Tris Dodge
@tododge.bsky.social
PhD candidate with Molly Schumer | balancing selection, hybridization, structural variation | 🐟🦎🌻🧬👨💻
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Tris Dodge
@tododge.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Our study on the genetic architecture of a sexual mimicry polymorphism, led by graduate student Tris Dodge, is now out at Current Biology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Original thread on the article is here:
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Structural genomic variation and behavioral interactions underpin a balanced sexual mimicry polymorphism
How phenotypic diversity originates and persists within populations are classic puzzles in evolutionary biology. While balanced polymorphisms segregat…
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Moved here recently and figured I should shamelessly promote our recent paper for my very first post.
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Modestly, we decided to review a century's worth of theories of balancing selection :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A century of theories of balancing selection
Traits that affect organismal fitness are often highly genetically variable. This genetic variation is vital for populations to adapt to their environments, but it is also surprising given that natur...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Modestly, we decided to review a century's worth of theories of balancing selection :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Beautiful work by @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and @mollyschumer.bsky.social on perhaps the most charismatic coloration trait in swordtails and platys!
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Beautiful work by @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and @mollyschumer.bsky.social on perhaps the most charismatic coloration trait in swordtails and platys!
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Happy to share work spearheaded by former grad student Colin Shew testing shared duplicated cis regulatory elements (CREs) using an MPRA. While we find some high effect CREs, collectively paralog differences represent modest effects accounting for observed gene expression divergence.
Influence of cis-regulatory elements on regulatory divergence in human segmental duplications https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680410v1
October 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Happy to share work spearheaded by former grad student Colin Shew testing shared duplicated cis regulatory elements (CREs) using an MPRA. While we find some high effect CREs, collectively paralog differences represent modest effects accounting for observed gene expression divergence.
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Do you know ~60% of human SVs fall in ~1% of GRCh38? See our new preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.23057 and the companion blog post on how we started this project and longdust: lh3.github.io/2025/09/29/o.... Work with Alvin Qin
September 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Do you know ~60% of human SVs fall in ~1% of GRCh38? See our new preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.23057 and the companion blog post on how we started this project and longdust: lh3.github.io/2025/09/29/o.... Work with Alvin Qin
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First pop gen paper from our lab! We find repeated evolutionary turn over of sex chromosomes in darters contributes to reproductive isolation. Turnover may be an escape hatch to resolve mitonuclear conflict & neo sex chromosomes evolved via a rare recessive mutation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
First pop gen paper from our lab! We find repeated evolutionary turn over of sex chromosomes in darters contributes to reproductive isolation. Turnover may be an escape hatch to resolve mitonuclear conflict & neo sex chromosomes evolved via a rare recessive mutation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052
Postdoctoral Scholar – Genomics, Aging, Somatic Mutation, Structural Variation, Evolution , Cancer – Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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August 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052
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If you're attending #SMBE2025 check out graduate student @tododge.bsky.social 's talk at 11:30 am tomorrow (8:30 pacific time tonight if you're watching remotely). It's a wild ride with lots of complex structural variation, balancing selection, and introgression!
July 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If you're attending #SMBE2025 check out graduate student @tododge.bsky.social 's talk at 11:30 am tomorrow (8:30 pacific time tonight if you're watching remotely). It's a wild ride with lots of complex structural variation, balancing selection, and introgression!
Excited to talk about balancing selection, hybridization, and independent evolution at the #SMBE2025 hybridization & introgression symposium! Symposium 14: Day 3, Room 2 @ 11:30am Beijing Time
July 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Excited to talk about balancing selection, hybridization, and independent evolution at the #SMBE2025 hybridization & introgression symposium! Symposium 14: Day 3, Room 2 @ 11:30am Beijing Time
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🚨Preprint🚨
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
July 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🚨Preprint🚨
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
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July 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Please share with early career researchers interested in pursuing a PhD! Our goal is to make the application process more transparent with info sessions and 1:1 mentorship.
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📣📣📣 So pleased to see @vdbijl.bsky.social's stunning analysis of the inheritance and genetics of guppy color diversity out today @natecoevo.nature.com! Deep learning reveals the complex genetic architecture of male guppy colouration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
📣📣📣 So pleased to see @vdbijl.bsky.social's stunning analysis of the inheritance and genetics of guppy color diversity out today @natecoevo.nature.com! Deep learning reveals the complex genetic architecture of male guppy colouration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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1/9 Excited to share the preprint for the second half of my PhD with @mollyschumer.bsky.social: Connecting human environmental impacts to hybridization in swordtail fish through genomics, GIS, water chemistry, and histology. Thread below!
#SciSky
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Increased rates of hybridization in swordtail fish are associated with water pollution
Biodiversity loss can occur when disturbance compromises the reproductive barriers between species, causing them to collapse into a single population through hybridization. Recent research has documen...
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May 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
1/9 Excited to share the preprint for the second half of my PhD with @mollyschumer.bsky.social: Connecting human environmental impacts to hybridization in swordtail fish through genomics, GIS, water chemistry, and histology. Thread below!
#SciSky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#SciSky
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Already seeing big improvements by combining PacBio and ONT Ultralong reads!
April 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Already seeing big improvements by combining PacBio and ONT Ultralong reads!
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Awesome new paper by @lucalivraghi.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
in @currentbiology.bsky.social
on the evo-devo of a butterfly color variation
enjoy the show!
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
in @currentbiology.bsky.social
on the evo-devo of a butterfly color variation
enjoy the show!
April 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Awesome new paper by @lucalivraghi.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
in @currentbiology.bsky.social
on the evo-devo of a butterfly color variation
enjoy the show!
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
in @currentbiology.bsky.social
on the evo-devo of a butterfly color variation
enjoy the show!
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A project five years in the making, we've now published complete "T2T" genomes for six additional ape species! It turns out that finishing (and analyzing) six genomes is slightly more work than one... doi.org/10.1038/s415...
April 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A project five years in the making, we've now published complete "T2T" genomes for six additional ape species! It turns out that finishing (and analyzing) six genomes is slightly more work than one... doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Call for Papers! Special Issue: Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation in @heredityjournal.bsky.social
📅 Submission Deadline Extended: 1st April 2025
Guest Editors: @ellenleffler.bsky.social, @mydennis.bsky.social, Omer Gokcumen, and myself
www.nature.com/collections/...
📅 Submission Deadline Extended: 1st April 2025
Guest Editors: @ellenleffler.bsky.social, @mydennis.bsky.social, Omer Gokcumen, and myself
www.nature.com/collections/...
Special Issue: Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation
See more information on the new Heredity special issue on functional and adaptive effects of genomic structural variation.
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March 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Call for Papers! Special Issue: Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation in @heredityjournal.bsky.social
📅 Submission Deadline Extended: 1st April 2025
Guest Editors: @ellenleffler.bsky.social, @mydennis.bsky.social, Omer Gokcumen, and myself
www.nature.com/collections/...
📅 Submission Deadline Extended: 1st April 2025
Guest Editors: @ellenleffler.bsky.social, @mydennis.bsky.social, Omer Gokcumen, and myself
www.nature.com/collections/...
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New NIH funded research from our group now out. We are interested in development and evolution of cell types and adult phenotypes. In this paper, postdoc Dylan Huang and collaborators asked how a pigmentary ornament of bright white cells develops on the fin of zebrafish. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
New NIH funded research from our group now out. We are interested in development and evolution of cell types and adult phenotypes. In this paper, postdoc Dylan Huang and collaborators asked how a pigmentary ornament of bright white cells develops on the fin of zebrafish. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Finally ready to see the world! Theories of balancing selection - past, present and future: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A true collaborative effort that brought together theoreticians and empiricists, models, data, and fresh perspectives on how balancing selection can shape genetic variation.
A century of theories of balancing selection
Traits that affect organismal fitness are often very genetically variable. This genetic variation is vital for populations to adapt to their environments, but it is also surprising given that nature (...
www.biorxiv.org
February 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Finally ready to see the world! Theories of balancing selection - past, present and future: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A true collaborative effort that brought together theoreticians and empiricists, models, data, and fresh perspectives on how balancing selection can shape genetic variation.
Reposted by Tris Dodge
Rising temperatures are not slowing #mosquitoes down... A new study coauthored by Stanford's Lisa Couper and @stanfordwoods.bsky.social Erin Mordecai finds that mosquitoes -- and the diseases they carry -- can adapt to hotter temperatures. Read the study: bit.ly/3PqTNw8
January 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Rising temperatures are not slowing #mosquitoes down... A new study coauthored by Stanford's Lisa Couper and @stanfordwoods.bsky.social Erin Mordecai finds that mosquitoes -- and the diseases they carry -- can adapt to hotter temperatures. Read the study: bit.ly/3PqTNw8
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Congrats to @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al on publication of "Ancient structural variants control sex-specific flowering time morphs in walnuts and hickories"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Congrats to @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al on publication of "Ancient structural variants control sex-specific flowering time morphs in walnuts and hickories"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Moved here recently and figured I should shamelessly promote our recent paper for my very first post.
Our study on the genetic architecture of a sexual mimicry polymorphism, led by graduate student Tris Dodge, is now out at Current Biology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Original thread on the article is here:
bsky.app/profile/moll...
bsky.app/profile/moll...
Structural genomic variation and behavioral interactions underpin a balanced sexual mimicry polymorphism
How phenotypic diversity originates and persists within populations are classic puzzles in evolutionary biology. While balanced polymorphisms segregat…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 16, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Moved here recently and figured I should shamelessly promote our recent paper for my very first post.