Tree of Life
18 July 2025Filled with colour-coding chromosomes and genome re-arrangements, learn more about some of our resident moths and butterflies that have been genome sequenced at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. With a bit of luck, you could identify these colourful creatures yourself next time you are out and about.
3 July 202514.6 min readEnter the absorbing world of sponges, the intricate animals that have evolved to inhabit all corners of our Earth’s waterways and oceans. Thanks to a worldwide collaboration of sponge scientists through the Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics project, which is led by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, more than 50 published high-quality sponge genomes and counting are now freely accessible to the research community.
3 October 20226 min readThis free and open event brings together international researchers to share breakthroughs, challenges and advances in how we apply genomics to understanding, utilising and protecting life on Earth.
7 September 20226.4 min readDr Joana Meier, new group leader in the Tree of Life programme, describes her research into how and why groups of animals evolve and diversify into new species over millennia.
31 May 20220 min readBehind the scenes of Sanger's Tree of Life programme
28 March 20225.4 min readMeet Leia Zhao, a research assistant working in the Evolutionary Genomics group in the Tree of Life Programme.
8 March 20226.4 min readEvolutionary genomics, creepy crawlies and being a woman in science
16 February 20228.3 min readWe spoke to some of the team planning to sequence the DNA of every plant species in Britain and Ireland about the diversity of plant genomes and the importance of plant science in the face of global challenges.
