Come join us! A fully funded postdoctoral position on the evolution of structural variation in humans and non-human primates is available in the Sudmant Lab at UC Berkeley! Check out details here sudmantlab.org/join.html

Long-Term Balancing Selection and the Genetic Load Linked to the Self-Incompatibility Locus in Arabidopsis halleri and A. lyrata buff.ly/3MVP2sQ #science #evolution #biology #genome

A 5-minute outreach video explaining our new theory on sex chromosome evolution, applicable to a wide range of organisms! youtu.be/svFZB-n6VWA

An #ERC funded PhD position is open in the University of Montpellier. If you want to work on #ants, weird reproductive systems, #bioinformatics and population #genomics, apply here (deadline in 1 week): emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctora…

My preprint with Andrew Kern of a new genome-wide model of background selection (and statistical methods) applied to humans is now on BioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📣Now open for nominations! 👉eseb.org/prizes-funding…

Happy to share a new preprint from the lab on ARGs, selection, and ancient DNA. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We present CLUES2, a full-likelihood method that extends the work of Stern et al. 2019. Improvements include (1) the ability to use ARGs on ancient samples, allowing for 1/n

I am looking for a PhD student to work on inversions and local adaption. Project is flexible and can range from mathematical modeling or individual based simulations to data analysis / machine learning. ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs…

After 5 years, the final chapter of my PhD is finally published! 🎉 It demonstrates how supergenes can form due to the interplay of local adaptation, gene flow, and the evolution of chromosomal inversions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Super excited about this new method by Yun Deng 邓赟.

At last, my work with Andrew Kern on a quantitative genetics model of background selection in humans is live at PLoS Genetics! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

I am looking for a PostDoc with a background in math/physics and a strong interest in biology (or vice versa). Are you excited about inversions and local adaptation? Want to live in Bern, hike in the alps and swim in the Aare? Come work with us! ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs…

PhD fellowship at University of Copenhagen: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…

Hot off the press! We present CLUES2, a comprehensive method for selection coefficients that can incorporate ARGs, ancient DNA, changing selection through time, dominance, and more. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/do…

Our paper on the evolution of structural variation at the amylase locus is out today in Nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… congrats to co-first authors Joana L. Rocha Nicolas Lou Davide Bolognini Alessandro Raveane & Alma Halgren, co-corresponding author Erik Garrison

Happy to share our new review on ARGs out now in Nature Reviews Genetics! Rasmus Nielsen, Yun Deng 邓赟, and I intend this to be both a useful reference for ARG novices and experts alike. A particular focus of this review is how ARGs inform us about population genetic processes...