The ZoonomiaProject’s sequencing of more than 240 mammal genomes is paving new roads for understanding mammalian diversity and evolution and ourselves. Learn more in a new special issue of Science: scim.ag/2oO #Zoonomia

Humans can be... well... a little self-absorbed... our DNA is the MOST SEQUENCED DNA EVER! SO. MUCH. DATA. But are we sooooo special?!? #Zoonomia 1/n

🥳🥳Time to check out our new work studies the evolution of human regulatory elements!

Evolution of human regulatory elements among 240 placental mammals: our paper in the Zoonomia package published in Science. Zhiping Weng Kaili Fan Henry Pratt Jill Moore Elinor Karlsson (elinork.bsky.social) Kerstin Lindblad-Toh Lab UMass Chan Medical School @UMassBioInfo Science Magazine

Throw back to this cool paper cell.com/cell/fulltext/… by Tianxiong (Bear) Yu, Zlab@UMassMed and colleagues which examined the evolving piRNA response to a new invading retrovirus in the koala genome.

Looking forward to returning to the UMass Med campus this Sunday!

A recent Science study described the evolution of regulatory sequences in the human genome. scim.ag/2RQ #Zoonomia

Congratulations to these students, who have just earned their PhDs from the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School! #UMassChan2023 #UMass University of Massachusetts

UMass Chan Medical School graduation day! Congratulations again Kaili Fan and Kathleen Morrill Pirovich Elinor Karlsson (elinork.bsky.social) Zhiping Weng Zlab@UMassMed #doctorate #PhD

Jason Buenrostro (Jason Buenrostro) is a cellular and molecular biologist and 2023 MacArthur Fellow investigating the mechanisms that regulate gene expression. #MacFellow Explore his work and all the 2023 MacArthur Fellows on our website! macfound.org/fellows/class-…

As my lab develops Seurat, I wanted to share some thoughts on the important Seurat and scanpy package selection preprint from Joseph Rich/Lior Pachter 🧵

“Every cell is a special snowflake” retweet if you agree! #teamsnowflake nature.com/articles/d4158…

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Congrats to Victor!!! 🎉He’s one of the best scientists I've ever met—always humble, incredibly kind, and consistently taking notes in seminars. His eagerness to learn is truly inspiring!

Congratulations to our 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros ✨ This morning he celebrated the news of his prize with his colleague and wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee. #NobelPrize

The 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, who discovered microRNAs, a class of tiny RNA molecules that help to control how genes are expressed in multicellular organisms. Read the nature article. go.nature.com/3BwBsKt

Our new perspective article describing the human and non-human primate developmental GTEx projects is now out in nature! We outline the scope, vision, opportunities and challenges of these projects here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thrilled to join this incredible project ! Stay tuned for exciting discoveries ahead!

🌟 Check out this fascinating study exploring how genomes combat real-time virus invasions—a UNIQUE approach to studying evolution as it happens! Huge congratulations to Tianxiong (Bear) Yu and the entire team for yet another set of remarkable findings! 🎉🎉

Working with a team of researchers at the University of Queensland, UMass Chan Medical School scientists have discovered that a population of koalas has evolved genomic immunity to a retrovirus: direc.to/mDf9 #koalas UQ News