Kay Lucek SNSF Eccellenza Professor @UniNeuchatel #Speciation #Genomics #Holocentricity #BiodiversityGenomics #Conservation #FirstGeneration #ProudFather
Joined August 2022
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#ERGAReads | Despite rapid chromosome changes, sedges maintain conserved synteny - likely due to repetitive DNA shaping recombination and gene order. This may explain how they retain species cohesion despite high rates of #chromosome evolution. 🧬
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/mec.17086
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Camille Cornet, @KayLucek, Paula Escuer & I had the pleasure of organising the first conference on holocentric chromosomes in @UniNeuchatel . 2 days of terrific talks & 🗣️ all about holocentricity, its #evolution across the Tree of Life, role in #speciation & #adaptation 🙌🏾🌱🦋🕷️
Great effort! So eager to see #Erebia taking off
🚨 New ERGA-BGE study alert! 🚨 @BioGenEurope
The reference genome of Erebia palarica, a montane butterfly endemic to North-West Iberia 🦋, is now available.
Explore its insights for biodiversity 🌍✨
➡️ Read the full preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.08.6…
#genomes for #biodiversity
Looking forward to get the #holocentric community together @UniNeuchatel
Thanks to @snsf_ch we can also offer some travel awards! 👉 holocentricity.ch
So excited to be organizing this with @KayLucek! Come to our lovely swiss city and share with all your network, we're gonna have a great time! 🧬🦋🌱🪱
Thanks to all the authors providing a diverse and exciting overview where the field stands
New ME Special Issue!
𝘼 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙐𝙥𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨, edited by @HAugustijnen, @CrisAriasSarda, @marta_f_b, & @KayLucek.
@WileyEcolEvol
Read more: buff.ly/4gbNs3u
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Many thanks to @erga_biodiv for highlighting our @BioGenEurope project in this new blog post! Go check it out! 🦋🧬🏔️⬇️
#ERGABlog | This Monday we head to the Alps 🏔️ and learn more about the @BioGenEurope case study investigating the functional #Genomic diversity of #butterflies in the context of adaptation to environmental change 🦋
Text by @CamilleCornet17
erga-biodiversity.eu/post/ge…
Great article @guardian featuring Project Psyche projectpsyche.org aiming to sequence reference genomes for all European Lepidoptera 🦋 👉theguardian.com/environment/… honored to be part of this exciting community project @UniNeuchatel
What happens when strongly divergent species form zones of secondary contact? 👉 @HAugustijnen last paper with me @Mol_Ecol onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… on alpine #erebia 🦋 using whole genome resequence data for 300 individuals #biodiversitygenomics
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@ibc2024 has been joyful to meet our incredible collaborators, plant peers 🌍🇮🇳, learn loads about 🌱 ecology, evolution, genomes, adaptation, & more! Follow us for updates on genome evolution in the holocentric Carex genus! @MEscudero_Carex @KayLucek #IBC2024
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Throwback to last year's fieldwork in Georgia 🇬🇪 collecting Erebia 🦋 for genome annotation as part of our @BioGenEurope Case Study! Thanks to our Georgian experts Tina and @iankoshvili from CaBoL and to @REA_research, @SBFI_CH, @ISBSIB, @EUgreenresearch
Well done! Let's explore the role of 3D genomic changes during speciation in #holocentrics and beyond
Happy to share our press release (in French) from @UniNeuchatel! We propose a new 3D genomics view to help understand species diversification 🧬🌱🦋 with @crazy_chipkali @scueridae @KayLucek
-> The press release: bit.ly/4cHOdzn
-> The paper: bit.ly/4cHycd3
Looking forward to exciting discoveries in Erebia! Go team 🦋
Very excited to start a @BioGenEurope case study with @KayLucek on the adaptive potential of alpine butterflies in changing environments! 🦋🏔️We will annotate genomes to showcase the importance of genomics for conservation 🧬 @REA_research, @SBFI_CH, @ISBSIB, @Eugreenresearch
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For me personally, I started thinking about genomic rearrangements, & 3D genome structures during my @MSCActions grant at the Natural History Museum London during wonderful discussions with @jeff_streicher & @anjgoswami ! Thank you so much for planting this seed in my head! 🙌🏾4/4
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We thank the Fondation Pierre Mercier pour la Science & @SNSF for funding, @AliceLaigle & @CharJWright for giving precious feedback on earlier drafts, & the editorial team of @TrendsGenetics for smooth processing 3/4
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Complex interactions b/w 3D genome structures & sequence evol., genomic rearrangements, & processes such as recombination suppression intrigued us. We immensely enjoyed writing this work! Hope it evokes such intrigue in you & opens a new perspective for speciation research! 2/4
So exciting! What a great outcome of a group effort! Now we need to get the empirical side sorted 😊
🚨 🧵 We (@CamilleCornet17 , @scueridae , @KayLucek & I) are delighted to share our perspectives on how the 3D genome structure could be both a cause & a consequence of speciation, just out in @TrendsGenetics !!Keeping reading 👇🏾 sciencedirect.com/science/ar… 1/4
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7/7 Overall, we show that fusions and fissions can have a considerable impact on speciation rates, particularly when groups are chromosomally diverse, and that the importance of fusions and fissions can differ even among clades within a single genus.
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6/7 The pattern becomes more complicated when clades within Erebia are considered: karyotypically diverse clades (e.g. the purple clade) show higher associated speciation rates while in more conservative clades (e.g. the red clade) diversification is driven more by other factors.
