WGDip
@wgdip.bsky.social
Reappraising the role of whole genome duplication and rediploidisation in eukaryotic evolution.
Funded by BBSRC Strategic Longer and Larger scheme.
Check out our website for information about the project, team and more!
https://www.rediploidisation.org/
Funded by BBSRC Strategic Longer and Larger scheme.
Check out our website for information about the project, team and more!
https://www.rediploidisation.org/
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Tom Lewin is a post-doc from the University of Oxford. Recently returning from his research in Taiwan on marine invertebrates, @tomlewin.bsky.social will be focusing on understudied animal phyla as part of the #WGDip project
Find out more about his research 🪸:
shorturl.at/A5lHn
Dr. Tom Lewin is a post-doc from the University of Oxford. Recently returning from his research in Taiwan on marine invertebrates, @tomlewin.bsky.social will be focusing on understudied animal phyla as part of the #WGDip project
Find out more about his research 🪸:
shorturl.at/A5lHn
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Tom Lewin is a post-doc from the University of Oxford. Recently returning from his research in Taiwan on marine invertebrates, @tomlewin.bsky.social will be focusing on understudied animal phyla as part of the #WGDip project
Find out more about his research 🪸:
shorturl.at/A5lHn
Dr. Tom Lewin is a post-doc from the University of Oxford. Recently returning from his research in Taiwan on marine invertebrates, @tomlewin.bsky.social will be focusing on understudied animal phyla as part of the #WGDip project
Find out more about his research 🪸:
shorturl.at/A5lHn
📢Meet the team!
Róisín Long is a PhD student with Prof.Aoife McLysaght at Trinity College Dublin. This comes after completing an undergrad in Human Genetics at TCD. Her PhD research focuses on rediploidisation following WGD in vertebrates. She's excited to be involved in public engagement for #WGDip
Róisín Long is a PhD student with Prof.Aoife McLysaght at Trinity College Dublin. This comes after completing an undergrad in Human Genetics at TCD. Her PhD research focuses on rediploidisation following WGD in vertebrates. She's excited to be involved in public engagement for #WGDip
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
📢Meet the team!
Róisín Long is a PhD student with Prof.Aoife McLysaght at Trinity College Dublin. This comes after completing an undergrad in Human Genetics at TCD. Her PhD research focuses on rediploidisation following WGD in vertebrates. She's excited to be involved in public engagement for #WGDip
Róisín Long is a PhD student with Prof.Aoife McLysaght at Trinity College Dublin. This comes after completing an undergrad in Human Genetics at TCD. Her PhD research focuses on rediploidisation following WGD in vertebrates. She's excited to be involved in public engagement for #WGDip
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Anthony Redmond is a #WGDip project partner from the University College Dublin. His research focuses on the immune system, devising phylogenomic approaches to resolve the tree of life, & defining the role of gene & genome duplication in evolution
Read more:🧬
shorturl.at/d3brV
Dr. Anthony Redmond is a #WGDip project partner from the University College Dublin. His research focuses on the immune system, devising phylogenomic approaches to resolve the tree of life, & defining the role of gene & genome duplication in evolution
Read more:🧬
shorturl.at/d3brV
October 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Anthony Redmond is a #WGDip project partner from the University College Dublin. His research focuses on the immune system, devising phylogenomic approaches to resolve the tree of life, & defining the role of gene & genome duplication in evolution
Read more:🧬
shorturl.at/d3brV
Dr. Anthony Redmond is a #WGDip project partner from the University College Dublin. His research focuses on the immune system, devising phylogenomic approaches to resolve the tree of life, & defining the role of gene & genome duplication in evolution
Read more:🧬
shorturl.at/d3brV
📢Meet the team!
Molly Carter is the Project Manager of the Darwin Tree of Life project. She’ll support the delivery of chromosomal-level assemblies of the giant genomes for the #WGDip project! She used to be a natural sciences museum curator and loves all manner of arthropods!🕷️🐛
Molly Carter is the Project Manager of the Darwin Tree of Life project. She’ll support the delivery of chromosomal-level assemblies of the giant genomes for the #WGDip project! She used to be a natural sciences museum curator and loves all manner of arthropods!🕷️🐛
October 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
📢Meet the team!
Molly Carter is the Project Manager of the Darwin Tree of Life project. She’ll support the delivery of chromosomal-level assemblies of the giant genomes for the #WGDip project! She used to be a natural sciences museum curator and loves all manner of arthropods!🕷️🐛
Molly Carter is the Project Manager of the Darwin Tree of Life project. She’ll support the delivery of chromosomal-level assemblies of the giant genomes for the #WGDip project! She used to be a natural sciences museum curator and loves all manner of arthropods!🕷️🐛
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Rosa Fernández is a #WGDip project partner from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology. Her research focuses on understanding how genome architecture and large-scale genomic rearrangements allow animals to adapt to new environments.
Find out more:🕷️🦂
shorturl.at/OZdOl
Dr. Rosa Fernández is a #WGDip project partner from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology. Her research focuses on understanding how genome architecture and large-scale genomic rearrangements allow animals to adapt to new environments.
Find out more:🕷️🦂
shorturl.at/OZdOl
October 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Rosa Fernández is a #WGDip project partner from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology. Her research focuses on understanding how genome architecture and large-scale genomic rearrangements allow animals to adapt to new environments.
Find out more:🕷️🦂
shorturl.at/OZdOl
Dr. Rosa Fernández is a #WGDip project partner from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology. Her research focuses on understanding how genome architecture and large-scale genomic rearrangements allow animals to adapt to new environments.
Find out more:🕷️🦂
shorturl.at/OZdOl
📢Meet the team!
Lora Downes is a Project Manager in the Tree of Life Programme (buff.ly/ytXalMi) at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She will support the delivery of chromosome-level assemblies for key species in WGDip!
Find her on LinkedIn: buff.ly/WewE2bz
Lora Downes is a Project Manager in the Tree of Life Programme (buff.ly/ytXalMi) at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She will support the delivery of chromosome-level assemblies for key species in WGDip!
Find her on LinkedIn: buff.ly/WewE2bz
October 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📢Meet the team!
Lora Downes is a Project Manager in the Tree of Life Programme (buff.ly/ytXalMi) at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She will support the delivery of chromosome-level assemblies for key species in WGDip!
Find her on LinkedIn: buff.ly/WewE2bz
Lora Downes is a Project Manager in the Tree of Life Programme (buff.ly/ytXalMi) at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She will support the delivery of chromosome-level assemblies for key species in WGDip!
Find her on LinkedIn: buff.ly/WewE2bz
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Manu Kumar Gundappa is a #WGDip Project Partner from Wageningen University & Research. Using fish as a model system, his research focuses on developing comparative & functional genomic approaches to explore fundamental biological questions.
Find out more:🐟
shorturl.at/OC8OU
Dr. Manu Kumar Gundappa is a #WGDip Project Partner from Wageningen University & Research. Using fish as a model system, his research focuses on developing comparative & functional genomic approaches to explore fundamental biological questions.
Find out more:🐟
shorturl.at/OC8OU
September 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Manu Kumar Gundappa is a #WGDip Project Partner from Wageningen University & Research. Using fish as a model system, his research focuses on developing comparative & functional genomic approaches to explore fundamental biological questions.
Find out more:🐟
shorturl.at/OC8OU
Dr. Manu Kumar Gundappa is a #WGDip Project Partner from Wageningen University & Research. Using fish as a model system, his research focuses on developing comparative & functional genomic approaches to explore fundamental biological questions.
Find out more:🐟
shorturl.at/OC8OU
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Zoe Vance is a Post-Doc from the University of Bath. With a background in genetics, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics, she will develop methods and approaches for examining rediploidisation across systems.
Find out more about her research:💻🧬
shorturl.at/MOcfe
Dr. Zoe Vance is a Post-Doc from the University of Bath. With a background in genetics, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics, she will develop methods and approaches for examining rediploidisation across systems.
Find out more about her research:💻🧬
shorturl.at/MOcfe
September 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Zoe Vance is a Post-Doc from the University of Bath. With a background in genetics, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics, she will develop methods and approaches for examining rediploidisation across systems.
Find out more about her research:💻🧬
shorturl.at/MOcfe
Dr. Zoe Vance is a Post-Doc from the University of Bath. With a background in genetics, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics, she will develop methods and approaches for examining rediploidisation across systems.
Find out more about her research:💻🧬
shorturl.at/MOcfe
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Tom Williams is a project co-lead from the University of Bath. As a computational evolutionary biologist, his research focuses on reconstructing the history of life and studying genome evolution in Archaea, Bacteria and Microbial Eukaryotes
Find out more: 💻🌱
shorturl.at/Wr1Yv
Dr. Tom Williams is a project co-lead from the University of Bath. As a computational evolutionary biologist, his research focuses on reconstructing the history of life and studying genome evolution in Archaea, Bacteria and Microbial Eukaryotes
Find out more: 💻🌱
shorturl.at/Wr1Yv
September 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Tom Williams is a project co-lead from the University of Bath. As a computational evolutionary biologist, his research focuses on reconstructing the history of life and studying genome evolution in Archaea, Bacteria and Microbial Eukaryotes
Find out more: 💻🌱
shorturl.at/Wr1Yv
Dr. Tom Williams is a project co-lead from the University of Bath. As a computational evolutionary biologist, his research focuses on reconstructing the history of life and studying genome evolution in Archaea, Bacteria and Microbial Eukaryotes
Find out more: 💻🌱
shorturl.at/Wr1Yv
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Morgane Milin is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. Her past research has focused on recurrent polyploidy and diploidization, looking to detect and date WGD events in grasses. As part of this work, she developed a bioinformatics tool called WGD_Tracker.🌾💻
#WGDip
Dr. Morgane Milin is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. Her past research has focused on recurrent polyploidy and diploidization, looking to detect and date WGD events in grasses. As part of this work, she developed a bioinformatics tool called WGD_Tracker.🌾💻
#WGDip
September 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Morgane Milin is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. Her past research has focused on recurrent polyploidy and diploidization, looking to detect and date WGD events in grasses. As part of this work, she developed a bioinformatics tool called WGD_Tracker.🌾💻
#WGDip
Dr. Morgane Milin is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. Her past research has focused on recurrent polyploidy and diploidization, looking to detect and date WGD events in grasses. As part of this work, she developed a bioinformatics tool called WGD_Tracker.🌾💻
#WGDip
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Drew Larson is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on evolutionary processes such as adaptation, divergence, gene duplication & introgression, which shape organisms’ genomes & biodiversity across phylogenetic scales🌐🧬
Find out more: shorturl.at/FzmPD
Dr. Drew Larson is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on evolutionary processes such as adaptation, divergence, gene duplication & introgression, which shape organisms’ genomes & biodiversity across phylogenetic scales🌐🧬
Find out more: shorturl.at/FzmPD
August 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Drew Larson is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on evolutionary processes such as adaptation, divergence, gene duplication & introgression, which shape organisms’ genomes & biodiversity across phylogenetic scales🌐🧬
Find out more: shorturl.at/FzmPD
Dr. Drew Larson is a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on evolutionary processes such as adaptation, divergence, gene duplication & introgression, which shape organisms’ genomes & biodiversity across phylogenetic scales🌐🧬
Find out more: shorturl.at/FzmPD
The WGDip team had a great first day at #ESEB2025!
It was great to see everyone who attended our symposium yesterday on “Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions” 💬🧬
Still an exciting week ahead for all!🤗
#WGDip @eseb2025.bsky.social
It was great to see everyone who attended our symposium yesterday on “Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions” 💬🧬
Still an exciting week ahead for all!🤗
#WGDip @eseb2025.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The WGDip team had a great first day at #ESEB2025!
It was great to see everyone who attended our symposium yesterday on “Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions” 💬🧬
Still an exciting week ahead for all!🤗
#WGDip @eseb2025.bsky.social
It was great to see everyone who attended our symposium yesterday on “Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions” 💬🧬
Still an exciting week ahead for all!🤗
#WGDip @eseb2025.bsky.social
Dr Nicola Stock is a public engagement specialist at the University of Edinburgh. After starting her career in bioscience research, she followed her passion for communicating science, joining the Roslin Institute in 2012 and building a vibrant, inclusive public engagement with research programme 🗣️💬🧬
August 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Dr Nicola Stock is a public engagement specialist at the University of Edinburgh. After starting her career in bioscience research, she followed her passion for communicating science, joining the Roslin Institute in 2012 and building a vibrant, inclusive public engagement with research programme 🗣️💬🧬
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Dearbhaile Casey (@dervc.bsky.social) is a Research Co-Lead from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on whole genome duplications and their consequences in Acipenseriformes and lesser-studied invertebrates.
Find out more about her research: 🧬🐟
shorturl.at/TBM5J
Dr. Dearbhaile Casey (@dervc.bsky.social) is a Research Co-Lead from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on whole genome duplications and their consequences in Acipenseriformes and lesser-studied invertebrates.
Find out more about her research: 🧬🐟
shorturl.at/TBM5J
July 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Dearbhaile Casey (@dervc.bsky.social) is a Research Co-Lead from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on whole genome duplications and their consequences in Acipenseriformes and lesser-studied invertebrates.
Find out more about her research: 🧬🐟
shorturl.at/TBM5J
Dr. Dearbhaile Casey (@dervc.bsky.social) is a Research Co-Lead from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on whole genome duplications and their consequences in Acipenseriformes and lesser-studied invertebrates.
Find out more about her research: 🧬🐟
shorturl.at/TBM5J
📢Meet the team!
Prof. Phillip Donoghue is a project co-lead from the University of Bristol. He is a palaeontologist who has long been fascinated by the timing and nature of major evolutionary transitions, especially following WGDs.
Learn more about his research:🦴
scholar.google.com/citations?hl...
Prof. Phillip Donoghue is a project co-lead from the University of Bristol. He is a palaeontologist who has long been fascinated by the timing and nature of major evolutionary transitions, especially following WGDs.
Learn more about his research:🦴
scholar.google.com/citations?hl...
July 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
📢Meet the team!
Prof. Phillip Donoghue is a project co-lead from the University of Bristol. He is a palaeontologist who has long been fascinated by the timing and nature of major evolutionary transitions, especially following WGDs.
Learn more about his research:🦴
scholar.google.com/citations?hl...
Prof. Phillip Donoghue is a project co-lead from the University of Bristol. He is a palaeontologist who has long been fascinated by the timing and nature of major evolutionary transitions, especially following WGDs.
Learn more about his research:🦴
scholar.google.com/citations?hl...
📢Meet the team!
Prof. Mark Blaxter is a Project Co-Lead from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where he leads the Tree of Life (TOL) Programme, which is producing reference genome assemblies for target species in WGDip.
Find out more about Mark's work: 💻🧬
scholar.google.com/citations?us...
Prof. Mark Blaxter is a Project Co-Lead from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where he leads the Tree of Life (TOL) Programme, which is producing reference genome assemblies for target species in WGDip.
Find out more about Mark's work: 💻🧬
scholar.google.com/citations?us...
July 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
📢Meet the team!
Prof. Mark Blaxter is a Project Co-Lead from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where he leads the Tree of Life (TOL) Programme, which is producing reference genome assemblies for target species in WGDip.
Find out more about Mark's work: 💻🧬
scholar.google.com/citations?us...
Prof. Mark Blaxter is a Project Co-Lead from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where he leads the Tree of Life (TOL) Programme, which is producing reference genome assemblies for target species in WGDip.
Find out more about Mark's work: 💻🧬
scholar.google.com/citations?us...
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Richard Taylor, a post-doc from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on applying bioinformatic and genomic approaches to questions in biomedicine & animal health. He will use single cell transcriptomics to explore functional outcomes of whole genome duplications💻🧫
Dr. Richard Taylor, a post-doc from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on applying bioinformatic and genomic approaches to questions in biomedicine & animal health. He will use single cell transcriptomics to explore functional outcomes of whole genome duplications💻🧫
July 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Richard Taylor, a post-doc from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on applying bioinformatic and genomic approaches to questions in biomedicine & animal health. He will use single cell transcriptomics to explore functional outcomes of whole genome duplications💻🧫
Dr. Richard Taylor, a post-doc from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on applying bioinformatic and genomic approaches to questions in biomedicine & animal health. He will use single cell transcriptomics to explore functional outcomes of whole genome duplications💻🧫
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Lucas Freitas, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Bristol. He will help to estimate the timing of WGD events and understand how delayed rediploidisation affects phenotypic traits in different species.
Find out more about his past research:💻⏰
shorturl.at/bPUZ1
Dr. Lucas Freitas, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Bristol. He will help to estimate the timing of WGD events and understand how delayed rediploidisation affects phenotypic traits in different species.
Find out more about his past research:💻⏰
shorturl.at/bPUZ1
July 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Lucas Freitas, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Bristol. He will help to estimate the timing of WGD events and understand how delayed rediploidisation affects phenotypic traits in different species.
Find out more about his past research:💻⏰
shorturl.at/bPUZ1
Dr. Lucas Freitas, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Bristol. He will help to estimate the timing of WGD events and understand how delayed rediploidisation affects phenotypic traits in different species.
Find out more about his past research:💻⏰
shorturl.at/bPUZ1
📢Meet the team!
Prof. Peter Holland is a project co-lead from the University of Oxford. Peter is a molecular evolutionary biologist with many years of experience researching genome duplication events and tandem gene duplication events across the animal kingdom.
Find out more:🐌🧬
shorturl.at/BjGWR
Prof. Peter Holland is a project co-lead from the University of Oxford. Peter is a molecular evolutionary biologist with many years of experience researching genome duplication events and tandem gene duplication events across the animal kingdom.
Find out more:🐌🧬
shorturl.at/BjGWR
June 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
📢Meet the team!
Prof. Peter Holland is a project co-lead from the University of Oxford. Peter is a molecular evolutionary biologist with many years of experience researching genome duplication events and tandem gene duplication events across the animal kingdom.
Find out more:🐌🧬
shorturl.at/BjGWR
Prof. Peter Holland is a project co-lead from the University of Oxford. Peter is a molecular evolutionary biologist with many years of experience researching genome duplication events and tandem gene duplication events across the animal kingdom.
Find out more:🐌🧬
shorturl.at/BjGWR
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Alex Twyford, a project co-lead from the University of Edinburgh, and research fellow at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. He is an evolutionary biologist interested in speciation, hybridisation and polyploidy in plants.
Find out more on Alex's work: 🌼🧬
biology.ed.ac.uk/twyford
Dr. Alex Twyford, a project co-lead from the University of Edinburgh, and research fellow at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. He is an evolutionary biologist interested in speciation, hybridisation and polyploidy in plants.
Find out more on Alex's work: 🌼🧬
biology.ed.ac.uk/twyford
June 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Alex Twyford, a project co-lead from the University of Edinburgh, and research fellow at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. He is an evolutionary biologist interested in speciation, hybridisation and polyploidy in plants.
Find out more on Alex's work: 🌼🧬
biology.ed.ac.uk/twyford
Dr. Alex Twyford, a project co-lead from the University of Edinburgh, and research fellow at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. He is an evolutionary biologist interested in speciation, hybridisation and polyploidy in plants.
Find out more on Alex's work: 🌼🧬
biology.ed.ac.uk/twyford
We were also lucky enough to be given a tour of both the University of Edinburgh's Natural History Collection, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social guided by project-co lead Mark Blaxter. 🐌🦴
www.nhc.ed.ac.uk
And the Easter Bush Science Outreach Centre @ebsoc.bsky.social, by Nicola Stock. 🤝🧫
shorturl.at/0i81Q
www.nhc.ed.ac.uk
And the Easter Bush Science Outreach Centre @ebsoc.bsky.social, by Nicola Stock. 🤝🧫
shorturl.at/0i81Q
June 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We were also lucky enough to be given a tour of both the University of Edinburgh's Natural History Collection, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social guided by project-co lead Mark Blaxter. 🐌🦴
www.nhc.ed.ac.uk
And the Easter Bush Science Outreach Centre @ebsoc.bsky.social, by Nicola Stock. 🤝🧫
shorturl.at/0i81Q
www.nhc.ed.ac.uk
And the Easter Bush Science Outreach Centre @ebsoc.bsky.social, by Nicola Stock. 🤝🧫
shorturl.at/0i81Q
We held the first (mostly) in person meeting of the WGDip project. It was a great opportunity to foster discourse across the consortium and align our goals for the project. We are all eager to get started and delve into whole genome duplication and rediploidisation in eukaryotic evolution!☀️ 🌍
#WGDip
#WGDip
June 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We held the first (mostly) in person meeting of the WGDip project. It was a great opportunity to foster discourse across the consortium and align our goals for the project. We are all eager to get started and delve into whole genome duplication and rediploidisation in eukaryotic evolution!☀️ 🌍
#WGDip
#WGDip
📢Meet the team!
Eilidh Elliot is our project support coordinator, based at the University of Edinburgh, and will be providing administrative support to the project leadership team, as well as supporting the design and organisation of (exciting!) public engagement activities. 📝⚙️
Eilidh Elliot is our project support coordinator, based at the University of Edinburgh, and will be providing administrative support to the project leadership team, as well as supporting the design and organisation of (exciting!) public engagement activities. 📝⚙️
June 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
📢Meet the team!
Eilidh Elliot is our project support coordinator, based at the University of Edinburgh, and will be providing administrative support to the project leadership team, as well as supporting the design and organisation of (exciting!) public engagement activities. 📝⚙️
Eilidh Elliot is our project support coordinator, based at the University of Edinburgh, and will be providing administrative support to the project leadership team, as well as supporting the design and organisation of (exciting!) public engagement activities. 📝⚙️
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Emily Haley is returning to the University of Edinburgh as a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Biological Sciences. She will be using bioinformatic analyses to explore the occurrence of rediploidisation, focussing on plants.🧬🪻
#WGDip
Dr. Emily Haley is returning to the University of Edinburgh as a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Biological Sciences. She will be using bioinformatic analyses to explore the occurrence of rediploidisation, focussing on plants.🧬🪻
#WGDip
May 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Emily Haley is returning to the University of Edinburgh as a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Biological Sciences. She will be using bioinformatic analyses to explore the occurrence of rediploidisation, focussing on plants.🧬🪻
#WGDip
Dr. Emily Haley is returning to the University of Edinburgh as a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Biological Sciences. She will be using bioinformatic analyses to explore the occurrence of rediploidisation, focussing on plants.🧬🪻
#WGDip
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Ilia Leitch, a project co-lead from Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Her work focuses on understanding the vast ~13,000-fold variation in genome size in plants, the processes underpinning such diversity (including polyploidy), and associated evolutionary and ecological consequences.
Dr. Ilia Leitch, a project co-lead from Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Her work focuses on understanding the vast ~13,000-fold variation in genome size in plants, the processes underpinning such diversity (including polyploidy), and associated evolutionary and ecological consequences.
May 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Ilia Leitch, a project co-lead from Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Her work focuses on understanding the vast ~13,000-fold variation in genome size in plants, the processes underpinning such diversity (including polyploidy), and associated evolutionary and ecological consequences.
Dr. Ilia Leitch, a project co-lead from Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Her work focuses on understanding the vast ~13,000-fold variation in genome size in plants, the processes underpinning such diversity (including polyploidy), and associated evolutionary and ecological consequences.