Mark Sanda
@mksanda.bsky.social
Postdoc at Stony Brook University | population genomics of sticklebacks
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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 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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...
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Excited for this to finally see the light of day - new preprint from my lab, where we present a fast, accurate maximum likelihood tool to estimate population structure, called MULTICLUST. We extend the model of Alexander et al 2009 (ADMIXTURE) to multiallelic data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
MULTICLUST - Fast multinomial clustering of multiallelic genotypes to infer genetic population structure
Identifying population structure from multilocus genotype data is key to downstream population genetic analyses in a variety of fields, including conservation, evolutionary genetics, Genome-Wide Assoc...
www.biorxiv.org
August 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Excited for this to finally see the light of day - new preprint from my lab, where we present a fast, accurate maximum likelihood tool to estimate population structure, called MULTICLUST. We extend the model of Alexander et al 2009 (ADMIXTURE) to multiallelic data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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My article on how anti-slavery ideas may have influenced Darwin’s Expression of the Emotions is now out — and open access for a few days!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lO-f8yuR6...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lO-f8yuR6...
July 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Five large chromosomal inversions contribute to Lake Malawi cichlid diversity.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr9961 (£)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr9961 (£)
June 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Five large chromosomal inversions contribute to Lake Malawi cichlid diversity.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr9961 (£)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr9961 (£)
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Don't forget the amazing resources from the population genetics with #dartR workshop we gave in 2024 🌏
Tutorials: green-striped-gecko.github.io/kioloa/
Presentations: www.youtube.com/@dartRverse
My talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS5K...
Tutorials: green-striped-gecko.github.io/kioloa/
Presentations: www.youtube.com/@dartRverse
My talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS5K...
Kioloa PopGen
Bernd Gruber, Arthur Georges, Carlo Pacioni, Luis Mijangos, and Emily Stringer
green-striped-gecko.github.io
May 22, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Don't forget the amazing resources from the population genetics with #dartR workshop we gave in 2024 🌏
Tutorials: green-striped-gecko.github.io/kioloa/
Presentations: www.youtube.com/@dartRverse
My talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS5K...
Tutorials: green-striped-gecko.github.io/kioloa/
Presentations: www.youtube.com/@dartRverse
My talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS5K...
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Last weekend we gave a workshop at #ICCB2025 on the use of #dartR for analysing genetic data for #Conservation 🧬🏔️🌿💻 We had participants working on super cool systems!
You can find the code and resources here: green-striped-gecko.github.io/iccb2025/ ✨
You can find the code and resources here: green-striped-gecko.github.io/iccb2025/ ✨
June 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Last weekend we gave a workshop at #ICCB2025 on the use of #dartR for analysing genetic data for #Conservation 🧬🏔️🌿💻 We had participants working on super cool systems!
You can find the code and resources here: green-striped-gecko.github.io/iccb2025/ ✨
You can find the code and resources here: green-striped-gecko.github.io/iccb2025/ ✨
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An intriguing new evolutionary story has just dropped, from my friend and colleague Leif Andersson: a discrete population of large predatory herring in the Baltic Sea, apparently in the process of evolving into a new species. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution of fast-growing piscivorous herring in the young Baltic Sea - Nature Communications
The Atlantic herring is one of the world’s most abundant vertebrates and a typical plankton feeder of major ecological importance. This study shows that a piscivorous (fish-eating) ecotype of herring ...
www.nature.com
December 23, 2024 at 10:55 PM
An intriguing new evolutionary story has just dropped, from my friend and colleague Leif Andersson: a discrete population of large predatory herring in the Baltic Sea, apparently in the process of evolving into a new species. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Excited to share our new paper on genetic differentiation in Atlantic silversides! We investigated how genome structure influences adaptation under varying levels of gene flow using a species-specific reference genome and multiple recombination maps. Read on for insights! doi.org/10.1093/molb... 1/7
Genetic differentiation is constrained to chromosomal inversions and putative centromeres in locally adapted populations with higher gene flow
Abstract. The impact of genome structure on adaptation is a growing focus in evolutionary biology, revealing an important role for structural variation and
doi.org
April 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Excited to share our new paper on genetic differentiation in Atlantic silversides! We investigated how genome structure influences adaptation under varying levels of gene flow using a species-specific reference genome and multiple recombination maps. Read on for insights! doi.org/10.1093/molb... 1/7
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Or if you want to come from Europe to South Africa to work on #PopGen of #fishes and climate change, I’m happy to collaborate! 🧪🧬🐟
Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
May 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Congratulations to Dr Antoine Sanou, colleague, friend & former @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social PhD, on award of the Medal of the Order of the Stallion, the highest distinction in Burkina Faso. This recognizes his outstanding contributions to #malaria control & the Ministry of Health. We are proud of you
December 24, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Congratulations to Dr Antoine Sanou, colleague, friend & former @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social PhD, on award of the Medal of the Order of the Stallion, the highest distinction in Burkina Faso. This recognizes his outstanding contributions to #malaria control & the Ministry of Health. We are proud of you