The Edwards lab (edwardslab.org) is looking for a new post-doctoral research associate to work on the phylogenomics of Montiaceae, a really cool group of plants. Email me a CV and contact info for two references – come join us!

Interested to know more about our work:
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By combining comparative genomics, transcriptomics and popgen, we studied how genetic drivers influenced the evolution of CAM, a water-saving photosynthesis, in Tillandsia, a textbook example of radiation in plants

Do the mutations that drive evolution improve many traits or few? How might this change over the course of evolution? Excited to share our new work exploring these questions in the first 2 steps of adaptation w/ Yuping Li Gavin Sherlock Dmitri Petrov 💔 🧵1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ever wondered how self-incompatibility is achieved in Oleaceae 🌿?

Pauline Raimondeau et al. just published the answer in a beautiful Current Biology paper 🔽!

Congrats to all involved!

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Now out! New work led by Bianca Sacchi and Zoë Humphries, with colleagues from University of Toronto EEB @cageftoronto and Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Acad. Sci. - TE invasion and gene loss happen on Y chromosomes with pre-existing recombination suppression, along with very high rates of rearrangement academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…