Tessa Ferrari 🏳️‍🌈

PhD student in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics studying population genetics at the Mooney Lab at USC @Jazlyn_Mooney @qcb_usc 🧬👩🏻‍💻📊📚💅🌈

[Tessa Ferrari 🏳️‍🌈 @TessaFerrari]

Final version of our paper on scaling in SLiM now published in @GenomeBiolEvol !

We’ve added some new results comparing coalescence, linkage disequilibrium, and background selection in various scaled simulations. @Jazlyn_Mooney @Xinjun90

Read it here: https://t.co/4EmWI9wSFJ

[Tessa Ferrari 🏳️‍🌈 @TessaFerrari]

Happy to share this new preprint (my first ever!🥳) written with @Xinjun90 @Jazlyn_Mooney, which delves into the effects of scaling SLiM evolutionary simulations and offers best practices for mitigating scaling effects.

[Doc Edge @DocEdge85]

Please repost: My department (quantitative and computational biology at the University of Southern California) is hiring a teaching-track faculty member. The new hire will focus on teaching statistics courses to biology students. Apply by Dec 1 https://t.co/AxIvvQCGc4

[Genetics Society of America @GeneticsGSA]

Science is intertwined with eugenics, and eugenic ideologies continue to negatively impact #Indigenous communities and science today.

Read a timely and important perspective piece in #GENETICS from @Jazlyn_Mooney and colleagues: https://t.co/3TPLOD0iAd

[Jazlyn Mooney, PhD @Jazlyn_Mooney]

Excited to say our pre-print is out now in @CellCellPress
https://t.co/SC0IEdRDpZ
Maria added some great analyses to better understand if SNPs from heterospecific genomes map in the conspecific reference. Scariest part was when some of them completely disappeared 🥴

[Graham Coop @Graham_Coop]

Herasight, named after the goddess who threw her disabled child off a mountain, seems focused on public outreach using embryo selection for IQ to win over far rightwing pseuds & techbros

[Xinjun Zhang @Xinjun90]

Very glad this paper is finally out!

[Jazlyn Mooney, PhD @Jazlyn_Mooney]

Really happy this one is finally out! Tessa worked super hard to get it across the finish line. Please read if you are thinking about how to or if you should scale your sims.

[Genetics Society of America @GeneticsGSA]

In a new #GENETICS research, @Dandan_Peng, Mulder, and @DocEdge85 evaluate the performance of several ancestral recombination graph (ARG) estimation methods used for determining the historical time course of a population-mean polygenic score.

Read more: https://t.co/DRbtcDCm7q

[Janis Liu @janisl98]

My paper about type I error rates in Qst/Fst comparisons is now published in @GeneticsGSA. Check it out here: https://t.co/oDjSlNbac7

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Supplementary figure 16

[Tessa Ferrari 🏳️‍🌈 @TessaFerrari]

Received an Honorable Mention for my NSF GRFP proposal! It was very competitive year due to funding (< half the usual number of awards) so I’m very happy for an HM. Thanks to my mentors @Jazlyn_Mooney Arun Durvasula & @Xinjun90 for their support & LORs!
Congrats to the awardees🎉

[Alex Strudwick Young @AlexTISYoung]

This seems massively overhyped. "Creating the dire wolves called for making just 20 edits in 14 genes in the common gray wolf." In other words, it's not a dire wolf - it's a gray wolf modified to be more like a dire wolf. That's a cool achievement but they have not 'brought the dire wolf back' sorry.

[Andrew Kern @pastramimachine]

Good news SLiM fans-- if you are developing in SLiM and like to use vscode, I've just released a beta version of a vscode extension that deals specifically with SLiM/Eidos:

https://t.co/utSk2RBmHE

[Genetics Society of America @GeneticsGSA]

In #GENETICS, @RoshniAPatel, @spence_jeffrey_, @jkpritch, and colleagues explored the use of conditional frequency spectra to study selection on complex traits that circumvent some of the limitations of #GWAS.

From our new Biobanks Series, read more: https://t.co/97EUXY9z1g

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked President Trump's executive order that sought to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. https://t.co/rSQUHGjARa

[Andrew Kern @pastramimachine]

https://t.co/ogt2SPAa9D

[Katie Solari @kasolari]

VERY excited to have this work out at Molecular Ecology Resources today - Next-Generation Snow Leopard Population Assessment Tool: Multiplex-PCR SNP Panel for Individual Identification From Faeces https://t.co/nZPITRb1Ia @PetrovADmitri @_ellie_cat @AhmadIcup68 @nawazma_SL

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

Divergent reference genomes compromise the reconstruction of demographic histories, selection scans, and population genetic summary ... https://t.co/P6OIQ0g1RO #biorxiv_evobio

[Jazlyn Mooney, PhD @Jazlyn_Mooney]

For folks still here, the first big project from my group is pre-printed. Super talented postdoc @mariaakop explored how reference bias can skew estimates of diversity, demography, divergence and recombination rate with help from @_ellie_cat and @GMenchev. Thread 👇🏽

[Maria Akopyan @mariaakop]

1/7 🧬 New Preprint Alert: Our study highlights the risks of using divergent reference genomes in population genomics. The choice of reference genome can skew key inferences about demography, diversity, and selection. Read on for insights! https://t.co/lzxeYthiJN