Stepfanie is a wonderful person to work with, highly recommend!

Dr. Stepfanie Aguillón 😷@s-m-aguillon.bsky.social · last mo.

Interested in joining a growing lab in LA? We’re hiring a postdoc!! Please spread the word to folks in your network and feel free to get in touch with any questions recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11142

Come see my poster tn! For 3 yrs, populations evolved at 43 sites worldwide. I built kMate, an alignment-free, pangenome k-mer method to track SNP & SV frequencies across space & time, opening the door to accurately and efficiently mapping climate-adaptive variants on evolution experiments! #PEQG26

Excited to share new work on two sex-linked pigment traits in Xiphophorus! This project was led by undergrad @lagiven.bsky.social, who’s worked with me for the last 3(!) years. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Two melanic pigment patterns are associated with a sex chromosome-linked oncogene in the mountain swordtail Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl

Sex-linked traits are widespread, but their genetic architecture has been challenging to characterize, due in part to the repetitive and structurally complex nature of sex chromosomes. In swordtails a...

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Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of the Black-Footed Cat: Insights into Felis's Deadliest Predator https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.29.728895v1

SSE is raising funds to expand this year's Graduate Research Excellence Grants program! www.gofundme.com/f/support-st... Curious about what kind of research these grants fund? Check out our seminar series featuring past recipients here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWMT...

SSE GREG seminar series: Faye Romero

The genetic architecture of inbreeding depression in a wild population of Florida scrub-jays

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Excited to share this new pre-print from the fantastic @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social! Kelsie put together a thoughtful and thorough review on hybridization in animal evolution: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v.... She tracks notable shifts in perspectives on the study of hybridization through time.

Do you know any students who are planning to apply to graduate school this cycle? Encourage them to apply to the Biology Preview Program! We provide intensive workshops to help students w/ their applications + 1:1 mentorship.

Gabriel @gpreising.bsky.social #LFW shared work involving INECOL & Centro de Investigaciones Científicas de las Huastecas Aguazarca 🇲🇽 They studied swordtail fishes & their alternative reproductive tactics using long read data Earlier work doi.org/10.1093/evol... #BoG2026 @cshlmeetings.bsky.social

Please share widely! We will imminently be posting a technician position in our lab group since @rheasood.bsky.social is off to grad school 🙌! If you know of anyone excited about molecular biology, evolution, and functional genomics please have them reach out (schumer at stanford). Start date ~June

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

Excited to join PAG this year! Tomorrow (01/11) I will be sharing my work on black-footed cat genomics! Stop by the "Wildlife Genomics" session @ 8:55 am in Pacific F-G to learn about Africa's smallest cat

I'll be presenting my work tomorrow morning at #PAG33! Stop by Pacific C (Comparative Genomics - Animals) @9:16am to learn about structural variation of swordtail Y-chromosomes and alternative reproductive tactics.

Excited to present at #PAG33 on the dynamic evolution of a balanced polymorphism. We've uncovered unexpected patterns using long-read sequencing and other fun methods. Talk: Saturday @8:40am in Pacific C (Comparative Genomics - Animals) Poster: Monday @10-11:30am in Golden State Ballroom (P216)

Very happy to see this project submitted! Congrats @nadiahaghani.bsky.social !!

Molly Schumer@mollyschumer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up: shorturl.at/NE65A

Super excited that the bulk of my PhD work is now preprinted! Here we used whole-community competition, or coalescence, experiments to quantify selection acting on genetically diverged strains within larger communities. (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Anyone looking for an undergrad research assistant this coming summer? I have a truly phenomenal undergrad with expertise in genetic mapping, long read sequencing & bioinformatics who wants experience in another lab before grad school. She has been in our lab for 3 years & writing her first paper!