Assistant professor of Biology at University of Virginia. Evolutionary biologist. Genomics of speciation in snakes and birds. He/him. #neat

Charlottesville, VA
Joined March 2016
Happening tomorrow (9/11/24)! Join us and ask all your questions about @uvabio 💙🧡🪰🪱🐀🦠🧫🧬
Interested in the @uvabio PhD program? We're hosting a webinar on 9/11/2024 at 3PM EST. We'd love to see you there!
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Interested in the @uvabio PhD program? We're hosting a webinar on 9/11/2024 at 3PM EST. We'd love to see you there!
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Please share: 2 openings in my lab @ CU Boulder-postdoc and PhD student-leverage/develop cutting-edge quantitative tools to discover ecological consequences of animal decision-making in the face of environmental change gillab.org/join
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I’m recruiting! Looking for 1-2 MS students to join my lab in the Department of Ecology at Montana State University and work on questions related to conservation and population genomics in birds. Thanks for spreading the word—details here: evol.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evol…
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If you are at #JMIH23 and looking for your next academic position, come chat. I'm hiring another postdoc to work on @NSF-funded polyploid salamander genomics/evolution. $55k/year, 3 years, teaching opportunities built in. Ad: marian.peopleadmin.com/posti… 2023 lab portrait:
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Hi #Evol2023! The Kasimatis lab will be joining @uvabio in January 2024. I’m recruiting grad students, a postdoc, and a lab tech. If you’re interested in the evolutionary genomics of sexual conflict, please come chat with me!
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New (mini) episode out now! We share some personal updates (including BIG news from Drew), highlight some albums we've been enjoying lately, and shout out our growing base of listeners around the world! soundtrackstoscience.buzzspr…
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TWO FULLY FUNDED POSTDOC POSITIONS AVAILABLE. We're looking for people to help us work on #Epigenetics, #StructuralVariants, #Speciation, #Hybridization and #Migration! Click here: delmorelab.com/recruitment. #postdoc #jobopening #genomics #bioinformatics
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Episode 6: Welcome Dr. @RD_Denton! We chat with Rob about his research on amazing unisexual salamanders, his passion for teaching, and how science, teaching, and parenting influence his music listening habits! 🧬🐸🎸 soundtrackstoscience.buzzspr…
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NGenomeSyn: an easy-to-use and flexible tool for publication-ready visualization of syntenic relationships across multiple genomes academic.oup.com/bioinformat…
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It's been online since last year, but happy 2 announce recent publication in @FrontiersIn focused on illuminating the #squamate #MHC! Many thanks to co-authors Andrew Van Camp, Trent Santonastaso, Mike Jensen-Seaman, Nicola Anthony, & @ScottVEdwards1. doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.9… 1/12
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tskit can make fancy 3D plots for your talks!
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Episode 5: Welcome Dr. @Buzzzworm1! Cara is an expert in all things snake venom. She is also an expert curator of playlists, and we dive into her eclectic musical tastes in the second half of the episode. 🐍🏥🎧
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For our last episode of the year, we highlighted our favorite albums of 2022. Find the episode at the link in our bio or in your favorite podcast app! Thanks to everyone that has listened so far. Stay tuned for more discussions of science and music in 2023!
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Like hearing about cool science? Finding new music? Then check out Soundtracks to Science, a new podcast where we talk to scientists about the science and music that they love! 1/5
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The Rattlesnake W Chromosome: A GC-Rich Retroelement Refugium with Retained Gene Function Across Ancient Evolutionary Strata buff.ly/3SUGKCM
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Ever wondered how a sex chromosome dosage compensation mechanism evolves de novo? Transposon wave remodelled the epigenomic landscape in the rapid evolution of a novel X chromosome dosage compensation mechanism. Absolutely beautiful work by @david_metzger biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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You do not want to miss this! @drschield will be talking about venom adaptation in rattlesnakes and sexual selection in barn swallows TODAY 3:30 Mountain Time, for our departmental seminar. See flyer for Zoom info!
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In this paper we provide a new Bayesian method for estimating admixture graphs that can quantify estimation uncertainty. 1/4https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.06.506725v1
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