Carl Veller

Unifying statistical #genetics & #phylogenetics. @jgschraiber @DocEdge85 & @mwpen show that the distinct ways of mapping phenotypes while controlling for ancestry in these two fields are actually special cases of the same general approach #PLOSBiology plos.io/4eZvKiv

Excited to share our latest preprint on the impact of background selection on complex trait evolution. It’s amazing to finally see one of the major projects from my PhD journey come to life. Huge thanks to @JeremyJBerg and @jnovembre for their guidance and support.

1/ The cost of health care has been in the news a lot lately. Since 2021, all hospitals have been required to publicly post the (previously secret) negotiated prices charged to each insurer. Back then, @YunanJi and I tried collecting these data for all US hospitals...

I don't use this platform much anymore, but I'm happy to share our work on sexual selection and the genomics of speciation in barn swallows. Thanks for reading and sharing, if of interest! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Check us out! #ASHG24

#ASHG24 make your way to today’s Novembre lab posters 3015 (label free reference matching, @LukeAnderTroc) 3016 (rare variant discovery, @maggiecsteiner ) and 4041 (impacts of multigeneration shared environments, @mkiravn) to see some great science!

I am looking for a postdoc to work in theoretical population genetics. We focus on theory and methods for inferring demographic histories and selection using modern and ancient genomic data. Come join our amazing community in Chicago. More info here: steinrueckenlab.uchicago.edu/files/2024/11/…

Thrilled to share that in spring 2025 I'll be joining the Dept. of Biology at Loyola University Chicago as an Assistant Professor! Invertebrate evolution, genomics, phylogenies, gastropods/mollusks, marine biogeography, and more… here we go! #newPI

I'm recruiting students / postdocs to join my new lab at the University of Rochester for Fall 2025 onwards! If you're interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, genome evolution, and/or computational biology, please get in touch! More info: mhibbins.github.io

The UC Davis Center for Population Biology postdoctoral fellowship is now being advertised. This is a great opportunity to come join our wonderful community of Evolution & Ecology here at Davis. Please RT cpb.ucdavis.edu/cpb-postdoc-fe…

Come join us! UChicago Human Genetics has an open broad computational faculty search (with an emphasis on probabilistic machine learning). First round of application review will begin ~October 15th. apply.interfolio.com/149891 EOE/Vet/Disability.

Original thread here: x.com/Graham_Coop/st…

Paper with @carl_veller & @molly_przew now out Causal interpretations of family GWAS in the presence of heterogeneous effects pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

3 recent papers attribute evolutionary observations from diverse contexts to stabilizing selection. Not often popgen converges :) 1) mutation + recombination biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. 2) Neanderthal ancestry biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 3) sex chr stability biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now out early online in Genetics (@GeneticsGSA): academic.oup.com/genetics/advan…

1/ A thread about mutation and recombination in vertebrates and what we learned by studying three-generation pedigrees of zebra finches. Take home: the remarkable similarities between birds and mammals in many properties of these fundamental processes.

When we look at these chromosome-specific average genetic values, we see a much more exciting picture! Specifically, we see random chromosome-specific drift, resulting in a great deal of variance across chromosomes 9/