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! :)
Joana L. Rocha
@joanocha.bsky.social
Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator at NYU Biology | Ecology & Evolution | proud Sudmant lab alumnus | she/ella/ela | typos and views are my own & I can be wrong :) https://rocha-lab-nyu.github.io/
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...
A Pan-pangenome illuminates complex structural variation and selection in humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos
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...
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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/
Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference
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📖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...
Evolutionary characterization of antiviral SAMD9/9L across kingdoms supports ancient convergence and lineage-specific adaptations - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A search for analogues of the human SAMD9/9L antiviral genes identifies convergent evolution of this gene family in the bacterial and animal kingdoms, with species-specific and recent genomic signatur...
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As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll
“I began to question whether I truly belonged,” this postdoc writes
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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... (1/n)
Very much looking forward to teaching our second edition of the Latin American biodiversity genomics course, this time in Argentina.
Melisa Olave@melisaolave.bsky.social · last yr.Introduction to Biodiversity Genomics Course 📅 Nov 24–28, 2025 | 📍 Mendoza, Argentina In-person course for Latin Americans starting with genomic data analysis. 📝 Pre-registration open 🔗 biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com @joanameier.bsky.social @evoargentina.bsky.social
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! 🧬🗽 🦊
So happy to share this paper! It's been so much fun working on this project with these amazing collaborators.
Bioinformatics Advances@bioinfoadv.bsky.social · last yr.🧬 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "TRACKing tandem repeats: A customizable pipeline for identification and cross-species comparison" Find the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf066 Authors include: @adamcarol.bsky.social, @joanocha.bsky.social, @psudmant.bsky.social
On my way #PAG32! Excited to reunite with so many friends and colleagues working on plant and animal genomics, and to be giving a talk at the Wildlife symposium!
