Events

2026.6.15 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Ravasio, R., Husain, K., Evans, C. G., Phillips, R., Ribezzi-Crivellari, M., Szostak, J. W., & Murugan, A. (2026). Evolution of error correction through a need for speed. Science, 391(6787), 818–824. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adt1275

2026.6.8 Journal Club

Presenter: Lei Liu

Article: Lisowski, C., Quetting, M., Klaus, D., Lazarevski, L., Seep, L., Germer, M., Li, J., Müller, I., Zuniga, D., Fiedler, W., Dechmann, D. K. N., Thorup, K., Hasenauer, J., Fester, L., Kuerten, S., Farle, M., Wiedwald, U., Wikelski, M., & Kurts, C. (2026). Homing pigeon navigation relies on superparamagnetic macrophages under overcast conditions. Science, 392(6801), 985–991. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ady2486

2026.6.1 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Xu, M. M., Huang, Y., Zhang, Y. P., & Peng, M. S. (2026). Restoration of ancestral transcriptional plasticity contributes to plastic heterosis in fatty liver of hybrid ducks. Communications biology, 10.1038/s42003-026-10049-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-10049-7

2026.5.25 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan Liu

Article: Ricemeyer, E. S., Schaefer, N. K., Du, K., da Cruz, I., Kneitz, S., Acemel, R. D., Lupiáñez, D. G., Carroll, R. A., Drinkwater, R., Schartl, M., & Warren, W. C. (2026). Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species. Nature, 652(8109), 398–404. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10180-9

2026.5.18 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Pai, S. V., Humphrey, P. T., Simonet, C., Kosheleva, K., Limdi, A., & Desai, M. M. (2026). Sex decreases the pleiotropic costs of local adaptation by purging hitchhiking load. Science, 392(6796), 415–420. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aec9708

2026.5.11 Journal Club

Presenter: Hanchi Yu

Article: Ciucci, G., Lorizio, D., Bartoloni, N., Budini, M., Colliva, A., Vodret, S., Nguyen, A. V., Ciacci, L., Texler, B., Cardini, B., Oberhuber, R., Bindelli, S., Del Giudice, I. L. C., Vuerich, R., Riccitelli, F., Zago, E., Finsberg, H. N., Chiesa, M., Perrucci, G. L., Bussani, R., … Zacchigna, S. (2026). Mechanical load inhibits cancer growth in mouse and human hearts. Science, 392(6796), eads9412. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ads9412

2026.4.27 Journal Club

Presenter: Chenggen Qiang

Article: Wu, X., Bellagio, T., Peng, Y., Czech, L., Lin, M., Lang, P., Epstein, R., Abdelaziz, M., Alexander, J., Alonso-Blanco, C., Andersen, H. L., Berbel, M., Bergelson, J., Bossdorf, O., Burghardt, L., Caton-Darby, M., Colautti, R., Delker, C., Dimitrakopoulos, P. G., Donohue, K., … Exposito-Alonso, M. (2026). Rapid adaptation and extinction in synchronized outdoor evolution experiments of Arabidopsis. Science, 391(6792), eadz0777. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz0777

2026.4.20 Journal Club

Presenter: Ti Qin

Article: Deng, P., Lee, H., Armijo, C., Wang, H., & Gao, A. (2026). Protein-templated synthesis of dinucleotide repeat DNA by an antiphage reverse transcriptase. Science, eaed1656.  https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aed1656

2026.4.13 Journal Club

Presenter: Shichun Wang

Article: Tran, V. Q., Nemeth, M., Bartie, L. J., Chandrasekaran, S. S., Fanton, A., Moon, H. C., Hie, B. L., Konermann, S., & Hsu, P. D. (2026). Rapid directed evolution guided by protein language models and epistatic interactions. Science, 392(6798), eaea1820. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1820

2026.4.6 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi Qin

Article: Bou Sleiman, M., Roy, S., Gao, A. W., Sadler, M. C., von Alvensleben, G. V. G., Li, H., Sen, S., Harrison, D. E., Nelson, J. F., Strong, R., Miller, R. A., Kutalik, Z., Williams, R. W., & Auwerx, J. (2022). Sex- and age-dependent genetics of longevity in a heterogeneous mouse population. Science, 377(6614), eabo3191. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo3191

2026.3.30 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Tarkington, J., Mahadevan, A., Chan, A. G., & Sherlock, G. (2026). Experimental Evolution of Yeast Reveals Trade-offs Between Early and Late Stationary Phase. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026.03.12.711341. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.12.711341

2026.3.23 Journal Club

Presenter: Yang Qian

Article: Anstett, D. N., Anstett, J., Sheth, S. N., Moxley, D. R., Branch, H. A., Jahani, M., Huang, K., Todesco, M., Jordan, R., Lazaro-Guevara, J. M., Rieseberg, L. H., & Angert, A. L. (2026). Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought. Science, 391(6790), 1172–1176. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adu0995

2026.3.16 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Robertson, A. J., Kerr, B., & Feder, A. F. (2026). Intracellular interactions shape antiviral resistance outcomes in poliovirus via eco-evolutionary feedback. Nature ecology & evolution, 10(3), 429–438. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02926-x

2026.3.9 Journal Club

Presenter: Haichao Li

Article: Uller, T., Feiner, N., Sacchi, R., Zuffi, M., Scali, S., Pafilis, P., Plavos, K., Abalos, J., Andrade, P., Aguilar, P., Salvi, D., & While, G. M. (2026). Adaptive spread of a sexually selected syndrome eliminates an ancient color polymorphism in wall lizards. Science, 391(6780), 64–68. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adx3708
Corl, A., Guzman, A., Bi, K., Vazquez, J. M., Smith, L. L., Blaimont, P., Spranger, R., Cooper, R. D., Miles, D., Goldberg, A., Gao, J., Xiang, X., Zhou, Y., Li, Q., Zhang, G., Sudmant, P. H., Bowie, R. C. K., McGuire, J. A., Sinervo, B., & Nielsen, R. (2026). The genetics, evolution, and maintenance of a biological rock-paper-scissors game. Science, 391(6780), 69–74. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adw8265

2026.2.2 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Pisera, A., & Liu, C. C. (2025). The role of plasmid copy number and mutation rate in evolutionary outcomes. Nature ecology & evolution, 9(9), 1694–1704. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02792-7

2026.1.26 Journal Club

Presenter: Kun Wu

Article: Aguilar, R. R., Khan, L. F., Cummins, C. K., Arslanovic, N., Grauer, T., Birmingham, K., Kasliwal, K., Posnikoff, S. D. L., Chakraborty, U., Hickman, A. R., Watson, R., Ezell, R. J., Hunt, S. R., Mukhsinova, L., Willis, H. E., Cowles, M. W., Garner, R., Shim, A., Gutierrez, J. I., Venters, B. J., … Tyler, J. K. (2025). Multivalent binding of the tardigrade Dsup protein to chromatin promotes yeast survival and longevity upon exposure to oxidative damage. Nature communications, 16(1), 8617. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63652-3

2026.1.19 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Wu, D., Wang, Z., Huang, J., Huang, L., Zhang, S., Zhao, R., Li, W., Chen, D., & Ou, G. (2022). An antagonistic pleiotropic gene regulates the reproduction and longevity tradeoff. PNAS, 119(18), e2120311119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2120311119

2026.1.12 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan Liu

Article: Tian, S., Lee, B., Banerjee, T. D., Murugesan, S. N., & Monteiro, A. (2025). A novel Hox gene promoter fuels the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in wing eyespots of satyrid butterflies. Nature ecology & evolution, 9(12), 2391–2403. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02891-5

2025.12.29 Journal Club

Presenter: Shichun Wang

Article: Lin, S. Y., Futeran, H. R., Cruga, B. N., Santiago-Frangos, A., & Levine, M. T. (2025). Rapid compensatory evolution within a multiprotein complex preserves telomere integrity. Science, 390(6776), 918–924. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adv0657

2025.12.22 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi Qin

Article: Chen, Y., Chen, Z., Wang, H., Cui, Z., Li, K. L., Song, Z., Chen, L., Sun, X., Xu, X., Zhang, Y., Tan, L., Yuan, J., Tan, R., Luo, M. H., Sun, F. L., Liu, H., Jiang, Y., & Mao, Z. (2025). A cGAS-mediated mechanism in naked mole-rats potentiates DNA repair and delays aging. Science, 390(6769), eadp5056. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adp5056

2025.12.1 Journal Club

Presenter: Yang Qian

Article: Parée, T., Noble, L., Roze, D., & Teotónio, H. (2025). Selection Can Favor a Recombination Landscape That Limits Polygenic Adaptation. Molecular biology and evolution, 42(1), msae273. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msae273

2025.11.24 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Zik, J. J., Price, M. N., Mayra, K. H. A., Santoso, A. A., Arkin, A. P., Deutschbauer, A. M., & Sham, L. T. (2025). Dual transposon sequencing profiles the genetic interaction landscape in bacteria. Science, 389(6767), eadt7685. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adt7685

2025.11.12 Journal Club

Presenter: Ti Qin

Article: Firsanov, D., Zacher, M., Tian, X., Sformo, T. L., Zhao, Y., Tombline, G., Lu, J. Y., Zheng, Z., Perelli, L., Gurreri, E., Zhang, L., Guo, J., Korotkov, A., Volobaev, V., Biashad, S. A., Zhang, Z., Heid, J., Maslov, A. Y., Sun, S., Wu, Z., … Gorbunova, V. (2025). Evidence for improved DNA repair in the long-lived bowhead whale. Nature, 648(8094), 717–725. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09694-5

2025.11.7 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Wood, D. P., Holmberg, J. A., Osborne, O. G., Helmstetter, A. J., Dunning, L. T., Ellison, A. R., Smith, R. J., Lighten, J., & Papadopulos, A. S. T. (2023). Genetic assimilation of ancestral plasticity during parallel adaptation to zinc contamination in Silene uniflora. Nature ecology & evolution, 7(3), 414–423. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01975-w

2025.10.24 Journal Club

Presenter: Lei Liu

Article: Jakobson, C. M., Hartl, J., Trébulle, P., Mülleder, M., Jarosz, D. F., & Ralser, M. (2025). A genome-to-proteome map reveals how natural variants drive proteome diversity and shape fitness. Science390(6769), eadu3198.

2025.10.17 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Sane, M., Parveen, S., & Agashe, D. (2025). Mutation bias alters the distribution of fitness effects of mutations. Plos Biology23(7), e3003282.

2025.10.10 Journal Club

Presenter: Haichao

Article: Gardner, C., Chen, J., Hadfield, C., Lu, Z., Debruin, D., Zhan, Y., … & Lin, Z. (2024). Chromosome-level subgenome-aware de novo assembly provides insight into Saccharomyces bayanus genome divergence after hybridization. Genome Research34(11), 2133-2146.

2025.09.19 Journal Club

Presenter: Kun Wu

Article: Li W, Baehr S, Marasco M, Reyes L, Brister D, Pikaard CS, Gout JF, Vermulst M, Lynch M. A narrow range of transcript-error rates across the Tree of Life. Sci Adv. 2025 Jul 11;11(28):eadv9898. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adv9898.

2025.09.12 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Karageorgi, M., Lyulina, A.S., Bitter, M.C. et al. Beneficial reversal of dominance maintains a large-effect resistance polymorphism under fluctuating insecticide selection. Nat Ecol Evol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02853-x

2025.09.05 Journal Club

Presenter: Lan Mi

Article: Zheng, B., Zhang, W., Yu, G., Shi, W., Deng, S., Zhang, X., … & Yang, J. R. (2025). Translational fidelity and longevity are genetically linked. Nature Communications16(1), 7521.

2025.08.26 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Sastre-Dominguez, J., DelaFuente, J., Toribio-Celestino, L., Herencias, C., Herrador-Gomez, P., Costas, C., … & San Millan, A. (2024). Plasmid-encoded insertion sequences promote rapid adaptation in clinical enterobacteria. Nature ecology & evolution8(11), 2097-2112.

2025.07.08 Journal Club

Presenter: Haichao

Article: Chen, Y., & Nielsen, J. (2022). Yeast has evolved to minimize protein resource cost for synthesizing amino acids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences119(4), e2114622119.

2025.07.01 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Maeda, T., Iwasawa, J., Kotani, H., Sakata, N., Kawada, M., Horinouchi, T., … & Furusawa, C. (2020). High-throughput laboratory evolution reveals evolutionary constraints in Escherichia coli. Nature communications11(1), 5970.

2025.06.24 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan

Article: Zhu, L., Beichman, A., & Harris, K. (2025). Population size interacts with reproductive longevity to shape the germline mutation rate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences122(21), e2423311122.

2025.06.10 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Liu, J., Gefen, O., Ronin, I., Bar-Meir, M., & Balaban, N. Q. (2020). Effect of tolerance on the evolution of antibiotic resistance under drug combinations. Science367(6474), 200-204.

2025.05.27 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Vaishnav, E. D., de Boer, C. G., Molinet, J., Yassour, M., Fan, L., Adiconis, X., … & Regev, A. (2022). The evolution, evolvability and engineering of gene regulatory DNA. Nature, 603(7901), 455-463.

2025.05.13 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Pokusaeva, V. O., Usmanova, D. R., Putintseva, E. V., Espinar, L., Sarkisyan, K. S., Mishin, A. S., … & Kondrashov, F. A. (2019). An experimental assay of the interactions of amino acids from orthologous sequences shaping a complex fitness landscape. PLoS genetics15(4), e1008079.

2025.04.22 Journal Club

Presenter: Yang Qian

Article: Brixi, G., Durrant, M. G., Ku, J., Poli, M., Brockman, G., Chang, D., … & Hie, B. L. (2025). Genome modeling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2. BioRxiv, 2025-02.

2025.04.15 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Jiang, W., Yin, H., Khan, S. S., & Yiparemu. (2025). Super-compensator alleles rescue diverse deleterious substitutions and buffer the effects of mutations. bioRxiv, 2025-01.

2025.04.08 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi

Article: Spisak, N., de Manuel, M., Milligan, W., Sella, G., & Przeworski, M. (2024). The clock-like accumulation of germline and somatic mutations can arise from the interplay of DNA damage and repair. PLoS biology22(6), e3002678.

2025.03.18 Journal Club

Presenter: Haichao

Article: Cope, A. L., Schraiber, J. G., & Pennell, M. (2025). Macroevolutionary divergence of gene expression driven by selection on protein abundance. Science387(6738), 1063-1068.

2025.03.11 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Rohwer, R. R., Kirkpatrick, M., Garcia, S. L., Kellom, M., McMahon, K. D., & Baker, B. J. (2025). Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake. Nature Microbiology10(1), 246-257.

2025.03.04 Journal Club

Presenter: Kun Wu

Article: Barnett, M., Meister, L., & Rainey, P. B. (2025). Experimental evolution of evolvability. Science, 387(6736), eadr2756.

2025.02.25 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Matsui, T., Mullis, M. N., Roy, K. R., Hale, J. J., Schell, R., Levy, S. F., & Ehrenreich, I. M. (2022). The interplay of additivity, dominance, and epistasis on fitness in a diploid yeast cross. Nature Communications13(1), 1463.

2025.02.19 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan

Article: Vaisvila, R., Johnson, S. R., Yan, B., Dai, N., Bourkia, B. M., Chen, M., … & Sun, Z. (2024). Discovery of cytosine deaminases enables base-resolution methylome mapping using a single enzyme. Molecular Cell84(5), 854-866.

2025.01.17 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Beltran, A., Jiang, X. E., Shen, Y., & Lehner, B. (2025). Site-saturation mutagenesis of 500 human protein domains. Nature637(8047), 885-894.

2025.01.10 Journal Club

Presenter: Ti Qin

Article: Liu, G., Pan, Q., Zhu, P., Guo, X., Zhang, Z., Li, Z., … & Zhou, X. (2024). Comparative genomics provides insights into adaptive evolution and demographics of bats. Molecular Biology and Evolution41(12), msae208.

2025.01.02 Journal Club

Presenter: Chen lab

Article: Brandes, N., Goldman, G., Wang, C. H., Ye, C. J., & Ntranos, V. (2023). Genome-wide prediction of disease variant effects with a deep protein language model. Nature Genetics55(9), 1512-1522.

2024.12.25 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi

Article: Gao, Z., Moorjani, P., Sasani, T. A., Pedersen, B. S., Quinlan, A. R., Jorde, L. B., … & Przeworski, M. (2019). Overlooked roles of DNA damage and maternal age in generating human germline mutations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(19), 9491-9500.

2024.12.11 Journal Club

Presenter: Yutong

Article: Kim, S., Lieberman, T. D., & Kishony, R. (2014). Alternating antibiotic treatments constrain evolutionary paths to multidrug resistance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(40), 14494-14499.

2024.12.4 Journal Club

Presenter: Haichao

Article: Zhou, C., Wang, Y., Huang, Y., An, Y., Fu, X., Yang, D., … & Huang, W. (2024). The de novo design and synthesis of yeast chromosome XIII facilitates investigations on aging. Nature Communications, 15(1), 10139.

2024.11.27 Journal Club

Presenter: Shichun

Article: Rix, G., Williams, R. L., Hu, V. J., Spinner, A., Pisera, A., Marks, D. S., & Liu, C. C. (2024). Continuous evolution of user-defined genes at 1 million times the genomic mutation rate. Science, 386(6722), eadm9073.

2024.11.20 Journal Club

Presenter: Qian Yang

Article: Siddiq, M.A., Duveau, F. & Wittkopp, P.J. Plasticity and environment-specific relationships between gene expression and fitness in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nat Ecol Evol 8, 2184–2194 (2024).

2024.11.7 Journal Club

Presenter: Wu Kun

Article: Lu, Z., Mo, S., Xie, D., Zhai, X., Deng, S., Zhou, K., … & Hu, Z. (2024). Polyclonal-to-monoclonal transition in colorectal precancerous evolution. Nature, 1-8.

2024.10.31 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan

Article: Joyce, W., He, K., Zhang, M., Ogunsola, S., Wu, X., Joseph, K. T., … & Campbell, K. L. (2024). Genetic excision of the regulatory cardiac troponin I extension in high–heart rate mammal clades. Science, 385(6716), 1466-1471.

2024.10.17 Journal Club

Presenter: Danyang

Article: Rodriguez, A., Diehl, J. D., Wright, G. S., Bonar, C. D., Lundgren, T. J., Moss, M. J., … & Clark, P. L. (2024). Synonymous codon substitutions modulate transcription and translation of a divergent upstream gene by modulating antisense RNA production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(36), e2405510121.

2024.10.10 Journal Club

Presenter: Shukun

Article: Wu, Z., Waneka, G., Broz, A. K., King, C. R., & Sloan, D. B. (2020). MSH1 is required for maintenance of the low mutation rates in plant mitochondrial and plastid genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(28), 16448-16455.

2024.9.19 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi

Article: Armakolas, A., & Klar, A. J. (2006). Cell type regulates selective segregation of mouse chromosome 7 DNA strands in mitosis. Science, 311(5764), 1146-1149.

2024.9.12 Journal Club

Presenter: Qian Yang

Article: Balogun, E. J., & Ness, R. W. (2024). The effects of de novo mutation on gene expression and the consequences for fitness in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 41(3), msae035.

2024.9.5 Journal Club

Presenter: Haichao

Article: Berra Erkosar, Cindy Dupuis, Fanny Cavigliasso, Loriane Savary, Laurent Kremmer, Hector Gallart-Ayala, Julijana Ivanisevic, Tadeusz J Kawecki (2023) Evolutionary adaptation to juvenile malnutrition impacts adult metabolism and impairs adult fitness in Drosophila. eLife 12:e92465

2024.8.29 Journal Club

Presenter: Wu Kun

Article: Gordon, J. L., Byrne, K. P., & Wolfe, K. H. (2011). Mechanisms of chromosome number evolution in yeast. PLoS Genetics, 7(7), e1002190.

2024.8.22 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan

Article: Timasheva, Y., Lepik, K., Liska, O., Papp, B., & Kutalik, Z. (2024). Widespread natural selection on metabolite levels in humans. Genome Research, 34(8), 1121-1129.

2024.7.25 Journal Club

Presenter: Danyang

Article: Huang, Z., Whelan, C. V., Foley, N. M., Jebb, D., Touzalin, F., Petit, E. J., … & Teeling, E. C. (2019). Longitudinal comparative transcriptomics reveals unique mechanisms underlying extended healthspan in bats. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3(7), 1110-1120.

2024.7.18 Journal Club

Presenter: Qian Yang

Article: Weimann, A., Dinan, A. M., Ruis, C., Bernut, A., Pont, S., Brown, K., … & Floto, R. A. (2024). Evolution and host-specific adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Science, 385(6704), eadi0908.

2024.7.11 Journal Club

Presenter: Shukun

Article: Peterson, A., Baskett, C., Ratcliff, W. C., & Burnetti, A. (2024). Transforming yeast into a facultative photoheterotroph via expression of vacuolar rhodopsin. Current Biology, 34(3), 648-654.

2024.7.8 Journal Club

Presenter: Haichao

Article: Tengölics, R., Szappanos, B., Mülleder, M., Kalapis, D., Grézal, G., Sajben, C., … & Papp, B. (2024). The metabolic domestication syndrome of budding yeast. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(11), e2313354121.

2024.6.27 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi

Article: Anderson, C. J., Talmane, L., Luft, J., Connelly, J., Nicholson, M. D., Verburg, J. C., … & Taylor, M. S. (2024). Strand-resolved mutagenicity of DNA damage and repair. Nature, 1-8.

2024.6.20 Journal Club

Presenter: Wu Kun

Article: Rudman, S. M., Greenblum, S. I., Rajpurohit, S., Betancourt, N. J., Hanna, J., Tilk, S., … & Schmidt, P. (2022). Direct observation of adaptive tracking on ecological time scales in Drosophila. Science, 375(6586), eabj7484.

2024.6.13 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan

Article: Zhang, T., Tan, S., Tang, N., Li, Y., Zhang, C., Sun, J., … & Zhang, Y. E. (2024). Heterologous survey of 130 DNA transposons in human cells highlights their functional divergence and expands the genome engineering toolbox. Cell.

2024.6.6 Journal Club

Presenter: Liu Lei

Article: Puddu, F., Herzog, M., Selivanova, A., Wang, S., Zhu, J., Klein-Lavi, S., … & Jackson, S. P. (2019). Genome architecture and stability in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae knockout collection. Nature573(7774), 416-420.

2024.5.30 Journal Club

Presenter: Yiping

Article: Strauss, S. K., Liti, G., Dahan, O., & Pilpel, Y. (2024). Adaptive Mating Among Natural Strains of S. cerevisiae. bioRxiv, 2024-02.

2024.5.23 Journal Club

Presenter: Haichao

Article: Campbell-Staton, S. C., Velotta, J. P., & Winchell, K. M. (2021). Selection on adaptive and maladaptive gene expression plasticity during thermal adaptation to urban heat islands. Nature Communications, 12(1), 6195.

2024.5.16 Journal Club

Presenter: Qian Yang

Article: Field, Y., Fondufe-Mittendorf, Y., Moore, I. K., Mieczkowski, P., Kaplan, N., Lubling, Y., … & Segal, E. (2009). Gene expression divergence in yeast is coupled to evolution of DNA-encoded nucleosome organization. Nature Genetics, 41(4), 438-445.

2024.4.25 Journal Club

Presenter: Shukun

Article: Bing, J., Guan, Z., Zheng, T., Ennis, C. L., Nobile, C. J., Chen, C., … & Huang, G. (2024). Rapid evolution of an adaptive multicellular morphology of Candida auris during systemic infection. Nature Communications, 15(1), 2381.

2024.4.18 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi

Article: Glass, D. S., Bren, A., Vaisbourd, E., Mayo, A., & Alon, U. (2024). A synthetic differentiation circuit in Escherichia coli for suppressing mutant takeover. Cell, 187(4), 931-944.

2024.4.11 Journal Club

Presenter: Wu Kun

Article: Fabre, M. A., de Almeida, J. G., Fiorillo, E., Mitchell, E., Damaskou, A., Rak, J., … & Vassiliou, G. S. (2022). The longitudinal dynamics and natural history of clonal haematopoiesis. Nature, 606(7913), 335-342.

2024.4.7 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan

Article: Ellis, S., Franks, D. W., Nielsen, M. L. K., Weiss, M. N., & Croft, D. P. (2024). The evolution of menopause in toothed whales. Nature, 1-7. 

2024.3.28 Journal Club

Presenter: Liu Lei

Article: Freeland, S. J., & Hurst, L. D. (1998). The genetic code is one in a million. Journal of molecular evolution47, 238-248. 

2024.3.21 Journal Club

Presenter: Yiping

Article: Serrano, I. M., Hirose, M., Valentine, C. C., Roesner, S., Schmidt, E., Pratt, G., … & Sudmant, P. H. (2024). Mitochondrial haplotype and mito-nuclear matching drive somatic mutation and selection throughout ageing. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-14. 

2024.3.14 Journal Club

Presenter: Zhixuan

Article: Li, R., Di, L., Li, J., Fan, W., Liu, Y., Guo, W., … & Wu, C. (2021). A body map of somatic mutagenesis in morphologically normal human tissues. Nature597 (7876), 398-403.

2024.3.7 Journal Club

Presenter: Qian Yang

Article: Abreu, C. I., Mathur, S., & Petrov, D. A. (2023). Strong environmental memory revealed by experimental evolution in static and fluctuating environments. bioRxiv.

2024.2.29 Journal Club

Presenter: Danyang

Article: Ölmez, T. T., Moreno, D. F., Liu, P., Johnson, Z. M., McGinnis, M. M., Tu, B. P., … & Acar, M. (2023). Sis2 regulates yeast replicative lifespan in a dose-dependent manner. Nature communications14 (1), 7719. 

2024.2.22 Journal Club

Presenter: Shukun

Article: Nguyen, A. N., Gorrell, R., Kwok, T., Connallon, T., & McDonald, M. J. (2024). Horizontal gene transfer facilitates the molecular reverse-evolution of antibiotic sensitivity in experimental populations of H. pylori. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-10.

2024.1.25 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi

Article: Hinch, R., Donnelly, P., & Hinch, A. G. (2023). Meiotic DNA breaks drive multifaceted mutagenesis in the human germ line. Science382(6674), eadh2531.

2024.1.18 Journal Club

Presenter: Qian Yang

Articles: Song, S., & Zhang, J. (2024). Genetic variants underlying human bisexual behavior are reproductively advantageous. Science Advances10 (1), eadj6958. 
Long, E., & Zhang, J. (2023). Evidence for the role of selection for reproductively advantageous alleles in human aging. Science Advances(49), eadh4990.

2024.1.11 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan

Article: Vlková, M., & Silander, O. K. (2022). Gene regulation in Escherichia coli is commonly selected for both high plasticity and low noise. Nature Ecology & Evolution(8), 1165-1179.

2023.12.25 Journal Club

Presenter: Qian Yang

Article: Ng, A. W., Poon, S. L., Huang, M. N., Lim, J. Q., Boot, A., Yu, W., … & Rozen, S. G. (2017). Aristolochic acids and their derivatives are widely implicated in liver cancers in Taiwan and throughout Asia. Science translational medicine(412), eaan6446.

2023.12.15 Journal Club

Presenter: Shukun

Article: Jiang, P., Ollodart, A. R., Sudhesh, V., Herr, A. J., Dunham, M. J., & Harris, K. (2021). A modified fluctuation assay reveals a natural mutator phenotype that drives mutation spectrum variation within Saccharomyces cerevisiae. elife10, e68285.

2023.12.8 Journal Club

Presenter: Danyang

Article: Wei, W., Ho, W. C., Behringer, M. G., Miller, S. F., Bcharah, G., & Lynch, M. (2022). Rapid evolution of mutation rate and spectrum in response to environmental and population-genetic challenges. Nature communications13 (1), 4752.

2023.12.1 Journal Club

Presenter: Wu Kun

Article: Gao, H., Hamp, T., Ede, J., Schraiber, J. G., McRae, J., Singer-Berk, M., … & Farh, K. K. H. (2023). The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates. Science380 (6648), eabn8153.

2023.11.25 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi

Article: Witt, E., Langer, C. B., Svetec, N., & Zhao, L. (2023). Transcriptional and mutational signatures of the Drosophila ageing germline. Nature ecology & evolution7(3), 440-449.

 

2023.11.10 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan

Article: Aguirre, L., Hendelman, A., Hutton, S. F., McCandlish, D. M., & Lippman, Z. B. (2023). Idiosyncratic and dose-dependent epistasis drives variation in tomato fruit size. Science, 382(6668), 315-320.

 

2023.11.3 Journal Club

Presenter: Yiping

Article: Xia, B., Zhang, W., Wudzinska, A., Huang, E., Brosh, R., Pour, M., … & Yanai, I. (2021). The genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes. BioRxiv, 2021-09.

 

2023.10.26 Journal Club

Presenter: Zhixuan

Article: Keren, L., Hausser, J., Lotan-Pompan, M., Slutskin, I. V., Alisar, H., Kaminski, S., … & Segal, E. (2016). Massively parallel interrogation of the effects of gene expression levels on fitness. Cell, 166(5), 1282-1294.

 

2023.10.20 Journal Club

Presenter: QianYang

Article: Vaishnav, E. D., de Boer, C. G., Molinet, J., Yassour, M., Fan, L., Adiconis, X., … & Regev, A. (2022). The evolution, evolvability and engineering of gene regulatory DNA. Nature, 603(7901), 455-463.

 

2023.10.12 Journal Club

Presenter: Danyang

Article: Moore, L., Cagan, A., Coorens, T. H., Neville, M. D., Sanghvi, R., Sanders, M. A., … & Rahbari, R. (2021). The mutational landscape of human somatic and germline cells. Nature, 597(7876), 381-386.Karlsson, K., Przybilla, M. J., Kotler, E., Khan, A., Xu, H., Karagyozova, K., … & Curtis, C. (2023). Deterministic evolution and stringent selection during preneoplasia. Nature, 1-11.

 

2023.9.21 Journal Club

Presenter: Shukun

Article: Moore, L., Cagan, A., Coorens, T. H., Neville, M. D., Sanghvi, R., Sanders, M. A., … & Rahbari, R. (2021). The mutational landscape of human somatic and germline cells. Nature, 597(7876), 381-386.

 

2023.9.15 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi

Article: Cagan, A., Baez-Ortega, A., Brzozowska, N., Abascal, F., Coorens, T. H., Sanders, M. A., … & Martincorena, I. (2022). Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals. Nature, 604(7906), 517-524.

 

2023.8.31 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan

Article: Nalabothu, R. L., Fisher, K. J., LaBella, A. L., Meyer, T. A., Opulente, D. A., Wolters, J. F., … & Hittinger, C. T. (2023). Codon optimization improves the prediction of xylose metabolism from gene content in budding yeasts. Molecular Biology and Evolution, msad111.

 

2023.8.17 Journal Club

Presenter: Shukun

Article: Farkas, Z., Kovács, K., Sarkadi, Z., Kalapis, D., Fekete, G., Birtyik, F., … & Papp, B. (2022). Gene loss and compensatory evolution promotes the emergence of morphological novelties in budding yeast. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(6), 763-773.

 

2023.8.24 Journal Club

Presenter: QianYang

Article: Russo, M., Crisafulli, G., Sogari, A., Reilly, N. M., Arena, S., Lamba, S., … & Bardelli, A. (2019). Adaptive mutability of colorectal cancers in response to targeted therapies. Science, 366(6472), 1473-1480.

 

2023.8.10 Journal Club

Presenter: Danyang

Article: Guillemet, M., Chabas, H., Nicot, A., Gatchich, F., Ortega-Abboud, E., Buus, C., … & Gandon, S. (2022). Competition and coevolution drive the evolution and the diversification of CRISPR immunity. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(10), 1480-1488.

 

2023.8.3 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi

Article: Venkataram, S., Kuo, H. Y., Hom, E. F., & Kryazhimskiy, S. (2023). Mutualism-enhancing mutations dominate early adaptation in a two-species microbial community. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7(1), 143-154.

 

2023.7.27 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan

Article: Zhai, Y., Pribis, J. P., Dooling, S. W., Garcia-Villada, L., Minnick, P. J., Xia, J., … & Rosenberg, S. M. (2023). Drugging evolution of antibiotic resistance at a regulatory network hub. Science Advances, 9(25), eadg0188.

 

2023.7.21 Journal Club

Presenter: Shukun

Article: Rolland, J., Henao-Diaz, L. F., Doebeli, M., Germain, R., Harmon, L. J., Knowles, L. L., … & Schluter, D. (2023). Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro-and macroevolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-13.

 

2023.6.23 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi

Article: Bozdag, G. O., Zamani-Dahaj, S. A., Day, T. C., Kahn, P. C., Burnetti, A. J., Lac, D. T., … & Ratcliff, W. C. (2023). De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity. Nature, 1-8.

 

2023.6.16 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan

Article: Nam, C. H., Youk, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, J., Park, J. W., Oh, S. A., … & Ju, Y. S. (2023). Widespread somatic L1 retrotransposition in normal colorectal epithelium. Nature, 1-8.

 

2023.8.17 Journal Club

Presenter: Shukun

Article: Farkas, Z., Kovács, K., Sarkadi, Z., Kalapis, D., Fekete, G., Birtyik, F., … & Papp, B. (2022). Gene loss and compensatory evolution promotes the emergence of morphological novelties in budding yeast. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(6), 763-773.

2023.8.10 Journal Club

Presenter: Danyang

Article: Guillemet, M., Chabas, H., Nicot, A., Gatchich, F., Ortega-Abboud, E., Buus, C., … & Gandon, S. (2022). Competition and coevolution drive the evolution and the diversification of CRISPR immunity. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(10), 1480-1488.

2023.8.3 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi

Article: Venkataram, S., Kuo, H. Y., Hom, E. F., & Kryazhimskiy, S. (2023). Mutualism-enhancing mutations dominate early adaptation in a two-species microbial community. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7(1), 143-154.

2023.7.27 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan

Article: Zhai, Y., Pribis, J. P., Dooling, S. W., Garcia-Villada, L., Minnick, P. J., Xia, J., … & Rosenberg, S. M. (2023). Drugging evolution of antibiotic resistance at a regulatory network hub. Science Advances, 9(25), eadg0188.

2023.7.21 Journal Club

Presenter: Shukun

Article: Rolland, J., Henao-Diaz, L. F., Doebeli, M., Germain, R., Harmon, L. J., Knowles, L. L., … & Schluter, D. (2023). Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro-and macroevolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-13.

2023.6.23 Journal Club

Presenter: Danqi

Article: Bozdag, G. O., Zamani-Dahaj, S. A., Day, T. C., Kahn, P. C., Burnetti, A. J., Lac, D. T., … & Ratcliff, W. C. (2023). De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity. Nature, 1-8.

2023.6.16 Journal Club

Presenter: Haoxuan

Article: Nam, C. H., Youk, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, J., Park, J. W., Oh, S. A., … & Ju, Y. S. (2023). Widespread somatic L1 retrotransposition in normal colorectal epithelium. Nature, 1-8.

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