Assistant Professor @UTSA. Study evolution of selfish genes. Manage two labs. Research lab🔬🧪🧬🖥️ with some ease but the other lab 🐶🐾 is un-manageable!
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17 Jul 2025
🔬 Now hiring a Postdoc in Evolutionary & Developmental Genomics at UTSA!
Study meiotic drive, fertility & genetic conflict in Drosophila 🧬
Expertise in Genetics, genomics/bioinformatics
Apply by Aug 15. Informal queries: @Anti_Sense Please RT
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The molecular mechanisms by which suppressors emerge and counteract meiotic drive genes remain unclear. This review from Jeffrey Vedanayagam highlights how small RNA pathways control the selfish activities of meiotic drive genes during male gametogenesis.
doi.org/10.1042/BST20240344
ALT Stellate system and piRNA-mediated suppression of sex chromosome meiotic conflicts in D. melanogaster.
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20 Feb 2025
Transposon–host arms race: a saga of genome evolution dlvr.it/TJ4YY6
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19 Nov 2024
If you know any undergrads interested in data science, AI in biomedicine, genomics & bioinformatics, please spread the word to apply for the UTSA's Data Science & AI community innovation scholars program. Interested students, please DM or get in touch. Please RT
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1 Nov 2024
Looking for a course that combines Data Science and Biomedicine? NDRB 6973 is now open for Spring 2025 registration
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30 Oct 2024
Exciting news, fellow #Drosophila researchers! Ever wondered about the genome sequence of your lab strain or the balancers? Check out our Drosophila Laboratory Pangenome Database, featuring a growing collection of reference genome assemblies for popular D. melanogaster strains!
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29 Oct 2024
"The burst of satellite DNA in Leptidea wood white butterflies and their putative role in karyotype evolution" is published in DNA Res. If you're interested in insects, repeats, chrom evol, and sex chromosomes, check it out!😀😀😀 @lab_icg @MilaniDiogo
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24 Oct 2024
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (Born #OnThisDay in 1632) was a pioneer of microscopy and the first to describe red blood cells and bacteria. Take a look at how some of Leeuwenhoek's original specimens have been photographed for our #ScienceInTheMaking platform: royalsociety.org/blog/2023/0…
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23 Oct 2024
UTSA is hiring mid-to-senior-level faculty to expand our brain health and trauma research initiative!
Please share this opportunity with others or reach out if you would like to learn more!
Apply here: bit.ly/3zUK2lI
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12 Oct 2024
I wanted to share my perspective/review article regarding epigenetics research in evolutionary biology. I had a lot of fun thinking about where the field is and where we are going. I hope you enjoy!
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10 Oct 2024
They said it, not us...😇 Our "fundamental" and "convincing" study on what evolution can teach us about #infertility is finally out. TL;DR? Check out this primer by @eLife to get the lowdown on what we have discovered by looking at the past of human sperm. elifesciences.org/digests/95…
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10 Oct 2024
We are excited to announce a major cluster hire in neuroscience, clinical psychology, public health, biomedical engineering, & educational psychology. We’re seeking mid to senior faculty who can help us grow research. Join us as we merge with UT Health San Antonio! 👇👇👇
10 Oct 2024
We are recruiting five Associate or Full Professors to contribute to a Brain Health and Trauma Research cluster hiring initiative to begin in the fall semester of academic year 2025-26. Apply by Dec 1 for full consideration. zahr-prd-candidate-ada.utsha…
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2 Sep 2024
Retrotransposon addiction promotes centromere function via epigenetically activated small RNAs
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13 Aug 2024
At a recent conference @AthenaAktipis invited me to give a talk on the role of creativity in science. For those interested here are the illustrated slides in tweetorial format. The take home message: Creativity and science go hand in hand. (Thread 1 of 2)
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16 Jul 2024
Ancestral immunity: @EnzoZ_P @AudeBer &co explore the concept of ancestral #immunity - the set of immune modules (domains & proteins) conserved between #prokaryotes & #eukaryotes - including a putative evolutionary scenario for its existence #PLOSBiology plos.io/4cJNLRm
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19 Jun 2024
"Here, we report a broad survey of plasmids from hundreds of academic and industrial labs worldwide. We show that nearly half of them contained design and/or sequence errors."
Trust nothing; validate everything.
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14 May 2019
Long-range enhancer–promoter contacts in gene expression control go.nature.com/2WJp6p8 #Review by Stefan Schoenfelder & @Peter_Fraser1 @BabrahamInst
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11 Nov 2021
Perfect and imperfect views of ultraconserved sequences go.nature.com/3wDBo53 #Review by @Pribaikalochka, @LenPennacchio, @AxelVisel & @diane_dickel @LBNLBioSci
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30 May 2024
Read our new @Nature paper on 'Complete sequencing & comparative analysis of ape sex chromosomes'. Bonobo, chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and siamang #Xchr & #Ychr are now telomere-to-telomere (#T2T)! A collaboration of the #T2T_Primates_Consortium. 🦧🦍nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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