Nicol Rueda
@nicolr.bsky.social
Postdoc in Joana Meier group at Wellcome Sanger institute.
Sex chromosome evolution, genomics, chromosome rearrangements
Sex chromosome evolution, genomics, chromosome rearrangements
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Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
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September 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#languagebarriers
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#languagebarriers
Happy to share that the second edition of our course will take place in Argentina from November 24th to 28th. Application deadline: September 1st, 2025. biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Happy to share that the second edition of our course will take place in Argentina from November 24th to 28th. Application deadline: September 1st, 2025. biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com
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Super excited to see the published Editorial for our Special Issue on Ecology of Gene Expression. We began working on this in 2023, and we have some excellent papers to share (1)
Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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July 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Super excited to see the published Editorial for our Special Issue on Ecology of Gene Expression. We began working on this in 2023, and we have some excellent papers to share (1)
Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🚨Our latest work on selfish centromeres is published @currentbiology.bsky.social 🐭🧬We found that the spindle checkpoint contributes to non-Mendelian segregation! Huge congrats to our lab manager, Zaak Walton, who led the project🎉
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQzN3QW8S...
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQzN3QW8S...
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July 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
🚨Our latest work on selfish centromeres is published @currentbiology.bsky.social 🐭🧬We found that the spindle checkpoint contributes to non-Mendelian segregation! Huge congrats to our lab manager, Zaak Walton, who led the project🎉
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQzN3QW8S...
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQzN3QW8S...
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Our latest paper is out: rdcu.be/ev6Ym — one of my favorite projects. It began about 8 years ago when Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel asked me: what transcription factors regulate new genes? I had no idea then. Now we have some answers.
Gene regulatory networks and essential transcription factors for de novo-originated genes
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A combination of computational methods applied to single-cell RNA sequencing data and genetic experiments shows that a small number of transcription factors are...
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July 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Our latest paper is out: rdcu.be/ev6Ym — one of my favorite projects. It began about 8 years ago when Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel asked me: what transcription factors regulate new genes? I had no idea then. Now we have some answers.
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We are just starting sessions at the 2025 Workshop on Lepidopteran genetics in Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. During the week, researchers from around the world (Europe, Americas, China & Japan, etc) present research on moths and butterflies.
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The 12th international Workshop on molecular biology and genetics of the Lepidoptera
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN We are delighted to invite you to join us at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, set just outside the lovely Cretan village Kolymbari, for a stimulating and enriching event. With 150 ...
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July 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
We are just starting sessions at the 2025 Workshop on Lepidopteran genetics in Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. During the week, researchers from around the world (Europe, Americas, China & Japan, etc) present research on moths and butterflies.
events.gwdg.de/event/880/
#lepgencrete
events.gwdg.de/event/880/
#lepgencrete
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Join us on the Wellcome Genome Campus of the Sanger Institute and EBI for a symposium on biodiversity genomics from 27th-29th October! Abstract deadline on 14 July. There is also an option to join via Zoom, but in-person is much nicer if you can make it.
Present your insights from studies into #eukaryotic genomes at our #Biodiversity25 conference! 📈
🗓️ 27-29 October 2025
Submit by 14 July 📩
We encourage submissions showcasing best practices for applying new methods and resources to analyse #biodiversity genomes at scale 🌳🧬
📎 bit.ly/4j3vAZ9
🗓️ 27-29 October 2025
Submit by 14 July 📩
We encourage submissions showcasing best practices for applying new methods and resources to analyse #biodiversity genomes at scale 🌳🧬
📎 bit.ly/4j3vAZ9
June 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Join us on the Wellcome Genome Campus of the Sanger Institute and EBI for a symposium on biodiversity genomics from 27th-29th October! Abstract deadline on 14 July. There is also an option to join via Zoom, but in-person is much nicer if you can make it.
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Very excited about this paper led by Erika Castro. She has shown that Heliconius were ancestrally plastic in how they acquired their cyanogens, but some species have lost the ability to biosynthesise toxins, and have lost genes involved www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Gene loss associated with plasticity-first evolution in Heliconius butterflies
Phenotypic plasticity occurs when a genotype can produce more than one phenotype under different environmental conditions. Genetic accommodation allows plastic phenotypes to be tuned to new environmen...
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June 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Very excited about this paper led by Erika Castro. She has shown that Heliconius were ancestrally plastic in how they acquired their cyanogens, but some species have lost the ability to biosynthesise toxins, and have lost genes involved www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Meet our Postdocs who have recently won a Sanger Accelerator Award 🎉
The Awardees will receive funding to further their research and gain valuable experience in project management and grant writing.
Find out more ⬇️
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The Awardees will receive funding to further their research and gain valuable experience in project management and grant writing.
Find out more ⬇️
www.sanger.ac.uk/about/career...
Sanger Accelerator Awards for Postdoc researchers
Discover how postdoc researchers expand their research and build vital scientific connections and networks using the Wellcome Sanger Institute's Accelerator Awards for Postdoc researchers
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May 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Meet our Postdocs who have recently won a Sanger Accelerator Award 🎉
The Awardees will receive funding to further their research and gain valuable experience in project management and grant writing.
Find out more ⬇️
www.sanger.ac.uk/about/career...
The Awardees will receive funding to further their research and gain valuable experience in project management and grant writing.
Find out more ⬇️
www.sanger.ac.uk/about/career...
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Since I'm stuck backing up and transferring to a non-crashing laptop might as well spend a bit of today doodling something for International Day of Women and Girls in Science, now more than ever! #WomenInScience #IDWGS #SciArt
February 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Since I'm stuck backing up and transferring to a non-crashing laptop might as well spend a bit of today doodling something for International Day of Women and Girls in Science, now more than ever! #WomenInScience #IDWGS #SciArt
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🐛 We have a new pre-print up on genomic evolution during repeated transitions to gregarious behaviour in Heliconiini caterpillars 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛
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Convergent molecular evolution associated with repeated transitions to gregarious larval behaviour in Heliconiini
Collective behaviour forms the basis for many anti-predator strategies. Within Lepidoptera, larval gregariousness has evolved convergently across many phylogenetically disparate lineages. While the se...
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January 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🐛 We have a new pre-print up on genomic evolution during repeated transitions to gregarious behaviour in Heliconiini caterpillars 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n
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My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
Common misconceptions of speciation
Abstract. Speciation is a complex process that can unfold in many different ways. Speciation researchers sometimes simplify core principles in their writin
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November 11, 2024 at 10:29 AM
My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...