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Vancouver Island fossil hunters honoured in naming of prehistoric sea monster

Father-daughter team Michael and Heather Trask discover the fossilized bones of an ancient sea lizard near Courtenay, B.C., in 1988.

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Royal Tyrrell marks 40th anniversary with groundbreaking dinosaur discoveries

Drumheller's Royal Tyrrell Museum, opened in 1985, is marking four decades of paleontological excellence with a new exhibit highlighting some of Alberta's most significant dinosaur discoveries.

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Bankrupt DNA testing company 23andMe to be bought by Regeneron

Drugmaker Regeneron Pharmaceuticals says it will comply with privacy policies regarding the use of customer data. 23andMe's bankruptcy filings had drawn scrutiny from lawmakers who warned that millions of customers' genetic data could be sold to unscrupulous buyers.

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May 23 14:03	Evolutionary Insights into the Length Variation of DNA Damage Response Proteins Across Eukaryotes by Dominic Wiredu-Boakye and others (GBE)
May 23 08:00	Partner dependency alters patterns of coevolutionary selection in mutualisms - Mayra C. , et al. (PNAS)
May 23 08:00	Dinucleotide preferences underlie apparent codon preference reversals in the Drosophila melanogaster lineage - Haruka Yamashita, et al. (PNAS)
May 23 08:00	Horizontal transmission of functionally diverse transposons is a major source of new introns - Landen Gozashti, et al. (PNAS)
May 21 08:00	Population size interacts with reproductive longevity to shape the germline mutation rate - Luke Zhu, et al. (PNAS)
May 21 08:00	The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast - Jennifer Molinet, et al. (PNAS)
May 21 08:00	Ecological restructuring of North Tethyan marine vertebrate communities triggered by the end-Cretaceous extinction - Iris Feichtinger, et al. (PNAS)

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*** Call for Participationand Abstracts***

We are happy to announce the workshop "Short and long timescales
in speciation genomics: Machine Learning approaches" (ML Speciation
Genomics) to be held on 24th-27th June 2025 at University of St Andrews/
Scotland. Please see the program for the lectures and hands-on sessions
here

https://github.com/ckosiol/MLSpeciationGenomics/blob/main/program.md

There is only a few slots left for contributed talks but we will keep the
submission for poster abstracts open till the deadline on 2nd June 2025.

***About the Workshop ***

How new species emerge is one of the big questions in evolutionary
biology. Speciation genomics investigates the genetic basis of this
process. Until recently researchers were only able to sequence a few
individuals at a single time-point. Yet, with the growing affordability
of genome sequencing, it is now possible to consider multiple individuals
at multiple points in time.

These multiple time-points could include samples from Natural History
Museums, they could be multiple generations of a population housed in
controlled laboratory environments or diverse samples collected from the
wild. This workshop will bring researchers together to make the best
use of the new data. We will have introductory lectures, contributed
talks as well as hands-on sessions on museum genomics, phylogenomics
and machine learning methods.

*** Important dates ***

We have conference rates for students of �30 and �70 for all academics
and industry participants. Reduced rate conference accommodation can be
booked at Agnes Blackadder Hall.

Reduced rate accommodation: 1st June 2025
Registration closes: 2ndJune 2025
Conference: 24th- 27thJune 2025

For registration use the following link at

https://www.eventsforce.net/standrews/264/home

For abstract submission, please send an email to: 
MLSpeciationGenomics@gmail.com

Looking forward to seeing you in St Andrews!

Dr Carolin Kosiol
Reader in Bioinformatics
Centre for Biological Diversity
School of Biology
University of St Andrews
St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TF, UK

ck202@st-andrews.ac.uk

https://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/kosiol-lab/

Carolin Kosiol <ck202@st-andrews.ac.uk>

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