Congrats to #WGDip team members @tomlewin.bsky.social @dervc.bsky.social @phylogenie.bsky.social & @peterhox.bsky.social , who with their colleague @yjluo.bsky.social , provide evidence consistent with lineage-specific rediploidisation following a cryptic polyploidy event shared by all bryozoans! 🧪
Cryptic whole-genome duplication in bryozoans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.16.752000v1
September 25, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Congrats to #WGDip team members @tomlewin.bsky.social @dervc.bsky.social @phylogenie.bsky.social & @peterhox.bsky.social , who with their colleague @yjluo.bsky.social , provide evidence consistent with lineage-specific rediploidisation following a cryptic polyploidy event shared by all bryozoans! 🧪
Hear what impact Ilia hopes #WGDip will have on the science community and on our understanding of evolution! She is a project co-lead from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
🌟How do you see WGDip impacting your research?🌟
@biggenomes.bsky.social
@rbgkew.bsky.social
🌟How do you see WGDip impacting your research?🌟
@biggenomes.bsky.social
@rbgkew.bsky.social
February 18, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Hear what impact Ilia hopes #WGDip will have on the science community and on our understanding of evolution! She is a project co-lead from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
🌟How do you see WGDip impacting your research?🌟
@biggenomes.bsky.social
@rbgkew.bsky.social
🌟How do you see WGDip impacting your research?🌟
@biggenomes.bsky.social
@rbgkew.bsky.social
We held the first (mostly) in person meeting of the WGDip project. It was a great opportunity to foster discourse across the consortium and align our goals for the project. We are all eager to get started and delve into whole genome duplication and rediploidisation in eukaryotic evolution!☀️ 🌍
#WGDip
#WGDip
June 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We held the first (mostly) in person meeting of the WGDip project. It was a great opportunity to foster discourse across the consortium and align our goals for the project. We are all eager to get started and delve into whole genome duplication and rediploidisation in eukaryotic evolution!☀️ 🌍
#WGDip
#WGDip
The WGDip team had a great first day at #ESEB2025!
It was great to see everyone who attended our symposium yesterday on “Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions” 💬🧬
Still an exciting week ahead for all!🤗
#WGDip @eseb2025.bsky.social
It was great to see everyone who attended our symposium yesterday on “Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions” 💬🧬
Still an exciting week ahead for all!🤗
#WGDip @eseb2025.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The WGDip team had a great first day at #ESEB2025!
It was great to see everyone who attended our symposium yesterday on “Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions” 💬🧬
Still an exciting week ahead for all!🤗
#WGDip @eseb2025.bsky.social
It was great to see everyone who attended our symposium yesterday on “Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions” 💬🧬
Still an exciting week ahead for all!🤗
#WGDip @eseb2025.bsky.social
Hear about Dearbhaile's role in #WGDip, a Post-doc from the University of Oxford.
🌟Tell us what your typical day looks like!🌟
@dervc.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
🌟Tell us what your typical day looks like!🌟
@dervc.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
February 12, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Hear about Dearbhaile's role in #WGDip, a Post-doc from the University of Oxford.
🌟Tell us what your typical day looks like!🌟
@dervc.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
🌟Tell us what your typical day looks like!🌟
@dervc.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
Congratulations to team members @phil-donoghue.bsky.social, @tweethinking.bsky.social, & @ssolo.bsky.social for their newly published study on the process of eukaryogenesis.
We hope this framework will resolve historical events in individual gene families for the #WGDip project. 🧪🧬
We hope this framework will resolve historical events in individual gene families for the #WGDip project. 🧪🧬
Nature research paper: Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes
go.nature.com/4azJDF8
go.nature.com/4azJDF8
Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes - Nature
Analysis of eukaryotic gene sequences using a relaxed molecular clock methodology indicate that eukaryotes emerged 3.0–2.25 billion years ago as a result of mitochondrial endosymbiosis with complex archaea that already possessed an elaborated cytoskeleton, membrane trafficking, endomembrane, phagocytotic machinery and a nucleus.
go.nature.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Congratulations to team members @phil-donoghue.bsky.social, @tweethinking.bsky.social, & @ssolo.bsky.social for their newly published study on the process of eukaryogenesis.
We hope this framework will resolve historical events in individual gene families for the #WGDip project. 🧪🧬
We hope this framework will resolve historical events in individual gene families for the #WGDip project. 🧪🧬
🧪New preprint from WGDip lead Dan Macqueen with collaborators from the AQUA-FAANG project www.aqua-faang.eu, including WGDip team member Manu Kumar Gundappa. Exploring regulatory evolution following the autotetraploid WGD ancestral to salmonids (featuring rediploidization!) doi.org/10.64898/202...
January 8, 2026 at 8:59 AM
🧪New preprint from WGDip lead Dan Macqueen with collaborators from the AQUA-FAANG project www.aqua-faang.eu, including WGDip team member Manu Kumar Gundappa. Exploring regulatory evolution following the autotetraploid WGD ancestral to salmonids (featuring rediploidization!) doi.org/10.64898/202...
The #WGDip team has created videos spotlighting our amazing researchers and team members. We asked about their roles, what excites them, and the impact they hope WGDip will have. Stay tuned over the coming weeks and check in regularly to hear their stories!
February 9, 2026 at 9:01 AM
The #WGDip team has created videos spotlighting our amazing researchers and team members. We asked about their roles, what excites them, and the impact they hope WGDip will have. Stay tuned over the coming weeks and check in regularly to hear their stories!
The #WGDip team is investigating the role of whole genome duplication & rediploidisation in shaping the evolution of eukaryotes. We've added a new page showcasing some of the lineages & organisms we're exploring (it's not an exhaustive list!). Take a look 👇
www.rediploidisation.org/meet-the-gen...
www.rediploidisation.org/meet-the-gen...
Meet the Genomes | rediploidisation.org
WGDip researchers are working on organisms across the eukaryotic tree of life.
www.rediploidisation.org
July 16, 2026 at 8:02 PM
The #WGDip team is investigating the role of whole genome duplication & rediploidisation in shaping the evolution of eukaryotes. We've added a new page showcasing some of the lineages & organisms we're exploring (it's not an exhaustive list!). Take a look 👇
www.rediploidisation.org/meet-the-gen...
www.rediploidisation.org/meet-the-gen...
Congrats to the Oxford team including #WGDip team member Peter Holland @peterhox.bsky.social on their @nature.com paper on the importance of WGDs in the development of vertebrate brains🧠, showing that resulting ohnologues continued to support cell-type evolution & development of vertebrate brains 🧪
Nature research paper: Whole-genome duplication shaped cell-type evolution in the vertebrate brain
go.nature.com/4uyh9C1
go.nature.com/4uyh9C1
Whole-genome duplication shaped cell-type evolution in the vertebrate brain - Nature
Analyses of brain single-cell transcriptomes from human, mouse, lizard, lamprey and amphioxus reveal that duplicated genes (ohnologues) played a pivotal part in early vertebrate cell-type diversification.
go.nature.com
June 15, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Congrats to the Oxford team including #WGDip team member Peter Holland @peterhox.bsky.social on their @nature.com paper on the importance of WGDs in the development of vertebrate brains🧠, showing that resulting ohnologues continued to support cell-type evolution & development of vertebrate brains 🧪
🚨Abstract Submission Deadline Extended🚨
You have until the 5th May to submit your abstract and join us in sunny Barcelona at #eseb2025 ☀️
WGDip symposium (S13) - Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions.
@eseb2025.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social
You have until the 5th May to submit your abstract and join us in sunny Barcelona at #eseb2025 ☀️
WGDip symposium (S13) - Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions.
@eseb2025.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social
📣 Due to popular demand - the Abstract Submission Deadline for @eseb2025.bsky.social has been extended! For submission guidelines and access to the submission portal visit:
eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...
eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...
April 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🚨Abstract Submission Deadline Extended🚨
You have until the 5th May to submit your abstract and join us in sunny Barcelona at #eseb2025 ☀️
WGDip symposium (S13) - Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions.
@eseb2025.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social
You have until the 5th May to submit your abstract and join us in sunny Barcelona at #eseb2025 ☀️
WGDip symposium (S13) - Evolution after whole genome duplication: transformative advances and new directions.
@eseb2025.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social
We are excited to announce the 'official' start of our BBSRC funded sLoLa project, where we aim to uncover the role of rediploidisation in shaping evolution after genome duplication events across the tree of life!
Find out more:
www.rediploidisation.org
vet.ed.ac.uk/roslin/news-...
#WGDip #BBSRC
Find out more:
www.rediploidisation.org
vet.ed.ac.uk/roslin/news-...
#WGDip #BBSRC
Experts examine DNA changes that shaped life on Earth
Four-year collaborative project seeks to understand key process linked to evolution.
vet.ed.ac.uk
April 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
We are excited to announce the 'official' start of our BBSRC funded sLoLa project, where we aim to uncover the role of rediploidisation in shaping evolution after genome duplication events across the tree of life!
Find out more:
www.rediploidisation.org
vet.ed.ac.uk/roslin/news-...
#WGDip #BBSRC
Find out more:
www.rediploidisation.org
vet.ed.ac.uk/roslin/news-...
#WGDip #BBSRC
From all of us on the #WGDip team, we’re wishing you a joyful, restful, and cosy holiday season ❄️🎄
We can’t wait to see what the year ahead has in store! 🎉
We can’t wait to see what the year ahead has in store! 🎉
December 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
From all of us on the #WGDip team, we’re wishing you a joyful, restful, and cosy holiday season ❄️🎄
We can’t wait to see what the year ahead has in store! 🎉
We can’t wait to see what the year ahead has in store! 🎉
Congrats to @luohaoxu.bsky.social & team for revealing the role of chromosome fusions in initiating asynchronous rediploidisation in autotetraploid snow carp. Featuring #WGDip lead Dan Macqueen as co-author. A landmark study in our ongoing understanding of rediploidisation!
@nature.com @ukri.org 🧪
@nature.com @ukri.org 🧪
Thrilled to share our recent publication in @nature.com. We discovered that snow carps experienced a relatively recent whole genome duplication #WGD, making this lineage an ideal lineage to study #rediploidization.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Chromosomal fusions trigger rediploidization of autopolyploid genomes - Nature
Genomic data from snow carps reveal that the fusion of chromosomes initiates rediploidization following whole-genome duplication.
www.nature.com
April 27, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Congrats to @luohaoxu.bsky.social & team for revealing the role of chromosome fusions in initiating asynchronous rediploidisation in autotetraploid snow carp. Featuring #WGDip lead Dan Macqueen as co-author. A landmark study in our ongoing understanding of rediploidisation!
@nature.com @ukri.org 🧪
@nature.com @ukri.org 🧪
The #WGDip team kicked off 2026 with an in-person meeting hosted at the Wellcome Genome Campus✨. We had a fun, science-packed two days that strongly advanced our plans to work together across both our research and science outreach plans - it's going to be an exciting year!
January 26, 2026 at 8:35 AM
The #WGDip team kicked off 2026 with an in-person meeting hosted at the Wellcome Genome Campus✨. We had a fun, science-packed two days that strongly advanced our plans to work together across both our research and science outreach plans - it's going to be an exciting year!
WGDip project lead Dan Macqueen joined the #EuroFaang Research Infrastructure final conference (eurofaang.eu). He introduced #WGDip, explaining the importance of rediploidization in salmonids (and across the tree of life), and reflected on current opportunities and barriers in comparative genomics 🧪
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
WGDip project lead Dan Macqueen joined the #EuroFaang Research Infrastructure final conference (eurofaang.eu). He introduced #WGDip, explaining the importance of rediploidization in salmonids (and across the tree of life), and reflected on current opportunities and barriers in comparative genomics 🧪
Hear what impact Peter hopes #WGDip will have on the science community and on our understanding of what happens following a whole genome duplication!
@peterhox.bsky.social
@peterhox.bsky.social
March 3, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Hear what impact Peter hopes #WGDip will have on the science community and on our understanding of what happens following a whole genome duplication!
@peterhox.bsky.social
@peterhox.bsky.social
📝 New Publication 🧪
Congratulations to team members Richard Taylor and Dan Macqueen for their paper exploring the functional and evolutionary outcomes of whole genome duplication using single cell transcriptomics!
@genomebiolevol.bsky.social
#WGDip
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
Congratulations to team members Richard Taylor and Dan Macqueen for their paper exploring the functional and evolutionary outcomes of whole genome duplication using single cell transcriptomics!
@genomebiolevol.bsky.social
#WGDip
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
Cell type resolved expression of duplicate genes retained from whole genome duplication in Atlantic salmon
Abstract. The functional and evolutionary outcomes of whole genome duplication (WGD) events are driven by global remodelling of gene expression. Most inves
academic.oup.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
📝 New Publication 🧪
Congratulations to team members Richard Taylor and Dan Macqueen for their paper exploring the functional and evolutionary outcomes of whole genome duplication using single cell transcriptomics!
@genomebiolevol.bsky.social
#WGDip
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
Congratulations to team members Richard Taylor and Dan Macqueen for their paper exploring the functional and evolutionary outcomes of whole genome duplication using single cell transcriptomics!
@genomebiolevol.bsky.social
#WGDip
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
This time last year marked the beginning of the #WGDip project! 🥳
Are you interested in eukaryotic evolution & whole genome duplication? So are we!
Find out more about who we are and what we are doing on our website: www.rediploidisation.org
🧪🧬 @ukri.org #BBSRC #sLoLa
Are you interested in eukaryotic evolution & whole genome duplication? So are we!
Find out more about who we are and what we are doing on our website: www.rediploidisation.org
🧪🧬 @ukri.org #BBSRC #sLoLa
April 1, 2026 at 4:02 PM
This time last year marked the beginning of the #WGDip project! 🥳
Are you interested in eukaryotic evolution & whole genome duplication? So are we!
Find out more about who we are and what we are doing on our website: www.rediploidisation.org
🧪🧬 @ukri.org #BBSRC #sLoLa
Are you interested in eukaryotic evolution & whole genome duplication? So are we!
Find out more about who we are and what we are doing on our website: www.rediploidisation.org
🧪🧬 @ukri.org #BBSRC #sLoLa
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Anthony Redmond is a #WGDip project partner from the University College Dublin. His research focuses on the immune system, devising phylogenomic approaches to resolve the tree of life, & defining the role of gene & genome duplication in evolution
Read more:🧬
shorturl.at/d3brV
Dr. Anthony Redmond is a #WGDip project partner from the University College Dublin. His research focuses on the immune system, devising phylogenomic approaches to resolve the tree of life, & defining the role of gene & genome duplication in evolution
Read more:🧬
shorturl.at/d3brV
October 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Anthony Redmond is a #WGDip project partner from the University College Dublin. His research focuses on the immune system, devising phylogenomic approaches to resolve the tree of life, & defining the role of gene & genome duplication in evolution
Read more:🧬
shorturl.at/d3brV
Dr. Anthony Redmond is a #WGDip project partner from the University College Dublin. His research focuses on the immune system, devising phylogenomic approaches to resolve the tree of life, & defining the role of gene & genome duplication in evolution
Read more:🧬
shorturl.at/d3brV
This parasitic plant, Lathraea clandestina, is being studied by MRes student Annabelle Knutson, as part of our work on genome duplication in #WGDip.
Lathraea experienced a genome duplication🧬 & this may have facilitated its parasitic adaptations!
#wildflower #parasiticplant #WildflowerHour 🧪
Lathraea experienced a genome duplication🧬 & this may have facilitated its parasitic adaptations!
#wildflower #parasiticplant #WildflowerHour 🧪
April 9, 2026 at 8:42 AM
This parasitic plant, Lathraea clandestina, is being studied by MRes student Annabelle Knutson, as part of our work on genome duplication in #WGDip.
Lathraea experienced a genome duplication🧬 & this may have facilitated its parasitic adaptations!
#wildflower #parasiticplant #WildflowerHour 🧪
Lathraea experienced a genome duplication🧬 & this may have facilitated its parasitic adaptations!
#wildflower #parasiticplant #WildflowerHour 🧪
Happy #worldbookday!📚
#WGDip was inspired by Susumu Ohno’s "Evolution by gene duplication”, published 56 years ago, before the modern era of genomics. His book argued for the central importance of duplicating both individual genes & whole genomes as 'fuel' for great leaps in biological evolution...
#WGDip was inspired by Susumu Ohno’s "Evolution by gene duplication”, published 56 years ago, before the modern era of genomics. His book argued for the central importance of duplicating both individual genes & whole genomes as 'fuel' for great leaps in biological evolution...
April 23, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Happy #worldbookday!📚
#WGDip was inspired by Susumu Ohno’s "Evolution by gene duplication”, published 56 years ago, before the modern era of genomics. His book argued for the central importance of duplicating both individual genes & whole genomes as 'fuel' for great leaps in biological evolution...
#WGDip was inspired by Susumu Ohno’s "Evolution by gene duplication”, published 56 years ago, before the modern era of genomics. His book argued for the central importance of duplicating both individual genes & whole genomes as 'fuel' for great leaps in biological evolution...
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Tom Lewin is a post-doc from the University of Oxford. Recently returning from his research in Taiwan on marine invertebrates, @tomlewin.bsky.social will be focusing on understudied animal phyla as part of the #WGDip project
Find out more about his research 🪸:
shorturl.at/A5lHn
Dr. Tom Lewin is a post-doc from the University of Oxford. Recently returning from his research in Taiwan on marine invertebrates, @tomlewin.bsky.social will be focusing on understudied animal phyla as part of the #WGDip project
Find out more about his research 🪸:
shorturl.at/A5lHn
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
📢Meet the team!
Dr. Tom Lewin is a post-doc from the University of Oxford. Recently returning from his research in Taiwan on marine invertebrates, @tomlewin.bsky.social will be focusing on understudied animal phyla as part of the #WGDip project
Find out more about his research 🪸:
shorturl.at/A5lHn
Dr. Tom Lewin is a post-doc from the University of Oxford. Recently returning from his research in Taiwan on marine invertebrates, @tomlewin.bsky.social will be focusing on understudied animal phyla as part of the #WGDip project
Find out more about his research 🪸:
shorturl.at/A5lHn
Big congratulations to our ECRs who shared their work through poster presentations at #IPC2026! Great science on display from Annabelle Knutson, Brianna Banting, Emily Haley, Kevin Bird, Morgane Milin & Zoe Vance. Thank you for sharing your work & sparking great conversations #Polyploidy #ECR #WGDip
September 21, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Big congratulations to our ECRs who shared their work through poster presentations at #IPC2026! Great science on display from Annabelle Knutson, Brianna Banting, Emily Haley, Kevin Bird, Morgane Milin & Zoe Vance. Thank you for sharing your work & sparking great conversations #Polyploidy #ECR #WGDip
Huge congratulations to #WGDip project partner Aoife McLysaght for receiving the Community Service Award from @official-smbe.bsky.social. This recognises Aoife’s outstanding contributions and commitment to building stronger research communities through collaboration, leadership, and generosity. 👏
July 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Huge congratulations to #WGDip project partner Aoife McLysaght for receiving the Community Service Award from @official-smbe.bsky.social. This recognises Aoife’s outstanding contributions and commitment to building stronger research communities through collaboration, leadership, and generosity. 👏