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We are very excited to share our latest. We thought that soft sweeps would be the only type of sweep spreading across human gut microbiomes. Turns out many are hard! Reach @peterlaurin.bsky.social 's thread on why! And tomorrow at #SMBE2026 I will share this work and more!

UCLA is so lucky to have this amazing course by @clsong.com !

Our paper entitled "The persistence and loss of hard selective sweeps amid admixture in ancient Eurasians" is now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1.... A really fun and informative collaboration with @mharris.bsky.social, Ziyi Mo and Adam Siepel. (1/n)

The persistence and loss of hard selective sweeps amid admixture in ancient Eurasians | PNASThe extent to which human adaptations have persisted throughout history despite strong eroding demographic events such as admixture, genetic drift,...www.pnas.org

I am excited to share our latest paper, Uniform bacterial genetic diversity along the gut, now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/n)

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I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.

Grateful to share our paper on gene-specific selective sweeps in human gut microbiomes, now out in Nature! It has been a joy to work with @rwolff.bsky.social, whose insights and hard work made this possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gene-specific selective sweeps are pervasive across human gut microbiomes - NatureDevelopment and application of the integrated linkage disequilibrium score (iLDS) reveals both selective pressures impacting the human gut microbiome and the mechanisms by which gut bacteria adapt to ...www.nature.com

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

So excited to see @alisonfeder.bsky.social among the winners of the freeman hrabowski award!! www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMIFreeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.www.hhmi.org

We are thrilled to share that our paper entitled "Inference of the demographic histories and selective effects of human gut commensal microbiota over the course of human history" is officially out in MBE! academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

Inference of the demographic histories and selective effects of human gut commensal microbiota over the course of human historyAbstract. Despite the importance of gut commensal microbiota to human health, there is little knowledge about their evolutionary histories, including theiracademic.oup.com

UCLA QCBIO is looking for its next director! Please consider applying! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10007

Director, Institute for Quantitative and Computational BiosciencesUniversity of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!recruit.apo.ucla.edu

Apply to work with Katherine! A fantastic opportunity!

Delighted to share that our paper on discovering selective sweeps with haplotype statistics in aDNA is now out in Nat. Comm! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Wonderful collaboration with Vagheesh Narasimhan, Devansh Pandey, and @mharris.bsky.social

Leveraging ancient DNA to uncover signals of natural selection in Europe lost due to admixture or drift - Nature CommunicationsLarge-scale ancient DNA (aDNA) studies offer the chance to examine genomic changes over time, providing direct insights into human evolution. Here the authors use aDNA from 708 European samples to ide...www.nature.com

Job alert! We are searching for a faculty member to join us @UCLAEEB in the area of Conservation Genomics. I have had very positive experiences here at UCLA and would be happy to chat with you if you are interested! Please apply and be my colleague! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09875

Conservation Genomics Faculty PositionUniversity of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!recruit.apo.ucla.edu

The UCLA Goodman-Luskin Endowed Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbiome Research ($100K in salary + supplies) deadline is June 1. Get in touch if you would like to write a proposal together! And, get in touch even if your timeline is different - I am looking for a postdoc!

Really proud of this work with Richard Wolff on detecting selective sweeps that have spread across host microbiomes. I leave for you an animation we made featuring the highlights of our paper. Ricky has done a great job sharing some highlights of the paper below. garud.eeb.ucla.edu/pervasive-se...

We are delighted to share our work on “Inference of the demographic histories and selective effects of human gut commensal microbiota over the course of human history”! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Please check out the full tweet thread and GIF here: twitter.com/nanditagarud...

I am looking for a graduate student and a postdoc to join my group! We are a computational group working on understanding evolution in natural populations with a large emphasis on the microbiome. Please get in touch by dm or email! garud.eeb.ucla.edu