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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Second- or third-year PhD student in biological or biomedical sciences? Get ready — applications for our #GilliamFellows Program open Sept. 1! Robust research support, incredible scientific community, & tailored professional development that can transform a PhD journey. 🧪 bit.ly/4bjdTmr

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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows

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Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI

The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.

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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Come join us at UCLA!!! We have a growing population genetics community here and Nandita and her lab are outstanding!

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Aida Andres @aidaandres.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Outstanding work by @dcsoto.bsky.social @jmuribescr.bsky.social @mydennis.bsky.social (and other collaborators) that massively advances identification of human gene duplicates, with links to important traits and our evolution. So happy to have contributed a bit to this fantastic paper.

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PacBio @pacbio.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Landmark study using #PacBio #HiFiSequencing reveals human-specific genetic variation not detectable with short reads. Researchers uncover new insights into brain evolution and potential links to cognition and autism. Read the full paper: bit.ly/3IxQtPR #BrainResearch

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Human-specific gene expansions contribute to brain evolution

A complete human genome and functional modeling in zebrafish pinpoint gene expansions that may underlie the evolutionary innovations of the human brain.

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José Uribe-Salazar @jmuribescr.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Thrilled to see this story out today! Such a fascinating topic with lots still to discover 🥳

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Daniela C. Soto @dcsoto.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Thrilled that our study on human gene duplications and brain evolution is out! It was a true labor of love, with special shout-outs to my co-first author @jmuribescr.bsky.social and my PhD mentor @mydennis.bsky.social. Huge thanks as well to @aidaandres.bsky.social for all the popgen wisdom!

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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Check out our latest work co-led by @dcsoto.bsky.social and @jmuribescr.bsky.social identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution 🧪: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...

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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Check out our new preprint describing CiFi - a method that couples 3C and PacBio HiFi sequencing with low input requirements. We apply it to human GM12878 to better characterize chromatin across repetitive regions, as well as single insect samples (a mosquito and a Mediterranean fruit fly).

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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The biggest congrats to former Dennis lab grad student Daniela Soto being named an HHMI Hanna Gray fellow!!! Soooooooo freaking proud and beyond-the-moon happy for her to have received this super well-deserved honor 🤩 www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-na...

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HHMI Names the 2024 Hanna Gray Fellows | HHMI

The cohort includes early career scientists working in research areas ranging from treatment-resistant cancers to how animals evolved to live on land. The HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program provides e...

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Daniela C. Soto @dcsoto.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Thank you for the shout-out @mydennis.bsky.social! It was truly amazing to collaborate with Harrison Ostridge and @aidaandres.bsky.social in this study characterizing structural variation in the GYP locus.

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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Thrilled to have been a part of this study led by @aidaandres.bsky.social that finds evidence of genetic adaptation in chimpanzees to different habitats. Most notably signatures of positive selection in chimpanzees underlie resistance to malaria in humans (GYPA and HBB).

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