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Dr. Tyler A. Elliott

@transposableman.bsky.social

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Transposon obsessed biologist #TEsky. Research Associate in Linquist Lab and Adamowicz Lab @ the U of Guelph Check out the wealth of TE resources on @tehub.bsky.social tehub.org www.tyleraelliott.com/research

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Dr. Tyler A. Elliott @transposableman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Finally got to see one myself yesterday at the Aukland Zoo! We're seeing glowworms today

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Dr. Tyler A. Elliott @transposableman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Right on the money

Picture of the paper: " A new approach for identifying and mapping structural genes in Drosophila melanogaster"

Sections of the paper where the copia retrotransposon is named

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Dr. Tyler A. Elliott @transposableman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

#CSEE2026 #TEsky This afternoon Stefan Linquist and @mbonar.bsky.social will be talking about TE niches in the Octopus vulgaris genome at 3:30 in BA 1240 for Animals-3

Snippets of the abstracts for these two talks, The first entitled "Does the octopus genome contain “niches” for transposable elements?" presented by Stefan Linquist, and the second "Habitat selection explains spatial distribution of transposable elements in the octopus genome" by Maegwin Bonar

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Dr. Tyler A. Elliott @transposableman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

#CSEE2026 I'll be presenting my poster today (Other Posters - PO_39_603) on Octopus vulgaris repeats, and @mbonar.bsky.social and Stefan Linquist will be talking more Octopus, TEs and genome ecology on Thursday in BA-120 in the 3:30 Animals-3 Contributed Session #TEsky

Picture of poster entitled: "Biological implications of a detailed repeat annotation in Octopus vulgaris". Here is the abstract of the work for a forthcoming publication: Octopuses are phenotypically distinctive organisms, and recent genomic work raises questions about the contributions of transposable elements (TE) to their genomic architecture. We leveraged a robust repeat annotation pipeline, in combination with manual and automated curatorial techniques, to produce a more comprehensive repeat annotation of Octopus vulgaris. This revealed that ~66% of the genome are repeats, in contrast to previous estimates of 43-50% in closely related octopus species. Whereas previous studies of TE expansion in Octopus bimaculoides identified two bursts of activity, 25 and 56 MYA, our re-annotation revealed four such expansions at 18, 25, 33, and 56 MYA. We further identified a landscape of TE hot- and cold spots. This much refined TE timescape and landscape will serve as a useful basis for understanding TE contributions to O. vulgaris evolution, and also for identifying factors contributing to variation in the TE community across genomic space and evolutionary time.

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Dr. Tyler A. Elliott @transposableman.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

Haven't built a LEGO set in almost 30 years but I couldn't resist this

Front of the Atreides Royal Ornithopter LEGO set, showing the thopter with its four wings extended in flight.

Back of the Atreides Royal Ornithopter LEGO set, showing all of the minifigures it comes with and some details of the thopter itself.

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