Amazing meeting Freie Universität featuring top experts in #MHC antigen presentation and its translational implications. Thank you Christian Freund and Miguel Alvaro-Benito for the great opportunity of interdisciplinary interaction, also for our PhD students! Medizinische Fakultät Essen Uniklinikum Essen

Happy to share our new study in @sciencemagazine tracking nearly 4,000 Galápagos finches using genomics over 30 years! These tanagers have taught us a lot about the genomics of speciation. How is this reflected in contemporary evolution? science.org/doi/full/10.11…

This Swedish #PhD procedure is a wonderful ritual giving the student an opportunity to showcase what they've done and learned over the past years. It's been an honor to participate in Samantha's defense, she did a fantastic job (exciting work on #MHC genomics and expression)!

I'm delighted to release the first half of my new open-access online textbook in human population genetics: web.stanford.edu/group/pritchar…

2-yr ERC funded postdoc position in Oslo working on evolutionary genomics of threespine sticklebacks using contemporary and paleogenomic datasets: tinyurl.com/mtx8nmht

It's here~! Just in time for #ASHG23. gnomAD v4: publicly available data from >800k sequenced individuals on GRCh38.

New paper out in Molecular Ecology! Molecular ecology of microbiomes in the wild: Common pitfalls, methodological advances and future directions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Important analysis of the underrepresentation of Arabs in genome-wide association studies. A few comments. 1. We expect the situation to somewhat improve, at least for Arab Israelis, with the developing Israeli national biobank project. ->

Mapping the dynamic genetic regulatory architecture of HLA genes at single-cell resolution Soumya Raychaudhuri সৌম্য রায়চৌধুরী Joyce Kang, PhD nature.com/articles/s4158…

Very proud to see Onur Özer defend his #PhD thesis on #HLA immune gene diversity and evolution in modern and ancient human populations! I'm biased, but I do think it's very exciting work! Looking forward to see also his last two chapters out soon! MPI for Evolutionary Biology UHH - Fachbereich Biologie

Wow 🤩 It feels like I discovered a secret blue island 🏝️ what is this place? 🦋 let’s meet over there?! 👉🏻

Come work with us: #PhD position available in our lab to study evolutionary genetics of adaptive immunity in humans and/or fish. We use computational and molecular approaches. Topic open, to be matched with student's interest/skills. #MHC #HLA #TCR uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenange…

Does the immune system protect against cancer? Today our study on HLA immunogenetics and lung cancer risk has been published in Science Magazine led by Chirag Krishna Anniina Tervi Miriam Saffern Eric Wilson Hanna M Ollila Robert Samstein science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Look at the all-star lineup of keynote speakers at SMBE's upcoming annual meeting in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico! 🇲🇽🌴😎 AliciaMstt, Aida Andrés, Scott V Edwards, and Stephen I. Wright. Don't forget to send your abstracts before March 15th 👉 smbe2024.org OfficialSMBE

This Friday is the deadline for submitting abstracts for posters, talks and symposia for ISEMPH 2024! The world's premier evolutionary medicine meeting. Q to [email protected] isemph.org/abstracts2024 ISEMPH SSE ESEB EHBEA Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM) Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine @wellcometru

See our new comprehensive review on natural selection acting in viral sensors in vertebrates: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Unpopular opinion coming up. I screen a bunch of preprints for BioRxiv, have done for a decade. I think these are fairly representative of what is published generally - e.g. similar in quality, etc., even though only ~20% of papers are preprinted. /1

Big congrats to Synne Arstad Bjørnestad defending her PhD thesis yesterday 🙌🙌 think we have come a little closer in understanding the immune function in Atlantic cod 🐟 and thanks to the two opponents for the nice discussions Tobias L Lenz and Ilana Berlin 🤗🤗

Excited to be part of this huge effort with Tobias L Lenz and Britta Meyer🐦🐟🍫☕️. Here we led annotation of MHC I/II diploid haplotypes of six ape species. This is a huge advance for primate immunogenomics! I am currently adopting some of this for marmosets. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are advertizing a #PhD position in our lab to study evolutionary genetics of adaptive immunity in humans and/or fish. We use computational and molecular approaches. Topic open, to be matched with student's interest/skills. Come join us! #MHC #HLA #TCR uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenange…