Tom Davy

Functional Evolutionary Genomics PhD Student @TheCrick in @Pontus_Skoglund lab. Interested in hominins, proteins and classic Sci-Fi 🚀

[Mark Thomas @mt_genes]

I have two postdoc positions available on our 'COREX: From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory' grant:
https://t.co/pm5CPnnPQr
and:
https://t.co/ApO3B5QFou
Both working at the intersection of archaeology, ancient DNA, computational modelling and stats

[Nancy Bird @nancybird_]

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. https://t.co/ziB8JTtFNm. #ScienceAdvancesResearch thread>

[Tom Davy @TomDavy_]

(This paper also features the debut of my patented Casino Plot ™️ - the shadows were definitely not needed but I feel they add a certain je ne sais qui...)

Link to Cuadros-Espinoza et al: see figure 5C! https://t.co/PSoSE5K4hF

[Tom Davy @TomDavy_]

Officially out, our work trying to delineate and understand selection happening during admixture in Neolithic Europe. We find that admixed Neolithic populations inherit more hunter-gatherer ancestry at the MHC region than expected by chance.

https://t.co/V4UnQStHvF

[Tom Davy @TomDavy_]

Arguably this signal of positive selection is the first step in a more protracted act of balancing selection over time, but that still has to start somewhere!

And a big thanks to our collaborators @DanJu808 and @mathiesoniain for their help throughout this paper!

[Frankie Tait @tait_frankie]

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 💀

[Clara Correia-Melo @CorreiaMeloC]

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 🙏

[Nikola Vuković @nikolavvukovic]

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)

[Moisès Coll Macià @MoiCollMacia]

Come to my poster (No. 61) to learn about spaceNNtime, a method to predict where 🌍 and when ⏳ your 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 ancient samples lived #EESHuman

[Tom Davy @TomDavy_]

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

https://t.co/Fr2L3hnag3

[Martin Kuhlwilm @MKuhlwilm]

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. https://t.co/Ghroriv3ki

[Pontus Skoglund @pontus_skoglund]

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.

[Tom Davy @TomDavy_]

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 https://t.co/5AbjIuWyQK #ISBA9

[Mateja Hajdinjak @MatejaHajdi]

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: https://t.co/5ZNj4aIuL6

[Tom Davy @TomDavy_]

https://t.co/xHOcZGuR4t 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.

[Tom Davy @TomDavy_]

I've never felt so mocked by the BBC weather update

[Pontus Skoglund @pontus_skoglund]

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. https://t.co/fYakGsTZng

[The Francis Crick Institute @TheCrick]

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 ⬇️

https://t.co/XQ6TLoD8f9