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Arslan Zaidi

@aazaidi.bsky.social
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Genetics, stats, complex traits. Asst. prof. at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. views my own. he/him - Zaidilab.org

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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Collaborator? I hardly know her! @tinalasisi.bsky.social
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Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
These are of course very old questions with tremendous recent progress; we focus mostly on the recent progress and what it offers for the next era of studying human genetics in biobanks. Excited this preprint is out and we'd of course love to hear any thoughts!
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lab got me an Aang funko pop for my bday. I think they don’t hate me 🥹
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Genome-Wide Effect of Drift and Selection over a Single Generation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Arjun Biddanda @aabiddanda.github.io · 31/07/2026
Amazing to see this online today! A very fun project over the past couple of years (made all the better by a great team of people to work with!)
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Minneapolis is so wonderfully weird. Sometime ago a beloved giant oak tree at someone’s house fell due to a storm and they made an annual festival of sharpening a pencil out of the stump. People finding reasons to be joyful and celebrate #lakeoftheislespencil.
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
In #GENETICS, @jazlynmooney.bsky.social and the team present a unified theoretical framework for understanding how recombination shapes ancestry patterns after admixture. 🔗 buff.ly/7i4EFAc
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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Headed to #PEQG26 next week? The Sethuraman Lab will be presenting a buncha recent work! Come find us at both poster sessions, and DM/message me if you'd like to chat about the open postdoc position in my lab.
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Our preprint on the genetic regulation of mtDNA gene expression in collaboration with @shwetaramdas.bsky.social and @rajivmccoy.bsky.social .
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Gideon Bradburd @gbradburd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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recruitment
Multiple positions available: ​ Postdoc PhD students
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Julia Kreiner @jmkreiner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Abstract deadline for Midwest Pop Gen 2026 extended to June 12th! Aug 21-22 at UChicago — free, trainee-oriented meeting with talks, posters + Friday BBQ at Promontory Point. Chicago in August doesn't get better than this... jkreinz.github.io/mwpg2026
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Happy to present our perspective on how to think about group-differences in genetic risk. With @nicole-kleman.bsky.social , Meng Lin, and Chris Gignoux.
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Tread lightly interpreting group differences in genetic risk
Observed differences in mean phenotypic values across human groups have attracted renewed interest with the rise of large-scale genomic studies and polygenic risk prediction. However, the genetic basi...
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I try not to complain about things but biorxiv refused to preprint our perspective piece and arxiv wants an endorsement from two unicorns who have preprinted there in the last 5 yrs in the same subsection before we can post anything. Preprinting shouldn’t be this hard.
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Alicia Martin @genetisaur.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
📣 𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬! 🌍📈🧬 If you’re finishing a PhD (or know someone who is) and want to work on complex trait biology + 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙-𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡, read on 👇
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Nicholas Mancuso @nmancuso.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Please share! The USC Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology is searching for a full-time, teaching-track faculty member for the teaching of QBIO undergraduate statistics and computational biology courses. usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
usccareers.usc.edu
Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
Learn more about applying for Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Eid Mubarak friends!
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Maria A Nieves Colón @mitopr.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Friends and Colleagues! I am SO excited to catch up with you all this week at #AABA2026! Here is a quick 🧵summarizing what our 🧪🧬👩🏽‍💻👨🏿‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬🧑‍💻lab will be presenting at the meetings (1/n) @umncla.bsky.social @umnanth.bsky.social www.nievescolonlab.org
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Anthropological Genetics Lab at UMN
Anthropological Genetics Laboratories at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Glad to be part of a community that values the well-being and safety of its neighbors.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
We visited Renee Good's memorial. There, we met a group of Somali Minnesotans — who too have been viciously attacked for weeks — warmly hosting everyone. Flowers & stuffed animals galore. Neighbors continually offering sambusas & hand-warmers & water. Grief. And belief. Scenes from Minneapolis:
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WATCH: Prem Attends Memorial at Scene of Murder in Minneapolis
See what Prem saw at the memorial for the 37-year-old mother killed by ICE in Minneapolis, plus interview with Omar Fateh and residents.
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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I'm just delighted to announce our new preprint on genome-scale perturb-seq in CD4+ T cells. We learned both general lessons about the power of perturb-seq, and specific lessons about T cell biology. Led by amazing postdocs Emma Dann and Ronghui Zhu, with my wonderful collaborator Alex Marson.
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Mykhaylo M. Malakhov @mykmal.xyz · 20/12/2025
My second dissertation paper is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! Here we introduce the co-expression-wide association study (COWAS) method for identifying pairs of genes or proteins whose genetically regulated co-expression is associated with complex traits. 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Co-expression-wide association studies link genetically regulated interactions with complex traits - Nature Communications
Proteins can affect traits through their interactions with one another. Here, the authors propose the COWAS method to identify pairs of interacting genes or proteins whose genetically regulated co-exp...
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Xinjun Zhang @zhanglabpopgen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Preprint online right before the holidays! Excited to share the first piece of work from the Zhang Lab, led by my absolutely stellar postdoc Michelle Kim! In this work, we ask how admixture, selection and demography shape complex trait genetics and GWAS performance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Determining the driving factors shaping genetic architecture of complex traits in recently admixed populations
Understanding the genetic architecture of complex traits in admixed populations remains challenging due to heterogeneous genetic backgrounds and demographic histories. Mischaracterizing admixture can ...
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Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
As promised, a longer thread on what I consider to be some of the most interesting and important contributions of this paper (1/10)
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Our first labsgiving/Diwali celebration 🪔!
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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
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Applied Biostatistics
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Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
reminder that my (wonderful, diverse, interdisciplinary) department at the University of Oregon is seeking applications for an Associate/Full Professor of Data Science -- deadline 10/31 and only cover letter/CV needed to apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30328
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University of Oregon, Department of Data Science
Job #AJO30328, 535565 Associate or Full Professor of Data Science, Department of Data Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, US
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Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I'm recruiting a postdoc for my group (based in beautiful Eugene, OR). Please get in touch if you're interested, esp if you'd like to chat at #ASHG25!
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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
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Arbel Harpak @arbelharpak.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
If you are at #ASHG2025 and would like to chat in person, please reach out! My lab is looking for curious scientists to join us, especially (but not limited to) postdoctoral researchers.
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
We will be at #ASHG25 this year! Some presentations from our group, please stop by! :
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Moneeza Siddiqui @moneeza-ks.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🔔 Excited to share our preprint from the largest ever exome-wide association study for T2D in South Asians. We make important discoveries implicating the genes HNF4A, GP2, RNF19A in the aetiology of diabetes and metabolic traits in south Asians. 👉 Read it here:
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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Whoops, wrong hashtag. If you are going to #ASHG25, check out the line-up! This is perfect if you are a trainee who needs to network but has no idea how to do it. Instead of trying to corner someone at the posters (which is stressful!), schedule a slot and sit down for 15 minutes to chat!
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Jazlyn Mooney @jazlynmooney.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Super excited to see our reference bias work out in Cell! Reviewers gave us some excellent ideas, and Maria added on some new analyses that broke down how SNPs from heterospecific references mapped or did not map in a conspecific reference.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!
genetics-gsa.org
Homepage - Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I made a video about my new paper. I hope you enjoy it! vimeo.com/1113132836?s...
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New paper (2025) on better understanding drug-resistance levels in different countries
I made this video about a paper that is coming out in August 2025 in the journal Epidemics. Music is from https://freetouse.com/music/ocean-bloom/summer-bliss https://freetouse.com/music/piki/a-new...
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Another fun year for the #mwpg, this year at the University of Minnesota! Great to see all the trainees participating with their cool work.
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Huge congratulations to my friend @mitopr.bsky.social on being selected as a Pew Biomedical Scholar! www.pew.org/en/projects/...
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Maria A. Nieves-Colón, Ph.D.
My research will investigate the genetic and health impacts of the influx of millions of Africans to Latin America during the colonial period.
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Gregor Gorjanc @gregorgorjanc.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
AlphaSimR course edin.ac/3wfGSEj Week 3 opens with a discussion on genetic variation between relatives, with a focus on siblings. While mutation is the ultimate source of genetic variation (by introducing new alleles), recombination shuffles the existing genetic variation through meiosis.
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
New in #GENETICS: Huang et al. describe biases in SNP & local ancestry heritability as functions of admixture history and the genetic architecture of the trait, clarifying their interpretation and implication for #GWAS & polygenic prediction in population admixture. Read more: buff.ly/1xB3Mpu
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The Mathieson Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is hiring a computational postdoc in machine learning and evolutionary biology. Apply with a CV and references: smathi@sas.upenn.edu. More info: saramathieson.github.io/lab #postdoc
saramathieson.github.io
We are a computational lab focusing on developing machine learning algorithms for biological data. Currently we are working on inference tasks related to natural selection and demographic inference, as well as generative models for genomic data from humans, mosquitos, and other species.
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bioRxiv Genetics @biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
last day tomorrow to register for a talk/poster at Midwest popgen. Please RT(? is that what they say here?)!
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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I probably won't have time to make a video out of this. But the materials are available online, and should be pretty self-explanatory. Hope this is useful to some people. privefl.github.io/statgen-cour...
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Statistical Human Genetics course using R
Statistical Human Genetics course using R
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Esha Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D. @eshabandyopadhyay.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Thrilled to see the latest work from the lab (@genscapelab.bsky.social) out in Current Biology! Congratulations @jaurban2204.bsky.social ! 🎉 Grateful to have had the chance to contribute to this effort.
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Esha Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D. @eshabandyopadhyay.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Please register if you haven't already done so. MidWest PopGen is happening in August at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)—abstract deadline for talk: July 11th, and poster: August 1st. sites.google.com/umn.edu/mwpg...
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MWPG2025
Join us for the 10th Midwest Population Genetics conference, held at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities from August 21 - August 22, 2025.
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Eimear Kenny @eimearekenny.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
📢 Just posted: Our preprint introducing SPC — Spectral Components — is now live on medRxiv! Led by Dr. Ruhollah Shemirani and years in the making, this method offers a robust, scalable way to adjust for recent population structure in genomic analyses. 🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/9
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SPC: a SPectral Component approach to address recent population structure in genomic analysis
Population structure is a well-known confounder in statistical genetics, particularly in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), where it can lead to inflated test statistics and spurious associations...
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Website and hotel info for Midwest popgen. Please register (free!) and book rooms asap to get ahead of the State Fair crowd. The world may be aflame but we can try to find some community with each other. #mwpg25 slogan? sites.google.com/umn.edu/mwpg...
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MWPG2025 - History of MWPG
The field of population genetics has a remarkable tradition of being a tight-knit and nurturing community. To continue fostering that sense of community for PopGen groups in the Midwest, the Universit...
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Mashaal Sohail @mashaals.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Our new work is now out in AJHG "Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples." Great collaboration with @delvecchyo.bsky.social and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, led by Valeria Añorve-Garibay.
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Arslan Zaidi @aazaidi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
**10th Midwest PopGen Conference** Location: UMN Twin Cities, Date: Aug 21–22! Events: Talks, Posters, dinner + MN State Fair. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... -- Abstracts by June 15 // Register by Aug 1. Add to calendar: calendar.google.com/calendar/eve... #MidwestPopGen
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Midwest Population Genetics 2025 Registration
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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The preliminary program of ProbGen 2026, which will be held at UC Berkeley, is now up: probgen2026.github.io Sharing on behalf of Rasmus Nielsen who is not on this site. For more see his thread on that other site: x.com/ras_nielsen/...
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