Jess Peers
banner
jesspeers.bsky.social
Jess Peers
@jesspeers.bsky.social
PhD student applying machine learning to conservation-priority and domesticated mammal genomes 🐆🐕🧬💻 (she/her) @earlhaminst.bsky.social @nrpdtp.bsky.social
Reposted by Jess Peers
For #ME/CFS, genomics assessed in >15,000 indviduals
with 8 genomic loci identified.
"Validation of ME/CFS as a biomedical condition and an important corrective to psychologizing ‘all in the mind’ perspectives on the disease”
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publicati...
Possible genetic clues to ME/chronic fatigue syndrome identified in massive study
DNA analysis of more than 15,500 people with the debilitating condition identifies eight tentative “genetic signals”
www.science.org
August 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Norwich folk - come see me talking about cheetahs in a pub on 20th May (a standard evening out for me…) 🐆🧬🍺

@pintofscience.uk

pintofscience.co.uk/event/ais-fi...
AI's Fight to Save Lives and Species
AI is quickly advancing, but is it fast enough to help save lives and species? From using Big Bio Data to crack cancer, to machine learning for conserving …
pintofscience.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Excited to share the first publication from my PhD!!

We identify premature termination codons specific to the cheetah in genes associated with male fertility and immunity 🐆🧬

@earlhaminst.bsky.social @whaerty.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Gene pseudogenization in fertility-associated genes in cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), a species with long-term low effective population size
Abstract. We are witnessing an ongoing global biodiversity crisis, and an increasing number of mammalian populations are at risk of decline. Species that h
academic.oup.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Reposted by Jess Peers
Reposted by Jess Peers
Congratulations @jesspeers.bsky.social, what a week - awesome conference in the middle of cheetahs and the paper accepted!
January 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
just had the news that my cheetah paper was accepted in Evolution whilst I’m in Namibia surrounded by cheetahs, cheetah experts and conservation geneticists! eeek!!
January 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM