Steven Van Belleghem

@SVB@ecoevo.social
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I'm an evolutionary biologist interested in unraveling mechanisms of #plasticity, #adaptation and #speciation using lots of #genomics and #invertebrates. #fedi22 #FollowForPopGenBack
WhereKU Leuven, Belgium
Websitehttps://bio.kuleuven.be/eeb/sv/
Steven Van BelleghemAug 28, 2023
Fantastic new study and resource by Anurag Chaturvedi,
Luisa Orsini
and colleagues!! "hologenome of #Daphniamagna reveals possible DNA methylation and microbiome-mediated evolution of the host genome?"
https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkad685/7252670?login=false
The hologenome of Daphnia magna reveals possible DNA methylation and microbiome-mediated evolution of the host genome

Abstract. Properties that make organisms ideal laboratory models in developmental and medical research are often the ones that also make them less representativ

OUP Academic
Steven Van BelleghemMay 2, 2023

RT @greg_m_priest
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson was born OTD in 1860. He conceived of organismal form as primarily a matter of physical forces, rather than natural selection.

He used diagrams to represent how networks of physical forces could deform one body plan into another.

Steven Van BelleghemApr 28, 2023
RT @evoecogen
A fantastic collection of @ZoonomiaProject papers on the evolution of #mammal genomes in @ScienceMagazine. Of special interest is the final paper, relating genomics to extinction risk. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn5856
Steven Van BelleghemApr 28, 2023
RT @hillermich
Happy to share our TOGA manuscript, now out in Science. Project started 6 years ago, we and others already used TOGA in numerous projects. TOGA integrates gene annotation and orthology inference, and scales to hundreds of genomes. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn3107
Steven Van BelleghemApr 28, 2023

I'll miss running GO enrichment analyses though 🙄.
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RT @simocristea
Only a matter of time before a paper formalized this exercise:

Automated #scRNAseq cell type annotation with GPT4, evaluated across five datasets, 100s of tissues & cell types, human and mouse.

A🧵below with my thoughts on how such tools will change how #Bioinformatics is done.
https://twitter.com/simocristea/status/1651637310012936193

Simona Cristea on Twitter

“Only a matter of time before a paper formalized this exercise: Automated #scRNAseq cell type annotation with GPT4, evaluated across five datasets, 100s of tissues & cell types, human and mouse. A🧵below with my thoughts on how such tools will change how #Bioinformatics is done.”

Twitter
Steven Van BelleghemApr 27, 2023

Really cool! Flying insects loose their sense of which way is up and get trapped by the light source (not lured).
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RT @XCsci
Why insects aggregate around light at night and seem unable to leave?

A nearby artificial light source shifts an insect’s sense of vertical orientation, disrupting its ability to maintain forward flight.

@samueltfabian et al. 2023 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.11.536486v1
https://twitter.com/XCsci/status/1649701728856559619

Steven Van BelleghemApr 26, 2023
RT @KU_Leuven
Nieuw onderzoek door prof. @OGovaere : niet-alcoholische leververvetting nu op te sporen met bloedtest. Dit alternatief voor ingrijpende, dure biopsie maakt snellere behandeling mogelijk. #kuleuven @UniofNewcastle @IHIEurope @NatMetabolism Lees meer 👇
https://bit.ly/3Lt6a9V
Steven Van BelleghemApr 25, 2023
RT @jule_neu
I wrote a book chapter with the great @ClocksEvolution about circatidal and circalunar clocks 🌖 in insects - what we know & don‘t (yet!) know. Check out this great book! Happy & honored to be part of this awesome project @Hideharu_Numata & Kenji Tomioka https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-0726-7_10
Lunar and Tidal Rhythms and Clocks

The presence of the moon results in tidal and lunar cycles that particularly affect life in the intertidal zone through tidal motion. A few insect species managed to colonize this dynamic interface between marine and terrestrial habitats, displaying tidal and lunar...

SpringerLink
Steven Van BelleghemApr 22, 2023
RT @ras_nielsen
Research by Tylor Linderoth in which we find the genes responsible for aposematic mimicry in a poison frog and shows that mimetic morphs evolved without introgression from the models. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.20.537757v1
Steven Van BelleghemApr 17, 2023

RT @arcolon14
Hot off the press! Our work on a new model framework for PCR duplicates led by @ncrochette now available at Molecular Ecology Resources (@molecology):

On the causes, consequences, and avoidance of PCR duplicates: Towards a theory of library complexity
https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13800 1/n