Thrilled to have been awarded the 2026 Philip Leverhulme Prize! 🏆 Big thanks to all lab members and mentors through the years! Very excited to explore some new mitochondrial avenues with this award. 🥳🔬🧬 @leverhulme.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social

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Crazy monkeys have crazy genomes! New preprint by @axeljensen.bsky.social investigates karyotypic evolution in African guenons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... These primates are infamous for high genetic, phenotypic, ecological & karyotypic variation, they diversified 12mya and still they hybridise!

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This weeks UGI seminar was from LIDo PhD student @crferguson.bsky.social presenting his work on the phylogeographic and evolutionary trajectories of Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague, over the Second Plague Pandemic. Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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The second Epigenetics for Wildlife Research Workshop 🧬🐻🐟 is going strong, thanks a ton Cloé Nater from @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social to once more reunite the dream team in CNR Rome, and NKV for funding! Exciting paper to follow in a few months... 👀 @go70north.bsky.social

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New preprint out today! [1/5] Can higher recombination rates help populations adapt more quickly to environmental change? We used forward-time simulations to find out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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