2025
September
  • Congratulations to Léo for accepting a position as Assistant Professor!
  • We welcome Martina Gulì into the Irish branch of the lab!
  • Lots of new preprints and papers published, check them out here! Congratulations to Dave, Valeria Léo, Marco, Linda, Emily, and Xavier!
July
  • Emilia is now a Full Professor! One of the few cases where removing words from a title actually makes it more important!
  • Madza Farias-Virgens' paper "The genomics of the domestication syndrome in a songbird model species" has been published in Communications Biology.
  • Linda and Emilia have published a review on Denisovan Introgression in Nature Genetics.
  • Linda Ongaro has been awarded the Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship!
  • Valeria and Jazeps are going to China to present their work at SMBE25!
2024
October
  • The Huerta-Sánchez lab celebrates its retreat, visiting Cornell for research updates, lab member trivia, and Emilia's talk for the Department of Computational Biology's seminar: "Archaic and Modern Humans: An Evolutionary History of Introgression and Natural Selection"
July
  • The CCMB announces Emilia Huerta-Sanchez as the new Director!
  • SMBE24 was a success! With talks from Emilia, Mia, Emily, Valeria, Marco and Jazeps; as well as a poster from Dave
  • The hard work from Emily, Linda, and Marco paid off for the great SMBE satellite meeting on Ancient DNA Beyond Allele Frequencies. David, Léo, and Jazeps gave talks!
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.
​July
  • Emilia is one of the keynote speakers at SMBE 2023.​
  • The Huerta-Sanchez lab at SMBE in Ferrara, Italy.

  • Mayra has been selected as a 2023 HHMI Gilliam fellow.
  • Eugenia was awarded an undergraduate BrownConnect SPRINT|UTRA fellowship to conduct research in the lab.
May
​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. 
February
  • Emilia is on sabbatical with Dr. Rohlfs in LIIGH in Queretaro, Mexico.
​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.
July
  • Dave was selected as as co-chair of the Genetics Society of America’s Early Carreer Leaderhsip Program (link)
  • Dave was selected to serve on the Genetics Society of America’s Early Career Scientist Steering Committee (link).
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
2021
March
January
  • Kelsey's paper is now out on PNAS!
  • David Peede was accepted to be a part of the Genetics Society of America's Early Career Leadership Program!
  • Fernando Villanea has started his faculty position at UC Boulder!
2020
October
  • Xinjun's preprint is now out on BioRXiv!
September
  • David Peede and Mayra Banuelos joined our lab as PhD. students!
August
July
June
  • Welcome RP to Huerta-Sanchez lab! 
May
  • David Peede is selected as a speaker at the GSA’s Early Career Scientists Seminar Series in December.
  • David Peede's publication is out in Evolution.
  • Congratulations to Fernando Villanea for being accepted faculty position at CU Boulder!
April
March
  • David Peede and Mayra Banuelos are joining Brown EEB and Huerta-Sanchez Lab. Welcome!
  • ​David Peede is selected to participate in the Workshop on Molecular Evolution at the University of Chicago’s Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.
  • ​Mayra Banuelos is awarded Brown Graduate School Diversity Fellowship!
  • Fernando Villanea is accepted podium presentation at the 89th annual meeting of the AAPA.
February
January
  • Congratulations! Matute, et al. is out in Genetics. 
  • Mayra Banuelos is selected for poster presentation at TAGC
2019
December
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