Miles Roberts

he/him | MSU Genomics PhD candidate | Council of Graduate Students | Currently brainstorming a new term to end with "omics"

[Miles Roberts @MilesDaRoberts]

Super exited to share the second chapter of my dissertation with the world! TLDR; when we revisit Lewontin’s Paradox of Variation in plants with k-mers cool things happen (1/19) 🧵👀

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

Previously unmeasured genetic diversity explains part of Lewontin's paradox in a k-mer-based meta-analysis of 112 plant species https://t.co/eFaWF1oVIM #biorxiv_evobio

[Rob Waterhouse also @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social @rmwaterhouse]

Nucleotide diversity 🧬 and k-mer-based metrics of genetic diversity across 112 plant 🌱 species, amounting to over 205 terabases of DNA sequencing data from 27,488 individuals https://t.co/Gw5YTPM7Ai #biodiversity #genomics

[Dan Schrider @SamurSciCop]

Our paper on using inferred tree sequences for accurate pop gen inference (by training neural nets on tree seqs *inferred* from simulated data) is now published in MBE: https://t.co/eIktFfNvGh

Orig rambling thread on preprint below:

[Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @reject_resubmit]

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:

https://t.co/YqAB88jbEA

[Kara Dobson @karacdobson]

Breaking my social media hiatus to promote mine and @moriahyoung's new paper!! We look at how warming & herbivory interact to affect multiple plant traits, and we point to the need for more long-term studies that include abiotic and biotic stressors 🌱 https://t.co/yZdKXpVDUI

[Polly Hsu Lab @PollyHsuLab]

My lab has 2 postdoc positions funded by #NIH and #NSF to study novel ORFs and translational regulation in Arabidopsis and crops. Please retweet. https://t.co/9KO6PSp1ZJ

[Acer VanWallendael @acer_aceae]

Check out our new preprint! We show genetic loci assoc. w/adaptation to rust pops, and rethink reciprocal transplants for studying parasite local adaptation.
Local adaptation of both plant and pathogen: an arms-race compromise in switchgass rust https://t.co/oy4HtEbusL

[Miles Roberts @MilesDaRoberts]

@vsbuffalo I’ve run snakemake workflows on azure (Microsoft’s competitor to AWS) using kubernetes. I imagine AWS has a similar service, but you could theoretically just spin up a small vm and run snakemake on any cloud platform

https://t.co/tUQfc3rIdE

[Sunil K. Kenchanmane Raju | ಸುನಿಲ್ ಕೆಂಚನಮನೆ ರಾಜು @Sunil_KumarKR]

🌱 Happy to share one more paper from my time @SchnableLab with the dream collaborative team @szintri & @Rebecca_Roston!
Rhythmicity in lipid responses to chilling stress in panicoid grasses & Arabidopsis is now online @JXBot
https://t.co/x8zsCe6hFN
#Plant #StressResilience

[Miles Roberts @MilesDaRoberts]

So cool!!!

Towards an unbiased characterization of genetic polymorphism https://t.co/TrURLSrJq7

[Miles Roberts @MilesDaRoberts]

@wbmei Thank you, Wenbin! Really enjoyed my internship with you at Inari!

[Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra]

People. There is software to calculate π correctly (including invariant sites). https://t.co/ftHSJPZ54b
https://t.co/L82x05r5sy

If you insist on using vcftools, please consider this equally accurate but substantial speedup I found online:

[Miles Roberts @MilesDaRoberts]

If this work interests you, I am looking for post-doctoral opportunities. I'm looking to graduate Spring 2025 and I'm happy to collaborate on writing a postdoctoral fellowship application. You can read the first chapter of my dissertation here: (19/19)
https://t.co/tzfdMmV3NA

[Miles Roberts @MilesDaRoberts]

Super exited to share the second chapter of my dissertation with the world! TLDR; when we revisit Lewontin’s Paradox of Variation in plants with k-mers cool things happen (1/19) 🧵👀

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

Previously unmeasured genetic diversity explains part of Lewontin's paradox in a k-mer-based meta-analysis of 112 plant species https://t.co/eFaWF1oVIM #biorxiv_evobio

[Miles Roberts @MilesDaRoberts]

I feel like this thread is getting long, so I'm gonna stop here, but there are lots of details in the preprint. I welcome any feedback people have on this work. I am super excited to have this project released out into the world!😁(18/19)