Giacomo Potente
Postdoc at the University of Zurich | Plant evolutionary genomics 🌱🧬 | Studying supergenes in angiosperms & sex chromosomes in liverworts
- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteI'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖
- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteAnd look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯
- Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
- - "What should I say if someone calls - like, you’ve won the Nobel prize or something?" - "Just tell them I’m living my best life"
- New preprint! In collaboration with @ergabiodiv.bsky.social, we explored the convergent #evolution of the S-locus #supergene controlling distyly in the #primrose family. Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #heterostyly #genomics #preprint #bioRxiv
- Reposted by Giacomo Potente✨Don't miss the N&V✨ 📰The dawn of bryophyte genomics is here. By Giacomo Potente, Yuling Yue & Péter Szövényi. ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Giacomo Potente*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteCheck out our new preprint! We compare sequence versus synteny approaches for resolving a challenging #phylogenetic problem. In this case, synteny is far more informative! Also includes the first chromosome-level #genome for the enigmatic #fish family Gyrinocheilidae. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Excited to share that my first News & Views is out in @natgenet.nature.com! Together with Yuling Yue and @peterszovenyi.bsky.social, we highlight a landmark study presenting 100+ bryophyte genome assemblies and what they reveal about plant evolution. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- ... And here’s the original paper by Dong et al.: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteWhere does pollen go after leaving a flower? Our paper on pollen fates in buzz pollinated flowers is out. Congrats to the three brilliant undergrads that carried out this study from beginning to end! pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...
- 🌱 How does polyploidy shape plant reproduction? Excited to have contributed to a new study in @molbioevol.bsky.social on the loss of distyly in the polyploid Primula grandis! doi.org/10.1093/molb...
- Reposted by Giacomo Potente*Job alert* Come work with us! We have a fully funded 4yr #PhD position in #alpine & #Arctic plant #ecology available in our group @unibas.ch. The project includes fieldwork & connects to other ongoing projects on species range shifts & microclimate. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... Please repost! 🌐🧪
- Delighted to see this piece celebrating 60 years of the University of Leicester’s Department of Genetics! 🧬 I spent a few months there as an Erasmus student and I have great memories of the brilliant people met there. Here’s to the next 60! 🥂
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- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteSome months later, work is now published @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteRAxML-NG v2.0 beta is here github.com/amkozlov/rax... Features 1. Difficulty prediction academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 2. Adaptive search academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 3. Early Stop www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 4. Model selection 5. Rapid bootstrapping academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteAdventures in nature's nonbinary botany, with a side of Emily Dickinson – the poetic science of "perfect flowers" (the actual botanical term) www.themarginalian.org/2021/07/02/p...
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- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteNew OA Letter: "Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/eiJVL ...engineered the tobacco rattle virus to express the RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and guide RNA for transgene-free germline editing.
- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteNew preprint! We investigated the evolution of supergenes and mechanisms underlying distyly in Linum species that diverged ca 33 Mya. 1/8 bsky.app/profile/bior...
- Genomic studies in Linum shed light on the evolution of the distyly supergene and the molecular basis of convergent floral evolution biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Our @cp-cellreports.bsky.social paper was featured by the UZH Faculty of Science! We explore how sex chromosomes evolve during transitions to cosexuality, using the liverwort Marchantia quadrata 🧬 🔗 www.mnf.uzh.ch/de/news/arti...
- …And here’s a link to our paper: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteOur first paper on algal experiments at NIG with @yawaguchi.bsky.social! We found that a single episode of sexual reproduction can produce large variation in population growth rates (and prevent extinction) under dual stressors @jevbio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... bsky.app/profile/bior...
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- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteI submitted my successful postdoc applications this repo to demystify the #HiddenCurriculum and help others with their job searches. You can do the same! 🧪 #research #academia
- Regular ask to send me successful job applications, grants, and fellowships to share with others! Thanks to @isabelott.bsky.social for sharing her GRFP (and congrats!). github.com/RILAB/statem...
- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteA fundamental and groundbreaking study by Jordi Bascompte, a colleague from our department: The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteI brought back the dire lotus from extinction by using CRISPR in Arabidopsis! Same Arabidopsis thaliana species, just four mutations..
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- 👋 Hi Bluesky! As a first post, I'm happy to share our new paper exploring what happens to sex chromosomes when a species transitions from separate sexes to cosexuality, using the liverwort Marchantia quadrata 🧬 Proud to share first authorship with Yukiko Yasui, with Péter Szövényi as senior author.
- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteThis is insane... Did anyone else know chicory is the same as radicchio? It's just as versatile as B. oleracea.
- Reposted by Giacomo PotenteSuper excited about my latest paper published in one of my favorite journals @newphyt.bsky.social 🌸🐝 Plant honesty to their pollinators is partly heritable; bees prefer honest plants and these produce more seeds. Then why are there dishonest genotypes? 🤔 that's the next question! Link below
