We will be advertising multiple postdoc and research assistant positions in a new effort on synthetic biology and aging in the coming months. I'm attaching a note in case folks want to hear more about what we have planned, especially if you want to talk to me at #TAGC24.

Amazing work from team Andrew Kern and friends.

The Kasimatis Lab is hiring a technician! We study the evolutionary genomics of sexual conflict using Caenorhabditis nematodes. Please see the job ad below and reach out with questions! UVa Biology DiversifyEEB #BLACKandSTEM Latinx in STEM careers.uvahealth.org/us/en/job/R005…

Latest paper from the Caenorhabditis Intervention Testing Program: The coupling between healthspan and lifespan in Caenorhabditis depends on complex interactions between compound intervention and genetic background aging-us.com/article/205743…

We are leading a new initiative in Synthetic Biology and Aging and are recruiting multiple postdocs and research assistants/technicians to join us! Details and application links here. Please RT. #longevity pages.uoregon.edu/pphil/synbio.h…

I enjoyed this conversation with Katherine Wright about workforce development supporting new and growing #electrochemistry industries. We're looking forward to graduating our 100th MS electrochemist by the end of 2025!

Our latest, in Lab on a Chip. Super cool and super high tech — and super hard to get right. 10 years of work to figure out a way of automating high precision demography in C. elegans: The Egg Counter! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

My outstanding graduate student Rose Al-Saadi won the best student presentation award at the #AGE2024 meeting! American Aging Association

How many academic papers are written with the help of ChatGPT? To answer this question, we analyzed 14mln PubMed abstracts from 2010 to 2024 and looked for excess words: ** Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary ** arxiv.org/abs/2406.07016 1/11

Knight Campus Dept of BioE Assistant Prof. Marian Hettiaratchi will receive the TERMIS-AM World Congress Young Investigator Award at a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in ballroom 6 B/C at #TERMIS2024. Congratulations, Marian!

🚨 New preprint alert 🚨 We've generated a new gapless genome of Caenorhabditis brenneri🪱, one of the most diverse metazoans! We compared its genome and gene organizations with other nematodes with smaller population sizes. Check it out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nice story on the new research initiative on synthetic biology and aging that I'm helping to lead at the UO. Very exciting times ahead in this field, I think. oregonquarterly.uoregon.edu/researchers-de…

psyched to see this out! congrats to the whole team biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super happy for Amy's next steps. She is setting up to do some very revolutionary work that integrates epigenetics, natural variation, molecular biology, and evolution. Very, very lucky to have her in the lab these past few years!

Happy back to school! Thinking about what comes next? I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 to join the Kasimatis lab at UVa Biology UVA! We study the genomics of sexual conflict & the evolution of reproductive traits. Please share widely. Details: conflictgenomics.com

Wow. Great work Natanya!

Fwd: Workshop: Paris.PolygenicAdaptation.Mar10-14 ift.tt/e9TFVvm

I have picked up 130 new followers on BlueSky in the last two days, so there is apparently a mass exodus and/or follower transfer apps. Now at 1/4 my nominal twitter followers, but probably all active vs a few dozen active. Please join us over there. Critical mass achieved.

Now that critical Science-Twitter mass has been achieved on BlueSky, it is time to delete X accounts. It is the only responsible action, although sad to throw away 15 years of engagement.

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