Julia Beets
juliabeets.bsky.social
Julia Beets
@juliabeets.bsky.social
PhD Student | FlyCADD | Genetic variation in life-history adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster | Single nucleotide polymorphisms | @ALIFE_VU VU Amsterdam
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This sunny and slightly less cold February morning brings six more weeks of winter and January's #TechnicalAdvances wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
Don't forget-if you'd like your paper with a cool new technique, reagent, or resource featured in an upcoming month, flag it when you #FTYP.
February 2, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Dive into the latest Special Issue of #GENETICS, spotlighting cutting-edge experimental and computational methods shaping the future of genetics research. These papers showcase what’s possible when method development leads the way. Read more: buff.ly/eKVzqHq
January 14, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Excited to share that FlyCADD has been published in Genetics @genetics-gsa.bsky.social! 🧬

Predict the functional impact of SNPs anywhere in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster using FlyCADD: doi.org/10.1093/gene...
Predicting the functional impact of single nucleotide variants in Drosophila melanogaster with FlyCADD
Abstract. Understanding how genetic variants drive phenotypic differences is a major challenge in molecular biology. Single nucleotide polymorphisms form t
doi.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Excited to attend #EDRC2025 in Alicante, starting today! If you want to know more about the impact of genetic variation, come visit my poster P-023 Saturday afternoon and learn about FlyCADD, our impact prediction tool for SNPs! 🧬
September 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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@jcbnunez.bsky.social et al. present an expanded release of the community-generated resource Drosophila Evolution over Space and Time (DEST 2.0), and showcase it by studying the species' demographic history and signatures of adaptation.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf132

#evobio #molbio #drosophila
August 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Excited to be in Barcelona for #ESEB2025 ! If you want to know more about the application of FlyCADD for SNP impact prediction in D. melanogaster, I'll be presenting this work Tuesday 19th 12.45-1PM! Or catch our group at poster P02.334 to know more about the impact of SNPs 🧬☀️
August 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Preprint alert: FlyCADD! 🧬

Excited to share FlyCADD: impact prediction tool scoring the functional impact of any single nucleotide variant across the entire Drosophila melanogaster genome, to distinguish causal from neutral SNPs

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Predicting the functional impact of single nucleotide variants in Drosophila melanogaster with FlyCADD
Understanding how genetic variants drive phenotypic differences is a major challenge in molecular biology. Single nucleotide polymorphisms form the vast majority of genetic variation and play critical...
www.biorxiv.org
March 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM