Tom Booker

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Assistant professor in forest genetics/genomics at UBC in Vancouver
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Insights into gene conversion and crossing-over processes from long-read sequencing of human, chimpanzee and gorilla testes and sperm https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.05.601967v1

Insights into gene conversion and crossing-over processes from long-read sequencing of human, chimpanzee and gorilla testes and sperm https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.05.601967v1 www.biorxiv.org Homologous recombination rearranges genetic information during meiosis to generate new combinations

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The persistence of locally adapted polymorphisms under mutation swamping https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.18.599577v1

The persistence of locally adapted polymorphisms under mutation swamping https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.18.599577v1 www.biorxiv.org Locally adapted traits can exhibit a wide range of genetic architectures, from pronounced divergence

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I've heard lots of gushing about how AI is going to help us do science to fight climate change. Meanwhile: www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...

Microsoft's AI Push Jeopardizes Climate Goals as Emissions Surgewww.cnet.com The software giant's supply chain is responsible for the vast majority of emissions.

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Amy Angert & I are recruiting 2 field technicians for demographic surveys of scarlet monkeyflower in late summer-fall. Please spread word to any potentially interested candidates! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/202...

Plant Ecology Field Technicianjobs.ncsu.edu The Sheth evolutionary ecology lab in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina; USA) and the Angert Lab in the Departments of Botany an...

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2024 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Michael Whitlock, for foundational contributions to the study of population genetics in space www.molecularecologist.com/2024/05/15/2...

2024 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Michael Whitlock, for foundational contributions to the study of population genetics in spacewww.molecularecologist.com The Molecular Ecology Prize Committee has announced the 2024 recipient of the award, which recognizes an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to the still-young field of mol…

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Repeated global adaptation across plant species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.02.587814v1

Repeated global adaptation across plant species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.02.587814v1 www.biorxiv.org Global adaptation occurs when all populations of a species undergo selection toward a common optimum

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Very excited to share our lab's work led by Postdoc @oselmoni.bsky.social in collaboration with Phil Cleves! "Global coral genomic vulnerability explains recent reef losses" @biorxivpreprint doi.org/10.1101/2024... @UCBerkeley @HHMINEWS @CarnegiePlants @CarnegieDevBio @Stanford

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N.A. Forest Genetics Society: Jun 10-14 in Oaxaca, MX! Abstracts due Mon (25th)! Excited to host the amazing keynotes @samyeaman.bsky.social , JessicaWright, ZanderMyburg, PamSoltis, AntonioGonzalezRodriguez & HayleyTumas #Conservation #Forest #TreeBreeding @treegenes.bsky.social nafgs24.org 🌳 🌲

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Great to have a Garry oak provenance trial on campus for teaching students about local adaptation. (And @tombooker.bsky.social seems to have caught on to the dress code in our department.)

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We’re recruiting a postdoc to contribute to research on Climate Smart Forestry - integrating genomics, phenotypes and environment into predictions for seed transfer in a changing climate. Reach out with questions! Lots of opportunities for collaboration. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

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Happy to share some new work with @samurscicop.bsky.social and Daniel Matute on the history of Aedes aegypti in the Americas and what it means for genomic diversity and the efficacy of selection 🦟

Demographic history and the efficacy of selection in the globally invasive mosquito Aedes aegypti https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.07.584008v1

Demographic history and the efficacy of selection in the globally invasive mosquito Aedes aegypti https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.07.584008v1 www.biorxiv.org Aedes aegypti is the main vector species of yellow fever, dengue, zika and chikungunya. The species

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Free AlphaSimR course edin.ac/3wfGSEj Week 2: Time to look into populations and genomes of individuals! Here showing some identificatons of individual in a population, their haplotypes and genotypes, and showing how we can do basic operations on this information.

Checkout our free online course on AlphaSimR - you can see some of the previous tweets at twitter.com/GregorGorjan... and enrol into the course at t.co/4vOmBP2HKl

If you know any students interested in grad school in population/evolutionary genetics, I’ve got the funding for an MSc or PhD student in my new lab at UBC in Vancouver. Please pass it on. Flexible on topic, but some potential projects are listed here: tbooker.github.io/vacancies Get in touch!

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PhD opportunity in my group at UiO on adaptation to shifting temperatures in house sparrows. Looking for candidates interested in combining evolutionary genomics and ecological approaches! Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Congratulations to @rafaelcr.bsky.social on publishing this paper from his PhD. He assessed seedlings from >70 populations of Douglas-fir from across the range under severe drought experiment and found surprisingly little population differentiation. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just one week left to apply for this postdoctoral fellowship at UBC. Feel free to email me if you have questions!

The Biodiversity Research Centre at UBC in Vancouver is advertising a 2 year postdoc fellowship in Biodiversity Informatics and Data Science. We just extended the deadline by a week, so applications are now due Jan 15th. Get in touch if you have any questions biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and...

Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunitiesbiodiversity.ubc.ca Biodiversity Informatics and Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2024-2026) OPENThe UBC Biodiversity Research Centre is made up of over 90 faculty members with interests in ecology, evolutio...

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@cbcuconn.bsky.social is offering 2 virtual #bioinformatics training workshops in Jan! Genome Assembly (Jan 8-11) and Genome Annotation (Jan 22-25). 1/2 days, real instructors, real data examples! Learn more & register here: bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/

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Are you a non-UK student looking for a PhD in evolutionary genetics? Our lab in Edinburgh is seeking applicants to investigate landscapes of recombination in wild mammals and birds 🦄🐦. More info in link 👇please get in touch ASAP. (Image: Tilly Scott) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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I am recruiting a manager/tech for our plant evolutionary genetics lab, looking for someone interested in learning ancient DNA techniques psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...

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We are hiring! TWO ERC and ERC-CZ postdoc positions in the population and structural genomics of polyploidy. Join us in stunning Prague to study the evolutionary consequences of whole genome duplication! Apply by 30 Oct. static1.squarespace.com/static/5e39c... and tinyurl.com/4e43wcy7

This paper is extremely cool. Figure 2 in particular is pretty dang slick

Deep learning reveals the role of copy number variation in the genetic architecture of a highly polymorphic sexual trait https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.29.560175v1

Deep learning reveals the role of copy number variation in the genetic architecture of a highly polymorphic sexual trait https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.29.560175v1 www.biorxiv.org The extraordinary variation in male guppy coloration has been a powerful model for studying the inte

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👩‍🔬New **PostDoc** Opportunity!👨‍🔬 My new Epidemiology & Virus Evolution (EVE) group at SwissTPH is looking for a PostDoc in evolution & phylogenetics of respiratory viruses 🦠🌳 Interested? See here for more details & to apply! jobs.swisstph.ch/Vacancies/92... Please share!😁

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