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Philipp Hummer

@philipphummer.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist from Austria, working on insect museomics and horizontal transposon transfer

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Nature @nature.com · 15/01/2026
A rare sample from a woolly rhinoceroses reveals how the population changed in the lead-up to the species’ extinction go.nature.com/4qWohHb
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Wolf pup’s stomach yields DNA from one of world’s last surviving woolly rhinos
A rare sample from a woolly rhinoceroses reveals how the population changed in the lead-up to the species’ extinction.
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Environmental complexity constrains evolutionary adaptation across taxa www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Ioanna's research develops models to study the factors shaping adaptation and the evolutionary history of species, combining multi-species and multi-population data to model the evolution of protein-coding sequences. Ioanna Kotari (@popgenviennaphd.bsky.social) @janekay27.bsky.social
Ioanna Kotari (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)
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Dr. Sarah Signor @signor-molevol.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
My awesome grad student Shashank and I wrote this paper trying to look at broader patterns of HT in TEs. HT is happening everywhere! DNA transposons jump further than other classes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Recent horizontal transfer of transposable elements in Drosophila
Transposable elements (TEs) are genetic elements also known as "jumping genes" that increase their copy numbers within a host through various mechanisms of transposition. TEs can also move between spe...
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We are excited to welcome our three new SMBE Fellows! Ioanna Kotari, Shady Kuster, and Haoran Cai will join @molbioevol.bsky.social and @genomebiolevol.bsky.social as writing fellows. Keep an eye on our next Highlight articles in MBE and GBE! #society #scicomm #evobio #molbio #genome #evolution
SMBE Fellows Program | 2025 cohort
Ioanna Kotari (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)
Shady A. Kuster (Colorado State University)
Haoran Cai (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Alba Nieto Heredia @albanietoh.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Take a look at my first preprint as a first author! We analyse the effect of population structure in SMC methods and find two systematic biases that have indeed extra information about the population! We model the nature of these biases and find a link with the isolation of the population and Fst.
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Riccardo Pianezza @rpianezza.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
We discovered an endogenous retrovirus that's still spreading in natural D. melanogaster populations! It was horizontally transferred from D. erecta in Central Africa, so we named it "Kuruka", which means "jump" in Swahili. Read its cool story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This morning ended with the Graduate Student Excellence Symposium, where our eight awardees presented their great work. 👏 Congratulations to all GSEA recipients! #SMBE2025
Graduate Student Excellence Symposium recipients at SMBE2025
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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Call for #PhD students open! Apply by 14 May to start your research career in #evolution #genetics in beautiful #Vienna among a fun international and interdisciplinary crowd of peers #evolVienna #bioinformatics #bigdata #Drosophila #adaptation #popgen
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