I'll be reviewing applications soon -- please get in touch if interested!

SYsamyeaman.bsky.socialSep 12, 2024 8:54pm

I'm recruiting for a PhD position to study the genomic basis of repeated adaptation at the University of Calgary. We have a big multi-species dataset and aim to expand it, with many unexplored avenues to test fundamental theories of evolution yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

As if comb jellies weren't bizarre enough...two of them can fuse together into a two-animal beast. Their remarkable power might have something to say about our own immune systems. Here's my story (gift link) nyti.ms/3XU9zng

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📰🧬🔛 New pre-print on transposable element (#TEs) evolution, #Galápagos#Scalesia. "Genomic stability in the Galapagos Scalesia adaptive radiation: Consistent transposable element accumulation despite hybridization and ecological niche shifts"

There was a lot of discussion on Bsky and X about the Hu et al. paper when it came out. Here Deng et al. find that the method used in that paper (Fitcoal) can generate gradual demographic change as sharp drops in population size.

BEbiorxiv-evobio.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 2:31pm

A previously reported bottleneck in human ancestry 900 kya is likely a statistical artifact https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.01.615851v1

A previously reported bottleneck in human ancestry 900 kya is likely a statistical artifact https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.01.615851v1

It was recently reported that a severe ancient bottleneck occurred around 900 thousand years ago in

Modeling recent positive selection using identity-by-descent segments https://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297(24)00333-1https://github.com/sdtemple/isweep

The Department of Biological Sciences at #AuburnUniversitywww.auemployment.com/postings/49038

New Ferris Lab paper on fluctuating selection in a #Mimulus@dianatataru.bsky.socialacademic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Fluctuating selection in a monkeyflower hybrid zone

Abstract. While hybridization was viewed as a hindrance to adaptation and speciation by early evolutionary biologists, recent studies have demonstrated the

Ancient inversion polymorphisms are locally adaptive in a widespread butterfly species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.20.614156v1

Ancient inversion polymorphisms are locally adaptive in a widespread butterfly species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.20.614156v1

Wide-ranging species are subject to varying biotic and abiotic selection pressures across their dist

My lab read this paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... for journal club, and had some thoughts on the strong claims made about the number of signals of selection found.

Pervasive findings of directional selection realize the promise of ancient DNA to elucidate human adaptation

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