Now accepting applicants for our PhD program in computational biology and bioinformatics USC Dept. of Quantitative & Computational Biology qcb-dornsife.usc.edu/phd we have a great group of faculty who care a lot about the program and are committed to providing world-class training. Deadline is Dec. 15.

New paper: ⁦⁦GreiffLab 💻🔬💊⁩ Corey Watson⁩ Oscar R. and I pull together a bunch of evidence to try and understand what germline IG variation is doing and how it’s maintained. Have more Qs than As but hopefully point folks toward cool problems. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our perspective piece on evolutionary aspects of immunoglobulin germline variation is out sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. Incredible collaboration with Matt Pennell and Corey Watson.

We are proud of our QBIO students and everything they achieve. This is a great collaboration between the @ellisoninst and the Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences USC.

The international iReceptor Plus Project revealed a new version of the iReceptor Plus Platform that can be used to develop new #vaccines, monoclonal antibodies for #cancer and #autoimmune treatment. ireceptor-plus.com/news-and-event… #EU #Canada #H2020 #Immunology #Research #Bcells #Tcells

good time to remind anyone who wants to live on the frontier that there's exactly one truly frontier country in the world & concentration of talent & opportunity in America is orders of magnitude higher than anywhere else.

took me 3 years after I learned about O-1 from Patrick Collison bc I was dumb and clueless. if followed advice of José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente (nintil.com/us-immigration) and had support from Lisa Wehden & Minn (lisa-wehden.medium.com/a-guide-to-app…), could've done it 2x faster youtu.be/-KoXt9pZLGM

It's true! ARPA-H is on a Program Manager hiring spree, looking for the best and brightest to join ARPA-H to pursue big problems in health. Apply here --> arpa-h.gov/careers/progra…

With the release of iReceptor Gateway v4.0 (x.com/ireceptorgw/st…) all iReceptor airr_community #AIRRDataCommons repositories are now using https as a protocol. If you are accessing the #AIRRDataCommons using the #ADCAPI then your queries will have to take this into account!

Interesting article on what it’s actually like to visit Qatar during the World Cup. Looking forward to seeing it for myself one day aguntasolo.co/the-word-on-th…

At @ArcInstitute, we're launching the Arc Science Fellows program for early-career scientists to start their own lab right after grad school with $250K/year research budget + salary. I'm running an info session next Fri (Dec 16 at 1pm PT)! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/yp8y5z8n

FUSION ENERGY BREAKTHROUGH: US scientists have made one of the most significant leaps in decades in the search for the Holy Grail of energy - limitless, carbon free power - by achieving net energy gain in a fusion reaction ft.com/content/4b6f0f… Huge scoop by Tom Wilson

Check out our paper showing how IGHV1-69 polymorphisms can affect SARS-CoV-2 antibody functions. Amazing supervision from Karlsson Hedestam Lab Martin Corcoran. Great collaboration with Ben Murrell Daniel Sheward @das_hrishikesh1 Martin Hällberg out Immunity cell.com/immunity/fullt…

Anyone have experience being awarded or mentoring a K99 postdoctoral fellowship where the award was held at a different institution than where the applicant was when they applied? (I.e. can you apply to a prospective lab for this?)

It's time to bring back domestic visa renewals 😤 progress.institute/domestic-reiss…

Here are Holiday Season Gifts as open calls for #RECOMB2023 @RECOMBSeq: recomb-seq.github.io/papers/ RECOMB-CCB: recomb2023.bilkent.edu.tr/recombccb.html RECOMB-CG: recomb-cg.org/submit.php RECOMB-Genetics: recomb2023.bilkent.edu.tr/recombgenetics… Highlights: recomb2023.bilkent.edu.tr/call_for_highl… Posters: recomb2023.bilkent.edu.tr/call_for_abstr…

I wanted to share on here a preprint from last month, a collaboration between my lab and Rori Rohlfs' lab, led by Vivian Link and Yuómi. We consider a set of genetic loci used in forensics in the US and other places, the CODIS markers (1/n) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The latest from Matt Pennell explains that multiple models of mut can generate the same M matrix, and they explore implications of this for long-term divergence biorxiv.org/content/10.110…