Dr Alice Balard

DNA methylation reveals evolved buffering responses to climate-driven sex ratio skew in sea turtles Species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), including all sea turtles which produce females at warmer temperatures, face projections of demographic collapse under climate-driven sex ra...

🚨 New preprint alert 🚨 I’m excited to share our study presenting a non-invasive method for sexing sea turtle hatchlings via DNA methylation - the culmination of many years of work! Huge thanks to our fantastic co-authors, whose dedication made this possible

doi.org/10.64898/202...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al:

"Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited"

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1/ I’m very excited to share my postdoc work with @kseskv.bsky.social, in collaboration with @oligriffith.bsky.social. We explore embryonic DNA methylation reprogramming in the fat-tailed dunnart, an Australian marsupial 🦘🌏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Adenine DNA methylation associated with transcriptionally permissive chromatin is widespread across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics Long-read sequencing in 18 unicellular eukaryotes reveals that 6mA is widespread across eukaryotes and is enriched at transcriptionally permissive regions, which are also marked by H3K4me3.

Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9

Nice to (virtually) meet you! I usually focus at epigenetics in vertebrates, but I'm super curious to see how some phenotypic plasticity mechanisms are broadly conserved and allow all kinds of adaptations!

You want to learn about all of the amazing ways epigenetics 🧬can inform wildlife 🐻🐟 research? Check the online presentations me and colleagues will give 16-18th of Sept! Thanks NKV, and Chloé Nater from @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social for putting together this great learning & networking workshop!

Come to join a great team and a super exciting project!

If you want to know more about DNA methylation in conservation, especially temperature-sex dependent species, check this cool video & the paper tinyurl.com/yvspkzp6! It was a pleasure to be part of such cool collaboration, very well done for the intense work @eugeniecyen.bsky.social you're a queen!

A nice review paper from the lab!

You can catch UGI post-doc @nancybird1.bsky.social presenting at @official-smbe.bsky.social #SMBE next week on her work: "A flexible and efficient new model to infer multiple admixture dates via joint analyses of modern and/or ancient individuals".

✨🧬 Sharing our UCL Genetics Institute starter pack of researchers, friends and alumni past and present 🧬 ✨

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(DM us to be added)

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Chromosome-level genome assembly and methylome profile yield insights for the conservation of endangered loggerhead sea turtles AbstractBackground. Characterizing genetic and epigenetic diversity is crucial for assessing the adaptive potential of threatened populations and species i

Great to see this published in @gigascience.bsky.social! Using @nanoporetech.com, we generated genome and methylome resources simultaneously to drive molecular insights for conservation of loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde 🐢🧬🇨🇻
doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Tomorrow is the first #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk this semester, with @alicebalard.bsky.social from UCL @ucl.ac.uk who will be talking about the role of methylation
in adaptive response to environmental pressures.
Join us! Details: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar...
@klivvvienna.bsky.social

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳

With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

Hi, great idea, I'd love to have the link please!