Scialog!
Nandita is a Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease Scialog Fellow and recently participated in the annual Scialog conference to innovate and pitch new ideas about the connection between the gut and the brian.
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EEB149: Evolutionary Genomics
This quarter, Prof. Nandita and TA Ricky are teaching a new R-based course on Evolutionary Genomics for undergraduates. Our goals for the class are to teach students how to make […]
Congratulations to Mariana Harris and Ricky Wolff!
We are very proud of Mariana Harris for receiving the UCLA GATP fellowship and Ricky Wolff for receiving honorable mention in the NSF GRFP competition!! Congrats!
Correcting for background noise improves phenotype prediction from human gut microbiome data
We are very proud to share our recent preprint: Correcting for background noise improves phenotype prediction from human gut microbiome Leah Briscoe, Bruna Balliu, Sriram Sankararaman, Eran Halperin and Nandita […]
Nandita named Allen Distinguished Investigator
Nandita has been named an Allen Distinguished Investigator! The Garud lab is excited to be collaborating with Drs. Carolina Tropini, Aida Habtezion, and Siddharth Sinha on the following grant: Distinct […]
Comparative Population Genetics in the Human Gut Microbiome
We are delighted to share our latest preprint on: Comparative Population Genetics in the Human Gut Microbiome William Shoemaker, Daisy Chen, and Nandita Garud The genetic variation in the human […]
Welcome rotation students!
We are delighted to be working with rotation students Helen Huang, Nicole Zeltser, Jon Mah, Alejandro Espinoza, and Albert Xue this year!
Summer lab meetings
This summer we have a full house with many interns joining us, as well as new incoming PhD students including Albert Xue, Jon Mah, and Mariana Harris! Here’s our group […]
Welcome BIG students!
This summer we are delighted to welcome four new BIG (Bruins in Genomics) summer interns to our group: Shavonna Jackson, Etan Dieppa, Kevin Delao, and Maya Singh! Etan Dieppa […]
New paper on BioRxiv: Detection of hard and soft selective sweeps from Drosophila melanogaster population genomic data
Check out our latest paper on BioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.20.163261v1 Whether hard sweeps or soft sweeps dominate adaptation has been a matter of much debate. Recently, we developed haplotype homozygosity statistics that […]