Stephen I Wright

🚨Our new preprint is out! 🤩 🌟 Mutation rates vary widely across taxa, and decades of research have sought to explain why. ♀️♂️ Reproductive modes, and evolutionary shifts between them, could help explain some of this variation. ❓ So what does the evidence tell us? 👀 Read our preprint to find out!

New work now out led by Mark Hibbins and Cassandre Pyne : new statistical methods for quantifying rearrangements suggest highly elevated rates of chromosomal change associated with the evolution of separate sexes in Rumex!

Congrats to Dr. Meng Yuan, who defended her PhD on the genome-wide potential for ploidy & sexual conflict in plants! Many thanks to @judithmank.bsky.social for serving as her external examiner. A fun collaboration w/ @stepheniwright.bsky.social and also @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social for a paper!

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

Yuan, @stepheniwright.bsky.social‬, @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social‬, et al. examined signatures of selection across life stages in the angiosperm Rumex hastatulus and the moss Ceratodon purpureus. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf138 #genome #evolution #PlantSky

Presenting Dr. @bmsacchi.bsky.social !! Bianca successfully defended her thesis on Rumex sex chromosome degeneration and regulatory evolution today. Bravo!!

Waterhemp has recently evolved separate M & F sexes from a monoecious ancestor. @jmkreiner.bsky.social @stepheniwright.bsky.social &co reveal surprising #chromosomal complexity associated with this transition, challenging assumptions of how separate #sexes evolve @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/46sTg6u

The SMBE Lifetime Contribution Award winner is Chung-I Wu. ⭐ 2025 Winners: members.smbe.org/news/Details... 📄 Information on the Faculty Awards: www.smbe.org/faculty-awards

SMBE is delighted to announce our 2025 Faculty Award Winners! Today, we focus on our SMBE Early-Career Excellence Award winner, Alison Feder (@alisonfeder.bsky.social) ⭐ 2025 Winners: members.smbe.org/news/Details... 📄 Information on the Faculty Awards: www.smbe.org/faculty-awards

The winner of the SMBE Mid-Career Excellence Award is Amanda Larracuente (University of Rochester). ⭐ 2025 Winners: members.smbe.org/news/Details... 📄 Information on the Faculty Awards: www.smbe.org/faculty-awards

The University of Toronto's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department invites postdoc applications. Salary: $70K; start: July–Dec 2025. Deadline: April 25, 2025. More: https://eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/ #postdoc

🔹 SMBE 2025 IDEA Symposium 🔹 @official-smbe.bsky.social We invite abstract submissions for the #SMBE IDEA Symposium to share initiatives that foster a more inclusive and equitable community. 🚨 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝘂𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟭𝟱 🔗 Submit your abstract here! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/index...

Final version of this out now in that beautiful Amnat typesetting! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Now out, new work led by @rejectresubmit.bsky.social - multiple origins of dioecy and sex chromosomes and genome-wide rearrangements shape the phylogenomics of Rumex

🚨Exciting Update!🚨 We’re thrilled to announce @gillesfischer.bsky.social as our confirmed keynote speaker! Join us for the @official-smbe.bsky.social Satellite Meeting: Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation and Experimental Evolution 🧬 Puerto Varas, Chile 🗓️ October 6-8, 2025

My postdoc work on phylogenomics of Rumex is out ahead of print in Evolution Letters! academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Doubly great news: SMBE is now here, and Maud Tenaillon is our new EIC for GBE!!!

Very exciting news!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the University of New Orleans starting in Fall 2025. Research topics will focus on building and using phylogenies to study the diversification of birds, with an emphasis on Neotropical bird radiations. Contact me if interested.

SMBE2024 Puerto Vallarta has now opened the call for symposium proposals! Proposals are due Nov 10th.Results will be announced Dec 6th! #SMBE24 www.smbe2024.org

Know any up and coming computational/statistical ecologists?Please encourage to join us in Toronto EEB! New Asst Prof faculty position jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...