Julian Catchen

Out today in @molecology! We explored the landscape of gene expression in the amazing adaptation of Emperor penguin's to the extreme conditions of Antarctica 🐧🧊 First paper from the @MSCActions Poly2Adapt project! 🇪🇺onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Famed lions’ full diet revealed by DNA — and humans were among their prey nature.com/articles/d4158… (a round-about way to get into Nature 😍 it was nice chatting to Emma Marris about these lions!)

Paper out today! We used tiny hair fragments from the teeth of the historic #TsavoLions to identify their prey 🦓🦒🦁 @CurrentBiology @FieldMuseum @IGBIllinois @UofIllinois cell.com/current-biolog…

My first show.

Today we’re excited to freely share an early-version of, perhaps, the world’s most expansive genetics dataset: Logan. #bioinformatics #petabase #genetics #genomics #openscience biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to release Stacks v2.67 today. This release updates process_radtags to make it easier to use SRA data and to filter poly-G (error) runs coming from Nextseq/Novaseq machines + bugfixes. We also added a genotype depth filter to populations #RADseq catchenlab.life.illinois.edu/stacks/

Catherine Wilson & @JohnPostlethw8 published research in #G3journal that explores unique features of the zebrafish sex chromosome, identifying a gene regulatory block of the zebrafish genome responsible for overseeing the maternal-to-zygotic-transition: bit.ly/4cYCkVL

@adeflamingh talks about using #aDNA to investigate prey in the Tsavo Lions! @IGBIllinois #SMBE2024 #TheGhostAndTheDarkness

In a new study, Illinois researchers describe a hybrid zone between two manakin species in Panama that has overall remained relatively stable over the past 30 years. Learn more at bit.ly/3LiSqOg.

Excited to be at #SMBE2024! I will be giving a talk on Thursday's Open Symposium 2 about our new genome and population genomic analysis of the Pacific acorn #barnacle. Come check it out! Also, do you have access to barnacle samples? Let's chat!

Awesome article (and photos of manakins!) just released today, written by @Bird_Sock on my recent paper with @arcolon14, @KevinFPBennett, @jcatchen, Jeff Brawn and Mike Braun in @journal_evo Check it out: buff.ly/3L3sar0 #ornithology #manakin #TeamManacus

Who’s going to #SMBE2024 in Puerto Vallarta? My talk is going to be about paleogenomic analysis of hair from cavities in the the teeth of lions featured in this (epic) movie 🦁come say hi! And share your presentation info so I can check out your talk! #TheGhostandTheDarkness

The Beck Lab is hiring an assistant researcher/lab manager or two @KUbiology. Position starts this August in Lawrence KS. We are a 50/50 wet/dry lab and are looking for people with a wide range of skills. Must love mitochondria. Helpful if you love fish. employment.ku.edu/staff/28121BR

Out in MER! 𝐾𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑝𝑦: a new kmer-based tool by Gio Madrigal, @minhasbushra, & @jcatchen for evaluating and visualizing genome assemblies and sequence motifs using long-read sequencing data. @WileyEcolEvol @iBioIllinois Read More: buff.ly/3KiIIuq

Out today in Molecular Ecology Resources: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17… (open access) Congratulations to Gio on his first, first author paper and on publishing a useful tool for the community!

I’m excited to share my first dissertation chapter and first, first-authored article “Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone” being published with Evolution! doi.org/10.1093/evolut… (1/4)

Please share! My lab will be hiring 2-3 postdocs over the coming months to study the genetic basis of behavioral traits in darters using brain transcriptomics & population genomics. First ad is posted here: tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/TAMU_External/… #behavior #popgen #evolution #neuroethology

Our preprint exploring the role of Ne and gene expression on purifying selection in penguins has been recommended by @PCIEvolBiol! Approaches can be extended to many non-model organisms, including using expression bins as a proxy for selection coefficients evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec?i…

As Zam says, this is impressive work by shows @nanopore consensus call accuracy being better than illumina (with a deep learning caller, in bacteria) - I have huge COI (long established consultant for @nanopore and shareholder) but wanted to put this in short+long term context

On the back pages of BYTE from Dec 1995, there was an article on FreeBSD by Jordan Hubbard. Jordan is the co-founder of the FreeBSD project and later became the director of Unix technology at Apple