Débora Y C Brandt
@deboraycb.bsky.social
Bióloga do IB-USP 07 🇧🇷 PhD UCBerkeley 🇺🇸 now postdoc at GEE-UCL 🇬🇧
Evolutionary genomics 🧬 🌳 popgen, ARGs, balancing selection. Interested in teaching, conservation. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/92078-debora-yoshihara-caldeira-brandt/
Evolutionary genomics 🧬 🌳 popgen, ARGs, balancing selection. Interested in teaching, conservation. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/92078-debora-yoshihara-caldeira-brandt/
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And we are LIVE! Join us for Day 1️⃣
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0X...
#conference #genomics #ERGA @biogeneurope.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0X...
#conference #genomics #ERGA @biogeneurope.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
And we are LIVE! Join us for Day 1️⃣
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0X...
#conference #genomics #ERGA @biogeneurope.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0X...
#conference #genomics #ERGA @biogeneurope.bsky.social
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HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
September 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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🇧🇷Saí-de-perna-amarela
🌎Cyanerpes caeruleus
Conservação:Pouco Preocupante
A saí-de-perna-amarela é um Passeriforme da família Thraupidae.
📷 Ester Ramirez
🌎Cyanerpes caeruleus
Conservação:Pouco Preocupante
A saí-de-perna-amarela é um Passeriforme da família Thraupidae.
📷 Ester Ramirez
September 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🇧🇷Saí-de-perna-amarela
🌎Cyanerpes caeruleus
Conservação:Pouco Preocupante
A saí-de-perna-amarela é um Passeriforme da família Thraupidae.
📷 Ester Ramirez
🌎Cyanerpes caeruleus
Conservação:Pouco Preocupante
A saí-de-perna-amarela é um Passeriforme da família Thraupidae.
📷 Ester Ramirez
Important heads up! This is crazy
Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
September 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Important heads up! This is crazy
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Jasmin Rees PhD chapter as a paper just out at the AJHG @ajhgnews.bsky.social, with Sergi Castellano, who first envisioned the study. Jas investigated signatures of human local genetic adaptation in hundreds of micronutrient-associated genes.
📣New from @aidaandres.bsky.social & co
📄Global impact of micronutrients in modern human evolution
📄Global impact of micronutrients in modern human evolution
Global impact of micronutrients in modern human evolution
In this study, Rees et al. evaluate the role of dietary micronutrients in driving
local genetic adaptation and population differentiation in humans. The authors find
evidence that micronutrient-associ...
www.cell.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Jasmin Rees PhD chapter as a paper just out at the AJHG @ajhgnews.bsky.social, with Sergi Castellano, who first envisioned the study. Jas investigated signatures of human local genetic adaptation in hundreds of micronutrient-associated genes.
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SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...
Robust and accurate Bayesian inference of genome-wide genealogies for hundreds of genomes - Nature Genetics
SINGER is a method for creating ancestral recombination graphs to understand the genealogical history of genomes. The method has increased speed, and thus scalability, without sacrificing accuracy.
doi.org
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...
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📢 The Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 is now open. We warmly invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
September 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📢 The Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 is now open. We warmly invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
🗓️ Key dates
Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15
Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
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Excited to share our new preprint🙌
It's the first human WGS study in Sudan. We uncover one of the strongest selection signals to date, pointing to post-admixture adaptation to malaria in Copts. Huge thanks to all co-authors. @aidaandres.bsky.social @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social @ebosch1972.bsky.social
It's the first human WGS study in Sudan. We uncover one of the strongest selection signals to date, pointing to post-admixture adaptation to malaria in Copts. Huge thanks to all co-authors. @aidaandres.bsky.social @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social @ebosch1972.bsky.social
Sudan's complex genetic admixture history drives adaptation to malaria in Sudanese Copts https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.25334828v1
September 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Excited to share our new preprint🙌
It's the first human WGS study in Sudan. We uncover one of the strongest selection signals to date, pointing to post-admixture adaptation to malaria in Copts. Huge thanks to all co-authors. @aidaandres.bsky.social @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social @ebosch1972.bsky.social
It's the first human WGS study in Sudan. We uncover one of the strongest selection signals to date, pointing to post-admixture adaptation to malaria in Copts. Huge thanks to all co-authors. @aidaandres.bsky.social @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social @ebosch1972.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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August 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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OH COME ON
«GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team.» 🫠
https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition
https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition
August 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
OH COME ON
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New Evolution-Digest out! 🎉
Intergenomic discordance should reduce fitness, especially in older males. Well, @martingarlovsky.bsky.social et al., showed that it might not always be the case. 🪰
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
Intergenomic discordance should reduce fitness, especially in older males. Well, @martingarlovsky.bsky.social et al., showed that it might not always be the case. 🪰
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
Digest: Sex-specific benefits of mitochondrial introgression
Abstract. Disrupting mitochondrial and nuclear coadaptation is expected to reduce fitness, especially in males and with age. But is that always true? Garlo
academic.oup.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
New Evolution-Digest out! 🎉
Intergenomic discordance should reduce fitness, especially in older males. Well, @martingarlovsky.bsky.social et al., showed that it might not always be the case. 🪰
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
Intergenomic discordance should reduce fitness, especially in older males. Well, @martingarlovsky.bsky.social et al., showed that it might not always be the case. 🪰
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
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Quem tá no lockdown agora, né
July 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Quem tá no lockdown agora, né
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When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:
July 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:
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Outstanding work by @dcsoto.bsky.social @jmuribescr.bsky.social @mydennis.bsky.social (and other collaborators) that massively advances identification of human gene duplicates, with links to important traits and our evolution. So happy to have contributed a bit to this fantastic paper.
Check out our latest work co-led by @dcsoto.bsky.social and @jmuribescr.bsky.social identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution 🧪: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...
authors.elsevier.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Outstanding work by @dcsoto.bsky.social @jmuribescr.bsky.social @mydennis.bsky.social (and other collaborators) that massively advances identification of human gene duplicates, with links to important traits and our evolution. So happy to have contributed a bit to this fantastic paper.
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The University of São Paulo seeks a Professor Doutor in Zoology, specializing in Bioinformatics and Phylogenomics. Applicants should promote research, teaching, and outreach. Details: https://academica.ib.usp.br/concursos/zoologia/edital-19-2025 #job
Instituto de Biociências - Edital 19-2025
EDITAL IB/AAcad/19/2025 (Português)
academica.ib.usp.br
July 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The University of São Paulo seeks a Professor Doutor in Zoology, specializing in Bioinformatics and Phylogenomics. Applicants should promote research, teaching, and outreach. Details: https://academica.ib.usp.br/concursos/zoologia/edital-19-2025 #job
I learned this today
>>> round(0.5)
0
>>> round(1.5)
2
>>> round(2.5)
2
>>> round(3.5)
4
>>> round(0.5)
0
>>> round(1.5)
2
>>> round(2.5)
2
>>> round(3.5)
4
July 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I learned this today
>>> round(0.5)
0
>>> round(1.5)
2
>>> round(2.5)
2
>>> round(3.5)
4
>>> round(0.5)
0
>>> round(1.5)
2
>>> round(2.5)
2
>>> round(3.5)
4
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We are recruiting for a Research Technician to support our lab's experimental evolution work with Drosophila melanogaster at UCL. Do you have recent insect husbandry experience and want to be a key part of an academic research environment? We'd love to hear from you www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
July 4, 2025 at 6:04 AM
We are recruiting for a Research Technician to support our lab's experimental evolution work with Drosophila melanogaster at UCL. Do you have recent insect husbandry experience and want to be a key part of an academic research environment? We'd love to hear from you www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Applying to Biology PhD programs this year? Let us help!
At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!
Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...
At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!
Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...
June 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Applying to Biology PhD programs this year? Let us help!
At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!
Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...
At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials!
Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...
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Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo!
Please get in touch if you are interested.
And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab.
Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
Lab page: speidellab.github.io
Please get in touch if you are interested.
And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab.
Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
Lab page: speidellab.github.io
Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers at Mathematical Genomics RIKEN ECL Research Unit (25-695)
www.riken.jp
June 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo!
Please get in touch if you are interested.
And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab.
Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
Lab page: speidellab.github.io
Please get in touch if you are interested.
And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab.
Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
Lab page: speidellab.github.io
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What are people's thoughts on covering HW equilibrium in intro bio? Is it really necessary, or could it be left to upper-level genetics or evo classes?
June 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
What are people's thoughts on covering HW equilibrium in intro bio? Is it really necessary, or could it be left to upper-level genetics or evo classes?
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The preliminary program of ProbGen 2026, which will be held at UC Berkeley, is now up: probgen2026.github.io
Sharing on behalf of Rasmus Nielsen who is not on this site. For more see his thread on that other site: x.com/ras_nielsen/...
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June 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The preliminary program of ProbGen 2026, which will be held at UC Berkeley, is now up: probgen2026.github.io
Sharing on behalf of Rasmus Nielsen who is not on this site. For more see his thread on that other site: x.com/ras_nielsen/...
Sharing on behalf of Rasmus Nielsen who is not on this site. For more see his thread on that other site: x.com/ras_nielsen/...