She/her | Asst Professor of Biological Anthropology @UMich | hair, melanin, genetics

Joined November 2019
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1/8 🧵 Fresh off the press! 📰 Our paper “Human scalp hair as a thermoregulatory adaptation” just got published in PNAS. 🎉 Here’s the summary in a thread…
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Excited to share our pre-print "The multi-scale complexity of human genetic variation beyond continental groups" biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… Global Genomic Network Communities browser: sohail-lab.shinyapps.io/GG-N… Github: github.com/mariajpalma/GG-NC… See🧵thread by lead author @MaxolotlMad

I am proud to share our latest paper📜 “The multi-scale complexity of human genetic variation beyond continental groups”, just pre-printed on @biorxivpreprint! Link Here ➡️biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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I am proud to share our latest paper📜 “The multi-scale complexity of human genetic variation beyond continental groups”, just pre-printed on @biorxivpreprint! Link Here ➡️biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…

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Asst. Prof. Maria Nieves Colón talks about the early history of the Caribbean and colonial impacts in the PBS documentary episode "Echoes of Empires" in VOCES American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos. The episode is available online through Oct 25. pbs.org/video/echoes-of-empi…
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so fun to be interviewed by an organization I've admired for years! had the chance to brag about the incredible trainee-led work that went into the ethics class led by @raungar @tgjorgjieva1 @alvinahere @daphmarts me
PGED's #SpotlightSeries on remarkable people ~ Gill met w/ Roshni & Alvina to learn about their proudest projects – including creating & teaching an Introduction to Genetics, Ethics, & Society college course! Read their story: pged.org/2024/10/09/roshni-p…. #PGED #communityspotlight
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Happy Fall! Our coworking writing rooms are back and we're ready to get some work done! We invite our members and interested members to join us this semester on Wednesdays! Sign up here: form.jotform.com/23305734125…
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Announcing the 2024 March Mammal Madness Compendium! Volume 3 is 225 pages! Relive the drama, revisit the citations, & check out 20 pages collage of educator, learner, & player art. Download a FREE pdf from the ASU Library KEEP Collection: keep.lib.asu.edu/items/19706…
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Our lab group is recruiting for a new Postdoc to join us. We are looking for someone to work on projects in Deep Learning and/or Spatial Population Genetics. Please share.
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26 Sep 2024
There are more captive tigers than wild tigers on Earth. A study of the genetic diversity of captive tigers finds that they are not more inbred than wild tigers but do not represent a reservoir of genetic diversity that has been lost in the wild. In PNAS: ow.ly/hFjM50TwgA3
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Super excited this work with @_ellie_cat is finally out. Hopefully the first (publishing wise) of many collabs 😎
26 Sep 2024
There are more captive tigers than wild tigers on Earth. A study of the genetic diversity of captive tigers finds that they are not more inbred than wild tigers but do not represent a reservoir of genetic diversity that has been lost in the wild. In PNAS: ow.ly/hFjM50TwgA3
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Our study investigating the genetic ancestries of Afro-Puerto Ricans is now published in @AmJBioAnth! This work was led by @sankofadna & done in collaboration w/COPI 🇵🇷💃🏿: copipr.com/ (1/n ) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

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Excited to share this new preprint with @spence_jeffrey_ and @DocEdge85 in which we developed a method to infer demographic history and mutation rates from millions of genomes, and applied it to gnomAD v4 data. Read on for a brief thread! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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7 Jul 2024
Sorry to miss everyone at #SMBE2024! A couple of talks from my group: @feriel_ouerghi_ "How should we report genetic matches following an investigative genetic genealogy search?" in S35, Costa Alegre, 18:20 on Tuesday the 9th 1/2
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GWAS on EA/IQ are today's version of Morton's craniometry studies, imo. Every time I see these terrible papers pop-up, I wonder how we stop people from pursuing such fundamentally flawed "research" that is often steeped in racial biases & completely lacking scientific rigor.
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1.A. Real quick -- 2 new products from #OGangGang: 1st is in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (@SMB_MathBiology): Viruses differ in their natural history, routes of transmission, etc. How do these differences influence the evolution of virulence? link.springer.com/article/10…
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Excited to share the last paper from my PhD, advised by @spence_jeffrey_ and @jkpritch! We explore a new way to study selection on complex traits that circumvents some of the most troublesome limitations of GWAS biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… (1/9)

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30 May 2024
Two new preprints from my group today---this one was led by @Dandan_Peng with an assist from Obadiah Mulder. Dandan benchmarked a bunch of leading ARG-estimation methods with respect to a specific goal (1/n)
Evaluating ARG-estimation methods in the context of estimating population-mean polygenic score histories biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_genetic
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31 May 2024
Second preprint from my group today---this one is led by @feriel_ouerghi_ . In this one, we discuss a previously proposed method for building forensic likelihood ratios from sequencing reads (1/n)
On forensic likelihood ratios from low-coverage sequencing biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_genetic
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Please amplify: We are organizing a session entitled "Earth Friendly Computation: Applying Indigenous Data Lifecycles in Medical and Sovereign AI" on Big Data, Indigenous data lifecycles, environmental impact at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (@PacSymBiocomp) on January 4-8, 2025, Big Island of Hawai'i. psb.stanford.edu/callfor/pap…, Paper deadline Aug 1st. Contact: @KeoluFox me @kajawasik @ajcalac @alexGioannidis @erictdawson
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30 Apr 2024
Ever wondered when you "scaled down" parameters in SLiM, what is being simulated is actually comparable to what is intended by the model? We got an answer for you!
Towards Simulation Optimization: An Examination of the Impact of Scaling on Coalescent and Forward Simulations biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio
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