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Sina Majidian

@sinamajidian.bsky.social
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Hiring PhDs/Postdocs CGRLab.github.io | Assistant Professor, Data Science and AI division, Chalmers & University of Gothenburg| SciLifeLab | Formerly at JHU-Langmead, UNIL-Dessimoz, WUR

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Signup link, new home on the community website, and new email list for those who don’t live on slack all coming soon. In the meantime, schedule and zoom link still here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Roland Faure @rfaure.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(Thread) New Logan preprint 🥳 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...! We sketched all the metagenomes of Logan1.0 and released the sketches. These sketches allow quick content comparison with any/all metagenomes of Logan. Cool applications in the paper and hopefully many others we did not foresee yet 😀
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Sishuo Wang @sishuowang.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
exciting math phylo workshop at VIASM in Hanoi from Nov 2 to 6: the website had a bug in the recent a few days. This has now been fixed. Registration free but mandatory before Oct 25. viasm.edu.vn/hdkh/Mathema... Qs can be asked to organizers Olivier Gascuel, Minh Bui, Anh Dang
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Mini-Course: Mathematical Phylogenetics-Viện nghiên cứu cao cấp về toán
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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another possible topic is that I am looking to hire: -- a senior scientist and --1-2 postdocs Looking for a strong publication record in at least one of: functional genomics/single cell work/computational methods/statgen/popgen.
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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sketching the SRA: experiment-wide similarity search across 4.8 million metagenomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Jarno N. Alanko @jnalanko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
github.com/openai/math/... 2-approximation for the shortest common superstring! Better than greedy!!
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math/preprints/A-Polynomial-Time-2-Approximation-for-Shortest-Common-Superstring-September-24-2026/paper.pdf at main · openai/math
Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Kipoi @kipoizoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Join us for our next Kipoi Seminar with Wout Bittremieux, Adrem Data Lab, University of Antwerp @uantwerpen.be 👉 Artificial intelligence for molecular discovery to illuminate the dark proteome 🧬https://kipoi.org/seminar 🦋 @kipoizoo.bsky.social 📅 7th Octover 5:30pm CET/CEST
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jakobheinz.bsky.social @jakobheinz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m excited to share our new preprint introducing HipHap, a tool for assigning long reads to haplotype-resolved diploid reference assemblies! With Max Marin, Matthew Meyerson, and @lh3lh3.bsky.social Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵 1/6
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HipHap: Haplotype Assignment and Confidence Scoring for Diploid Reference Genomes
Diploid genome assemblies are now routinely available, but most read aligners were designed for haploid references, which have long been the gold standard. When reads are aligned to a diploid assembly...
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Ben Langmead @benlangmead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Have you been thinking of submitting an abstract to Genome Informatics UK this year? You still have time! The deadline is October 5. We'll see you there. coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/genome...
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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) @snsf.ch · 30/09/2026
The SNSF will continue its successful funding from 2029 to 2032. With three key priorities, it is strengthening research that is collaborative, bold and forward-looking. It has requested 5.4 billion Swiss francs from the federal government. ➡️ sohub.io/tn9c
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Research for the Switzerland of tomorrow
The SNSF will continue its successful funding from 2029 to 2032, strengthening research that is collaborative, bold and forward-looking.
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Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hi Rob @robp.bsky.social, please take a look at this thread on CORE ranking for RECOMB.
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Christophe Dessimoz @dessimoz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ISMB is ranked A in CORE largely thanks to @yannponty.bsky.social ‘s tireless efforts. I believe ECCB could/should also be ranked A considering the scientific committee’s qualifications, acceptance rate etc. But it takes a lot of work to do the advocacy….
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Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm surprised to see ECCB is ranked C in the CORE ranking! Good for ISMB, which is ranked A. No ranking for ACM-BCB! portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/?...
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Human Pangenome Reference Consortium @humanpangenome.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Shredtools is making it easier to explore regions across a pangenome by quickly finding matching genomic regions across hundreds of genomes. The tool can identify a gene region across 476 human genomes in approximately half a second.  Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Navigating the pangenome coordinate system with Shredtools
Existing notions of pangenome coordinates rely on hard-to-compute multiple sequence alignments. On the other hand, pangenome-wide exact unique matches (multi-MUMs) can be computed efficiently, and rep...
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Antoine Limasset @npmalfoy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yet another example of "So much to do, so little time"
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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A little late on this, but finally got around to reading this review on genome assembly. Found it both comprehensive and accessible. Made it recommended reading for members of the lab and the genomics grad students I am teaching. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Genome assembly in the telomere-to-telomere era - Nature Reviews Genetics
In this Review, Li and Durbin discuss how to generate telomere-to-telomere assemblies for large haploid or diploid genomes using currently available data types and algorithms, and outline remaining ch...
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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I hate to do this with real data, but this is a persistent data vis issue in chromosome synteny riparian plots that we Need to get better at. Left, a synteny plot published today. Right, a rearranged version with exactly the same gross arrangement but with reordered chromosomes:
chromosome synteny riparian plot in which every chromosome has crossing lineschromosome synteny plot in which no chromosomes have crossing lines. The underlying structure is identical.
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Dr. Makenzie Mabry @makenziemabryphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📢 Call for abstracts! PAG 34 is coming to San Diego JAN 8–12 2027! 🧬🌱 We’re organizing five interconnected sessions: • Domestication Genomics • Ancient DNA • Comparative Genomics – Animals • One Health Hologenomics • Wildlife Genomics Submit your abstract by *October 9*: forms.gle/EgwFCVyxaf7R...
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PAG 2027 Abstract Submission: Ancient DNA, Domestication Genomics, Comparative Genomics of Animals, Wildlife Genomics, One Health Hologenomics
****DEADLINE: FRIDAY OCTOBER 9, 2026**** This is the abstract submission form for the following PAG 34 workshops: Paleogenomics and Degraded DNA Domestication Genomics Comparative Genomics of Animals...
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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Folks - if you're interested in how machine learning/AI can be used for microbial genomics, microbiome and metagenomics studies - please join us for a workshop in Birmingham on Thursday 8th October organised with CLIMB & NVIDIA. www.climb.ac.uk/blog/2026/09...
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Call for Applications: GPU-Accelerated Computing for Microbiome and Metagenomic Research · CLIMB
CLIMB is a cloud computing infrastructure for microbial bioinformatics — notebook servers, shared storage and reproducible workflows for genomics, metagenomics and pathogen surveillance researchers ac...
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Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
RSHash: a fast and space-efficient hash table for k-mers doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
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Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers
Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.
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Johannes Cairns @jcairns.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New pre-print out where we used machine learning to predict multi-strain bacterial growth curves from components. More than two strains improved prediction only a little, suggesting a weak role for higher-order interactions in this system: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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How far can microbial monocultures predict growth in multi-strain communities?
Previous research in microbes successfully predicted biculture growth based on monoculture growth curves. Still, the usual model-based approach does not seem to extend to communities involving more th...
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Johannes Cairns @jcairns.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy that our article found a nice outlet in ISME J @isme-microbes.bsky.social. Advance article now available at: academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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Eco-evolutionary dynamics and environmental detoxification jointly shape bacterial community response to antibiotic perturbation
Abstract. Microbial communities frequently encounter recurrent antibiotic disturbance, yet how ecological, evolutionary, and environmental processes jointl
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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 17/09/2026
My department is hiring an Assistant Professor! Come join us at @ucsandiego.bsky.social Computer Science & Engineering! Beautiful city, awesome colleagues, delicious tacos 😄 apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04649
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Assistant Professor - CSE
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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Rowan Kuminski @rowankuminski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
⚠️Please share!⚠️ We are recruiting participants to complete a written interview for a PhD chapter on linguistic experiences of ecologists from Catalonia. Participants do not need to currently reside in Catalonia and can participate in Catalan, Spanish, and/or English. Thank you! 🪶🕷️🌲🐡🍄 #ecology
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Janani Durairaj (Jay) @ninjani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The PhD and Postdoc application links are now live! Come join me at UNIL to work on deep learning for protein structure, interactions & design. pickybinders.org#open-positions
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Career Opportunities: PhD student position in deep learning for enzyme structure & catalysis (22980)
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Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Forecasting viral evolution from phylogenetic trees doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.27.741102
Overview of data, training, and evaluation for antiGen.
(A) The goal of antiGen is to predict future mutations to viral proteins based on available genomic surveillance data at present. Mutation forecasts can be applied towards proactive vaccine and antibody design, potentially avoiding future outbreaks. (B) antiGen is a machine learning method trained on pandemic-scale phylogenetic trees annotated with inferred mutations along each branch. These mutation-annotated trees are partitioned into training and testing examples, each consisting of a past genotype together with the set of substitutions to have altered that genotype. antiGen then learns the probability of each possible mutation being the next to emerge, conditional on the starting sequence, using a likelihood-based training objective. (C) We evaluate antiGen several ways: its ability to predict the next mutation(s) to affect a given query sequence, to forecast which mutations will occur in future population-wide genomic surveillance data, and to propose mutations that remain compatible with pseudovirus infectivity in experimental validation. (D) We use antiGen to study the evolution of four key viral proteins: the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (PDB 6X79), the influenza hemagglutinin protein (PDB 2YP2), the respiratory syncytial virus fusion protein (PDB 5TDL), and the dengue virus envelope protein (PDB 4UTC).Figure 2
State-of-the-art performance for SARS-CoV-2 mutation forecasting.
(A) Definition of next-mutation recall for a single testing example; overall recall is then calculated by averaging the recall across all testing examples. (B, C) Next-mutation-recall-by-quantile curves based on all mutations and de novo mutations (mutations never seen in training data), respectively. antiGen is shown together with the best-performing model from each of the following three categories: DMS experiments, models that train on genomic surveillance data up through the train-test cutoff, and pre-pandemic data alone. (D, E)
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RECOMB Conference Series @recombconf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#RECOMB2027 is now accepting submissions and we'd love to see your best work! 📌 Abstract registration: October 28 📌 Full paper submission: November 4 📜More info: recomb.org/recomb2027/c...
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Call for Papers
RECOMB 2027
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 14/09/2026
The SciLifeLab PULSE entrepreneurial model: accelerating drug discovery by bridging academia and industry - @scilifelab.se www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The SciLifeLab PULSE entrepreneurial model: accelerating drug discovery by bridging academia and industry - Nature Biotechnology
A scalable blueprint for postdoctoral training embeds entrepreneurial venture mechanics and industry mobility directly into academic infrastructure to cultivate ‘T-shaped’ scientific leaders.
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mitotalks.bsky.social @mitotalks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Are you working on mitochondria-related topics? We want to hear from you. MITOchat slots open for applications. Apply here: mitotalks.org Deadline: September 17th, 2026 We want to see the MITOscoence of the future again! Image
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MITO talks online seminar series | mitochondria
MITOtalks: Online Seminar Series Focusing on Mitochondria
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UCSC Genome Browser @genomebrowser.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New on hg38: Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) scores, all 8.8 billion possible single-base changes. It scores non-coding DNA too, flagging things like the TERT promoter mutations common in cancer. See our news for more: bit.ly/GenomeBrowser...
AVI scores at the TERT locus on hg38, one subtrack per alternate allele. Scores stay high across the highlighted promoter, shown in red as EH38E3622530, and fall to background either side. The two promoter mutations most often seen in cancer sit inside it, beyond the end of every TERT transcript.
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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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Alex Cope, PhD (he/him) @alexcope241.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If anyone is looking for a postdoc/staff scientist with experience in evolutionary genetics, computational biology/bioinformatics, and/or various omics methods (RNA-seq, Ribo-seq, LC-MS/MS), I'm still looking! (1) doi.org/10.1126/scie... (2) doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (3) doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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ISCB News @iscb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🧭 The September ISCB Career Compass is out! We have two featured jobs to check out, a list of what's leaving the Career Center this month, and an article sharing a few things to consider if you’re prepping for an industry interview. Read the full newsletter here: tinyurl.com/yk3dt6vf
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Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @kevinkaichuang.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A fast method for building phylogenetic trees with millions of sequences and then a model that leverages the tree structure to predict viral protein evolution! @seyonec.bsky.social @claudiadriscoll.bsky.social @garykbrixi.bsky.social @brianhie.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Maria Sachkova @mariasachkova.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Lecturer in Bioinformatics job at University of Bristol! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Jessica Abbott @jessicakabbott.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Are you a mathematical modeller in ecology and evolution looking for a job? My department has an opening! Please spread the word! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology
Lund University welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. Gender equality, equal opportunities and diversity are fundamental principles in all parts of the University’s activit
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Open Athena @openathena.ai · 02/09/2026
With the generous support of The Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation, we have launched the largest live-streamed pretraining run in history, and Marin’s largest model yet: a fully open source 535B total parameter MoE model, with 18T tokens of data. Learn more at: openathena.ai/blog/huang-f...
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Marin's 535 billion parameter model training run launched with support of The Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation GPU gift
Open Athena announces the launch of Marin's largest training run yet—a 535B parameter large language model—with a generous gift of compute from The Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation.
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Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congratulations to all the ECCB 2026 Awardees! #ECCB2026
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Hamed Najafabadi: GHT-Selex: in vitro profiling of TF binding, on genomic fragments instead of synthetic DNA -> allow analysis of genomic information. Results very similar to ChIPseq, with extra info on binding affinity from enrichment cycles. #ECCB2026 doi.org/10.1038/s41592-026-03177-9
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GHT-SELEX demonstrates unexpectedly high intrinsic sequence specificity and complex DNA binding of many human transcription factors - Nature Methods
GHT-SELEX—high-throughput SELEX with fragmented genomic DNA—shows that transcription factors can be rather particular about which genomic loci they bind, and that C2H2 zinc finger proteins often engage different fingers at different sites.
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Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social is sharing her scientific journey to a full house at #ECCB2026, from the challenges of being a young PI to the success of BLAST2GO and much more on long read
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Kristoffer Sahlin @ksahlin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
strobealign v0.18.0 is out, and it's now written in Rust. Handwritten by Marcel, started 2y ago. No LLM involved (yet*). Contributions by Nicolas and Ivan. 1/3
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Release Version 0.18.0 · ksahlin/strobealign
Changes Strobealign has been ported to Rust. The Rust version is at least as fast and accurate as the C++ version. There are currently some regressions due to the port: The Rust version cannot sat...
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OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) @oistedu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Faculty Positions Open! OIST is now inviting applications for tenure-track assistant professor positions in two broad areas: - Chemistry & Materials Science - Life Sciences & Neuroscience Learn more and apply by October 1st: www.oist.jp/careers/facu... #FacultySearch
Open Faculty Positions at OIST
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
#ECCB2026 keynote: Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas Different subspecies of Treponemal pallidum are responsible for 4 diseases: syphilis, bejel, yaws and pinta. Paleopathology shows some pre-Colombian evidence of syphilis in the Old World, but it is very uncertain and the conclusions are debated.
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Torsten Schwede @torstenschwede.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Don’t wait for somebody else to solve the problem, don’t wait for somebody else to make the case for science.” Jeremy Farrar (WHO) opening keynote “Science in a changing world” at #ECCB2026 on the power of science beyond politics 🧬
Jeremy Farrar WHO opening keynote at ECCB “Science in a changing world”.
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
Timofey Prodanov: Locityper calls haplotypes if they are already known to exist (i.e., human genome) doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02362-4 #ECCB2026
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Locityper enables targeted genotyping of complex polymorphic genes - Nature Genetics
Locityper is a general-purpose genotyper that can efficiently genotype and analyze a diverse set of genes, such as hyperpolymorphic HLA genes, using both short-read and long-read whole-genome sequencing data.
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Silvia Prieto @silviaprietob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Come visit my poster G.54 if you are at #eccb2026 ! 😃 #synteny #GO #animals #genes
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Torsten Schwede @torstenschwede.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Looking forward to three days full of exciting science and inspiring conversations. #ECCB2026
ECCB 2026 is hosted by SIB in Geneva
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Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It was a great pleasure to co-organise the 9th edition of the Quest for Orthologs consortium event in Lausanne. We had fantastic speakers and great discussions! qfo2026.unil.ch We'll also meet you in ECCB's workshop on orthology on Thursday! #genevalovesdata #eccb2026 #bioinformatics
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Janani Durairaj (Jay) @ninjani.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Some exciting news: I'm joining the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social @dbc-unil.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor next month 🎉 My group will work on context-aware deep learning for protein structure, interaction & design. Postdoc and PhD openings coming soon - keep an eye out!
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