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Alber Aqil

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Postdoc in Joshua Akey's lab @ Princeton

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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France
I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…
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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please help spread the word! We are recruiting multiple Postdoctoral Fellows as part of the recently launched Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative (BCBI) at UC Berkeley and UCSF. BCBI website: bcbi.berkeley.edu Apply by Nov 1, 2026: berkeley.infoready4.com#freeformComp... (1/n)
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Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative | Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
HIRING MICROBIOLOGIST: effective start asap! The PDRA/PDRF (per xp) will investigate the interactions of bumblebee antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with the gut microbiota & more. Our work has shown AMPs have striking specificity for ecological microbes. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/13... 1/2
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Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter
View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow This job is part of an Advanced Research + Inventio...
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777
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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on an NSF-funded project developing new models of trait evolution for phylogenetic comparative methods! Info about the lab here: mhibbins.github.io Applications to our grad program are due December 1. Please share!
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Hibbins Lab
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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Must-know numbers in human genetics -- As many of you know, I'm writing a free online textbook in human genetics. In this blog post I cover a key skill for genome scientists from that book: how to use mental math to figure out key genome properties. jkpritchard.substack.com/p/on-fermi-p...
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On Fermi Problems in Human Genetics
and some very useful numbers about human genomes to get you started!
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Gokcumen Lab @gokcumenlab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Typeset version of new paper out in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social. Link: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... We identified segmental duplications in genomes from 117 vertebrate species (thanks to @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social ). We describe the properties and evolution of segmental duplications.
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Genomes From 117 Vertebrate Species Reveal Rapidly Evolving Segmental-Duplication Landscapes
Abstract. Segmental duplications are major drivers of evolutionary innovation; yet, their dynamics across vertebrates remain poorly understood. Here, we id
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American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) @geneticssociety.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
False positives abound in trans-eQTL discovery. The authors of @ajhgnews.bsky.social's latest article develop a method to identify the mapping artifacts that produce spurious results: www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-92… #ASHG @gokcumenlab.bsky.social #HumanGenetics
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Dr. Valentina Alaasam @vale-alaasam.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I am looking for PhD students and postdocs to join my lab at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2027. Anyone excited about urban evolution, hummingbirds, & community engagement, please reach out! And/or find me at #AOS2026 this week! More info here: www.valentina-alaasam.com
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Michael Totty @mictott.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Full-length single-cell spatial transcriptomics reveals spatial and cell-type-specific transcript isoforms in the primate brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Full-length single-cell spatial transcriptomics reveals spatial and cell-type-specific transcript isoforms in the primate brain - Nature Methods
Fullscope-seq combines a spatial transcriptomics approach (Stereo-seq) with long-read sequencing. The approach provides isoform information at single-cell resolution across a large field of view, as d...
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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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Alber Aqil @alberaqil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Happy to see this project from the twilight months of my PhD out: authors.elsevier.com/c/1nWChgeXHnOF
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The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🧬 New from Aqil et al! 📄 Mismapping of sequencing reads from polymorphic duplications generates spurious trans-eQTLs
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Mismapping of sequencing reads from polymorphic duplications generates spurious trans-eQTLs
Polymorphic gene duplications absent from the reference genome can generate spurious trans-eQTLs. Specifically, variants tagging the polymorphic duplicate may masquerade as trans-eQTLs regulating the ...
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