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Mayra Banuelos
@talesofdna.bsky.social
PhD Student at the Huerta-Sanchez Lab | CCMB Brown University | HHMI Gilliam Fellow | NSF GRFP Fellow | SFSU alumn | PopGen | she/her 🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽
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As we approach the release of our 2nd season, we want to thank our 1st season guests for sharing their incredible science trajectories! 😍
If you haven't heard from them, run to Science Wise on your favorite podcast platform and share with your friends!
pod.link/1715048894
February 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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We have something special for you while you wait for the second season!
Wanna know more about what goes into building productive and welcoming research environments? Join us in this LIVE episode with the founding members of @liigh-unam.bsky.social !
pod.link/1715048894
January 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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This paper by Kadie-Ann Williams and @pleunipennings.bsky.social is a really useful resource for teaching sweeps and linked selection
[my slide from lecture today]
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 23, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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SMBE 2024 Puerto Vallarta website is live! The call for symposia opens soon! www.smbe2024.org
SMBE 2024
www.smbe2024.org
October 11, 2023 at 7:35 PM
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Come to Puerto Vallarta for the most amazing meeting on Molecular Biology and Evolution. Website is live and call for symposia is opening soon. Keep an eye for key dates. 🏖🧬🧫👩🏽‍💻
SMBE 2024 Puerto Vallarta website is live! The call for symposia opens soon! www.smbe2024.org
SMBE 2024
www.smbe2024.org
October 11, 2023 at 10:44 PM
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Enormous congratulations to Sam Hart, Michael Metzger and their whole team on this extremely exciting story: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Centuries of genome instability and evolution in soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria, bivalve transmissi...
Hart et al. study the transmissible marine leukemia of the soft-shell clam Mya arenaria and focus on a cancer lineage that is characterized by varied genomic instability as well as a mutational sign...
www.nature.com
October 4, 2023 at 6:04 PM
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Just the best #evolution or ecology postdoc gig ever. No big deal. cpb.sf.ucdavis.edu/cpb-postdoc-...
September 21, 2023 at 11:56 PM
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The UC Davis Center for Population Biology postdoctoral fellowship is now being advertised. This is a great opportunity to come join our wonderful community of Evolution & Ecology here at Davis. Please RT.

cpb.sf.ucdavis.edu/cpb-postdoc-...
CPB Postdoctoral Fellowship
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW IN POPULATION BIOLOGY   EFFECTIVE:  September 26, 2023 DEADLINE:  November 1, 2023
cpb.sf.ucdavis.edu
September 21, 2023 at 10:44 PM
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Most ancient and modern genomes are known from a large but limited number of single nucleotide polymorphisms, each identified in a small set of genomes. New study shows how this ascertainment bias affects inferences of ancient mixture.

t.co/k0mhTY5Qx4
Modeling of African population history using f-statistics is biased when applying all previously pro...
Author summary Archaeogenetic research on humans remains heavily biased towards Europe, Central and East Asia due to poor preservation of ancient DNA in hot climate. However, the number of studies foc...
t.co
September 19, 2023 at 3:29 AM
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🎂 Stephen Jay Gould was born #OTD Sept. 10, 1941 🧪

A Gould-en Heart
mu-peter.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-go...

Personally and professionally...
I could not have wished for a better mentor.
September 10, 2023 at 5:02 PM