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Stephen I. Wright @stepheniwright

Plant Evolutionary Geneticist

Joined May 2012
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Congrats to Dr. Meng Yuan @imengyuan !! Outstanding defence of her PhD thesis today on investigating the genome-wide scope for conflict between the diploid and haploid stages of the plant life cycle. Great work!
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I am recruiting postocs to my lab at @eebtoronto ! This includes work on the historical and contemporary population genomics of invasive capeweed, collaborative work with @shaky_dingo, Tim Conallon, Akane Uesugi, and Allan Ellis, please share with your networks!
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New work led by @imengyuan shows evidence for much greater scope for conflict between the sexes within a tissue than between life stages (pollen and leaf) within a sex, given more genetic concordance of eQTL effects between the sexes
Meng Yuan 袁梦@imengyuan
20 Jun 2025
Check out our new preprint "Cis-regulation of gene expression between sexes and life stages in Rumex hastatulus" with @JohnStinchcombe @stepheniwright et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Evolution Letters@EvolLetters
4 Dec 2024
What forces drive genome evolution in groups with young sex chromosomes?” doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae0… Now in @EvolLetters by @reject_resubmit, @JoannaRifkin, @bichoudhury, O Voznesenska, B Sacchi, @imengyuan, Y Gong, SCH Barrett, and @stepheniwright 📷: Joanna Rifkin
A photo of Rumex hastatulus, a flowering plant with clusters of small, red flowers.

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Gavin Douglas@gavin_m_douglas
13 Nov 2024
I'm excited to be starting as an Assistant Professor (@BiologyUnb) at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, Canada) in July 2025! My group will be exploring the evolutionary forces driving pangenome variation in prokaryotes. Details here: buff.ly/3UPVcQ9
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Asher Cutter@asherdcutter
31 Oct 2024
PhD and MSc application portal @eebtoronto opens tomorrow Nov 1! Check our outstanding faculty and research for open positions! Toronto is a great place to be eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr… eeb.utoronto.ca/people/facul… eeb.utoronto.ca/research/

Admissions - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Resources For More Information Please contact: grad.eeb@utoronto.ca

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Fantastic news!!
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@OfficialSMBE
10 Oct 2024
Congratulations @aoifemcl, science adviser to the Irish Government! irishtimes.com/politics/2024…
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@OfficialSMBE
10 Oct 2024
Congratulations @aoifemcl, science adviser to the Irish Government! irishtimes.com/politics/2024…

Geneticist Aoife McLysaght due to be appointed Government science adviser by Cabinet

New national science forum to enhance ability to respond to challenges such as climate change and pandemic threats

irishtimes.com
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University of Toronto@UofT
8 Oct 2024
#UofT Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton has won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics. Hinton shares the prize with John J. Hopfield “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” #NobelPrize uoft.me/aXz
Photo of Geoffrey Hinton at a recent conference. Text reads, "Congratulations Geoffrey Hinton. 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics."

ALT Photo of Geoffrey Hinton at a recent conference. Text reads, "Congratulations Geoffrey Hinton. 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics."

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Does intra-locus conflict between the life cycles lead to genome-wide signatures of selection? Find out in this study led by @imengyuan !!
Meng Yuan 袁梦@imengyuan
7 Oct 2024
Check out our preprint on testing for intra-locus conflict between the haploid and diploid phases of plant life cycle in Rumex hastatulus and Ceratodon purpureus! W/ @JohnStinchcombe @stepheniwright @mcdaniellab and many others
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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler@reject_resubmit
2 Oct 2024
I'm recruiting students / postdocs to join my new lab at the University of Rochester for Fall 2025 onwards! If you're interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, genome evolution, and/or computational biology, please get in touch! More info: mhibbins.github.io/

Hibbins Lab

mhibbins.github.io
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@OfficialSMBE
1 Oct 2024
📢 SMBE 2025 Call for Symposia - Deadline November 5th, 2024 Details on smbe.org and smbe2025.org #SMBE25 @SMBEmeetings
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Grace Yuh Chwen Lee@mobilepurin
24 Sep 2024
Widely observed negative correlation between recombination rate and TE abundance is usually interpreted as recombination rate being the "cause," influencing the efficacy of selection purging TEs. Yet, our recent study "flipped" this causality! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…… (1/5)

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Julia Kreiner@jmkreiner
23 Sep 2024
New work out, on the evolution and diversity of sex in waterhemp!
bioRxiv Evobio@biorxiv_evobio
21 Sep 2024
The evolution, diversity, and genetic architecture of sex in waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus) biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio
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Thank you Julia! Very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with so many stellar scientists like you.
Julia Kreiner@jmkreiner
3 Sep 2024
Congratulations @stepheniwright!! Such a well deserved accomplishment :)
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Asher Cutter@asherdcutter
19 Aug 2024
Check out my review on Haldane's rule, thinking about sex-biased hybrid dysfunction with ESD, homomorphic GSD, haplodiploidy, & hermaphrodites in @eLife doi.org/10.7554/eLife.96652

Beyond Haldane’s rule: Sex-biased hybrid dysfunction for all modes of sex determination

A broad and inclusive view of sex biases in hybrid dysfunction, irrespective of sexual system, expands the reach of Haldane's rule to help characterize the underlying forces and mechanisms responsi...

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Andres Moreno-Estrada@morestrada
23 Jul 2024
Did you enjoy #SMBE2024 in Mexico? You can now revive it here! youtu.be/v-TfI5ypgf8?si=6o1w… Thanks everyone for making #SMBE2024 a great success and special thanks to our PCO @AnnetteIAB from ARTEFACTO for a top-level organization! Viva México! 🇲🇽 #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth 🌎🧬

¡Bienvenidos a nuestro video memoria de SMBE 2024!

¡Bienvenidos a nuestro video memoria de SMBE 2024! El Congreso Soci...

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I'm sorry to be missing #evolution2024 , but the lab will be well represented, check out these presentations: @reject_resubmit will be speaking Monday at 5:15 in room 520B about the effect of recombination landscape heterogeneity on sex chromosome turnover
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@bmsacchi will be speaking about the extent of Y chromosome degeneration and regulatory evolution in Rumex hastatulus, Sun, July 28 4:15 PM 524A
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SMBE IDEA taskforce@SMBE_IDEA
25 Jul 2024
Deadline is fast approaching! Please help us spread the word as far and wide as possible and consider submitting your idea to receive @OfficialSMBE funding this year!! Only 800 words or less are required for the first stage of application! #Funding #Grants #SMBE #DEI
SMBE IDEA taskforce@SMBE_IDEA
8 Jul 2024
Attention #SMBE2024 !! The 2024/25 call for proposals is 🚨OPEN 🚨 We have 25,000 USD for funding projects addressing IDEA in SMBE! Read 🧵 to learn more. 🙏Please RT!!!! 🙏

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@imengyuan Will be speaking about testing for genetic trade-offs in expression between the sexes and life stages (sporophyte and gametophyte) Sunday at 12:00 in 524B
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and Zoë Humphries has a poster on transposable element invastion and epigenetic consequences for Y chomosome degeneration in Rumex Poster Board J2 Poster Session 1 (July 27th, 5:30 - 8pm)
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