New Job Posting

A 2 -yr postdoc position is available in the group of Daniel Ruzzante at Dalhousie Univ. pending a successful funding application. Experience in pop genetics w successful publ. record and proficiency in bioinformatics and analysis of lcWGS a MUST. Visit

Ever wonder why sea lice wreak havoc on Atlantic salmon but leave coho unscathed? The secret is skin deep! Read more in our latest paper: "Keratinocytes drive the epithelial hyperplasia key to sea lice resistance in coho salmon" published @BMCBiology!🧵 https://t.co/O9C167kOoQ

Atlantic herring genetic structure is restricted to small parts of the genome. Genotype-environment associations show a putative inversion relates to a latitudinal pattern of winter seawater temp with @apfuentes7 @Ruzzante_Lab @xtinabourne @rystanman https://t.co/nsGYUuqgDY

@cait_nemeczek gave a great talk revealing how structural variants can play a key role in adaptation on a very small spatial scale in Brook Trout populations. Her work shows the importance of conserving inversion haplotype diversity! 🐟🧬 @fsbi_symposium @TheFSBI #FSBI2024

@TheFSBI #fsbi2024 @Salisbury_Fish Sarah Salisbury giving a fantastic presentation on single cell RNAseq showing that Coho salmon and pink salmon have strong resistance to sealice

The Oomen Lab @UNBSaintJohn is officially funded by @InnovationCA @NSERC_CRSNG & @nb_innovation!🥳 We're recruiting fully-funded MSc & PhD positions in marine fish ecology/evolution/genomics.🐟🧬 Mentoring philosophy & more information: https://t.co/CLeqiOujKJ Please RT!

💣Registrations are now open for our new edition of the Adaptation Genomics course with @MafaldaSFe and @apfuentes7 in June! 🔥If interested, check it out: https://t.co/W0ZBIGHEOD

What are we asking for? Just our fair share

Happy to share a new paper from the lab led by PhD student James Kho on the effect of temp on epigenome of herring larvae https://t.co/8ZUgoQImZ8 Congratulations James @mLisetteDelgado, G McCracken, J Munden @DalGradStudies @DalScience @Mol_Ecol @molecologist @SeascapeGenomes

Excited to announce the first paper from the @RWGenome Project in collaboration with @MikaFontaine1 providing evidence of long-term small effective population size & low genetic diversity in North Atlantic right whales based on WGS data in @MolEcology https://t.co/hzWcXZZq6n

How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences. https://t.co/Z6za22rMgg 1/9

#XVI_ReGeneC #geneticaparalaconservación "Conservación y Genética en Acción" se realizará con el apoyo de: @unubiolac @Co_Biologists @instituto_luisa 📆Nov 25 - Dic 05, 2023 📍Puerto Madryn, Argentina ⏱️Fecha límite -> Ago 15, 2023 Info aquí👇🏻 https://t.co/DV7wplgEwn

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 We found IBD, life history differences, local #adaptation, and colonization history interactively shaped the genetic structure of Arctic Charr #morphs across Labrador, 🇨🇦 in our latest paper just-accepted in @molecology!🧐🐟🧬 https://t.co/qMWq0kie4d A 🧵

Beautiful figures in James Kho's talk today at #SCAS_SCSA2023! He found differentially methylated regions in Atlantic Herring associated with development and temperature rearing conditions! These results could be key to help conserve the near extinct spring spawning morph! 🐟🧬🍁

Wow! @cait_nemeczek found multiple structural variants differentiating neighboring freshwater resident brook trout populations in Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦! These genomic rearrangements could be key to help conserve these small populations! 🐟🧬🙃🙂 @scas_scsa #SCAS_SCSA2023

The last data chapter of my PhD is finally published! In this study, we combined rearing experiments with transcriptomics to answer the question: Does the loss of diadromy imply the loss of salinity tolerance? #Galaxias Check it out at @molecology

Happy holidays! Introducing https://t.co/Ub3wgs1KVz, an AI-powered app that lets you chat with your data in English! RTutor uses Davinci (#ChatGPT’s sibling) to turn requests into R code, which is executed & results are shown instantly, available as a HTML report in seconds. 1/8

@DalhousieU TAs are paid insultingly low wages, to the point where *I have been working at a HIGH SCHOOL for 3 years instead because it actually COMPENSATES me*. Dal, should you be wasting your students’ potential like this?

Please share this free 2 day camp in September with BIPOC kids in your life! We are open to grades 8/9 as well!