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PhD position available to work to work with me, Frances Pearl and Marta Farré on Patterns of Mutation in the Human Genome. Closing date 8/1/23 details at southcoastbiosciencesdtp.ac.uk

Join us on Tuesday 12 March 1pm in SLT1 where Marta Farré will present her lab's work on 'Genome evolution in mammals: from marsupials to antelopes, and all the way to mouse'. For more info visit Farré lab: bit.ly/3T3c4kM

Two new chapters from my open-access textbook in human population genetics are now online: - Population structure: I. Ancestry estimation - Population structure: II. More about admixture web.stanford.edu/group/pritchar…

MEIOTIC DRIVE AND THE EVOLUTION OF CHROMOSOMES In 2001, Pardo-Manuel de Villena and Sapienza observed that positions of centromeres in mammalian genomes does not follow the expected normal distribution. What was going on? (1/8)

#JOB ALERT!👩‍🔬🌱 We have a #postdoc #PDRA position at the University of Kent School of Biosciences, University of Kent for scientist from #Vietnam interested in studying #plant #centella to develop anti #cancer drugs. research.kent.ac.uk/british-counci… Deadline 30th June RT appreciated! 🙏 #plantscijobs #postdocposition #scijobs

This week we're testing the new PromethION P2Solo School of Biosciences, University of Kent and launching the new Agricultural Genomics (AG-GEN) group. So far so good! #nanopore

Two papers in nature present a new genome editing technique that enables the insertion, inversion and deletion of long DNA sequences at user-specified genome positions. The approach may provide an easier method of genome editing. go.nature.com/3RGkI8M go.nature.com/3RHBvIs

At the Annual Postgraduate Conference University of Kent University of Kent Graduate and Researcher College I was the runner up for Best Research Supervisor Award of the Uni😊 THANKS to my research group Sarah Quigley Carla Canedo Ribeiro Corey Kirkland and Frances Burden for nominating me! 🥹 🥹#EmotionalAndSlightlyEmbarrassed

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/art…

New ME Special Issue! 𝘼 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙐𝙥𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨, edited by Hannah Augustijnen, Cristina, Marta Farré, & Kay Lucek. Wiley Ecology & Evolution Read more: buff.ly/4gbNs3u

So happy to share that I passed my PhD viva on Friday!! 🤓📖 A huge thank you to my supervisor Marta Farré for all her support and to the examiners Jim Groombridge and Raquel Chaves for a great discussion.

We trained a genomic language model on all observed evolution, which we are calling Evo 2. The model achieves an unprecedented breadth in capabilities, enabling prediction and design tasks from molecular to genome scale and across all three domains of life.

New paper from the lab in Animal Genetics! We developed a new method to detect chromosome rearrangements (in this case reciprocal translocations) in pigs using Hi-C. Great job by Frances Burden , in collaboration with PIC. #chromosomerearrangements onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ag…