Elia Mascolo
I love studying evolution through the lens of theoretical and computational biology. Math enthusiast and amateur jazz piano player.
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- Reposted by Elia MascoloWith @eliamascolo.bsky.social we'll be presenting this project at the #EvoKE2025 conference in Athens🇬🇷 this November! Check out what the initiative is doing to promote the education and outreach of (biological) evolution in Europe! ➡️ @evokeproject.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Elia Mascolo🚨 #Internship alert in #MachineLearning I am recruiting a BSc (or MSc) student in #ComputerScience #DataScience for an internship this Spring On-site @univie.ac.at or remotely Possibility to develop a BSc/MSc thesis project Please share around & reach out if you have any questions! More details 🔽
- The best part was seeing students who were never exposed to #evolution concepts using evolutionary thinking to interpret the results of the card game. Only after they figured out what was going on, we introduced the scientific jargon (like "selection" and "drift") used to refer to those phenomena.
- Reposted by Elia MascoloA really lovely perspective on our paper led by @grantkinsler.bsky.social and Yuping Li in Plos Biology! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- With neural style transfer we can paint an image with the style of van Gogh. But can we also use it to study the evolution of visual signals and preferences? YES!!! Cool experiments on Darters 🐟😍 👇
- Why are 🦠 genes organized into operons? Gene copy number fluctuates depending on distance from ori due to DNA replication. Operons keep gene clusters balanced in terms of copy number, reducing unbalance in expression level. Evo explanation for metabolic operons 👇 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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- Two years ago we published about what we named "lytic deferment" in bacteriophages (doi.org/10.3389/fmic...). The concept is re-discussed in this recent review by Casters et al. "Phage transmission strategies: are phages framing their host?" doi.org/10.1016/j.mi... Food for thought. 🧬🦠🔬
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