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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 16/06/2025

If EMBL-EBI managed data resources have ever saved you time & effort, this is your chance to give back! Fill in a 15-minute survey to help us: 🌍Demonstrate the real-world impact of our resources 🤓Understand your needs 🌟Secure continued funding Closes 16 July www.surveymonkey.com/r/QGFMBH8?ch...

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Ore Francis @orefrancis.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Proud to have authored this review with brilliant people. Hope we inspire more attempts to sequence the #protist genomes that are within reach! Huge thanks to Alexandra Schoenle for leading. #ProtistsOnSky authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Amjad Khalaf 🇵🇸 @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

New preprint! We generate 40 new high-quality microsporidian genomes from infected arthropod hosts that were sequenced to create reference genomes by the Darwin Tree of Life project. 8 of our genomes are chromosome-level, and we’re able to generate Hi-C data for 7! 🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Forty New Genomes Shed Light on Sexual Reproduction and the Origin of Tetraploidy in Microsporidia

Microsporidia are single-celled, obligately intracellular parasites with growing public health, agricultural, and economic importance. Despite this, Microsporidia remain relatively enigmatic, with man...

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Forty New Genomes Shed Light on Sexual Reproduction and the Origin of Tetraploidy in Microsporidia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Claudia C. Weber @cc7740.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

First cooperative butterfly of the year

Speckled Wood butterfly perching on a twig

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Claudia C. Weber @cc7740.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Our paper on myxozoan genomes is out now in G3! See thread below for a brief recap (slight change of title from the preprint, same content). Thank you also to @arunsethuraman.bsky.social for handling the manuscript and @joannamasel.bsky.social for helpful comments. academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

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Myxozoan parasite genomes assembled from contaminated host data reveal extensive gene order conservation and rapid sequence evolution

Abstract. Myxozoans are obligate endoparasites that belong to the phylum Cnidaria. Compared to their closest free-living relatives, they have evolved highl

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Andrew Mongue @ajmongue.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Excited to be part of this project! Follow the starter pack for more great repro evo researchers!

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 14/02/2025

Adaptation to life on land evolved multiple times in arthropods, but what about isopods? Join us on Weds 26 Feb at 2pm (UK) to hear #ProcB author @jessthorpemas.bsky.social discuss her work on this key ecological transition. Find out more & sign up: cassyni.com/events/VVbok...

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Claudia C. Weber @cc7740.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Thanks to @GeneticsGSA for featuring my paper on using Variational Autoencoders to identify contamination in long-read data in the latest issue of G3: academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar... A short thread written when the manuscript was first submitted: bsky.app/profile/cc77...

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Claudia C. Weber @cc7740.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Myxozoans are tiny parasitic animals whose closest free-living relatives are jellyfish. They also haven't been extensively sequenced. However, we were lucky enough to spot some sequences in data from infected fish. After some experimenting, we got two new genomes: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Kudoa genomes from contaminated hosts reveal extensive gene order conservation and rapid sequence evolution

Myxozoans are obligate endoparasites that belong to the phylum Cnidaria. Compared to their closest free-living relatives, they have evolved highly simplified body plans and reduced genomes. Kudoa iwat...

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Claudia C. Weber @cc7740.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Have long-read data and want to know what you've really sequenced, and how much of it? Reliable taxonomic labels are often scarce if the target is from a less well-explored group. Fortunately, 2D embeddings from a VAE can tease apart different organisms in read sets: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Disentangling Cobionts and Contamination in Long-Read Genomic Data using Sequence Composition

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Claudia C. Weber @cc7740.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Interested in phylogenetic methods development, and looking for a postdoc? My colleagues in Nick Goldman's group at EMBL-EBI have a position open to work on pandemic-scale methods: www.embl.org/jobs/positio... (can vouch for the working environment)

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

✉️ Some science 🧪 buddies and I have written an open letter to the UK government, strongly opposing their “kicking woke ideology out of science” sentiments, which stand to damage the UK’s scientific standing and ability to deliver for public good. Please read and consider signing ✍🏻 t.co/H7rNzb0wGh

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Letter to Secretary of State re EDI in science

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Claudia C. Weber @cc7740.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

For enthusiasts of small eukaryotes: I'll be talking about myxozoans (very small parasitic cnidarians) tomorrow at Biodiversity Genomics 2023 (10am BST). Also featured in the session: Microsporidia and nematodes.

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Biodiversity Genomics 2023 - Welcome

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