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Jess Peers

@jesspeers.bsky.social
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PhD student applying machine learning to conservation-priority and domesticated mammal genomes 🐆🐕🧬💻 (she/her) @earlhaminst.bsky.social @nrpdtp.bsky.social

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
For #ME/CFS, genomics assessed in >15,000 indviduals with 8 genomic loci identified. "Validation of ME/CFS as a biomedical condition and an important corrective to psychologizing ‘all in the mind’ perspectives on the disease” www.science.org/content/arti... www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publicati...
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Possible genetic clues to ME/chronic fatigue syndrome identified in massive study
DNA analysis of more than 15,500 people with the debilitating condition identifies eight tentative “genetic signals”
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Jess Peers @jesspeers.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Norwich folk - come see me talking about cheetahs in a pub on 20th May (a standard evening out for me…) 🐆🧬🍺 @pintofscience.uk pintofscience.co.uk/event/ais-fi...
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AI's Fight to Save Lives and Species
AI is quickly advancing, but is it fast enough to help save lives and species? From using Big Bio Data to crack cancer, to machine learning for conserving …
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Jess Peers @jesspeers.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Excited to share the first publication from my PhD!! We identify premature termination codons specific to the cheetah in genes associated with male fertility and immunity 🐆🧬 @earlhaminst.bsky.social @whaerty.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Gene pseudogenization in fertility-associated genes in cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), a species with long-term low effective population size
Abstract. We are witnessing an ongoing global biodiversity crisis, and an increasing number of mammalian populations are at risk of decline. Species that h
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whaerty.bsky.social @whaerty.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Congratulations to @jesspeers.bsky.social, her paper on pseudogeneization in cheetah is now published in Evolution. academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Gene pseudogenization in fertility-associated genes in cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), a species with long-term low effective population size
Abstract. We are witnessing an ongoing global biodiversity crisis, and an increasing number of mammalian populations are at risk of decline. Species that h
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whaerty.bsky.social @whaerty.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Congratulations @jesspeers.bsky.social, what a week - awesome conference in the middle of cheetahs and the paper accepted!
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Jess Peers @jesspeers.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
just had the news that my cheetah paper was accepted in Evolution whilst I’m in Namibia surrounded by cheetahs, cheetah experts and conservation geneticists! eeek!!
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