Débora Brandt
@deboraycb
Bióloga do IB @usponline, IB @berkeleyIB e agora @uclbiosciences | Evolutionary genetics | 🇧🇷
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Here is a detailed thread about SINGER (thanks @yun_s_song for putting it together!). I will keep improving SINGER and developing new ARG inference/applications methods. Feedbacks/critiques are welcome, and they can be incorporated into our future works!
We are delighted to share our work on a robust, accurate method for sampling genome-wide genealogies (aka ARGs) from the full posterior distribution. This is a product of years of hard work by @YunDeng5, who is jointly advised by @ras_nielsen and me. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… 1/n
Proud to see that G3 Genes, Genomes, Genetics has selected a photo from our article for the cover of the April issue this year!
Happy to see this work from my PhD finally published! I hope this small contribution can inform future studies that benefit the Atahualpa population, and perhaps more studies on local adaptations to diet in other populations as well.
Signatures of natural selection may indicate a genetic basis for the beneficial effects of oily fish intake in indigenous people from coastal Ecuador academic.oup.com/g3journal/arti…
Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 @NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov
Travel awards for ECRs from low economy countries to support attendance at the European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB) in 2025, the ESEB congress in Barcelona, Spain, or the Evolution 2025 meeting in Athens, Georgia, USA Apply: ow.ly/fByi50TIKbc
Bonobos, endangered great apes that are among our closest relatives, might be more vulnerable than previously understood, finds a genetics study led by Prof @AidaAndres @UGI_at_UCL @uclbiosciences that reveals three distinct populations #biodiversity ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/oct/…
ICYMI: We've been back to see how the beavers of west London are improving the local landscape for residents. bbc.in/4bFi1fI
Two new preprints from my group today---this one was led by @Dandan_Peng with an assist from Obadiah Mulder. Dandan benchmarked a bunch of leading ARG-estimation methods with respect to a specific goal (1/n)
Evaluating ARG-estimation methods in the context of estimating population-mean polygenic score histories biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genetic
Dandan also did general benchmarking in the vein of @deboraycb's recent work, adding some new methods that have been introduced since their paper (8/8)
📢 Nocturnal primates enter the museomics era! Excited to share my latest research paper, with co-authors @marye_blair, Hsiao-Lei Lui, @epeters_Rdch, @LoganKistler and @PozziLab! Read it here: rdcu.be/dJmjm 🧵 [1/8]
I also urge you never to use SciHub, whose purpose is to serve science, and instead continue to willingly embrace the scam that is commercial academic publishing, whose primary purpose is to maximise profit for private companies.
Don't use Sci-Hub — it's a "controversial" website with 84M+ research papers freely available. We should try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer. Here's an updated thread on integrating Sci-Hub with Zotero to get free papers. Please don't do this😉
Another opportunity to submit an abstract to SMBE2024!
📢 Exciting news for #SMBE24 attendees! We're extending the deadline for late-breaking poster submissions until April 9th! Don't miss your chance to showcase your latest research. Submit now through the website smbe2024registration.org/abstracts and be part of #SMBE2024
Super excited about this new method by @YunDeng5.
Robust and Accurate Bayesian Inference of Genome-Wide Genealogies for Large Samples dlvr.it/T4B7pX
Surfing trees!!! 🏄♀️🌊🌳 I really enjoyed writing this perspective with @dortega_delv @CharlestonCWKC @christiandhuber. We talk about the promises of using the ARG for evolutionary inferences. Abstract in Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese in the supplement doi.org/10.1093/gbe/ev…
Very nice to see this work out w/ some of my closest colleagues! To reach broader audience and improve accessibility, not only is @GenomeBiolEvol open access, we also translated the abstract to Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish! Here's the Chinese version (I had lots of help!!)
Our perspective piece "The Promise of Inferring the Past Using the Ancestral Recombination Graph (ARG)" is out. Work with @deboraycb, @christiandhuber and @CharlestonCWKC : academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16…
Our perspective piece "The Promise of Inferring the Past Using the Ancestral Recombination Graph (ARG)" is out. Work with @deboraycb, @christiandhuber and @CharlestonCWKC : academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16…