Blaxter lab @SangerToL @darwintreelife @sangerinstitute Wellcome Sanger Institute (formerly Univ of Edinburgh)
Cambridge, UK
Joined March 2016
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It was a pleasure to talk to Robin McKie @ObserverUK about Project Psyche which is striving to sequence all 11,000 species of European butterflies and moths. A huge community effort! 🦋 @Psychegenome theguardian.com/environment/…
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📰Startling genome discovery in butterfly project reveals impact of climate change in Europe
✍️Robin McKie @ObserverUK
@CharJWright @blaxterlab
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Have long-read data and want to know what you've really sequenced, and how much of it? Reliable taxonomic labels are often scarce if the target is from a less well-explored group. VAE embeddings can tease apart different organisms in read sets:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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𝘊. 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘴 paved the way for genetic research, and was the first animal to have its entire #DNA sequenced.
Now, researchers are sequencing the genomes of hundreds more nematode species to study evolution and genetic diversity.
Find out more ⤵️
sangerinstitute.blog/2024/05…
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Our review "Genome evolution in intracellular parasites: Microsporidia and Apicomplexa" is now out in @JEukMicro! This could not have been possible without @orefrancis and @blaxterlab <3 - art by me and the talented @petrathepostdoc
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In addition to the basic steps of genome assembly, we also added a "check for contamination" step using #BlobToolKit.
Here you can see how we used #BTK to clean up a genome contaminated by contigs of bacterial origin.
Thanks to @rjchallis & @blaxterlab for this resource!
ALT A screenshot of the Blob Plot (Figure 8) from the article that can be found at https://imafungus.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s43008-024-00142-z.
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The talk abstract deadline for EvoWorm 2024 is today! Don't forget to submit an abstract!!
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#evoworm24
[Please RT] 🚨Deadline Alert: The 10th edition of the “Evolutionary Biology of Caenorhabditis and other Nematodes” meeting 🪱#EvoWorm24 will take place in Vienna, Austria (June 17-20). Travel and childcare grants are available. More info about the meeting
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[Please RT] 🚨Deadline Alert: The 10th edition of the “Evolutionary Biology of Caenorhabditis and other Nematodes” meeting 🪱#EvoWorm24 will take place in Vienna, Austria (June 17-20). Travel and childcare grants are available. More info about the meeting
oeaw.ac.at/imba/seminars-eve…
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We're advertising for a PhD on somatic evolution in plants!
Come and work with me @ARU_Biology and @ATJCagan @GeneticsCam. It's a fully funded 3 year PhD position starting in September.
Advert here:
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Please share widely!
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Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
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📰 Butterfly genomes have barely changed for 250m years, study reveals
✍️ @pgreenfielduk @guardian
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A wonderful writeup on our study also out today in @guardian @guardianeco, it was great to talk to @pgreenfielduk about butterfly genomics and why sequencing their genomes is so vital!
Butterfly genomes have barely changed for 250m years, study reveals theguardian.com/environment/…
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Delighted that our work on chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera is published today! ✨🦋
📰 Read ‘Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera’ with @sangerinstitute @SangerToL @darwintreelife @blaxterlab @CharJWright @marakat @phylewgenetics @EdinburghUni @thymelicus in @NatureEcoEvo ⤵️
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Butterflies and moths make up 10% of all named species on planet Earth 🌍
They are vital pollinators, herbivores, and indicators of ecosystem health 🌳
Project Psyche will sequence the genomes of all 11,000 European species, aiding #conservation 🧬
projectpsyche.org/
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🆕 Butterfly and moth genomes have remained remarkably intact over 250 million years of #evolution, despite huge diversification we see today 🦋
Some rare species have defied these rules, offering clues into their distinct biology and evolution 🧬
sanger.ac.uk/news_item/butte…
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📰 Read ‘Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera’ with @sangerinstitute @SangerToL @darwintreelife @blaxterlab @CharJWright @marakat @phylewgenetics @EdinburghUni @thymelicus in @NatureEcoEvo ⤵️
nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
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Super grateful for @KamilSJaron @blaxterlab @marakat for all their help, and my colleagues at @darwintreelife
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First preprint of my PhD is out! We survey all publicly available microsporidian datasets on the SRA and show that polyploidy is widespread in Microsporidia! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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How do moths and butterflies see?🦋👀
Our new preprint looks at the evolution of #opsin genes across #Lepidoptera. We uncover fascinating patterns of opsin duplication, translocation, and expression by analysing 219 genomes (most from @darwintreelife)
🔗tinyurl.com/mr2xh7cx
