Iain Mathieson
mathiesoniain.bsky.social
Iain Mathieson
@mathiesoniain.bsky.social
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The Mathieson Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is hiring a computational postdoc in machine learning and evolutionary biology. Apply with a CV and references: smathi@sas.upenn.edu. More info: https://saramathieson.github.io/lab #postdoc
We are a computational lab focusing on developing machine learning algorithms for biological data. Currently we are working on inference tasks related to natural selection and demographic inference, as well as generative models for genomic data from humans, mosquitos, and other species.
saramathieson.github.io
July 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Join us at the Royal Society in London 14 November for a day on Ancient genomes, human biology and medicine!

Many slots are reserved for talks from submitted abstracts related to the topic, alongside speakers Svante Pääbo, Priya Moorjani, @mathiesoniain.bsky.social and Lluis Quintana-Murci.
Registration now open! Join us for our Autumn Meeting:
“Ancient genomes: perspectives on human biology and medicine” organised by @janetk.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social.

Explore how ancient DNA informs migration, adaptation & disease.

genetics.org.uk/events/ancie...
April 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A bunch of these edits don’t even have anything to do with dire wolves; they are just in random pigmentation genes.
I am not necessarily against the initiative, but would a chimpanzee with 20 gene edits be human?

If you lined up a dire wolf genome with a gray wolf genome there would be millions of differences. These individuals seem optimistically 1/100,000th dire wolf. (No paper or preprint available though).
It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
April 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/
Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Biology - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Biology in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
February 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM