Hey all, my friend and close colleague (and Ph.D. Mentor), Gabor Marth is looking for a computational postdoc to work on somatic mutation detection algorithm development within the SMaHT project. Fully funded, great pay, smart, fun group: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/149667

The ChickenGTEx pilot analysis: a reference of regulatory variants across 28 chicken tissues biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fleeing Iraq, a refugee grapples with culture shock in the United States on his quest for a PhD. Read Arby Abood’s story in the latest #SparksOfChange: elifesciences.org/articles/90402…

Thank you UVA and UVA Medicine for featuring my column in eLife in Medicine in Motion. Thank you for the wonderful PhD years #wahoo news.med.virginia.edu/education/bims…

I am so excited about attending #ASHG23 as a non-trainee for the first time. Can't wait for all the awesome science ASHG

Facing the harsh realities of life as a refugee in Jordan and then the United States, Arby Abood holds to a conviction: that he will, one day, get a PhD. He shares his story in the latest #SparksOfChange. elifesciences.org/articles/90402…

Work for Volkan, he is great at science and soccer!

Even in 2500 BCE there were math word problems. One side of this tablet describes “40 sons of builders” who receive a certain measure of flour each, and the other side gives the total amount of flour. Also how lovely are the fingerprints 🥹 oracc.iaas.upenn.edu/dccmt/P010737/…

Incredible work by my former lab mate Luke Dillard, I am proud to have contributed to this work during my time in the Charles Farber lab. asbmr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jb…

The goal of a new study in #JBMR is to determine if BMSCs could serve as a model to generate cell-type specific transcriptomic profiles of mesenchymal lineage cells from large populations of mice to inform genetic studies Ling Qin Charles Farber ow.ly/Omv850PaJ1h

This is my the paper that resulted from my PhD! Thanks to UVA president @presjimryan for sharing!

Thanks for highlighting my final dissertation chapter PacBio pacb.com/wp-content/upl…

SOO excited to see the final LRGASP preprint out! The largest benchmark of #longreads for transcriptomics. A must-read if you plan on doing lrRNA-seq. Thanks to so many for the huge work Francisco Pardo-Palacios Brooks Lab Mark Diekhans Gloria Sheynkman Ali Mortazavi biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Major, fatal errors found in the data and methods of a 2020 paper in nature, including millions of reads mis-identified as bacteria. The "cancer microbiome" in this study was simply not there. @abrahamgihawi Mihaela Pertea Yuchen Ge Jen Lu biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Announcing the 4th Annual Emerging Scholars in Genome Sciences Symposium hosted by the Center for Public Health Genomics, sponsored by the Anderson Symposium Committee! The Symposium will be held in-person on Sept 21-22 at UVA. The detailed program will be announced soon. #CPHG

Just finished setting up my schedule in the #ASHG2023 app. I’m so excited for the science to be presented

Great UVA CPHG representation from our trainees, faculty, staff, AND alumni at #ASHG23 !

Iraq beat Japan 2-1 at the Asian Cup, ending their 11-game winning streak 🔥

A win to remember for Iraq 🇮🇶