Thank you #PEQG26 for the best conference of my life! Had so much fun chairing, connecting with my NYU crew and re-connecting with fabulous past and present Sudmant lab and Berkeley IB folks! What a ride! :)
PEQG website live! genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/
We are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I am thrilled to announce that in January 2026 I will be starting my own lab at NYU Biology! Soon enough I will be recruiting postdocs and students! Please reach out if you are interested with a CV and description of your research interests, or if you know of people who could be interested! 🧬🗽 🦊
Mark your calendars for #PEQG26 June 9–12, 2026, at Pacific Grove, CA. I’m excited to attend this cross-disciplinary meeting of researchers doing theoretical and experimental work in broad fields. See you all there! genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/
Very much looking forward to teaching our second edition of the Latin American biodiversity genomics course, this time in Argentina.
Joana L. Rocha
So happy to share this paper! It's been so much fun working on this project with these amazing collaborators.
We are excited to share our pan-pangenome paper! This is a long time coming work of my postdoc with the incredible @psudmant.bsky.social, and a stellar group of people! I hope you enjoy reading it! And I am excited to talk more more about it this week at #PEQG26!!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
📖Latest from the lab:
Evo. characterization #antiviral #SAMD9/9L across #kingdoms🚶♀️🦍🦠🧫🖥️: ancient #convergence + #adaptations @natecoevo.nature.com
Led by amazing Alexandre Legrand +major contributions by Rémi Demeure & Amandine Chantharath @ciri-lyon.bsky.social 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
Complete, haplotype-resolved genome assemblies have provided unprecedented insight into the evolution of structurally complex, rapidly evolving regions of human genomes; however, population-scale pang...
