Iva Popovic

📢 Excited to finally release our new tool ReefAdapt.org - making genomic information more accessible for #marinerestoration. Out now @CommsBio nature.com/articles/s4200… @uwaoceans @UWAresearch @Flinders

Evolutionary biologists and @AustEvolSoc - please see this exciting postdoc opportunity to work on coral adaptation with our team at AIMS careers.aims.gov.au/page.php?pageI…

Excited to share that my 2021 honours research is finally out in coral reefs: 10.1007/s00338-024-02496-7. My first time leading a publication with support of the wonderful @iva_pops @suthicke @CRiginos. Echinoderms are cool and eDNA can be a useful monitoring tool for plankton!

Our paper is out in @PLOSGenetics! We show that outbreaking crown-of-thorns sea stars have unexpectedly high mutation rates, similar to mammals and other low Ne species. A true interdisciplinary effort with @CRiginos @LucieABergeron1 @suthicke @gwoerhe t.ly/hoAGm

First paper from my PhD is now out 🥳 🪸 Thanks to everyone involved - @iva_pops @kepra3 @JohnPandolfi @CRiginos doi.org/10.1111/eva.13…

Wrapping up this years CoTS (Acanthaster) spawning @SeaSim_AIMS @aims_gov_au with @klesita and team with some icing on the cake: As a world first we spawned CoTS we produced in the lab 3 years ago and thus closed the lifecycle and produced F2 larvae. Will we get them to settle?

Our @FrontiersIn Research Topic has come to an end! What a pleasure working with my fellow editors: @dpaz_corals @iva_pops @EricJ_Armstrong & Michael Hellberg. A great compilation of #coral #science 🪸 summarized in our @FrontMarineSci editorial: t.ly/FD5v7 [1/3]

Recommended!!

This work was a huge collaborative effort with fantastic people involved to name a few @CRiginos @LucieABergeron1 @suthicke @gwoerhe, Yves-Marie Bozec, Ann-Marie Waldvogel, Samantha Howitt

Our preprint is out! We report the first germline mutation rate estimate for a marine invertebrate using parent-offspring trios of crown-of-thorns sea stars to examine the determinants of genetic diversity in a species with extreme outbreaking tendencies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

If we “replayed the tape of life”, would evolution repeat itself? In many instances, it does! Find out more in our review paper on Replicated Evolution in Plants 🌳🌵🌴 A thread 🧵 annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

nature.com/articles/s4158… Thanks to an awesome team, our trio-based de novo mutation rates study is now out! We estimated a rate for 68 vertebrate species and explore the male and female contributions and the impact of life-history traits on the evolution of the rate! Read more:

Join our team :) 🐟 Senior Systems Data Engineer 🐟 SeaSim Aquarist @SeaSim_AIMS 🐟 Postdoc Fellowship: Quantitative Decision Support / Operations Research 🐟 Remuneration Officer 🐟 Benthic Ecologist - Long-Term Monitoring Program Apply: ow.ly/F21o50KR0r8

If you are an #ECR in #Coral #Science, consider publishing your research in our @FrontiersIn Research Topic "Innovative Approaches to Coral Reef Science by Early Career Researchers". More details: bit.ly/3x8POfV @FrontMarineSci @FrontPhysiol @FrontEcolEvol

Innovative Approaches to Coral Reef Science by Early Career Researchers frontiersin.org/research-topic… Call for Participation This collection aims to showcase and acknowledge high-quality work from internationally outstanding researchers in the early stages of their careers, Share!

New work by @jiazhangjia with @ZoeR_Coral @dorkyM @eco_genomics @JanStrugnell using 75 phased whole genomes to study evolution of Acropora digitifera in Western Australia. 1/4 @CTBMB_JCU @MarineOmics biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to co-host a symposium at @AMSAconf ! Our session ‘Exploring evolution under past, present and changing environments’ will highlight genomics research on the adaptive+demographic processes shaping marine biodiversity. Submit abstracts until March18 bit.ly/3tSiNRQ

Check out our preprint, where we disentangle the genetic basis of a parallel adaptive trait 🌱 🧬 @CoEPlantSuccess papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

How prevalent and important is natural hybridisation on coral reefs? Check out our fresh review on this topic. Congrats JP Hobbs & colleagues @joey_squishfish @iva_pops @chuan_lei Timo & Stefano link.springer.com/article/10.100…