Katarina Stuart

The STRiVE online seminar series continues! 🐟🧬 🗓️ Wed, Oct 30 | 5 PM CET (9 AM PDT / 12 PM EDT) 🗣️ Nina Therkildsen (Cornell University) 🔬 "Beyond ecotypes: How chromosomal inversions shape continuous local adaptation"

The STRiVE online seminar series continues! 🧬🦍 🗓️ Wed, Sept 30 | 6 PM CEST (9 AM PDT / 12 PM EDT) 🗣️ Evan Eichler (HHMI, Univ. of Washington) 🔬 "Segmental duplication and the evolution of novel ape genes"

🚨Reminder: Genetics Society of AustralAsia (GSA) Student Research Grants deadline is on 5th Oct. 2x sequencing grants🧬🖥️, each valued at ~$15,000 is available for postgraduate students in Australasia that are GSA members. Info available here: genetics.org.au/student-gran...

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Parallel selection in the native and invasive range of the Common Starling avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/08/26/p... Based on the Molecular Ecology study of Katarina Stuart and her colleagues | #ornithology

New study 🧬 Inbreeding depression is a concern in small populations, and evaluating its genomic proxies is important for #ConservationGenomics. In hihi, genome-wide homozygosity best predicts lifetime reproductive success, compared to genetic load and FROH. Publication: doi.org/10.1111/eva.... 1/3

🌻 Next STRiVE seminar: Loren Rieseberg (UBC) explores SVs, adaptation & speciation—from wild sunflowers to 1000+ species! 🗓️ Apr 29 | 9am PDT / 6pm CEST ✉️ Zoom link via mailing list: groupes.renater.fr/sympa/subscr... ℹ️ Info: structuralvariantsstn.github.io/about/

Please join us for the next Asia-Pacific Genetics Seminar on Wednesday April 1st (1pm AEST / 3pm NZST). We will hear from Assoc Prof Anna Santure from Waipapa Taumata Rau - University of Auckland presenting a seminar titled "Genomic Predictors of Fitness in a Threatened Population".

Excited to welcome Dr @katarinastuart.bsky.social (Macquarie University) to our next #Genomics Community Meeting 🧬💻️ She’ll present: "A Beginners Guide to Structural Variants in Eco-Evolutionary Population Genomics." 🗓️ 17 March 2026. All welcome! Agenda & join link: buff.ly/IlrqHv4

GSA’s 2026 abstract submission & registration are open! www.gsa2026.com Details: July 5-8, University of Queensland’s St. Lucia campus, Brisbane🌴 Abstracts due April 6, early bird reg closes May 25. Exciting program and plenty of opportunities for everyone to present their exciting work!

And you can check the supplementary for a huge table making a (non exhaustive) overview of SV papers in evolutionary genomics from 2020 to 2025. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We hope this little guide and review of the recent literature on SVs will be useful for the community in #ecology #evolution #genomics #PopGen. Great lead by Kat!!

New review! Theory & a practical guide to structural variants in popgen🧬 Many thanks to my co-authors: @rebekahoomen.bsky.social @annatigano.bsky.social @marenwellenreuther.bsky.social @janawold.bsky.social @dlfield.bsky.social @clairemerot.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now out in ME: dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.... Empirical comparison of WGS and RADseq selection scans shows missed signals and false outliers in RADseq selection scans resulting from population specific allelic dropout @katarinastuart.bsky.social @lee-rollins.bsky.social @annasanture.bsky.social

Applications are now open for the Genetics Society of AustralAsia’s 2026 awards for achievements in #genetics research & teaching🧬🧑‍🏫🔬. Awards presented at our annual conference. Pls RT! genetics.org.au/awards/ #PhDchat #ECRchat #WomenInScience #STEMoriginal #LGBTSTEM

A starling with a yellow front (thanks to NZ flax pollen) made it to the blue front of Molecular Ecology journal. This beautiful shot by Dominic Scott advertises a paper, that peeped into history of invasive starlings in NZ (and, spoiler-alert, Australia too). #biologicalinvasions

💡 Bonus: Open Snakemake pipelines for both simulation and imputation are provided: - github.com/vibaotram/si... - github.com/vibaotram/im... Feel free to test and optimize imputation strategies for your own datasets before committing to large-scale LCS projects.

We explored that in this new study in Molecular Ecology Resources 🔎 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @vbtram.bsky.social @huizhentan.bsky.social @katarinastuart.bsky.social @annasanture.bsky.social

🧬 Upcoming Asia-Pacific Genetics Seminar: 📅 30th September Join us for the "Epigenetics in Evolution and Ecology" symposium, featuring three outstanding early career researchers who will share their latest discoveries. 👉 Register now using the poster below!

Genomic imputation can boost dataset quality and benefit research on wild populations. In hihi, we found high #imputation accuracies despite a small reference panel of high-fecundity individuals. Imputation improves downstream #ConservationGenomics analyses. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excellent keynotes this morning from Professor Alexei Drummond and Professor Cris Print on the power of genomics and computational biology in precision medicine and health research. #GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025

Day three of #GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025 kicking off with a great plenary session: diving into the world of plants and regulatory genetics with excellent talks by Miloš Tanurdžić and Erika Varkonyi-Gasic.

A bit of MAGIC spotted in Kathleen's talk at #GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025

Amazing talks in the Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics, and the Human Genetics concurrent sessions today. Emma Carroll, Isabelly de Lima, Graham McCulloh, Amara Shaukat, Kathleen McLay, & some excellent lightning talks! #GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025

Megan Leask closing off the Indigenous Early Career Leaders session with her work designing precision medicine for Māori, by Māori. #GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025

Catherine Collins walking with us through the tāhuhu kōrero in DNA. #GSA2025 #AotearoaGSA2025

Amazing start to #GSA2025! Amanda Black and Dawn Lewis opened with beautiful, thought-provoking science. Indigenous Early Career Leaders Alana Alexander, Jordon Lima, and Conor Watene O'Sullivan shared wonderful projects and reflections on community and communication. More to come!

New preprint out: "A Beginner’s Guide to Structural Variants in Eco-Evolutionary Population Genomics: Everything You Wanted to Know" A primer for anyone curious about digging into structural variants within their study system. Huge thank you to my brilliant co-authors! doi.org/10.22541/au....

Reminder: early bird registration for 🧬GSA 2025🧬 closes on the 11th of May! www.gsa-2025.com

Excited to share a short blog post I wrote with Greening Australia about the project I’m working on at Applied Biosciences, Macquarie University! 🌱🪴🌿 🧬How plant DNA can shape the future of native seed production: www.greeningaustralia.org.au/how-plant-dn...

Only one week left to get your abstracts in for GSA 2025! 🐑🍃🐀🦎🌼🐟🥝🦟🦕🌳💻🦉 No matter your flavour of genetics, you'll find it in Waipapa Taumata Rau (The University of Auckland), Aotearoa (New Zealand) on the 7th - 10th of July! Hope to see you all there! www.gsa-2025.com

📣GSA 2025 Award winners announced! 📣 All winners will be presenting at 🧬GSA 2025🧬 in Waipapa Taumata Rau (The University of Auckland) in Aotearoa (New Zealand). 🚩Reminder to submit your abstracts by April 7th and register to hear these amazing researchers present their work!

🚨REMINDER Make sure to register for🧬GSA’s 2025 conference🧬! The conference will be held at Waipapa Taumata Rau - The University of Auckland in Aotearoa - New Zealand 🥝 from 7-10 July 2025. 🚩Abstracts are due in three weeks (7th April) Early bird registration ends 11th May www.gsa-2025.com

Keynote speakers include Prof Amanda Black 🦠, Prof Alexei Drummond 🌳, Prof Matt Littlejohn 🐄, Prof Cris Print 🩺 and more! The conference will also include an Indigenous Early Career Leaders Session and a Precision Medicine Session. More info here▶️ www.gsa-2025.com/program

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Abstract submission and registration for🧬GSA’s 2025 conference🧬is now open! The conference will be held at Waipapa Taumata Rau - The University of Auckland in Aotearoa - New Zealand 🥝 from 7-10 July 2025. 🚩Important dates Abstracts due- April 7 Early bird registration ends- May 11 www.gsa-2025.com

🚩REMINDER: Genetics Society of AustralAsia annual awards are currently open - deadline is midnight AEDT on 28th February 2025. 📣 Please consider applying yourself, or nominate or encourage eligible students and colleagues to apply for one of these awards. genetics.org.au/awards/

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen

🚨 Free one-week in person workshop on SLiM from 24th - 28th March at the University of Auckland. 📉🧬 Hands on tutorials will be lead by experienced SLiM users Dr @williampearman.bsky.social and Anna Clark. Some ECR travel funds available.🎉 Register here 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Recombination has a major role in evolution. Sex-differences in recombination (yes!!) – heterochiasmy – are common but not well understood. Our new paper in @HeredityJournal examines heterochiasmy in the hihi/stitchbird using a high-density linkage map.🧬 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Visiting our West Australian smokebush (Conospermum undulatum) species for some genomic sequencing #conservation #ConservationScience