Tauras Vilgalys
@taurvil.bsky.social
Postdoc at UChicago. Evolutionary functional genomics, focusing on how humans and other primates respond to infectious disease. Former grad student @EvAnthDuke. 🧪
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Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?)
Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.
More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...
Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.
More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...
October 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?)
Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.
More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...
Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.
More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...
🚨🧪 Interested in primate genomics and GxE interactions?
My lab is recruiting graduate students and postdocs to help start projects on primate gene regulation and immune evolution. Reach out if you would like to learn more, and please spread widely!
#ScienceJobs
My lab is recruiting graduate students and postdocs to help start projects on primate gene regulation and immune evolution. Reach out if you would like to learn more, and please spread widely!
#ScienceJobs
October 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🚨🧪 Interested in primate genomics and GxE interactions?
My lab is recruiting graduate students and postdocs to help start projects on primate gene regulation and immune evolution. Reach out if you would like to learn more, and please spread widely!
#ScienceJobs
My lab is recruiting graduate students and postdocs to help start projects on primate gene regulation and immune evolution. Reach out if you would like to learn more, and please spread widely!
#ScienceJobs
Labcorp is recruiting summer interns in bioinformatics! One of my colleagues did this internship last year and found it to be a wonderful introduction to working in industry careers.labcorp.com/yzXKMn1
Now Hiring: Bioinformatics Intern in Westborough, Massachusetts, United States of America @ Labcorp
Labcorp, a leading global life sciences company, is searching for a Bioinformatics Intern in Westborough, Massachusetts, United States of America. #JoinThePursuit and apply today!
careers.labcorp.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Labcorp is recruiting summer interns in bioinformatics! One of my colleagues did this internship last year and found it to be a wonderful introduction to working in industry careers.labcorp.com/yzXKMn1
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Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
One of the best resources out there for finding faculty positions! I used this so much over the past few years
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
docs.google.com
September 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
One of the best resources out there for finding faculty positions! I used this so much over the past few years
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I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.
Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
August 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.
Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
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if you're a teacher who wants to bring science to life in the classroom, @skypeascientist.bsky.social brings scientists to your class. Sign up at: www.skypeascientist.com
August 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
if you're a teacher who wants to bring science to life in the classroom, @skypeascientist.bsky.social brings scientists to your class. Sign up at: www.skypeascientist.com
I'm happy to (finally) share the last chapter of my dissertation work. Focusing on DNA methylation levels, we show that admixture increases gene regulatory variation within the Amboseli baboon population.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
August 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I'm happy to (finally) share the last chapter of my dissertation work. Focusing on DNA methylation levels, we show that admixture increases gene regulatory variation within the Amboseli baboon population.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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The Dept of Human Genetics at the Univeristy of Utah is hosting a Rising Stars in Genetics & Genomics postdoc symposium. We are looking to feature postdocs doing cool science! Please self nominate or nominate an excellent postdoc! #ASHGtrainees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The Dept of Human Genetics at the Univeristy of Utah is hosting a Rising Stars in Genetics & Genomics postdoc symposium. We are looking to feature postdocs doing cool science! Please self nominate or nominate an excellent postdoc! #ASHGtrainees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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The Dept of Human Genetics at the Univeristy of Utah is hosting a Rising Stars in Genetics & Genomics postdoc symposium. We are looking to feature postdocs doing cool science! Please self nominate or nominate an excellent postdoc! #ASHGtrainees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The Dept of Human Genetics at the Univeristy of Utah is hosting a Rising Stars in Genetics & Genomics postdoc symposium. We are looking to feature postdocs doing cool science! Please self nominate or nominate an excellent postdoc! #ASHGtrainees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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1/n 🚨Very excited to share our recent work!🚨
To understand gene regulation across diverse environmental conditions and cellular contexts, we treated a broad array of human cell types with three environmental exposures in vitro.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
To understand gene regulation across diverse environmental conditions and cellular contexts, we treated a broad array of human cell types with three environmental exposures in vitro.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
1/n 🚨Very excited to share our recent work!🚨
To understand gene regulation across diverse environmental conditions and cellular contexts, we treated a broad array of human cell types with three environmental exposures in vitro.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
To understand gene regulation across diverse environmental conditions and cellular contexts, we treated a broad array of human cell types with three environmental exposures in vitro.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I'm thrilled to share that I'll be joining the Department of Genetics at UGA as an Assistant Professor in January! @universityofga.bsky.social Genetics@UGA #newPI
May 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I'm thrilled to share that I'll be joining the Department of Genetics at UGA as an Assistant Professor in January! @universityofga.bsky.social Genetics@UGA #newPI
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Interested in a starting PI position at University College London to work on Genetics, Evolution or the Environment? My department has opened the call for expressions of interest for sponsorship of independent fellowship applications.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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
March 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Interested in a starting PI position at University College London to work on Genetics, Evolution or the Environment? My department has opened the call for expressions of interest for sponsorship of independent fellowship applications.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Final week to apply for this year’s round of the Princeton EEB Fellowship Program, folks! Please repost and help spread the word! We’re going tweetless and need the biggest bluest skies you folks can muster, please!!! ☀️ @eseb.bsky.social
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
Thanks!
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
Thanks!
Just 3 more weeks to apply for the Princeton EEB Fellows Program! 🌵🦥🦩🦠🧫🌻Please identify at least 2 faculty collaborators, craft your research program, & apply here:
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
@eseb.bsky.social
Please repost &/or apply!
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
@eseb.bsky.social
Please repost &/or apply!
puwebp.princeton.edu
January 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Final week to apply for this year’s round of the Princeton EEB Fellowship Program, folks! Please repost and help spread the word! We’re going tweetless and need the biggest bluest skies you folks can muster, please!!! ☀️ @eseb.bsky.social
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
Thanks!
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
Thanks!
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My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990
Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology
University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.ucr.edu
December 10, 2024 at 7:14 PM
My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990
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Widespread gene-environment interactions shape the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalized COVID-19 patients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.03.626676v1
Widespread gene-environment interactions shape the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalized COVID-19 patients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.03.626676v1
Genome-wide association studies performed in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have
www.biorxiv.org
December 5, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Widespread gene-environment interactions shape the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalized COVID-19 patients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.03.626676v1
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PhD opportunity in computational population genetics at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig:
Join our fully funded project to develop IBD-segment tools, connecting high-quality genomes from 500 Black Death victims to modern Europeans. 🌍💻🧬
Please spread the word! 📢🙌 #aDNA #PopGen
www.eva.mpg.de/de/karriere/...
Join our fully funded project to develop IBD-segment tools, connecting high-quality genomes from 500 Black Death victims to modern Europeans. 🌍💻🧬
Please spread the word! 📢🙌 #aDNA #PopGen
www.eva.mpg.de/de/karriere/...
December 3, 2024 at 12:52 PM
PhD opportunity in computational population genetics at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig:
Join our fully funded project to develop IBD-segment tools, connecting high-quality genomes from 500 Black Death victims to modern Europeans. 🌍💻🧬
Please spread the word! 📢🙌 #aDNA #PopGen
www.eva.mpg.de/de/karriere/...
Join our fully funded project to develop IBD-segment tools, connecting high-quality genomes from 500 Black Death victims to modern Europeans. 🌍💻🧬
Please spread the word! 📢🙌 #aDNA #PopGen
www.eva.mpg.de/de/karriere/...
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We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for Summer 2024 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES, BIOLOGY at the American Museum of Natural History. Application Deadline: January 31st 2024 www.amnh.org/research/ric...
Biological Sciences: Research Experience for Undergraduates | AMNH
Approximately eight students gather each summer at the Museum for a ten-week experience working with curators, faculty, and post-doctoral fellows.
www.amnh.org
January 3, 2024 at 12:23 AM
We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for Summer 2024 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES, BIOLOGY at the American Museum of Natural History. Application Deadline: January 31st 2024 www.amnh.org/research/ric...
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If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in a crazy group of monkeys at U of Edinburgh . Do reach out with questions!
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
December 1, 2024 at 8:49 PM
If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in a crazy group of monkeys at U of Edinburgh . Do reach out with questions!
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
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Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :)
Link for application:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Link for application:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
December 2, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :)
Link for application:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Link for application:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Job alert!! Join Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of global change biology with emphasis on the Ecology and Evolution of Host-Microbe Interactions (pathogens, mutualists, microbiomes).
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476
Assistant Professor - Global Change Biology- Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
July 8, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Job alert!! Join Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of global change biology with emphasis on the Ecology and Evolution of Host-Microbe Interactions (pathogens, mutualists, microbiomes).
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476
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I'm delighted to release the first half of my new textbook in human genetics:
web.stanford.edu/group/pritch...
"An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"
web.stanford.edu/group/pritch...
"An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"
An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome
An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome
web.stanford.edu
October 1, 2023 at 10:53 PM
I'm delighted to release the first half of my new textbook in human genetics:
web.stanford.edu/group/pritch...
"An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"
web.stanford.edu/group/pritch...
"An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"