Excited to share the last paper from my PhD, advised by jeffrey spence and Jonathan Pritchard! We explore a new way to study selection on complex traits that circumvents some of the most troublesome limitations of GWAS biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/9)

*** Many Congratulations Parul Johri for winning the prestigious SMBE Early-Career Excellence Award this year! smbe.org/smbe/AWARDS/Fa… Parul Johri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology and the Genetics Dept. at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 🧵

New preprint, with Sherif Negm "The effect of long-range linkage disequilibrium on allele-frequency dynamics under stabilizing selection" doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… 1/

Allele ages provide limited information about the strength of negative selection biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Excited to share our new review on population genetics of dominance now out in GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution). We synthesize historical and modern literature on this important topic. Thanks to Chenlu Di ｜狄晨露 for her hard work on this! Read it here: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16…

I'm recruiting a postdoc to work on population genetics theory/methods/inference. Flexible research focus, flexible start date. Please reach out with any questions you may have. And see details here: apragsdale.github.io/2024/08/12/Pos…

I'm recruiting a postdoc to work on the evolutionary genetics of introgression, following on our recent work (doi.org/10.1126/scienc…). This is a 2yr joint position w/ collaborators at Huazhong Agricultural University, and the pdoc will spend 1 year at each locale. Please share!

We will be hiring a postdoctoral researcher very soon! Please contact me over email if you are interested and please retweet. Thank you so much.

Stabilizing selection generates selection against introgressed DNA biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

We know that DNA introgressed from one population into another is often deleterious, but why? Carl Veller and I show that stabilizing selection, by itself, can induce selection against introgressed ancestry. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

I'm super excited to dig into these two papers on stabilizing selection and introgression, from Carl Veller & Yuval Simons, and Aaron Ragsdale. Both look super relevant for those interested in the intersection between quantitative genetics (and phenotypic selection) & pop gen.

Nice to see this out finally: The geometry of admixture in population genetics: the blessing of dimensionality academic.oup.com/genetics/artic… As we say in Spanish, our "grain of sand" contribution to improve f-statistics.

An official posting for the postdoc position(s) available in my group- evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/…