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Ava Mackay-Smith

@a-mack-s.bsky.social
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Duke UPGG Ph.D. candidate with Greg Wray | evo/regulatory genomics, adaptation/speciation, and dataviz design 🦋 | NSF GRFP fellow | she/her 🌻

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Ava Mackay-Smith @a-mack-s.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Happy to share this release of some new long-read genomes in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social! We hope that subspecies-specific, quality genomes will enable better profiling of variation underlying phenotypic differences in Heliconius, mitigating bias from using a relative's genome as the reference 1/3
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
#SMBE2026 S03: Genome Plasticity and Evolutionary Innovation 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 10:20 am - Part 1 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 1:20 pm - Part 2 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme
SMBE | Genome plasticity and evolutionary innovation
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Ava Mackay-Smith @a-mack-s.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🥳 Super excited to see this work out from the urchin side of the Wray lab team! ⬇️
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Join the SEPEEG meeting on Oct 3-5 in the Great Smoky Mountains to explore ecology, evolution, and genetics. It’s student-friendly! More info: sepeeg2025.blogspot.com #conference
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SEPEEG2025
Southeastern Population Ecology & Evolutionary Genetics Meeting Oct 3-5, 2025 Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
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Ava Mackay-Smith @a-mack-s.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🌟 paper tweetorial! 🌟 check out my first first-author paper from my Ph.D! We wrote a small (=easy-to-read) Perspective piece trying to bridge the gap between #evolutionarybiology and the expanding world of #genomic assays, specifically #chromatin conformation capture (3C and related approaches) 🧵1/7
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Ava Mackay-Smith @a-mack-s.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🦋 Happening today at #BoG25: Are you interested in unusual patterns of recombination in the context of ongoing hybridization?? If you answered yes OR no to this question, come by poster 187 tonight! Learn something, or teach me something! 🦋
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Ava Mackay-Smith @a-mack-s.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🦋 If you're 1) coming to #BoG25 (!!!) and 2) like thinking about weird patterns of recombination or population genetics, come say hi & stop by my poster "Exploring hybridization persistence: Gene regulatory dynamics and sex-specific recombination landscapes in Lepidoptera" 🦋
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