Fantastic talk from UCL's gorkalasso.bsky.social on the use of structural bioinformatics and machine learning to illuminate protein interactions underpinning infectious diseases.

Wonderful and engaging talk by
@lucyvandorp.bsky.social
who was invited to speak on the drivers of pathogen evolution using ancient DNA at the Ancient Genomes: Perspectives on Human Biology and Medicine meeting
@gensocuk.bsky.social
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Great to have Priya Moorjani visit UGI and give a talk on inferring Neanderthal ancestry in ancient individuals, and to share a bit about her work on Indian genetics, including insights into the evolution of lactase persistence.

Great to have Dr Hrushikesh Loya give a fantastic talk on his tool Ghostbusters: A Genome-Wide Genealogical Approach to Uncovering Hidden Admixture Events in Human Evolution 👻

Great to have Irene Gallego Romero @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social at UCL for last week’s UGI seminar, where she discussed her work on genomic diversity in Island Southeast Asian populations - from ancient DNA to modern immunity!

A great start to this year’s UGI Seminar Series, with UGI’s Director @aidaandres.bsky.social discussing recent work on local genetic adaptation in chimpanzees.

Our first UGI seminar of the year welcomed Audrey Lin @undeaddandy.bsky.social telling us all about how a legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs. Thanks Audrey for a great talk and visit!

@cednotsed.bsky.social presenting at #SMEB2025 on his work on predicting the fitness of mutations in SARS-CoV-2. Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

UGI at the Forbidden City #SMBE2025

@cednotsed.bsky.social, Cameron Ferguson, @nancybird1.bsky.social

Thanks to @gregerlarson.bsky.social for a fabulous talk 'Hunting the Earliest Dogs' which rounded up this academic year's UGI seminar series. It was great to have Greger visit us @ucl.ac.uk.

Today we welcomed Alexander Zarebski @aezarebski.bsky.social to @ucl.ac.uk. Alexander gave a great talk on teaching neural networks to do phylodynamics.

Great to have @ugiatucl.bsky.social alumni Dr Catherine Walker back talking in our seminar series about her work on the epigenetics of lactase persistence and the origins of lactose.

We welcomed @kguschan.bsky.social to @ucl.ac.uk for our UGI Seminar Series. A fantastic talk spanning primate population histories, mito-nuclear interactions, temporal microbiomes, and antimicrobial resistance.

A pleasure to welcome Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social to @ucl.ac.uk for our UCL Genetics Seminar series. Kevin gave a great talk on reconstructing the relationship between animal herding and pathogen evolution using paleogenomic techniques.

Today @ugiatucl.bsky.social explored the use of #AI in biology through a special seminar event. Great talks from @mariasecrier.bsky.social, Chris Barnes, Cedric Tan and Alexei Yavlinsky spanning bacterial pangenomes, cancer biology and viral evolution. Thanks to Marina Escalera and UGI seminar team.