Associate Professor of Statistical Genomics (Oxford Stats)
https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ignatiev/
Ana Ignatieva
In a new GBE Review, @david-peede.bsky.social et al. overview the SMC model and extensions, discuss examples of discoveries made with the help of SMC-based inference, and comment on the assumptions, benefits, and drawbacks of various methods.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
#genome #evolution #compbio
📢 Come and work with us!
We have two postdoctoral Florence Nightingale Bicentenary Fellowships available in the Department of Statistics, starting in September 2026.
Applications close at 12 noon on Monday 12 January 2026.
➡️ Find out more at: tinyurl.com/yc5jxdrm
We (with @yanwong.bsky.social) are advertising a 3 year postdoc position for a project on ARG inference and methods! Based at Oxford stats. Closing date noon 7 April, full details at my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
I’ll be attending #ASHG25! I’m currently hiring for (i) a Senior Research Scientist or (ii) a Postdoc position in my lab. If you’re interested, please reach out to arrange a time to meet and discuss.
The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.
Department of Statistics
Excited to share a preprint of my PhD project looking at interactions between SNPs and polygenic scores in the UK Biobank!
A thread... 🧵
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
The 2026 awardees of SMBE's Faculty Award are now known. We start by presenting the SMBE Early-Career Excellence Award winner - Leo Speidel - working at RIKEN, Japan.
@leospeidel.bsky.social
Visit our website to learn more about the SMBE Faculty Awards
🔗 smbe.org/faculty-awards
#society
New preprint led by Hrushikesh Loya, me, and Simon Myers where we introduce GhostBuster! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The idea is to find all the different ways a target individual relates to reference groups in genealogies, to "bust the ghosts" in our ancestry.
Parul Johri
www.biorxiv.org
Excited to preprint our latest work (w/ Drew DeHaas, Zhibai Jia, Leo Speidel) on using ARGs for demographic inference. w/ applications using data from 1000 Genomes Project. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Hakhamanesh Mostafavi
Lino Ferreira
Leo Speidel
April Wei
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
