Thanks so much to Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution and GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution)! I’m hugely honored to receive this recognition.

Congratulations Michael Goldberg Michael Goldberg also from SMBE! Michael is a postdoc with Aaron Quinlan at University of Utah Health and recently completed his PhD with Kelley Harris at UW Genome Sciences. He studies mutation rate variation across evolutionary and developmental time.

So so exciting & huge congrats!! Pengyao is a superb scientist, thinker, and mentor - jump on this fantastic opportunity to work in her new lab at ASU!

We think the mutation spectrum is evolving b/c it tends to cluster by population and species. Now in a study led by Annabel Beichman, we measure the mutation spectrum’s phylogenetic signal across 100 million years of mammalian evolution biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Just in time for the holidays, Luke Zhu, Annabel Beichman, and I have a new theory preprint that proposes a solution to a point of conflict between models of germline and somatic mutation rate evolution: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hey #TAGC24 - I’m giving a talk tomorrow (Sat Mar 9) at 9:45a in the Comparative Genomics session in Maryland A! Swing by to hear about some new work w Aaron Quinlan on how mutation rates at short tandem repeats evolve 🧬🔁😎