Here is a post doc position working on the Ocean DNA Initiative at the Smithsonian Marine Field Station
trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/79…

Here's a job opening for senior data scientist to work on the Earth BioGenome Project: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

So, there they are, the WoRMS top-10 marine species of 2023! Do you have a favorite?

lifewatch.be/en/worms-top10…

#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies

Working with non model animals? Feeling depressed every time the genes from your favourite tardigrade/velvet worm/Gordian worm/whatever worm/sponge/jellyfish/[insert your fav invertebrate here] do not have any functional annotations? Keep calm and continue reading! 🧬🪱🪲1/10

Exciting Opportunity Alert! 📢
Are you a highly motivated individual passionate about #genomics and #bioinformatics training? 🧬💻
Join our team in #Edinburgh ! We have an opening for a Genomics & Bioinformatics Training Coordinator!
Apply by March 11th at: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

IT'S HAPPENING I'm joining the next #mollusc #genomics meeting in May 2024 by EMBO!! 🐙🦑🦪🐌🧬 where I'm gonna share my #PhD main research. Also so much greatful to the organizers for having awarded me a travel grant #EMBOmolluscGenomics meetings.embo.org/event/24-mollu…

Please share our obituary of the wonderful Claus Nielsen. A huge contributor to the study of animal evolution + a very nice man. Happy to have known him for almost 30 yrs since I first wrote to him (a letter!) during my PhD. With Andreas Hejnol +
Arendt Lab.
nature.com/articles/d4158…

Feeling very honored by my awesome colleagues Thiago Araújo and Rick Hockberg who named this gorgeous gastrotrich from Florida Crasiella kocoti. This really made my day💙
mapress.com/zt/article/vie…

GIGA Election Results:
President: Carlos Prada
VP of Conferences: Jean-Francois Flot
VP of Scholarships/Early Developments: Sadye Paez
VP of External Development/Fund Raising: Joe Lopez
Graduate Student/Postdoc representatives: Lisa Mesrop and João Gabriel R. N. Ferreira

Interested in low-input genomics? Nickellaus Roberts et al. posted a pre-print showing a simple MDA-based method to get HiFi reads and nice assemblies from e.g., 1/2 C. elegans with negligible coverage bias or chimeras. FEZ - Frontiers in Evolutionary Zoology UA Dept. of BSC QIAGEN PacBio
doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Check out our recent publications on the genome and transcriptome of Kellet's whelk as well as the challenges of extracting high quality DNA from marine invertebrate tissue! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… via Frontiers - Marine Science and peerj.com/articles/16510/ via PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment
Cal Poly Bailey College of Science and Mathematics

GIGA elections are happening now. GIGA members check your e-mail to vote for open GIGA board positions.

Check out the genome of the Kellet's whelk: datadryad.org/stash/dataset/…

Our paper on the Berghia genome is now out. It documents the prevalence of previously annotated genes pointing to the need to study a wider diversity of life. Dr. Jessica Goodheart Deirdre Lyons Desmond Ramirez rdcu.be/dwhNr

Link your genomes with GIGA-NCBI BioProject and Genomes on a Tree (GOAT): gigacos.org/wp-content/upl…

Genomics Unit of the Balearic Biodiversity Centre at the University of the Balearic Islands (Palma, Spain) is hiring an expert in genomics.
Application deadline 17 January 2024.
More information: centrebaleardebiodiversitat.uib.eu and seu.uib.cat/es/tablon?path…

The first genome from the Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics project, the genome of the giant clam Tridacna crocea, has been published! wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-571… #genome #symbiosis Wellcome Sanger Institute

GIGA is a non-profit organization dedicated to Invertebrate Genomics. Our funds are currently being allocated to education and training in genomics through graduate fellowship awards. Consider supporting these efforts by donating to GIGA: paypal.com/paypalme/GIGAI… #GivingTuesday

The Bik Lab at University of Georgia is recruiting for three PhD students for funded projects: biklab.org/join-the-lab

Research assistant/shellfish husbandry position at Stony Brook: stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersection/…