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Vidya Vuruputoor
@vuruputoor.bsky.social
330 followers 480 following 14 posts
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Post-doc @UConn EEB
https://vidsvur.github.io/
Conservation Genomics | Bioinformatics | Polyploidy | Forest Tree Genomics
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newphyt.bsky.social
HOBIT: LRT to detect homeolog expression shifts in allopolyploids

Sun et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Performance metrics based on 50 artificial datasets simulating an allotetraploid species.
October 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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rddenton.bsky.social
Genome assembly fresh of the supercomputer, total size = 29,892,519,935 base pairs 🦎🧬
October 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
vuruputoor.bsky.social
🌲🧬🦀 Calling conservation genomics scientists! 🦀🧬🌲

@uconneeb.bsky.social & @nanoporetech.com's ORG.one hosts “Genomes for Conservation of Endangered Species” workshop at #PAG33. Submit abstracts by Monday, Oct 27! Join us to advance genomic resources for conservation. #PAG2025
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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joanameier.bsky.social
Celebrating the first 1000 genomes of Lepidoptera in Europe, sequenced at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social in collaboration with sampling hubs across the UK via the DToL project www.darwintreeoflife.org & across Europe via
@projectpsyche.bsky.social www.projectpsyche.org &
@10klepgenomes.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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unenthusiast.com
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/
hammancheez.bsky.social hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · Oct 12
"The chancellor approved it"
tyranny.sparklenoise.com 🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · Oct 12
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”
October 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Reposted by Vidya Vuruputoor
thelabandfield.bsky.social
Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Reposted by Vidya Vuruputoor
pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
A milestone for plant genomics just out @natgenet.nature.com

130 bryophyte genomes!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Reposted by Vidya Vuruputoor
jotlovell.bsky.social
Determining presence-absence variation (PAV) across reference genomes is a major goal of pangenome analysis. It turns out that A LOT of gene PAV is due to methodological artifacts.

We explore the causes of this in soybean and cotton datasets in our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
pangenome 'expansion' curves for cotton and soybean
August 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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jillwegrzyn.bsky.social
Very excited to announce @vuruputoor.bsky.social upcoming #PhD defense in @uconneeb.bsky.social ! #genomics marathon on land plant genome evolution, from the smallest to largest - special focus on conservation genomics in #hemlocks @nature.org @ebpgenome.bsky.social @uconnresearch.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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jillahamilton.bsky.social
One week to go!!! So excited to host our colleagues next week in the Happy Valley of Pennsylvania! Over 150 registrants from around the world!! If you’re interested in coming but unable to join in person - email me to learn about virtual options forestgeneticsconference2025.com #forestgenetics2025
June 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
vuruputoor.bsky.social
Thrilled to share our new paper as co-first author with @nikishapatel.bsky.social 🌱🧪

We explore whole genome duplication and its effect on gene expression in moss as it shifts from haploid (n) to diploid (2n) gametophyte via apospory.

Please check it out: doi.org/10.1111/nph....
A high definition picture of the moss, Funaria hygrometrica
May 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reposted by Vidya Vuruputoor
jillwegrzyn.bsky.social
Perfect spring day in the conifer collection @arnoldarboretum.bsky.social for the @nature.org Trees In Peril meeting: inspiring discussions to continue conservation efforts @uconnresearch.bsky.social @vuruputoor.bsky.social @meghanmyles.bsky.social @airianna-mcguire.bsky.social #beech #hemlock #ash
April 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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barkerms.bsky.social
The recording of last week's #PolyploidyWebinar featuring @raymondcast.bsky.social and @erichagen.bsky.social is now up! youtu.be/zmUyTO3jN6s
Polyploidy Webinar 2 April 2025
YouTube video by Mike Barker
youtu.be
April 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
vuruputoor.bsky.social
I’m really excited to share an update on my work with the eastern hemlocks! Please join if you can! 🌲
harvardforest.bsky.social Harvard Forest @harvardforest.bsky.social · Mar 20
🌲 Join us Weds 3/26 @ 11am EST! 🔬 Vidya Vuruputoor will discuss interdisciplinary approaches to studying Eastern Hemlock’s defenses against the Woolly Adelgid. 🧐

In/person & Zoom - Linktree ➡️ Seminars. 🌐 Registration not req’d; DM for PW (same as previous). 🤓
Image shows text and a photo of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on Hemlock needles. In addition to details noted in the text of this post, text with the image includes the title: “Multi-omics approach to terpenoid defenses in Eastern Hemlock, threatened by Hemlock Woolly Adelgid.” Image provided by Vidya Vuruputoor.
March 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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ca-naturalist.bsky.social
🚨Urgent: Help Save Decades of Work by Navajo Botanists🚨

For decades, Arnold Clifford has built up the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. Now, this collection is at risk—snowstorms are causing the roof to cave in, putting >30,000 specimens in danger.

#IndigenousScience #Conservation #MutualAid #botany
Arnold Clifford, Navajo Botanist, holds up a pressed herbarium specimen of an undescribed species of thistle found in Carrizo mountain. The roof of Carrizo Mountain Herbarium caving in, leaving herbarium cabinets inside vulnerable to snow and rain.
March 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com
Really happy that the @marineevoeco.com lab played a very small part in this really cool paper published with the @roneilllab.bsky.social, @vuruputoor.bsky.social, @noahreid.bsky.social, @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social and others! Big thanks to Gabe Barrett for connecting UConn and URI research teams
Genome Assembly of a Living Fossil, the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab Limulus polyphemus, Reveals Lineage-Specific Whole-Genome Duplications, Transposable Element-Based Centromeres, and a ZW Sex Chromosome ...
Abstract. Horseshoe crabs, considered living fossils with a stable morphotype spanning ∼445 million years, are evolutionarily, ecologically, and biomedical
doi.org
February 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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keholsinger.bsky.social
Biology Associate Professor Awarded Nation’s Highest Honor for Early-Career Researchers https://buff.ly/4hxplMW
Biology Associate Professor Awarded Nation’s Highest Honor for Early-Career Researchers - UConn Today
Jill Wegrzyn, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, earned recognition from former President Joe Biden
buff.ly
January 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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scottzona.bsky.social
Photos & bar codes can’t do this! Herbarium collections can be used in ways the collectors never imagined. This is why natural history collections are still relevant in the 21st century. #botany 🌾🧪
January 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
vuruputoor.bsky.social
Congratulations to everyone!!! Shout out to my superstar supervisor @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social being one of the awardees 🤩🤩
January 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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kalimiddleby.bsky.social
Check out our new article just out in The Conversation highlighting the effects of warming leaves +4°C in tropical trees. 🌿🌡️ theconversation.com/study-shows-...
Study shows hot leaves can’t catch carbon from the air. It’s bad news for rainforests – and Earth
An experiment in the Daintree rainforest found the rate of photosynthesis in leaves warmed by 4°C dropped by an average of 35% compared to non-warmed controls.
theconversation.com
January 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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restoration.bsky.social
Looking for fabulous seminar speakers to give keynotes and invited talks? Check out the WOCinEEB speaker list! www.wocineeb.org/resources.ht...
January 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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only1chunts.bsky.social
Nice presentation by Meghan Myles on cartograplant integrating masses of genotypes, phenotypes and environmental data all in place. At the digital tools session at #PAG32
January 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
vuruputoor.bsky.social
I just spent the last half hour catching up on posts about #PAG32- I’m missing out on all the fun! Enjoy the conference everyone! Keep posting about your work on Bluesky!! ✨
January 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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mwtingley.bsky.social
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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jillwegrzyn.bsky.social
Please join us this Friday morning at #PAG32 ! We'll be featuring talks on genomic resources for species of conservation concern at the Org.one session! #conservation #genomics @evobotany.bsky.social @nanoporetech.com
Schedule: plan.core-apps.com/pag32/event/...
January 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM