Stefan Zdraljevic

It’s a wrap! EvoWorm2024, hosted by IMBA, welcomed 114 attendees and included 43 posters and 50 talks, as well as three workshops on topics ranging from effective scientific communication to nematode sequencing. Thank you to all the attendees and organizers. #evoworm2024

@MeruSadhu @leonidkruglyak The answer is not in the paper. It remains a puzzle!

@leonidkruglyak @sdraljefainc Cool!!! If the toxin is inactivated by unlinked genes in N2, then why does it exist? It won't drive. Maybe it provides viral defense, like various bacterial TA systems? (Apologies if the answer is in the paper; jumping the gun and asking questions from reading the abstract.)

New preprint from the lab: A maternal-effect toxin-antidote element causes larval arrest in C. elegans, by @sdraljefainc et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The tenth "Evolution of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes" meeting will be held on June 17-20, 2024 at the Vienna BioCenter! #evoworm2024 oeaw.ac.at/imba/seminars-…

Latest preprint from our lab: Cas9-induced nonhomologous recombination in C. elegans biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Work led by @sdraljefainc

LIVE - workers are occupying the @UCLA Luskin Conference Center. We'll be here all night!

Family on strike tiktok.com/t/ZTRQXyTAF/ #FairUCNow @UAW5810

@wheeler_worm @PLOSNTDs Thank you for the logo. There’s also microscopy in my future and can’t wait to try it out.

This is now published in @PLOSNTDs (which continues to welcome my all-computational papers, thankfully). A few updates since the pre-print:

@zamanian_ Sounds familiar

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In a recent paper, Shen et al. reported that most synonymous mutations in yeast genes were strongly deleterious. In a new preprint, we argue that this result is largely or entirely artifactual and arose from a lack of appropriate controls. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Genes—like early explorers who braved the seas—can also embark on extraordinary journeys. It is now clear that horizontal gene transfer takes place even between highly divergent animals species! 🐛🦋🪱🐟. But how exactly does it happen? Find it out in our latest preprint!

@Ryan_Mckeown1 @ecandersen Pics?

TIL: There is a criminal named Erik Andersen who has a warrant out for his arrest. If you are traveling with the non-criminal worm researcher @ecandersen you may be detained momentarily when crossing international borders

@PhilippBayer @ecandersen 🤔

@ClementYChow Pic with a smile, but don’t cross your arms 🤔

which one

@baym all flying objects would be UFOs to a bear 🤷

I had no idea bears had a notion of what kind of flying objects were expected and normal and which are not

@phylewgenetics @tendersombrero please tell the poor saps that missed the talk more :L

@kdc509 Check out nextflow

A huge congratulations to Student Researchers at UC who worked so hard for this victory. Welcome to the family @sruuaw!

@OdedRechavi Yes. But more importantly, it’s likely not physiologically relevant.

Is it like p hacking to submit again and again after rejections to finally get the paper accepted?

@sam_widmayer Congrats 🍾