Peter Innes @peter_innes1
🌻 plant evolutionary genetics 🌱 @CUboulder Kane Lab peterinnes.org Boulder, CO Joined December 2012-
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Uuuh, the first paper from the Todesco lab! A phased, chromosome-level assembly for nettle - it not only stings, but it is also full of chromosomal rearrangements!🥬🧬 Great work from Kaede Hirabayashi, in collaboration with the Deyholos and Cronk labs biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
New #HeredityPodcast: The use of genetic simulations is gaining popularity. In this episode we learn about SLiM (messerlab.org/slim/), one of the most popular software packages, from one of its creators - Ben Haller. @GenSocUK #Genetics #Evolution
Out in MER! 𝑚𝑎𝑝𝑁𝑁: a SNP-based inference tool for estimating geographic maps of population density and dispersal, by @chriscrsmith @giliapatterson @petrelharp @pastramimachine. @WileyEcolEvol Read more: buff.ly/3X652Pj
Update—I defended my dissertation back in the spring! More recently I finished all the revisions and formatting and am officially done!
in a new preprint w/ @cdanielcadena, we ask whether available reference genomes accurately reflect the latitudinal gradient of biodiversity. we find they do not: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…
I’m proud to have taken part in last week’s New Phytologist next generation scientists #npnextgen meeting with so many exceptional early career scientists – inspirational.
How to shorten scientific manuscripts - great advice here from @AycoTack et al: buff.ly/4c6dZwX
90 minutes to go until New Phytologist next generation scientists 2024 begins! #npnextgen Sign up to join the livestream from 09:00 EDT / 14:00 BST here: ow.ly/lB8650SaGYp @wileyplantsci
Rethinking eco-evo studies of gene expression for non-model organisms in the genomic era | Molecular Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…
Very cool new work on the genomics of distyly loss in yellow flax 💥
nice interview w/ @david_manahan discussing his work on alternative splicing and house mouse adaptation
nice interview w/ @david_manahan discussing his work on alternative splicing and house mouse adaptation
Last year at SMBE I watched several talks on a live video feed from an overflow room because there wasn’t enough space in the main room 🫠 Why not have more concurrent sessions? The balance b/w talks and posters seems off imo.
Last year at SMBE I watched several talks on a live video feed from an overflow room because there wasn’t enough space in the main room 🫠 Why not have more concurrent sessions? The balance b/w talks and posters seems off imo.
🚨 New pub! How else are PLANTS special? Read my take on how botanical research can and has moved beyond investigating patterns in light of landscape change & to inform our understanding of past geologic and climatic processes 🧵
🚨 New pub! How else are PLANTS special? Read my take on how botanical research can and has moved beyond investigating patterns in light of landscape change & to inform our understanding of past geologic and climatic processes 🧵
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Our work is in press academic.oup.com/aob/advance-ar… in this paper, we showed that flowering onset in #paleflax, the wild crop relative of flax, correlates with latitude (later onset towards the north), but the local climate of populations predicts better the population variation
Interested in evolutionary genomics/population genomics and plant genetics? Want to do your PhD in beautiful Stockholm? We have two 4-year PhD student positions available in my group at Stockholm University. More info, see tanjaslottelab.se Please RT #ecrchat #PhD 1/4
Peek an early look at our @journal_evo paper on temperature-dependent gene regulatory evolution in Atlantic silversides 🐟 lead by @fishyomics with @ntherk, as well as @t_annina and others! academic.oup.com/evolut/article…
Excited to share my first undergrad-mentee-led manuscript! Here we introduce gatoRs, an R package designed to streamline the downloading and processing of biodiversity data. doi.org/10.1002/aps3.1… (1/n)
@giliapatterson @petrelharp @pastramimachine and I just released our neural network that infers spatial maps of dispersal and population density using SNPs: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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