Topic: The Function of Gut Microbiota Date: 09/26/2025 Host: Xin Li & Baohua Chen
Presenter: Long Zhou Reference: Targeting symbionts by apolipoprotein L proteins modulates gut immunity Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-08990-4 (2025).
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Presenter: Dan Yu Reference: Maternal gut microbiota influence stem cell function in offspring Cell Stem Cell. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2024.10.003 (2025).
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Topic: Evolution’s Design Wisdom Date: 09/12/2025 Host: Qiaoling Deng
Presenter: Xinyu Zhang Reference: Cross-species implementation of an innate courtship behavior by manipulation of the sex-determinant gene Science. doi: 10.1126/science.adp5831 (2025).
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Presenter: Yiqing Yang Reference: Does the mantis shrimp pack a phononic shield? Science. doi: 10.1126/science.adq7100 (2025).
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Topic: Biodiversity under threat: global strategies and molecular insights Date: 08/29/2025 Host: Sheng Qian
Presenter: Yueyao Hu Reference: Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi: 10.1038/s41559-025-02746-z (2025).
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Presenter: Yuchen Sun Reference: Transcriptome and Proteome Analyses Reveal Stage-Specific DNA Damage Response in Embryos of Sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) International Journal of Molecular Sciences. doi: 10.3390/ijms23126392 (2024).
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Topic: Neural Circuits of Social Needs Date: 08/15/2025 Host: Guangji Chen
Presenter: Xiaoxu Xu Reference: A hypothalamic circuit underlying the dynamic control of social homeostasis Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-08617-8 (2025).
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Presenter: Jingrui Lu Reference: Sexually dimorphic dopaminergic circuits determine sex preference Science. doi: 10.1126/science.adq7001 (2025).
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Topic: Evolution medicine: from ants to mammals Date: 08/01/2025 Host: Huimin Cai
Presenter: Fuqiang Lin Reference: Insulin signaling in the long-lived reproductive caste of ants Science. doi: 10.1126/science.abm8767 (2022).
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Presenter: Xin Li Reference: Reactivation of mammalian regeneration by turningon an evolutionarily disabled genetic switch Science. doi: 10.1126/science.adp0176 (2025).
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Topic: Novel potential factors affecting complex behaviors of animal mating and brooding Date: 07/18/2025 Host: Anguo Liu
Presenter: Sheng Qian Reference: Problem-solving males become more attractive to female budgerigars Science. doi: 10.1126/science.aau8181 (2019).
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Presenter: Qisan Wu Reference: You eat what you are: personality-dependent filial Cannibalism in a fish with paternal care Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1966 (2016).
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Topic: Social Influences and Cognitive Mechanisms in Avian Vocal Communication Date: 07/04/2025 Host: Aoyue Bi
Presenter: Xulan Shen Reference: Female calls promote song learning in male juvenile zebra finches Nature communications. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-53251-z (2024).
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Presenter: Baohua Chen Reference: Crows ‘count’ the number of self-generated vocalizations Science. doi: 10.1126/science.adl0984 (2024).
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Topic: The application of Long-Read Sequencing in resolving complex regions and detecting diseases Date: 06/20/2025 Host: Anguo Liu
Presenter: Quanyu Chen Reference: Genetic diversity and regulatory features of human-specific NOTCH2NL duplications BioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2025.03.14.643395 (2025).
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Reference: Synchronized long-read genome, methylome, epigenome and transcriptome profiling resolve a Mendelian condition Nature genetics. doi: 10.1038/s41588-024-02067-0 (2025).
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Topic: Applications of Deep Learning in Evolutionary Genomics Date: 06/06/2025 Host: Yulong Xie
Presenter: Mingyu Suo Reference: Inferring Historical Introgression with Deep Learning Systematic Biology. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syad033 (2023).
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Presenter: Jiaqi Li Reference: Relating enhancer genetic variation across mammals to complex phenotypes using machine learning Science. doi: 10.1126/science.abm7993 (2023).
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Presenter: Anguo Liu Reference: Single-cell long-read sequencing in human cerebral organoids uncovers cell-type-specific and autism-associated exons Cell Reports. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113335 (2023).
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Topic: The Multicellular Mechanisms in Archaea and the Implications in Cancer Date: 05/09/2025 Host: Xin Li
Presenter: Yangyi Zhang Reference: Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea Science. doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adu0047 (2025).
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Presenter: Huimin Cai Reference: Disruption of metazoan gene regulatory networks in cancer alters the balance of co-expression between genes of unicellular and multicellular origins Genome Biology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-024-03247-1 (2024).
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Topic: New Genes and Functional Innovation Date: 04/25/2025 Host: Xin Li
Presenter: Zijian Huang Reference: Young duplicate genes show developmental stage- and cell type-specific expression and function in Caenorhabditis elegans Cell Genomics. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100467 (2023).
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Topic: The Evolution of The Visual System of Vertebrates Date: 04/11/2025 Host: Guangji Chen
