Complex trait genetics, ethics and society, global research capacity building 🧬 🌍 ⚖️
PhD candidate with the Pritchard Lab @Stanford
Tami Gjorgjieva
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We built a joint experimental and computational platform for scalable multi-modal single-cell chemical screens — profiling RNA, protein (including phospho-signaling), and chromatin accessibility responses to thousands of small molecule perturbations in parallel. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
At Stanford, we are collaborating with the Tanzania Human Genetics Organization (THGO, thgo.or.tz) to deliver the MERIT (Mentorship and Research Individualized Training) program, where we match mentees from East Africa with mentors to work on a specific research analysis over 8 weeks. (2/n)
After a successful pilot, we are now expanding our program and looking for ~30 mentors! Researchers across career stages (RAs, PhDs, postdocs, staff scientists) and institutions are encouraged to apply! The program will run between June 1 and July 31, 2026. (3/n)
Today is the last day to apply‼️
Thank you everyone for the incredible interest so far! We are especially looking for more folks with experience or willingness to learn and support trainees in metagenomics, microbiome, and/or bacterial/viral genetics 🧬. Spread the word!
The first step toward truly globalizing our genomic research is developing capabilities for genomic research worldwide. Doing this work with THGO has been one of the most fulfilling aspects of my PhD, and I'm excited to have more of us involved with it! (5/5)
Hi Genetics/Comp-Bio community 👋
Interested in mentoring a comp-bio research student in East Africa over the summer? Do you have any experience in bioinformatics, biostats, genome/RNA-seq analyses, ML, or metagenomics? We'd love to have you as a mentor in our new program! 🧵 (1/n)
If you are interested in volunteering as a mentor, please apply ASAP at forms.gle/mBEZs98z4XMU... and no later than Friday, May 22. (We really appreciate early applications as we are actively matching mentors to mentees based on needs/expertise.) (4/n)
I'm excited to share that our work studying gene dosage response curves (GDRCs) is now out in Cell Genomics (@cellpress.bsky.social).
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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Why do schizophrenia GWAS signals look so flat across the genome?
In our recent preprint, we explored why psychiatric disorders — and, more broadly, brain-related traits involving the central nervous system — appear to have unusual genetic architectures.
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Happy to share that this is now out in Cell Genomics and a featured paper for Multi-Journal Submission from @cellpress.bsky.social — many thanks to the editorial team + our reviewers!
Short recap + some further thoughts on the paper ⬇️ [1/7]
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
Milind et al. explore why loss-of-function variants and duplications tend to have
average effects in the same direction on 94 complex traits. Using gene dosage response
curves (GDRCs), they gather evi...
