social and colleagues
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Full paper now out in GENETICS:
The relationship between sexual dimorphism and intersex correlation: do models support intuition?
🔗 academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
#Evolution #QuantGenetics @GeneticsGSA
The relationship between sexual dimorphism and intersex correlation: do models support intuition?
🔗 academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
#Evolution #QuantGenetics @GeneticsGSA
The relationship between sexual dimorphism and intersex correlation: do models support intuition?
Abstract. The evolution of sexual dimorphism (the difference in average trait values between females and males, SD), is often thought to be constrained by
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August 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Full paper now out in GENETICS:
The relationship between sexual dimorphism and intersex correlation: do models support intuition?
🔗 academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
#Evolution #QuantGenetics @GeneticsGSA
The relationship between sexual dimorphism and intersex correlation: do models support intuition?
🔗 academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
#Evolution #QuantGenetics @GeneticsGSA
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Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
August 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
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July 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We have a new preprint led by talented PhD student @claudia-rl.bsky.social in my group where we show phases of polygenic adaptation in large populations of Drosophila.
Proud to share our new preprint with Neda! @nedabarghi.bsky.social
Using experimental evolution and time-series phenotyping, we reveal the phases of polygenic adaptation driving rapid evolution in large Drosophila populations adapting to a new environment. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Using experimental evolution and time-series phenotyping, we reveal the phases of polygenic adaptation driving rapid evolution in large Drosophila populations adapting to a new environment. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We have a new preprint led by talented PhD student @claudia-rl.bsky.social in my group where we show phases of polygenic adaptation in large populations of Drosophila.
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Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?
Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!
www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...
Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!
www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...
PBEEE/Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postdocs and Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researchers
**Note that the FRQ is in the process of revamping their webpages. We will update links soon as we can with the current 2025 year's information. Be sure to check back to see if any eligibility or docu...
www.mcgill.ca
June 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?
Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!
www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...
Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!
www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...
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Parallel gene expression evolution declines with genetic divergence. In #Drosophila, we show that as divergence increases, adaptive expression responses become more heterogeneous—supp. the omnigenic model&highlighting the role of redundancy in #evolution
doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #PolygenicAdaptation
doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #PolygenicAdaptation
Reduced Parallel Gene Expression Evolution With Increasing Genetic Divergence—A Hallmark of Polygenic Adaptation
Parallel evolution, the repeated evolution of similar traits in independent lineages, is a topic of considerable interest in evolutionary biology. Although previous studies have focused on the parall...
doi.org
May 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Parallel gene expression evolution declines with genetic divergence. In #Drosophila, we show that as divergence increases, adaptive expression responses become more heterogeneous—supp. the omnigenic model&highlighting the role of redundancy in #evolution
doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #PolygenicAdaptation
doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #PolygenicAdaptation
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Two things that are true at the same time:
1. The massive cuts to science funding in the US is a terrible blow that can't be patched by efforts elsewhere.
2. It's great that the EU and many individuals countries are stepping up; it helps science and many US scientists willing/able to relocate.
1. The massive cuts to science funding in the US is a terrible blow that can't be patched by efforts elsewhere.
2. It's great that the EU and many individuals countries are stepping up; it helps science and many US scientists willing/able to relocate.
$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget.
When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.
When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.
We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers.
As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget.
We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓
As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget.
We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓
May 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Two things that are true at the same time:
1. The massive cuts to science funding in the US is a terrible blow that can't be patched by efforts elsewhere.
2. It's great that the EU and many individuals countries are stepping up; it helps science and many US scientists willing/able to relocate.
1. The massive cuts to science funding in the US is a terrible blow that can't be patched by efforts elsewhere.
2. It's great that the EU and many individuals countries are stepping up; it helps science and many US scientists willing/able to relocate.
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Institutional independence and academic freedom are not national issues — they are global ones. I wrote this open letter to President Garber at @harvard.edu to express my support and solidarity. Let’s speak out together when science and its core values are under threat.
In an open letter of support to the President of @harvard.edu, Max Planck President Patrick Cramer @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de has expressed his full support of the University in its stance against demands by the Trump administration to change its policies in order to retain federal funding.
April 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Institutional independence and academic freedom are not national issues — they are global ones. I wrote this open letter to President Garber at @harvard.edu to express my support and solidarity. Let’s speak out together when science and its core values are under threat.
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Very excited to share our preprint led by M. Levin @skoyama.bsky.social J. Woerner & with S. Damrauer assessing genome-wide pleiotropy of >1,000 clinical traits across ~1.7M individuals with nearly 30K locus-trait associations!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Very excited to share our preprint led by M. Levin @skoyama.bsky.social J. Woerner & with S. Damrauer assessing genome-wide pleiotropy of >1,000 clinical traits across ~1.7M individuals with nearly 30K locus-trait associations!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social
2 weeks to apply for 2 PhD positions on evolution of polygenic traits and gene regulatory networks in our group at MPI
We are recruiting two PhD students on polygenic adaptation! www.evolbio.mpg.de/3811254/job_...
PhD candidates (m/f/d) | Evolution of Polygenic Traits
2 PhD positions - Research Group Evolution of Polygenic Traits
www.evolbio.mpg.de
April 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
2 weeks to apply for 2 PhD positions on evolution of polygenic traits and gene regulatory networks in our group at MPI
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Why publish in JEB?
✅ Society-owned and not-for-profit model
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✅ Range of article types
✅ Modern Open Science policies - our own Data Editor
✅ Large editorial board with wide-range of expertise
#societyjournal @eseb.bsky.social
✅ Society-owned and not-for-profit model
✅ Dedicated submission support - in-house Managing Editor
✅ Range of article types
✅ Modern Open Science policies - our own Data Editor
✅ Large editorial board with wide-range of expertise
#societyjournal @eseb.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Why publish in JEB?
✅ Society-owned and not-for-profit model
✅ Dedicated submission support - in-house Managing Editor
✅ Range of article types
✅ Modern Open Science policies - our own Data Editor
✅ Large editorial board with wide-range of expertise
#societyjournal @eseb.bsky.social
✅ Society-owned and not-for-profit model
✅ Dedicated submission support - in-house Managing Editor
✅ Range of article types
✅ Modern Open Science policies - our own Data Editor
✅ Large editorial board with wide-range of expertise
#societyjournal @eseb.bsky.social
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Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?
#evolution #genetics
Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?
#evolution #genetics
Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
ERC-funded PhD position available – Pierre de Villemereuil
devillemereuil.legtux.org
April 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
👋
Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?
#evolution #genetics
Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?
#evolution #genetics
Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
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1/35 New paper out! @jamesTstroud and I dive into why long-term studies are crucial for understanding evolution. They reveal processes impossible to detect in short timescales and capture rare events that transform our understanding of evolutionary dynamics.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
1/35 New paper out! @jamesTstroud and I dive into why long-term studies are crucial for understanding evolution. They reveal processes impossible to detect in short timescales and capture rare events that transform our understanding of evolutionary dynamics.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hey fellow Drosophila researchers - if you haven't heard, the UMGC is offering ultra low-cost genome sequencing! See here to learn more: z.umn.edu/UMGC-MOSS #Dros25
March 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Hey fellow Drosophila researchers - if you haven't heard, the UMGC is offering ultra low-cost genome sequencing! See here to learn more: z.umn.edu/UMGC-MOSS #Dros25
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Hurry up and seize the opportunity to participate in the upcoming ESEB Congress, set in the vibrant city of Barcelona 🌟
🎟️ Secure now your place at the best possible price 👉🏻 eseb2025.com/registration...
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Hurry up and seize the opportunity to participate in the upcoming ESEB Congress, set in the vibrant city of Barcelona 🌟
🎟️ Secure now your place at the best possible price 👉🏻 eseb2025.com/registration...
#ESEB2025 #Biology #Evolution #Genomics
February 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🐦 Calling all Early Birds!
Hurry up and seize the opportunity to participate in the upcoming ESEB Congress, set in the vibrant city of Barcelona 🌟
🎟️ Secure now your place at the best possible price 👉🏻 eseb2025.com/registration...
#ESEB2025 #Biology #Evolution #Genomics
Hurry up and seize the opportunity to participate in the upcoming ESEB Congress, set in the vibrant city of Barcelona 🌟
🎟️ Secure now your place at the best possible price 👉🏻 eseb2025.com/registration...
#ESEB2025 #Biology #Evolution #Genomics