Tom Davy
@TomDavy_
Functional Evolutionary Genomics PhD Student @TheCrick in @Pontus_Skoglund lab. Interested in hominins, proteins and classic Sci-Fi 🚀
As far as we have known, dogs could have originated from almost any corner of Eurasia. Emerging from Cambridge lockdown, at the #ISBA9 Future Fellows session today Anders Bergström will present a 'Newtonian' first genomic step towards pinpointing where the first dogs lived.
I have two postdoc positions available on our 'COREX: From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory' grant: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se… and: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se… Both working at the intersection of archaeology, ancient DNA, computational modelling and stats
Excited to share our new paper out in @ScienceAdvances!! We analyse new genetic data from >1300 people from West and Central Africa and Sudan, finding incredible diversity and signals of admixture across the continent. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. #ScienceAdvancesResearch thread>
To celebrate the 5th birthday of the Ancient Genomics Skoglund Lab 🧬 @TheCrick! Feat. the wonderful drawings by @petrathepostdoc showing all the amazing people in our lab and the range of disciplines involved 💀
I am thrilled that in 2023 I will start my lab @LeibnizFLI focused on exploring the biochemical crosstalk between host-microbiome during ageing🚨PhD and PostDoc positions are available soon! Please RT 🙏
Clara Correia-Melo @CorreiaMeloC will take over the leadership of a new junior research group on "#Microbiome and Metabolism" starting February 2023. We are very excited!😀Find out more👉cutt.ly/R1Oo7R7 @IMPULS_Jena @UKJ_Jena @profillinie #AgingResearch
First attempt at a poster presentation. Come & chat about British Neolithic/Bronze Age genetics and some really early Bell Beakers. #EESHuman (Matching shirt-poster colour combo not purposeful)
Come to my poster (No. 61) to learn about spaceNNtime, a method to predict where 🌍 and when ⏳ your 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 ancient samples lived #EESHuman
Our preprint looking at adaptive admixture through the Neolithic transition in Europe is out! Great collaboration with @mathiesoniain and Dan Ju. Looking forward to presenting this at Heidelberg next week! #EEShuman biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…
Finally out! Population dynamics and genetic connectivity in recent chimpanzee history - a paper that I was very happy to contribute to, with @ClaudiaFontsere, @DNApesBlog, @tmarquesbonet and many others. doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen…
Thought-provoking stuff from Tasmin O'Connell. David Clarke's stages of disciplinary development might also fit to genomics (particularly the 2nd->3rd stages), I'm reminded of this gem academic.oup.com/gbe/article/5/… #ISBA9
In our new paper, out today in @nature, we recovered genome-wide data from the oldest Upper Palaeolithic modern humans in Europe, who lived between 46,000 and 43,000 years ago in Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria: nature.com/articles/s4158…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… I genuinely can't tell if this is a shitpost, surely not, but it's published!? Not even sure where to begin. Figure 7 is particularly illuminating, however.
Big congrats to Anders Bergström, now in our group, and the Sanger team that led this study & new resource of 929 HQ modern genomes. Among the findings: simulated tree-like histories >200kya (thin lines) don't fit African genomes—more complex gene flow.
📰929 human genomes have been sequenced by scientists at the Crick, @sangerinstitute, @Cambridge_Uni and collaborators. The study forms the most comprehensive analysis of human genetic diversity to date, revealing rich genetic diversity. 🧬🧬 crick.ac.uk/news/2020-03-1…
We've offered our scientific resources & expertise to help the Government's fight against #coronavirus by increasing @PHE_uk's & @NHSuk's capacity to test for #covid19 300 of our researchers have volunteered to help scale up testing. More here ⬇️ crick.ac.uk/news/2020-03-1…