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Christina Hodson

@chodson.bsky.social
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researcher at UCL interested in non-Mendelian inheritance, germline restricted chromosomes, flies and weird biology

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am so excited to see this preprint out. I started working on springtails with @laurarossevo.bsky.social in 2019, but this pinnacle of our efforts manifested only with heroric leadership of Sam Ebdon! So, what's the deal? 👇
Globular springtail Allacma fusca. Female, one of the samples in the linked preprint.
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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A big preprint from my group! Muller Elements are considered to be conserved in flies. We tested it by reconstructing the ancestral dipteran karyotype using 340 chromosomal genomes and suprise suprise, they're not... Led by @juliagries.bsky.social and Sam Ebdon. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵👇
Schema of three major chromosomal rearrangements leading to Muller Elements of Drosophila melanogaster since the common ancestor of Diptera.
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James McCulloch @jamesimcc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Why do the chromosomes of cyperids (sedges & rushes) split and fuse so regularly on evolutionary timescales? Is it because they have so many centromeres? Our new preprint, the first major paper of my PhD, addresses this question. 🧵⬇️ 1/12 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A sedge. It may look unassuming but its genome has several unusual features.
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Luca Soldini @lucasoldini.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
One week left to submit abstracts for the EMBO workshop on Molecular Mechanisms of Selfish Elements and Strategies! In Bern (Switzerland), from 8 to 11 February 2026. meetings.embo.org/event/26-sel... #EMBOselfishElements #EMBOevents
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Molecular mechanisms of selfish elements and strategies
Certain genes, chromosomes, organelles, or entire sets of chromosomes can bias their transmission to the next generation, propagating themselves at the expense of the rest of the genome. Referred to …
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mara lawniczak @marakat.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
please share this postdoc job alert! come join the budding Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative as a postdoc or senior postdoc at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social working closely with @arnausebe.bsky.social and me to make progress on what we cover in this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Biodiversity Cell Atlas: mapping the tree of life at cellular resolution - Nature
The Biodiversity Cell Atlas aims to create comprehensive single-cell molecular atlases across the eukaryotic tree of life, which will be phylogenetically informed, rely on high-quality genomes and use...
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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
5 days left to register for the #k-mer workshop! 🧬 I would strongly recommend for anyone doing large scale biodiversity genomics. tinyurl.com/register-for...
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