EvomicsLab

Excited to share our PNAS paper on the genome evolution of an early-diverging #amphioxus, Asymmetron lucayanum! There is a long and twisty story behind this work, which also explains the username choice of the lab PI @iAmphioxus .😀 @PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

7/n: This work would not be possible without the long-term support of our collaborators, namely Linda Z. Holland, Jr-Kai (Sky) Yu @JKSkyYu , & Sung-Jin Cho. Many thanks to everyone involved!

6/n: Taken together, our findings illuminate the genome and gene evolution of amphixous and the cephalochordate subphylum that they represent, as well as provide valuable resources for understanding the early evolution of chordates and the origin of vertebrates.

Excited to share our PNAS paper on the genome evolution of an early-diverging #amphioxus, Asymmetron lucayanum! There is a long and twisty story behind this work, which also explains the username choice of the lab PI @iAmphioxus .😀 @PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Honored to serve on the Yeast Genetics Meeting Program Committee of Evolution & Population Genetics. Welcome for meeting registration and abstract submission, especially on our Evolution & Population Genetics program! genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/ @geneticsGSA #Yeast26

First #SMBE meeting for our lab！Definitely a memorable experience. Already looking forward to the next one! @OfficialSMBE #SMBE2025

📢Glad to share our genome paper on an early-diverged cephalochordate species, Asymmetron lucayanum! By decoding & analyzing this genome in a comparative genomics framework, we know better now regarding the genome and gene evolution in cephalochordates. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📢Our #SMBE 2025 Symposium (No. 3) on Experimental Evolution will be held today (7.22, Tuesday) at 10:30 in  Room 4, Building No. 8. An associated poster session will be held at 14:00 (poster number: S3-P01~P16). Welcome to join! let's study evolution in action! 🥳 @OfficialSMBE

Welcome to attend our Symposium on Experimental Evolution. Co-organized by Dao-Qiong Zheng, @iYeast_jingli and myself.

Glad to see the copy-edited version of our VRPG paper formally published in the latest issue of @genomeresearch ! We developed VRPG as a novel visualization framework for intuitively exploring pangenome graphs in a linear-reference-projected context. genome.cshlp.org/content/35/2/2…

📢📢📢 The FINAL COUNT DOWN for the extended abstract submission deadline of #SMBE2025! Please submit your abstract by 23:59 (GMT +8) of February 15, 2025 [Saturday]! And shout out again for our Experimental Evolution symposium! 🎉🎉🎉 @OfficialSMBE #LTEE #ExperimentalEvolution

*** Notification: New class in Evolutionary Cell Biology open to the public during Spring 2025 semester The class is taught by Dr. Michael Lynch every Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00-10:15 am (MST), starting on 16 January 2025 Join: asu.zoom.us/j/86824596554 Dtls: victor.chai@asu.edu

Many thanks to @Time_long_river for leading the development of VRPG. Built upon VRPG, we are currently working on new development and discoveries with #pangenome graphs. Stay tuned!

📢🧬Proud to announce our 1st work on pangenome graphs is early online @genomeresearch! Here we developed an interpretative visualization framework for pangenome graphs named VRPG, which seamlessly bridges the graph and linear genomics world. genome.cshlp.org/content/early/… #pangenome

Especially, VRPG enables side-by-side visualization between the graph-based pangenome representation and the conventional primary-linear-reference-genome-based feature annotations, which greatly increase the Interpretability of pangenome graphs.

VRPG provides efficient & intuitive supports for exploring and annotating pangenome graphs along a linear-genome-based coordinate system and offers many highly useful features such as in-graph path highlighting, CNV and SV characterization, graph-based sequence query, etc.