iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cedric Feschotte @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thrilled to see this published today! Truly special because we made the initial discovery >15 yrs ago! We found two copies of a human gene called BC200 embedded in a human poxvirus. BC200 blurs the line between gene & transposon—both functional & mutagenic! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/n

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Escape of the BC200 gene to a human poxvirus reveals its persistent transposition in primates

Transposable elements mobilize within and occasionally between genomes, including from host to virus. We identified two insertions of the human BC200 noncoding RNA gene in the poxvirus molluscum conta...

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Damian Dudka @damiandudka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My lab just opened at Lehigh University - we study the origins, mechanisms, and impacts of the rapid evolution of the chromosome segregation machinery. I'm looking for 2 team members (postdoc and lab tech) who are passionate about evolution and cell division! See the opportunities at dudkalab.me.

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Dudka Lab — Home

The Dudka Lab at Lehigh University studies how rapid evolution of chromosome segregation machinery impacts health, fertility, and disease.

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Sung-Ya Lin @sungyalin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This week I attended the 5th #Pristionchus meeting and had a wonderful time. It’s so intellectually stimulating to see so many new questions and new tools being developed in these nematodes. As someone who is new to nematodes, it’s great to be part of this community!😊 Thank you to the organizers!!!

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Li Zhao @lizhao.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

In our recent paper in PLoS Computational Biology, we used AlphaFold2 Multimer to predict the structural details of ~28,000 protein-protein interactions from high-confidence STRING pairs in Drosophila, and identified interesting patterns in disordered regions. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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A predicted structural interactome reveals binding interference from intrinsically disordered regions

Author summary Understanding which proteins interact with each other and how they interact is essential for uncovering fundamental biology and for identifying new pathways involved in health and disea...

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Cara Brand @carabrand.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Grateful to have worked with such an incredible team on this project. Excited to finally share this story about Top2 evolution and hybrid incompatibility in Drosophila. More to come!

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Sung-Ya Lin @sungyalin.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

So excited to see my PhD work finally being published!!! It was such a pleasure working with a great team!!!

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

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