Michael Scott

In @GenomeBiology (genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…), a big #openaccess breeding, genotyping, and phenotyping resource to dissect trait genetic architecture across 70 years of wheat breeding. @UGI_at_UCL @niabgroup 1/8

Leveraging one of the world’s oldest biological experiments, which began in 1929, researchers in Science have uncovered how a major crop, barley, was shaped by both agricultural pressures and its changing natural environment. Learn more: scim.ag/7IG

Inversions are likely to contain locally adaptive alleles with relatively large effects. New article in @GeneticsGSA lead by Carl Mackintosh with @MaxReuterEvo @andrew_pom doi.org/10.1093/geneti… @uclbiosciences

I am very happy to announce the recent publication of a beautiful theory paper with @mscott0106 and Karl Mackintosh (not on X) on the interactions between mating system evolution and haploid gametic selection in @PLOSGenetics doi.org/10.1371/journa…

ICYMI 🌿🧬Multi-trait ensemble genomic prediction and simulations of recurrent selection for long-term genetic gains in #wheat @nickfradgley @niabgroup @plantsci @AlisonRBentley @breederphil @IanJMackay @mscott0106 @RichardMott7 @james_f_cockram bit.ly/3TMWQ3n

Strong Purifying Selection in Haploid Tissue–Specific Genes of Scots Pine Supports the Masking Theory buff.ly/3P65KXD From @PyhaTanja #science #evolution #biology #genome

There’s an interesting bit of insect ecology on display at the moment. I’m sure you remember the massive acorn crop last year (autumn 2022, below). Because Quercus robur is alternate-bearing (big crops are always followed by little crops) we predicted a very low crop this year

🚨New Preprint Alert 🚨  @yanivbrandvain  & I ask when and how recessive lethality can adaptively evolve on a chromosomes that selfishly distorter meiotic segregation? More in the 🧵 - 1/14 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Looking for a Postdoc in crop genome evolution? Contact me if interested! We’re offering projects related with flax domestication, evolution of free-threshing wheat and building and analysing several crop pangenomes! #ancientDNA #CWR #PopGen

New paper: "Density-dependent dispersal promotes female-biased sex allocation in viscous populations" (#OpenAccess), with Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn (not on Twitter) doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2… #Dispersal #KinSelection #SexRatio @SchoolofBiology @StLeonards_PGs @RSocPublishing #OA

NEW! 🌿🧬Multi-trait ensemble genomic prediction and simulations of recurrent selection for long-term genetic gains in #wheat @nickfradgley @niabgroup @plantsci @AlisonRBentley @breederphil @IanJMackay @mscott0106 @RichardMott7 @james_f_cockram bit.ly/42rjoKO

Carl noticed that alleles with large effects may be particularly important for inversion evolution.

📢 Latest paper from the Botigué Lab @CRAGENOMICA is out! rdcu.be/c0sOq New evidence on genetic structure, evolution and early dispersal of Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccum (emmer wheat). Analyses done by Alice Iob over the past few years. 🧬 #wheat #Neolithic 🧵

New pre-print! "Multi-trait ensemble genomic prediction and simulations of recurrent selection highlight importance of complex trait genetic architecture in long-term genetic gains in wheat" biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @niabscience

🌾🦠Excited to advertise postdoc position, based at Kew, London. I am looking for someone with comparative genomics and/or metagenomics background to join my team and study the pre-industrial rice and its microbial ecosystem. 3-years post. Please retweet! careers.kew.org/vacancy/postdo…

Looking for a 2-years postdoc researcher and/or a 3-years PhD student with a background in population genetics and statistical genomics. Please RT and DM if you are interested in analyzing MANY ancient horse genomes to assess the impact of horses in human history.

🎉Pleased to share my first paper with @SimoneImmler @biouea entitled "The potential role of the mobile and non-coding genomes in adaptive response" covering #miRNAs #piRNAs and #TEs 🚨Full-text available @TrendsGenetics open-access here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01…

New @TheorApplGenet paper on historical selection in winter wheat with @cjyang90, @IanJMackay, @Funmielad, @SRUCPrincipal. Historical allele frequency changes increased yield, but reduced flowering time, lodging, plant height and grain protein content. rdcu.be/cSbei

Working with multiple collaborators we cloned the Rht13 alternative dwarfing gene. Buckle-up- it's not what we expected... Unlike other wheat dwarfing genes it isn't a gibberellin signalling/metabolic gene- it's an autoactive NB-LRR! Pre-print available: doi.org/10.1101/2022.0…

"Arabidopsis thaliana flower with pollen tubes growing through the pistil. The flower tissues were chemically cleared to become transparent, while the pollen tubes were stained with aniline blue (yellow fluorescence) in order to be seen."

We have a postdoc available at @UGI_at_UCL in Genetic Privacy and Cryptography, funded by @BBSRC. Apply at tinyurl.com/nhk26bt9 by Mar 28. See bit.ly/3hlwWBY for the science.