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Joana L. Rocha

@joanocha.bsky.social
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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 :) rocha-lab-nyu.github.io

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We are thrilled to share that our GPN-Star manuscript is now published and freely available: doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/n)
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Predicting genome-wide functional constraints with GPN-Star - Nature
GPN-Star, a genomic language model with a phylogeny-aware architecture for whole-genome alignment data, is shown to be a scalable and flexible tool for genetic variant effect prediction across species...
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Joana L. Rocha @joanocha.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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! :)
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Joana L. Rocha @joanocha.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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...
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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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Joana L. Rocha @joanocha.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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/
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Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
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Lucie Etienne @lucievirevolte.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
📖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...
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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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Joana L. Rocha @joanocha.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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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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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
PEQG website live! genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/
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Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference
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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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)
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Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Very much looking forward to teaching our second edition of the Latin American biodiversity genomics course, this time in Argentina.
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Joana L. Rocha @joanocha.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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! 🧬🗽 🦊
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Carolina Adam @adamcarol.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
So happy to share this paper! It's been so much fun working on this project with these amazing collaborators.
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Joana L. Rocha @joanocha.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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!
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Joana L. Rocha @joanocha.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Masterpiece
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Joana L. Rocha @joanocha.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/06/c...
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The Charming Doodles Charles Darwin’s Children Left All Over the Manuscript of ‘On the Origin of Species’
From fish with legs to carrot cavalries, an endearing testament to the human life of science.
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