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Melissa Wilson

@sexchrlab.bsky.social
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Geneticist. Parent. Studying sex chromosomes and sex as a biological variable in disease. Posts and opinions are my own.

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
@nicolr.bsky.social @nvitto.bsky.social @grgong.bsky.social @sexchrlab.bsky.social Xiaomeng Mao Julian Rodriguez Algaba Marte Sodeland Thomas Bøggild Kateryna Makova @martynazwoinska.bsky.social Sophie Smith
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Talks by: Nicole Valenzuela Sophie Karrenberg @clwatkins.bsky.social Suhaas Sehgal Michail Rovatsos Michael White Paul Waters Lorena Layana Liliana M. Davalos John Pannell @idarolti.bsky.social @lucija-andjel.bsky.social Ben Evans Paul Sanders @amdioncote.bsky.social @melanyhenot.bsky.social
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
#SMBE2026 S09: New frontiers in sex evolution: evolutionary patterns and innovations 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 10:20am - Part 1 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 1:20pm - Part 2 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme
SMBE2026 | New frontiers in sex evolution: evolutionary patterns and innovations
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Incredible visit to the butterfly house at Brookside Gardens this weekend with my kiddos and some lovely friends.
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Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Happy to announce the alpha release of the SCINKD3! SCINKD3 is an extension of SCINKD streamlines the use of WGS data from multiple individuals to identify sex chromosomes. In testing, its shown to be robust in many cases with as few as 4 individuals. github.com/DrPintoThe2n...
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GitHub - DrPintoThe2nd/SCINKD3: development repo of SCINKD (v3)
development repo of SCINKD (v3). Contribute to DrPintoThe2nd/SCINKD3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
@drpintothe2nd.bsky.social et al. present SCINKD as a framework to identify unannotated sex chromosomes and curate diploid genome assemblies from a single individual. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag067 #evobio #molbio #compbio
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Sex chromosome identification and genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
Abstract. In most animal species, the sex-determining pathway is typically initiated by the presence/absence of a primary genetic cue at a critical point d
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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Authors on Bluesky: @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social @drsimonegable.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @sexchrlab.bsky.social
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Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Happy to announce two-fold news! 1) The SCINKD paper is now published in @molbioevol.bsky.social - doi.org/10.1093/molb... 2) SCINKD [v2.2.4] release has reduced runtimes (about 2x) and the revitalized mode for genomes >5Gb is now live and tested on genomes up to 21Gb! 🐸 github.com/DrPintoThe2n...
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Sex chromosome identification and genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
Abstract. In most animal species, the sex-determining pathway is typically initiated by the presence/absence of a primary genetic cue at a critical point d
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Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This work would not be possible without support from many folks, @drsimonegable.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @sexchrlab.bsky.social and many others!! 🙏🏻 🙏🏻
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a cartoon of a man talking on a telephone .
Alt: Professor Farnsworth (Futurama) says "Good news, everyone!"
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The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Learn more in this interview w/ @sexchrlab.bsky.social
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ASU professor outlines importance of including sex chromosomes in genetic screenings | ASU News
If a doctor wants to assess a patient’s risk for getting a whole range of diseases, from cystic fibrosis to cancer, they have the incredible ability to do so by looking at the patient’s unique set of ...
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The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
🧬 New today! 📄Best practices for improving alignment and variant calling on human sex chromosomes 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @sexchrlab.bsky.social @angela-oill.bsky.social & co
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Best practices for improving alignment and variant calling on human sex chromosomes
Aligning and calling variants in a way that accounts for the sex chromosome complement of the sample will reduce false-positive variants and increase true-positive variants on the X and Y chromosomes.
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Patrick R. Secor @prsecor.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University. www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/ Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky
This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program is funded by the National Science Foundation to create "points of entry" for students interested in research. Students apply from across the country to spend 10 weeks in Bozeman, Montana this summer (May 26, 2026 - August 1, 2026). Admitted students are paired with a faculty mentor, who serves as an advisor for a student's summer project. Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided.

Our program leverages MSU’s unique microbiology expertise, focusing specifically on microbes living with little or no oxygen (like those in the hot springs of nearby Yellowstone). Low oxygen microbes are essential to human and ecosystem health. They influence (or control) such processes as the breakdown of food in the GI tract, removal of toxins from our bodies and the environment, and production of greenhouse gases. They are also models for understanding the origins of life on this planet, and the potential for life on other planets.

A key goal of our program is to recruit students from schools with limited research infrastructure. Being in Montana, a state with a vibrant Native American community, we are particularly interested in applications from students at tribal colleges. However, ANYONE with an interest in microbiology - or biology/science in general - can and should apply.

If willing and able, please share/tweet/spread the word far and wide. Applications are due February 14, 2026. Full details can be found through our website http://www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/
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soumitrakp.bsky.social @soumitrakp.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
(3/5) What we found: X-chromosome regulation spans a spectrum across cell types. Some cells show lower activity, some are well balanced, and others show higher-than-expected activity. Not a simple on/off switch.
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P. David Polly @pdpolly.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
New genome for the Bermudian land snail, with Stevie Winingear, Anne Stone, @sexchrlab.bsky.social, Gerardo Garcia, and Mark Outerbridge academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...
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Genome report: de novo genome assembly of the greater Bermuda land snail, Poecilozonites bermudensis (Mollusca: Gastropoda), confirms ancestral genome duplication
Abstract. Poecilozonites bermudensis, the greater Bermuda land snail, is a critically endangered species and 1 of only 2 extant members in its genus. These
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Edda Schulz @eddaschulz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
📣 SAVE THE DATE Next X-inactivation meeting in Sapporo, Japan, 19-23 October 2026. Visit x-inactivation-meeting.org to join our mailing list. 🧬 speakers @dandergassen.bsky.social @marnieblewitt.bsky.social @heard65.bsky.social @crougeulle.bsky.social @sexchrlab.bsky.social @zhouqi1982.bsky.social
Poster advertising the 6th X-inactivation meeting from Oct 19-23 2026 in Sapporo, Japan. The organizers are Asato Kuriowa, Edda Schulz, Ikuhiro Okamoto, Rafael Galupa, Takashi Sado, Mitinori Saitou.
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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
With a nice feature in ASU news! news.asu.edu/20250918-sci...
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Scientists discover genetic adaptations can help those living in dry climates | ASU News
A team of international scientists has uncovered key genetic adaptations underlying survival in hot and dry environments, revealing how natural selection may have enabled some pastoralist populations ...
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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya
The Turkana pastoralists of Kenya inhabit arid, water-limited environments and rely largely on livestock for subsistence. Working with Turkana communities, we sequenced 367 whole genomes and identifie...
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Up now!! Characterizing the impacts of menopause stage, sex hormones, and sex chromosomes on brain aging and disease Alex DeCasien, Ph.D. @coevolvinglab.bsky.social
Characterizing the impacts of menopause stage, sex hormones, and sex chromosomes on brain aging and disease
Alex DeCasien, Ph.D.
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Galaxy Project @galaxyproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
after a long effort, gathering a lot of input from many people, we finaly put it all together: Ten Common Misconceptions About Galaxy (and Why They Are Wrong!) www.preprints.org/manuscript/202509… Thank you very much to all people involved !
overview
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Our collaborative project led by @coevolvinglab.bsky.social who assembled an incredible team including @bogglerapture.bsky.social, Mark Cookson, Xylena Reed & Stefano Marenco Characterizing the impacts of menopause stage, sex hormones, and sex chromosomes on brain aging and disease. #Research
CHARACTERIZING THE IMPACTS OF MENOPAUSE STAGE, SEX HORMONES, AND SEX CHROMOSOMES ON BRAIN AGING AND DISEASE
Alex R. DeCasien (NIA), Melissa Wilson (NHGRI), Stefano Marenco (NIMH), Xylena Reed (CARD), Armin Raznahan (NIMH), Mark Cookson (NIA)
Abstract: Biological sex influences risk for neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs), with Alzheimer's disease occurring more often in females and Parkinson's disease occurring more often in males.
Here, we propose to investigate how hormonal fluctuations (associated with menopause and andropause) and sex chromosome dynamics shape both sex differences and within-sex variability in brain aging and NDD risk. We will generate new blood-based endocrine measures and integrate these data with existing intramural and published single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) datasets from various brain regions to examine how menopause stage, sex hormone concentrations, and sex chromosome loss contribute brain aging in specific brain cell types. By sampling males and females across the reproductive aging period - including the menopause transition - this work can illuminate how hormonal fluctuations due to reproductive aging contribute to changes in brain gene expression in ways that may impact susceptibility to NDDs. Our findings will enhance our understanding of how sex-related mechanisms and aging interact to influence brain health, potentially revealing novel therapeutic targets for NDDs.
MPIs (L-R, Top-Bottom]: Alex R. DeCasien (NIA), Melissa Wilson (NHGRI), Stefano Marenco (NIMH), Xylena Reed
(NIA), Armin Raznahan (NIMH), Mark Cookson (NIA)
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
So excited to be in person and about to watch my collaborator @coevolvinglab.bsky.social present soon on our newly funded collaborative research. ORWH Intramural innovation awards in women’s midlife health 2025 NIH Research Festival September 10, 2025, 10 - 11 AM ET #Research #Aging
Welcome by Elizabeth Barr to the Office of Research on Women’s Health Innovation Awards presentation ORWH INTRAMURAL
INNOVATION AWARDS IN WOMEN'S MIDLIFE HEALTH:
ABSTRACT BOOK
2025 NIH Research Festival
September 10, 2025, 10 - 11 AM ET
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Remote talk at Northern Arizona University today with so many student questions!
Selfie of a scientist with brown hair, purple glasses, smiling, before giving a remote presentation
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
More about the AnVIL Community Conference: anvilproject.org/events/anvil... #AnVILCommunity2025
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AnVIL Community Conference 2025 - AnVIL Portal
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Excited to see you all at #AnVILCommunity2025
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
On my way to Nashville for the AnVIL meeting. See you all soon!
Selfie of brunette woman with unicorn purple glasses, a mask, and red scarf on a flight
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Christine Beck @christinebeck.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This was both fun and terrifying to tape! Awesome to talk with @glennislogsdon.bsky.social and @aphillippy.bsky.social about our sequencing data / paper, the improvements to large-scale sequencing projects, and what this means for our understanding of our DNA!
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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Complete genomes alert! @glennislogsdon.bsky.social, @christinebeck.bsky.social, and I were on @scifri.bsky.social today talking about "Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes" 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📻 www.sciencefriday.com/segments/65-...
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65 Genomes Expand Our Picture Of Human Genetics
Researchers closely examined the genomes of 65 individuals to paint a more complex, and more complete, picture of human genetic diversity.
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
In 1951, Harry S. Truman laid the cornerstone of the NIH clinical center, stating, "Research to prevent disease" was a better investment for federal dollars than "providing unlimited hospitalization to treat it."
Photo of president Harry S. Truman laying the cornerstone of the NIH clinical center. President Harry S. Truman laid the cornerstone in 1951, saying of the Clinical Center's future work: "Medical care is for the people and not just for the doctors and the rich." He mentioned that 75 million Americans then without health insurance would soon become a "medically indigent class" and he challenged the scientific community to "translate the new knowledge gained by research into better care for more people." "Research to prevent disease" was a better investment for federal dollars than "providing unlimited hospitalization to treat it."
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Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Big S/O to other folks who generated and shared their high-quality data with us (some published, some not) to help develop our understanding of the tool and framework. They truly made this work possible! Folks like @tododge.bsky.social @lngray.bsky.social @scarey.bsky.social, to name just a few 🙏🏼🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🧬
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Winingear and Dr. Siford @rebeccasiford.bsky.social who both successfully defended their dissertations this summer! Primarily advised by Dr. Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social. I was lucky to co-advise on some pieces. Super cool work and tremendous effort by both!
Opening dissertation defense slide for Stevie Winingear: Interdisciplinary Genomics Research in Life and Social Sciences Opening slide for Rebecca Siford's dissertation defense: Evaluating Community Receptions and Ethical Considerations in Genomics Research in Small Scale Northern Kenyan Populations
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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Link to job description flyer can be found here: tinyurl.com/s3kd7abr #EndlessFishMostBeautiful
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🚨Preprint🚨 Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
Graphical overview of the biological foundations of the proposed approach. Application of SCINKD to identify XY chromosomes in the Christmas island skinkApplication of SCINKD to identify previously unannotated sex chromosomes in the Lesser electric ray.
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
So excited to be part of a group that was awarded an Intramural Innovation Proposal: orwh.od.nih.gov/in-the-spotl...
Characterizing the impacts of menopause stage, sex hormones, and sex chromosomes on brain aging and disease

Principal Investigators: Melissa Wilson (NHGRI), Stephano Maraceno (NIMH), Alex R. DeCasien (NIA), Xylena Reed (NIA), Armin Raznahan (NIMH), Mark Cookson (NIA)

Abstract: Biological sex influences risk for neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs), with Alzheimer’s disease occurring more often in females and Parkinson’s disease occurring more often in males. Here, we propose to investigate how hormonal fluctuations (associated with menopause and andropause) and sex chromosome dynamics shape both sex differences and within-sex variability in brain aging and NDD risk. We will generate new blood-based endocrine measures and integrate these data with existing intramural and published single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) datasets from various brain regions to examine how menopause stage, sex hormone concentrations, and sex chromosome loss contribute to brain aging in specific brain cell types. By sampling males and females across the reproductive aging period—including the menopause transition—this work can illuminate how hormonal fluctuations due to reproductive aging contribute to changes in brain gene expression in ways that may impact susceptibility to NDDs. Our findings will enhance our understanding of how sex-related mechanisms and aging interact to influence brain health, potentially revealing novel therapeutic targets for NDDs.
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Mission To seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. As written on the wall of the NIH Gateway Visitor center.
NIH Mission

To seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. 

Written on the wall of the NIH Gateway Visitor center.
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
So excited to talk (remotely) at UC Riverside tonight as the student-nominates speaker. It means so much to be selected by the students.
Selfie of brunette with glasses at a desk in front of a laptop.
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Gila monsters! One of the rare venomous reptiles. A peptide in their saliva/venom, exendin-4, is the basis of GLP-1 agonists, like semaglutide, to regulate insulin. We developed the first draft sequence of the Gila monster genome and are working on updating this now with newer technology.
Dr. Melissa Wilson, wearing a black shirt with a Gila monster on it and purplish glasses, holding a replica of a Gila monster skull and smiling.
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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Today @marioapata.bsky.social successfully defended his dissertation! (Co-chairs @sexchrlab.bsky.social and me). Mario's science is complemented by his beautiful illustrations (which I poorly tried to imitate in icing form for the cake!). Congratulations Dr. Apata!!!
Anne Stone and Mario Apata smiling and admiring his cake (which features DNA, teeth, cell culture and an Andean woman in icing form to reflect his dissertation on Ancient DNA and the microbiome in communities from Northern Chile along with functional analyses of regulatory mutations influencing arsenic tolerance in these people.
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Congratulations Dr. Mario Apata @marioapata.bsky.social! Dr. Apata successfully defended his dissertation today on work w/ ancient DNA, the microbiome, and functional genomics of arsenic tolerance, co-advised by Dr. Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social and myself, collaborating w/ Dr. Jeanne Wilson-Rawls
Mario presenting a snapshot of his research to the Center for Evolution and Medicine. Mario and me standing together, smiling, at the SMBE conference in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. A lab lunch with current and former lab members at Engrained Cafe at Arizona State University.
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Our work looking at the effects of using autosomal assumptions for calling variation on X and Y. We used simulated data to compare to a ground truth. Tldr: Accurate ploidy is important for reducing false positives; appropriate alignment reduces false negatives. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Best practices for improving alignment and variant calling on human sex chromosomes
Sex chromosome complement is the largest karyotypic variation observed in humans. X and Y chromosomes were once a pair of homologous autosomes. Although chromosome X and Y differentiated from one anot...
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Eternally thankful for the good fortune to have such welcoming and generous neighbors, like our next door neighbor who the kids always talk to through the fence and who yesterday invited us to harvest some of her beautiful lettuce. ❤️
Raised garden bed with three kinds of lettuce, a small green lettuce in front, red leafed lettuce in the middle and large leaf lettuce in the back.
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Aaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is sponsoring the Rising Stars in Genetics and Genomics symposium! - We are seeking nominations bu June 1. - September 18-19, 2025 - Please share with the star postdocs that you know. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
In December I accepted a position as a senior investigator at the NIH in the National Human Genome Research Institute & Center for Genomics and Data Science Research. Bringing the party in the desert to Maryland. We are hiring postdocs & postbacs! Please reach out :)
Smiling woman with brown hair, black jacket, green purse with a green baseball hat with a Gila monster on it, standing in front of a cherry tree covered in pink blossoms.
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I would like everyone to know that I did not freak out (much) when this spider crawled out of nowhere on the inside of my windshield while driving the kids home last night. Instead I told the kids about the spider, and at a stoplight took this photo then gently guided it out an open window #Adulting
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Are you a microbiologist looking to move to Alaska? There is an opening for a microbiologist in a clinical lab in Bethel. Only requires a BS. Please share with your networks, they really need to hire someone ASAP. phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/ca... #AlaskaSky #Microjobs 🧪🦠🔬
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Hiring BS Microbiologist, Laboratory - Bethel
View job details and apply now
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Reviewing trainee abstracts this lovely Saturday night and really (as always) so very excited by such cool work everyone is doing.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
the version of record (VoR) of our most recent paper has been published @elife.bsky.social! 🎉🥳 🧪 elifesciences.org/articles/102...
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The conserved ATPase PCH-2 controls the number and distribution of crossovers by antagonizing their formation in Caenorhabditis elegans
By regulating the chromosome axis component and meiotic HORMAD, HIM-3, the conserved AAA-ATPase PCH-2 controls the number and distribution of meiotic recombination events.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 15/02/2025
Really pleased with this mitosis watercolor. Analog #sciart ftw
Grid of images of phases of mitosis in different shades of blue
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Super excited to see that this work @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social and I collaborated on with some super smart people at NIST for the Genome in a Bottle Benchmarking project is out! A benchmark for X and Y chromosome small variants! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Small variant benchmark from a complete assembly of X and Y chromosomes - Nature Communications
The paper describes a Genome in a Bottle benchmark for the X and Y chromosomes enabled by complete chromosome assemblies. This benchmark enables users to evaluate small variant accuracy in challenging...
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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Why was @sexchrlab.bsky.social in snowy Bethesda today? Big news coming later this month! Stay tuned… 🧬
A group of NHRGI scientists having coffee together in a cafe
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Testing out the wagon set up for our next airport trip (with two little kids and two cats).
Black wagon with two car seats and two cat carriers in it. And purple bungee cords across holding it all down.
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