2) Evolution of aging - Peter H. Sudmant (Peter Sudmant; UC Berkeley): sudmantlab.org - Emma C Teeling (UCD BatLab; UC Dublin): batlab.ucd.ie

3) Evolutionary cancer genomics - Donate Weghorn (Donate Weghorn; CRG): weghornlab.net - Jamie Blundell (Jamie Blundell; U Cambridge): blundelllab.com

4) Comparative genomic models of disease - Elizabeth Murchison (U Cambridge): tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/eliz… - Vera Gorbunova (U Rochester): sas.rochester.edu/bio/labs/Gorbu…

5) Microbial pathogenicity and microbiome-host (co-)evolution - Toni Gabaldon (Toni Gabaldón; BSC-IRB): cgenomics.org - Isabel Gordo (Isabel Gordo; IGC): isabelgordoigc.wixsite.com/evobio

6) Viral evolution, transposons and evolutionary immunology - Aleksandra Walczak (Ecole Normale Superior): sites.google.com/view/statbioph… - Todd S. Macfarlan (Todd Macfarlan; NICHD/NIH): nichd.nih.gov/research/atNIC…

And two contributed talks in each session will be selected from abstract submissions. Register to the symposium here (free!) and submit your abstract: apps.crg.es/content/intern…

Absolutely 💙 LOVING 💙 the pre-talk handouts by Dr Pleuni Pennings #BlackLivesMatter at #SMBE2024! What a wonderful idea. We are about to start the evolutionary #medical #genomics session at Los Tules!

Plague was surprisingly abundant and widespread in Scandinavia in the period leading up to the Neolithic Decline. In fact, we found plague in 17% of the sampled population. Check out our new paper out in Nature today! nature.com/articles/s4158… #plague #NeolithicDecline #ancientDNA

How do healthy tissues evolve to become cancerous? Delighted to share our latest research tracking the somatic evolution that occurs in the decades before AML. 👇Implications for early detection and early interception. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

In this week's post (gwasstories.com/p/how-a-jumpin…), I write about a fascinating discovery by Po-Ru Loh, Steve McCarroll and team of a retrotransposon within ASIP (encodes agouti related protein) shaped human skin color evolution. Kamitaki et al. Nat Gen 2024 nature.com/articles/s4158…