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Congratulations to our new professors, including UCL Genetics Institute's Prof Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social and Prof Maria Secrier @mariasecrier.bsky.social, on their appointments in recognition of contributions to research, education, innovation, leadership & public engagement 🎓

A great time had by all exploring the history of science, in UCL's 200th year, at the Genetics Evolution & Environment summer retreat.

Brilliant poster session at this year's departmental Genetics Evolution & Environment away day. Stay tuned to see our poster contributions from UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social.

Last UGI seminar of the academic year from Mengzi Chen presenting her #PhD work on inferring shared sources of admixture across populations, implemented in the tool SOURCEFINDMulti.

Congratulations to PhD Student Cameron Ferguson for winning the best presentation at the annual postgraduate research symposium for his talk on "The Genomic Landscape of Post-Black Death Epidemics in Northern Europe and the Caucasus".

Great UGI seminar from PhD student Bethany Quinton on "Dairy consumption, Parkinson's Disease and the LCT locus: hidden pitfalls in Multiomics and Mendelian Randomisation".

Cedric Tan summarising the body of work shaping his PhD on the Eco-evolutionary drivers of viral host-jumps. Wishing him luck in his viva in a few weeks! You can see some of Cedric's PhD work published here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fantastic seminar from UCL Genetics Institute PhD student Finley Grover-Thomas describing his ongoing work on mitonuclear evolution in human populations of Latin America.

We welcomed Professor Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social for our latest UGI seminar discussing genetic perspectives on population history and health of pre-Columbian populations in the South-Central Andes.

Wonderful UCL Genetics Institute away day at the @nhm.org. A chance to hear exciting research updates, discuss and debate. Thank you to all speakers and organisers.

Departmental seminar from UGI alumni Dr Liam Shaw who introduced his book 'Dangerous Miracle' 👉 tinyurl.com/2s6ft36d He discussed the history and science of antibiotics - from their production by microbes to their deployment by humans - and their effects on bacterial evolution.

This weeks seminar was from UGI's Garrett Hellenthal discussing his ongoing work on the genetic history of the Lemba.

Fantastic seminar from @deboraycb.bsky.social discussing some of the challenges and limitations of detecting balancing selection from genomic data and her ongoing work on developing a new ARG-based approach. See preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....

Interested in Research Career Development Fellowships with UCL Genetics Institute? Applications are now open for early career researchers who wish to apply for external #fellowships to establish an indepdent research group @ucllifesciences.bsky.social. Details here👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Great UCL Genetics Institute seminar from @hernanaburbano.bsky.social presenting his work on phage-derived weapons shaping trade-offs in plant-associated Pseudomonas populations. You can read more in this preprint from the Burbano lab 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....

A reminder that there is one week left to apply for our post (Professor / Assistant Professor) in Computational Genomics in Health and Disease here at UCL Genetics Institute (UGI) funded by the UCL @ucl.ac.uk Health Strategy. Details 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/....

A full house for @nancybird1.bsky.social UGI seminar marking the culmination of her many years of work at #UGI on human population genetics and the development of haplotype-based methods. Wishing Nancy all the best as she goes on to an exciting new senior post-doc position.

Great to welcome Niranjan Nagarajan @niranjantw.bsky.social from the National University of Singapore to UCL @ucl.ac.uk. His talk described work using genome-resolved metagenomics and #AI to tackle the global spread of #AMR.

Come join us! We are looking for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London. Details 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Post funded by UCL Health Strategy.

@ugiatucl.bsky.social PhD student George Adams from the MACE lab presenting his ongoing #PhD work on reconstructing the population dynamics of ancient European human populations using genetic and archaeological approaches.