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Nicol Rueda

@nicolr.bsky.social
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Postdoc in Joana Meier group at Wellcome Sanger institute. Sex chromosome evolution, genomics, chromosome rearrangements

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Nicol Rueda @nicolr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
If you are researcher or student in Latin America apply for our Biodiversity Genomics course in Colombia from 27th-31st July 2026 (10 days left for registration) biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com
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Nicol Rueda @nicolr.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Happy to share that this year we will teach the course in Colombia. Please share this information with students, postdocs, and PIs interested in learning how to analyze genomic data. @ibiogen-latam.bsky.social More information: biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com
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BIODIVERSITY GENOMICS LATAM
Biodiversity genomics is a dynamic and interdisciplinary field that integrates genomics, ecology, evolutionary biology, conservation biology and bioinformatics. This introductory course is designed...
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Biodiversity Genomics course LATAM @ibiogen-latam.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Looking back to a wonderful week of teaching biodiversity genomics in Mendoza, Argentina. The participants from 8 South and Central American countries learned the basics of biodiversity genomics from assessing data quality to performing population and comparative genomics analysis.
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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers
Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).
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Nicol Rueda @nicolr.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Happy to share that the second edition of our course will take place in Argentina from November 24th to 28th. Application deadline: September 1st, 2025. biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com
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Samridhi Chaturvedi @samridhi.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Super excited to see the published Editorial for our Special Issue on Ecology of Gene Expression. We began working on this in 2023, and we have some excellent papers to share (1) Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Takashi Akera Lab @takashiakeralab.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
🚨Our latest work on selfish centromeres is published @currentbiology.bsky.social 🐭🧬We found that the spindle checkpoint contributes to non-Mendelian segregation! Huge congrats to our lab manager, Zaak Walton, who led the project🎉 Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQzN3QW8S...
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Li Zhao @lizhao.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Our latest paper is out: rdcu.be/ev6Ym — one of my favorite projects. It began about 8 years ago when Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel asked me: what transcription factors regulate new genes? I had no idea then. Now we have some answers.
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Gene regulatory networks and essential transcription factors for de novo-originated genes
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A combination of computational methods applied to single-cell RNA sequencing data and genetic experiments shows that a small number of transcription factors are...
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Jamie Walters @bioboatr.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We are just starting sessions at the 2025 Workshop on Lepidopteran genetics in Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. During the week, researchers from around the world (Europe, Americas, China & Japan, etc) present research on moths and butterflies. events.gwdg.de/event/880/ #lepgencrete
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The 12th international Workshop on molecular biology and genetics of the Lepidoptera
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN We are delighted to invite you to join us at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, set just outside the lovely Cretan village Kolymbari, for a stimulating and enriching event. With 150 ...
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Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Join us on the Wellcome Genome Campus of the Sanger Institute and EBI for a symposium on biodiversity genomics from 27th-29th October! Abstract deadline on 14 July. There is also an option to join via Zoom, but in-person is much nicer if you can make it.
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Chris Jiggins @chrisjiggins.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Very excited about this paper led by Erika Castro. She has shown that Heliconius were ancestrally plastic in how they acquired their cyanogens, but some species have lost the ability to biosynthesise toxins, and have lost genes involved www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Gene loss associated with plasticity-first evolution in Heliconius butterflies
Phenotypic plasticity occurs when a genotype can produce more than one phenotype under different environmental conditions. Genetic accommodation allows plastic phenotypes to be tuned to new environmen...
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Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Meet our Postdocs who have recently won a Sanger Accelerator Award 🎉 The Awardees will receive funding to further their research and gain valuable experience in project management and grant writing. Find out more ⬇️ www.sanger.ac.uk/about/career...
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Sanger Accelerator Awards for Postdoc researchers
Discover how postdoc researchers expand their research and build vital scientific connections and networks using the Wellcome Sanger Institute's Accelerator Awards for Postdoc researchers
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Dr Dr Oona Snoeyenbos-West @oonawest.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Since I'm stuck backing up and transferring to a non-crashing laptop might as well spend a bit of today doodling something for International Day of Women and Girls in Science, now more than ever! #WomenInScience #IDWGS #SciArt
doodle of 5 girls (heads only) on a yellow/orange background with the text "11th Feb '25 International Day of Women & Girls in Science"in the middle. From top left counterclockwise:
- girl in teal headscarf looking at some cells in a petri dish
- two girls with dark skin tones (left with glasses) looking at atoms and celetials objects flying around
- brown blonde girl with a soldering iron looking preplexed at a laptop screen
- light skinned dark haired glasses girl with a mosquito on her head and a ladybug flying behind her
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🐛 We have a new pre-print up on genomic evolution during repeated transitions to gregarious behaviour in Heliconiini caterpillars 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n
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Convergent molecular evolution associated with repeated transitions to gregarious larval behaviour in Heliconiini
Collective behaviour forms the basis for many anti-predator strategies. Within Lepidoptera, larval gregariousness has evolved convergently across many phylogenetically disparate lineages. While the se...
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Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
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Common misconceptions of speciation
Abstract. Speciation is a complex process that can unfold in many different ways. Speciation researchers sometimes simplify core principles in their writin
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