#smbe2023 — Public Fediverse posts

@flodebarre

Did you present at the conference?

I didn't see you there, but I missed the first day, or maybe there was a clash.

I'd like to see your talk or poster in the recordings etc. if its there? Which session did you speak in? or what was your poster number?

#SMBE2023

cc other mes @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

Anyone interested in a #game of … whatever is on those tables in the lobby? #SMBE2023 (or in the #SMBEeverywhere venue?)

Nobody seemed very talkative in #GatherTown during the #conference but the #games might make a good conversation starter?

Preferred times
East Asia ≈ Late night
Europe + Africa ≈ Lunch Time
Americas ≈ Early Morning

cc @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @quinsibell @TashTaylor

Our Biology Dept opened a tenure-track faculty position in the field of #EvoDevo
Deadline: August 31, 2023. Starting date: March 1, 2024. Send a PDF including a letter of intent, a CV including names and contact details of 3 people, a 5-page description of avenues of teaching & research, and a 1 page explaination of the contribution to the field of their most relevant contributions, to Stephane Boudreau, Chair of the Department of Biology, Université Laval #smbe2023

Our Biology Dept opened a tenure-track faculty position in the field of #EvoDevo
Deadline: August 31, 2023. Starting date: March 1, 2024. Send a PDF including a letter of intent, a CV including names and contact details of 3 people, a 5-page description of avenues of teaching & research, and a 1 page explaination of the contribution to the field of their most relevant contributions, to Stephane Boudreau, Chair of the Department of Biology, Université Laval #smbe2023

Post #smbe2023 bone and fossil sketching at the natural history museum in Ferrara #smbe23

Post #smbe2023 bone and fossil sketching at the natural history museum in Ferrara #smbe23

Our symposium "Entangled histories: insights into the evolution of humans and their domesticates through paleogenomics" attracted great attention at the #SMBE2023 meeting in #Ferrara last Tuesday. Thanks to all presenters and participants! #SMBE23
@officialSMBE

Our symposium "Entangled histories: insights into the evolution of humans and their domesticates through paleogenomics" attracted great attention at the #SMBE2023 meeting in #Ferrara last Tuesday. Thanks to all presenters and participants! #SMBE23
@officialSMBE

The conclusions of Michael Lynch's amazing plenary talk
"what occurs in evolution is directed by what natural selection cannot do"
#SMBE2023

Thanks to @officialSMBE for making space for climate activism and to @SanjaHakala, @gaston and @AudreyBras for facilitating an engaging workshop yesterday.

It was great to be able to chat openly about #ClimateBreakdown and #DirectAction together with a room full of evolutionary biologists, geneticists and ecologists.

See you on the streets!

#SMBE23 #SMBE2023 #EcoEvo #ScienceMastodon @ScientistRebellion

Thanks to @officialSMBE for making space for climate activism and to @SanjaHakala, @gaston and @AudreyBras for facilitating an engaging workshop yesterday.

It was great to be able to chat openly about #ClimateBreakdown and #DirectAction together with a room full of evolutionary biologists, geneticists and ecologists.

See you on the streets!

#SMBE23 #SMBE2023 #EcoEvo #ScienceMastodon @ScientistRebellion

Also, if you're not here at the eucaryotic cellular origins symposium, I strongly recommend hopping to the time machine later and joining as ghosts from the future. Good stuff in here! #SMBE2023

Also, if you're not here at the eucaryotic cellular origins symposium, I strongly recommend hopping to the time machine later and joining as ghosts from the future. Good stuff in here! #SMBE2023

I love how scifi it feels when the presenters just offhandedly say things like "X spoke about this yesterday, you should go and listen to them". Amazing to be in a time-travel conference (with all talks video recorded)!! #SMBE2023

I love how scifi it feels when the presenters just offhandedly say things like "X spoke about this yesterday, you should go and listen to them". Amazing to be in a time-travel conference (with all talks video recorded)!! #SMBE2023

F Delsuc showing very complete picture of convergence: anatomy, genome/transcriptome, and microbiome #SMBE2023

F Delsuc showing very complete picture of convergence: anatomy, genome/transcriptome, and microbiome #SMBE2023

F Delsuc: ancestral mammal had many chitinases, consistent with fossil evidence for insectivorous diet, followed by many losses in most mammalian lineages. Anteater has several still expressed digestive system, in pangolin surprisingly most are lost or pseudogenes, with only CHIA5 expressed in digestive system, maybe because of common ancestry with carnivores. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.29.518312v2.abstract #SMBE2023

F Delsuc: ancestral mammal had many chitinases, consistent with fossil evidence for insectivorous diet, followed by many losses in most mammalian lineages. Anteater has several still expressed digestive system, in pangolin surprisingly most are lost or pseudogenes, with only CHIA5 expressed in digestive system, maybe because of common ancestry with carnivores. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.29.518312v2.abstract #SMBE2023

Frédéric Delsuc: 5 convergent evolutions of ant (or termite) eating among mammals, including one hyena. Focus of his study is on anteaters and pangolins (a bit disappointed not to hear about aardwolf, the termite eating hyena). #SMBE2023

Frédéric Delsuc: 5 convergent evolutions of ant (or termite) eating among mammals, including one hyena. Focus of his study is on anteaters and pangolins (a bit disappointed not to hear about aardwolf, the termite eating hyena). #SMBE2023

I would like to see data on the percentage of pictures of slides taken at #smbe2023 that are actually looked at after.

I would like to see data on the percentage of pictures of slides taken at #smbe2023 that are actually looked at after.

Roundtable on #scholarlypublishing at #SMBE2023 with Frederic Guillaume, co-manager of Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology #OpenScience #peerreview

Roundtable on #scholarlypublishing at #SMBE2023 with Frederic Guillaume, co-manager of Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology #OpenScience #peerreview

E Lau shows very nicely how bioluminescence in ostracods, fireflies and sea pansies can use very different structures yet convergently recruited homologous enzymes. The number of functional genes varies according to lineage-specific duplications. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.12.536614v1.abstract #SMBE2023 #ConvergentEvolution #paralog #bioluminescence

E Lau shows very nicely how bioluminescence in ostracods, fireflies and sea pansies can use very different structures yet convergently recruited homologous enzymes. The number of functional genes varies according to lineage-specific duplications. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.12.536614v1.abstract #SMBE2023 #ConvergentEvolution #paralog #bioluminescence

what is the question bot supposed to look like?

#SMBEfolks #SMBE2023

Emily Lau: bioluminescence is a very nice example of convergence (almost as nice as venom glands 😉) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12672 #SMBE2023

Emily Lau: bioluminescence is a very nice example of convergence (almost as nice as venom glands 😉) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12672 #SMBE2023

Taking the opportunity to advertise that we have an ontology of #homology related concepts since 2010, which tries to formalise many of the related concepts, with references and relations between the concepts
https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/HOM/?p=classes&conceptid=http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.obolibrary.org%2Fobo%2FHOM_0000004
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2009.12.012
#SMBE2023

Taking the opportunity to advertise that we have an ontology of #homology related concepts since 2010, which tries to formalise many of the related concepts, with references and relations between the concepts
https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/HOM/?p=classes&conceptid=http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.obolibrary.org%2Fobo%2FHOM_0000004
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2009.12.012
#SMBE2023

D Baum: Parallelism is related to the complexity of the concepts of homology e.g. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/10748/ #SMBE2023

D Baum: Parallelism is related to the complexity of the concepts of homology e.g. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/10748/ #SMBE2023

D Baum: the fraction of parallelisms between lineages should decrease with time since common ancestry -> the big question is "how does the rate at which parallelisms decline with time since common ancestry vary with trait system? and with taxon? #SMBE2023

D Baum: the fraction of parallelisms between lineages should decrease with time since common ancestry -> the big question is "how does the rate at which parallelisms decline with time since common ancestry vary with trait system? and with taxon? #SMBE2023

David Baum: parallelism and convergence are not discrete but a continuum in evolution #SMBE2023

David Baum: parallelism and convergence are not discrete but a continuum in evolution #SMBE2023

We've started very preliminary discussions with a few people about European mirrors for #SMBE2024 and #SMBE2025, to limit plane travel ✈️ to Puerto Vallarta 🇲🇽 or Beijing 🇨🇳. If you're interested, please follow the hashtag #SMBE2024. #SMBE2023 #SMBE23 #NoFlyAcademics
(to follow hashtags: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-follow-hashtags-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/)

We've started very preliminary discussions with a few people about European mirrors for #SMBE2024 and #SMBE2025, to limit plane travel ✈️ to Puerto Vallarta 🇲🇽 or Beijing 🇨🇳. If you're interested, please follow the hashtag #SMBE2024. #SMBE2023 #SMBE23 #NoFlyAcademics
(to follow hashtags: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-follow-hashtags-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/)

Alex Cagan's sketchbook of the 1st WildCan meeting (I have been caganised 🤯 )👇 . And I am now remotely following #SMBE2023 thanks to Alex's awesome drawings on twitter (can't find you here in Mastodon). Thank you so much @ATJCagan !

https://twitter.com/ATJCagan/status/1671635979440979972

You can leave luggage in the theater guardaroba if needed #SMBE2023

Ancient DNA HMM, this is not a drill: ancient DNA HMM!
Genuinely happy to have been able to attend Xinyi Li's lightning talk #smbe2023 #smbe23

forgot to mention #SMBE2023

Valencia-Montoya: what about the evolution of chemotactile receptors in other cephalopods than Octopus bimaculoides? Squid, which doesn't explore the environment in the same way, has fewer receptors, with a narrower range of specificity. Chemotactile receptors have evolved in octopuses (very diversified) and squids but not nautiles (which don't have suckers). #SMBE2023 #EvoDevo #octopus

Valencia-Montoya: many chemotactile receptors have evolved under dN/dS>1, grouped in two arrays of paralogs on the chromosome. Protein structure very conserved with human nAchR-ɑ7, sites under positive selection clustered in the binding site. Very nice study of sensory evolution! #SMBE2023

Wendy Andrea Valencia-
Montoya: molecular basis of taste by touch in octopus arms? Shown in 2020 that the arms are sensory through chemotactile receptors https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.008
-> how do these genes evolve?
#SMBE2023

If you too like #opsin evolution, check our new #bioinformatics tool #Matreex to visualize the evolution of complex gene families, illustrated by the evolution of vertebrate red-sensitive visual opsins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.18.529053v1.full #SMBE2023

Marjorie Liénard: method to express invertebrate opsin proteins in vitro, allowing to show spectral shifts in opsins in butterflies, with notably 2 paralogs of LW providing differentiation in function between the dorsal and ventral parts of the eye https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2008986118 #SMBE2023 #opsin #GeneDuplication #paralog

Learning about tons of ancient things #smbe2023 #smbe23

@alxsim advertised the server. #SMBE2023 #Evolution #molecularbiology