Entries by ngarud

Congratulations Dr. Wolff!

Congratulations to Ricky Wolff for successful completion of his PhD! In his whirlwind PhD, Ricky discovered a number of important facets of the human gut microbiome. In his first paper, […]

Maya is a QCBIO collaboratory fellow!

Postdoc Maya Weissman was selected to be a QCBIO collaboratory fellow! This stipend supports her not only in her research, but also provides a teaching opportunity to teach a workshop […]

Congratulations Dr. Harris!

Congratulations to Dr. Mariana Harris for her successful PhD defense! In her highly productive PhD, Mariana wrote a number of papers on the mode and tempo of natural selection in […]

Welcome Maya Weissman!

We are delighted to welcome postdoctoral scholar Maya Weissman to our group. She is joining us after having successfully defended her PhD on bet hedging at Brown University with Prof. […]

Uniform genetic diversity along the gut

We are delighted to share our latest manuscript on the distribution of genetic diversity along the gut. In this work, we analyze the luminal contents of mice inoculated with the […]

Selective sweeps in aDNA

We are happy to share that our manuscript on Leveraging ancient DNA to uncover signals of natural selection in Europe lost due to admixture or drift is now officially out in […]

Congrats to Peter, Ricky, and Mariana!

Congratulations to Peter for winning a departmental travel award, and to Ricky and Mariana for winning Dissertation Year Awards from UCLA!