2023
September
- Jazep's first-author manuscript "Simulation-based Benchmarking of Ancient Haplotype Inference for Detecting Population Structure" is now available on bioRxiv.
- Dave's and Fernando's joint first-author study "The MUC19 gene in Denisovans, Neanderthals, and Modern Humans: An Evolutionary History of Recurrent Introgression and Natural Selection" is now on bioRxiv.
- Mayra attended the HHMI Gilliam fellows conference and presented her work on archaic segment classification. You can access the electronic poster here.
August
- A new manuscript "Pharmacogenetic variation in Neanderthals and Denisovans and implications for human health and response to medications" is now available on bioRxiv.
- Elsie's manuscript "Integrating sex-bias into studies of archaic introgression on chromosome X" is now published in PLOS Genetics.
May
- Kelsey's manuscript "The impact of modern admixture on archaic human ancestry in human populations" is now available in GBE.
- Emilia's collaboration studying the "Demographic history and genetic structure in pre-Hispanic Central Mexico" with Villa-Islas et al. is now available in Science.
April
- Valeria was awarded a Young Investigator Travel award to present at SMBE 2023 in Ferrara.
- Mayra was awarded a graduate Travel award to present at SMBE 2023 in Ferrara.
- Kelsey's AABA talk won the AAAG best postdoc talk.
- Marco's research abstract was selected for an oral presentation at the ISBA 2023 Meeting.
- Marco's first-authored manuscript "The multifaceted genomic history of Ashaninka from Amazonian Peru" was published in Current Biology.
March
- Kelsey has accepted a position at Clemson. We are sad to see you go but are so excited to see what you will do next!
- Brian Kirz will be going to the University of Rochester to pursue a PhD in Biology.
- Mia has been awarded an NSF fellowship for her postdoc at the lab.
January
- Mayra passed her qualifying exam.
2022
December
- Linda’s and Marco's symposium proposal to the SMBE 2023 conference has been accepted.
- Dave’s first-authored manuscript “The Utility of Ancestral and Derived Allele Sharing for Genome-Wide Inferences of Introgression” is now available on bioRxiv.
October
- Alyssa successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations!
- The Huerta-Sanchez lab had its first lab retreat!
- Mayra was nominated by Brown's graduate school for a Gilliam Fellowship.
- Dave’s co-authored manuscript with the PopSim Consortium “Expanding the stdpopsim species catalog, and lessons learned for realistic genome simulations” is now available on bioRxiv.
September
- Mayra's first-author manuscript "Associations between forensic loci and expression levels of neighboring genes may compromise medical privacy" was published in PNAS.
June
- Dave presented his poster “Leveraging Ancestral and Derived Allele Sharing to Infer the Admixture Proportion” at the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference in Pacific Grove, CA.
April
- Mayra was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP).
May
- Dave passed his qualifying exam.
- Dave is elected as President of Brown's EEOB Graduate Student Association.
January
- Dave’s produced his first podcast with the Genetics Society of America.
Listen to it here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5cXLhACgiWOeMT7JFsDFtT?si=3515848d82dd4f58