Mariana Harris wins the DeLill Nasser Travel Award!
We are so proud of Mariana Harris for winning the DeLill Nasser Award! She will be attending PEQG this Spring with the award to present her work on the prevalence […]
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Michael Wasney wins the Goodman Luskin UCLA seed fellowship!
We are incredibly proud of doctoral student Michael Wasney for winning the inaugural UCLA Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center seed fellowship!
Inference of the demographic histories and selective effects of human gut commensal microbiota over the course of human history
We are delighted to share our latest preprint on “Inference of the demographic histories and selective effects of human gut commensal microbiota over the course of human history“. Please check […]
Congrats to Mariana for Best Poster Award and Jon for a great Talk!
Congratulations to Mariana Harris for winning Best Poster Award at the UCLA QCBio retreat on her work on hard sweep enrichment on the X chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster! Additionally, congratulations […]
NIH R35 award
We are extremely grateful to the NIH for awarding our lab an R35 grant. We will be working on furthering our understanding the evolutionary dynamics of gut bacteria during gut […]
Enrichment of hard sweeps on the X in six Drosophila species
Lead by Mariana Harris and in collaboration with Bernard Kim, we recently posted a preprint showing that hard sweeps are enriched on the X chromosome of six Drosophila species, generalizing […]
Welcome BIG summer students!
We are thrilled to welcome Jooeun Jeon, Radha Ganesh, and Rahul Natarajan this summer to our lab for the Bruins in Genomics summer program!
Leah Briscoe defends her PhD!
Our first PhD student, Leah Briscoe, defended her PhD this past month! Leah’s work spanned several topics, including background noise correction in the microbiome and source tracking in the microbiome […]
Garud lab at the SCALE meeting
The Garud lab attended the Southern California Evolution meeting (SCALE) this past weekend and had a strong showing of presenters!
Mariana Harris speaks at SMBE Everywhere
PhD student Mariana Harris gave a talk at SMBE Everywhere this month on her work on enrichment of hard sweeps on the X chromosome relative to autosomes. Congrats Mariana!