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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 17/08/2026

It's a defining milestone! Proud to be co-editing this Cross-Journal Special Issue to celebrate @bes-egg.bsky.social's 70th anniversary. Please spread the words among your friends and colleagues. Let's steer the future of our field together! #EGG70

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BES Ecological Genetics Group @bes-egg.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🎉 #EGG2026 Celebrating 70 Years of Ecological Genetics!🥚🧬 A milestone meeting for ecologists and practitioners 📍 Sheffield + Online (Hybrid) 📅 Abstract by 15 Feb 🎟️ Register by 15 Mar britishecologicalsociety.org/content/egg2... @britishecologicalsociety.org #Ecology #Genetics #eDNA

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 09/07/2025

What an exciting lineup of presentations for #EGG2025! See you in #Cardiff!

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 07/07/2025

#GenDivRange also provides a web app for visualisation of genetic diversity patterns. Try it now! webapps.wsl.ch/GenDivRange/ #RShiny

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 07/07/2025

#GenDivRange also integrates supplemental information such as #habitat type, IUCN RedList status, #taxonomy etc.

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 07/07/2025

📢#GenDivRange is out on @ScientificData! An open database for #genetic diversity of 19,173 geo-referenced populations among 1,109 species. The most comprehensive resource to date. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #conservation #biodiveresity #monitoring #macrogenetics #openaccess

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BES Ecological Genetics Group @bes-egg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

📣 #EGG2025: On Scales of Time 📍 National Museum Cardiff & Online 📅 17–19 Sep 2025 ✔️ Abstracts close 31 May ✔️ Registration closes 31 Jul britishecologicalsociety.org/content/egg2... Don’t miss cutting-edge talks, posters & socials across time-scales in ecological genetics! 🦊🦗🐡🌲🍄🌾

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#EGG2025: On scales of time - British Ecological Society

Join the Ecological Genetics SIG for their Annual Meeting focusing on the impacts of time on organisms and processes.

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 08/12/2024

I am truly grateful to be awarded the #Croucher Fellowship 2024 for my research on oak trees @OxfordBiology. Thank you @croucherFDN for hosting an eventful Symposium and Foundation Day Dinner. Also lovely to meet with Prof Paul Lehner FRS again since he chaired my interview.

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 09/04/2024

We’ve just got a new member in the @MacKay_Lab——@nanopore PromethION P2 Solo! More #sequencing and more #biology!

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 27/01/2024

A little bonus take-away: we found that #BUSCO is inaccurate in these conifer megagenomes, many of the predicted single-copy genes actually show considerable variation in normalised coverage. It is understandable as up to odb_10, no reference species is a conifer.

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 27/01/2024

Our study demonstrated how long-insert #sequence capture and a de novo local assembly approach help study genomics effectively in these #megagenomes (> 20 Gbp)! Also a big shout out to @ArborBio and @nanopore!

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 27/01/2024

Interestingly the gene involved in the pathway one step before, Ugt5b, is found to be dominantly single-copy.

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 27/01/2024

We see CNV among populations of white spruce, which co-occur with the budworms, but not in Norway spruce. This might imply potential selection forces on the gene in white spruce.

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 27/01/2024

This gene encodes the enzyme that catalyses the conversion of glucosides to the active forms piceol and pungenol, which confer #resistance against herbivory of spruce #budworm.

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 27/01/2024

🚨 New paper! 🚨 doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-09978-6 #conifer #genomics Copy number variations (CNV) occur more often than SNPs. In plants, we have seen ~200 copies of RLG1a in monkey flower and EPSPS in carelessweed. Our study found up to 381 copies of Bglu-1 in a white...

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 15/12/2023

Who can believe just in the blink of an eye we’re near the end of #BES2023. Finally our very own @ymalhi’s Presidential Address. “Why do I do #ecology?”

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 15/12/2023

Come to the @BritishEcolSoc Stand and meet the committees! Make ecology count, make everyone count. Talk to us to see how you can influence and contribute to this wonderful community. #BES2023 #BESChristmas

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 15/12/2023

@lucymorley81 presenting a wealth of methods in studying phenological traits of trees and their invertebrate consumers @WythamWoods #BES2023!

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 15/12/2023

Guess how many trees outside woods were there in 1850? 🌳 Old maps and hierarchical model gave the answer! Half of them were lost and they are now in great threats. @Ewan_McHenry @WoodlandTrust

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 14/12/2023

Radim Hédi #BES2023 presenting how an 8-yr oak coppice forest restoration sees a rapid increase in biodiversity of plant community then stabilisation. As a researcher @WythamWoods working both on #oak and #badger, I love this “#AI badger rejoice over an oak #resprouting”.

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 14/12/2023

@trishuphigh presenting the potential and challenges of blended finance model in ecosystem restoration. Happy to learn that she was also a #Somervillian during her DPhil (she recognised me by my @SomervilleOx stash at #BES2023 SIG social)!

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 13/12/2023

#Oaks are such important features on the British landscape. @ChavanaBryant @UCLgeography @WoodlandTrust @AncientTreesATF presenting important work in scanning ancient trees with terrestrial #LIDAR with the #SCATTER project. Here are some magnificent pics! 🌳🌳🌳 #BES2023

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 13/12/2023

I have a poster at A7.2 #BES2023. I can’t be there during the poster session but you can find me representing @BES_EGG in the ‘Meet the SIGs’ at the foyer the same time. DM me any questions or read the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… to find out...

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 13/12/2023

@JEcology Senior Editors Andy Hector and @y_buckley talk about #reproducibility in research with @rmarkdown and @quarto at #BES2023! “Self-care” is important, the future you and the community will be thankful.

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 13/12/2023

#Ecology is all about diversity and interactions, and I just happily spotted @Rob_SalGo with a little, lovely feline delegate at #BES2023 🐈

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 13/12/2023

Welcoming remarks by our very own @ymalhi @BritishEcolSoc at #BES2023. It was (and is still quite) indeed intimating to join such a big conference - but everyone here is always friendly and helpful. There’s always something for everyone - and @BES_EGG if you’re into genetics! 🧬

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 12/12/2023

So many familiar faces in the #BES2023 Welcome Mixer, but also getting to know many new friends! Just a head’s up - @BES_EGG will have a joint SIG social with @BESClimate AND @BESForests tomorrow at Dark Horse at 7:45 pm! Meet at 7:30 pm at lobby or just come directly!

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 14/10/2023

Walking by the college lawn and seeing the smiley faces of the newly #matriculated. #WelcomeToOxford and I wonder how many great things they’ll achieve and sweet memories they’ll make together @SomervilleOx.

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 23/09/2023

It’s been an absolute pleasure to visit the Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics Lab @sywsin! And thank you for the team’s valuable feedback on our #badger research with @MingshanTw. Hope I would come home more often and visit these lovely scientists again. 🦡🦜🌳

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 07/09/2023

Thank you so much @alex_twyford for giving the closing keynote of #EGG2023! It’s also very wholesome to see @edgarwongly’s work in Euphrasia. And speaking of hard-to-assemble #mistletoe genome @darwintreelife, conifer scientists can relate! 🌲

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 09/06/2023

This is the 4th recital I curated so far, and it is somewhat a sequel on thinking about the meaning of journeys and distance. Last one held in 2019, I’m absolutely grateful to do this again in my beloved college. Please do come! 🥳

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 09/06/2023

🎼 @magdalenoxford Evening Recital “Die Un trennbaren” 16 Jun (Fri) 6 pm, Grove Auditorium Repertoire: 🎵 #Schumann’s Dichterliebe 🎵 Alvin Leung’s Wooden Heart (my poems on #rosewood set to music) 🎵 Schumann’s 3 Duets Tickets + house programme: dir.lat/0jsSto

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 01/06/2023

Truly grateful to be awarded a @NERC_EOF ECR Grant! Over the past 3 years I submitted ~20 different applications and this is the 3rd successful. Rejections are normal in the academia, so let's celebrate every achievement no matter how small #AcademicChatter #ECR #GrantApplication

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 26/03/2023

This is one of the greatest wonders I think as a #forest scientist. 🌲 #Alpine tree line ❄️ 46.00°N, 7.76°E, towards 30°NE, 2310 m.a.s.l. 2023.03.26

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 27/02/2023

Ready to recycle all these @nanopore flow cells and plan for the next #sequencing projects! #bioinformatics #academicchatter #genomics

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 31/01/2023

RNA God, bless us and these Thy sharp bands which we receive from Thy bountiful goodness. May it be free of nucleases, inhibitors, and genomic DNA. Grant the reverse transcriptase strength for synthesising full-length cDNA. #nanopore #sequencing #AcademicChatter

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 17/11/2022

@magdalenoxford 1st year biologists were asked “Why are leaves sometimes red and falling?” 🍁🍂 Before coming to the tutorial with me, they had a great time collecting the Nature’s palette! 🎨 credit: Adam, Heather, Kate, Jess, Harveet, Ferdinand @OxfordBiology

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 04/10/2022

Absolutely thrilled to announce that I am awarded a @InsideNatGeo #NatGeoExplorer grant to continue my research on #rosewood. This will also support our new Master's student @OxfordBiology @MacKay_Lab for their labwork. Stay tuned for more updates on this project! 🌳🧬🥵🌡️

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 15/09/2022

When I was chairing the #ClimGen22, this old @PHDcomics meme popped up in my mind again. But seriously, I enjoyed #ClimGen22 very much. Lots of cool research, thoughtful discussions & brilliant ideas that would last. Thank you all for this amazing time. #AcademicChatter

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 13/04/2022

Finally gave a try for the @nanopore Kit 12, was totally impressed by the read quality. (Left) Singlex basecalling: Q20+ as promised; (Right) Duplex basecalling: Simply wow. Now I'm really looking forward to the new Kit 14 for higher throughput. #sequencing #genomics #nanopore

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Tin Hang (Henry) Hung 洪天恒 @hung.bio · 25/03/2022

Saying goodbye to some of my PhD samples in today’s #labclean - more than a thousand of DNA extractions 🥲 but I’m thrilled to continue to be @MacKay_Lab as a #postdoc! 🧬🔬🥼 #AcademicTwitter

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