Friday was my last day at NHGRI. After 10 wonderful years, my lab is headed to Johns Hopkins University
genomeinformatics.github.io/movingday/

Evan Eichler on using near-complete human genomes to more fully understand mutational processes #MITS2026

Promotional graphic for GTA2026 featuring guest speaker Aaron Quinlan. The design has a dark-to-bright blue background with yellow accents, large white text reading “Meet the Experts at GTA2026” and “Aaron Quinlan,” and a circular photo of Quinlan standing indoors by a staircase. Smaller text identifies him as Professor and Chair of Human Genetics at the University of Utah and highlights his work in computational genomics and open-source bioinformatics, including BEDTools and Mosdepth. A registration link appears at the bottom: gxy.io/GTA2026-info.

Join GTA2026 and hear from guest speaker Aaron Quinlan, a leader in computational genomics and open-source bioinformatics tools like BEDTools and Mosdepth.

Join us May 18–22 for a free, virtual week of learning, and stay tuned for more guest speaker reveals.

Learn more: gxy.io/GTA2026-info

The title page of the 1998 Technical Advance paper in the Plant Journal showing the title “Floral dip: a simplified method for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana”, authors Steven J. Clough, Andrew F. Bent and publication date December 1998 (Volume 16, Issue 6, Pages 735-743)

#PlantScienceClassics #13: Floral Dip. ~25 years ago, in 1998, Steven Clough & Andrew Bent published their ingeniously simple Arabidopsis transformation protocol in #ThePlantJournal: Dipping a plant upside down into Agrobacterium solution - et voilà!
doi.org/10.1046/j.13...

That hurts... that really hurts

a man wearing a top hat and a red jacket is standing in front of a crowd . Alt: the ringleader gets ready to start the circus!

Are you ready? #2026MMM

1/ Excited to share my first first-author preprint from my PhD!

We introduce Perseus, a lineage-aware confidence estimation framework for taxonomic classification in long-read metagenomics.

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Code: github.com/matnguyen/Pe...

JHU Friends! Living legend Vint Cerf is presenting on Tuesday Feb 10 @ 10:30. Vint is widely recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet" and will be presenting on where the internet came from, what’s happening to it now, and where it will go in the future:
www.cs.jhu.edu/event/gerald...

AlphaGenome is out in @nature.com today along with model weights! 🧬

📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💻 Weights: github.com/google-deepm...

Getting here wasn’t a straight path. We discussed the story behind the model, paper & API in the following roundtable: youtu.be/V8lhUqKqzUc

The Biology of Genomes Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

This is one of my favorite conferences of the year! For more information (including the amazing speaker lineup) see here: meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

JXTX + CSHL 2026 Biology of Genomes Scholarship JXTX + CSHL 2026 Biology of Genomes Scholarship

Interesting in the CSHL Biology of Genomes conference, but need support attending? The @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social will provide support to 3 students in genomics and data sciences to attend. The deadline is Jan 31, 2026 and just takes a short bio and abstract: jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-12...

Common variation in meiosis genes shapes human recombination and aneuploidy - Nature Analysis of data from pre-implantation genetic testing sheds light on the genetic basis of meiotic-origin aneuploidy, the leading cause of human pregnancy loss, identifying common genetic variants ass...

Pregnancy loss is common in humans, and chromosomal abnormalities are the leading cause. Using genetic data from ~140,000 IVF embryos, we show that maternal variation in meiosis genes influences recombination and aneuploidy risk.

First authors: @saracarioscia.bsky.social & @aabiddanda.github.io

Go for the Mac. You can always ssh in to severs when you need the big iron

Also, electrons barely move in a circuit (~0.1 cm/s). It is the electric field that actually zips along at nearly the speed of light! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_o...

Robert E. Chason Endowed Chair in Translational Research, MIND Institute University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

Consider applying for the Robert E. Chason Endowed Chair in Translational Research at the UC Davis MIND Institute!

Join a vibrant community of colleagues studying neurodevelopment conditions like autism. UC Davis is an excellent place to work and live.

Find more details here: lnkd.in/gZRyViNa

Weird genome structure for chromosome 1 to be longer than the other 9 combined .... or a major assembly error 🙃

We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen.

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Putting our pieces together For more than half a century, Johns Hopkins has been a leader in converting federal support into tangible benefits for the American people—such as correcting maps of the human genome.

“I’m currently involved in a study where we’re using these technologies to study pancreatic cancers,” says @jhu-bdps.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social. We’re finding things that are only possible because of this new genome and these new technologies.”

I am recruiting graduate students for the experimental side of my lab @mcgill.ca for admission in Fall 2026!
Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.

@benlangmead.bsky.social kicking off the start of Genome Informatics! #gi2025 @cshlnews.bsky.social

Ben Langmead @benlangmead.bsky.social delivers the official opening for this year's Genome Informatics Conference #GI2025 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
List of talks and posters: meetings.cshl.edu/abstracts.as...

On the last day of #ASHG25, attending a telomere session entitled "end results" seems fitting. It's been a great meeting talking with vibrant young geneticists, and on this note, I'm hiring a postdoc! thejacksonlaboratory.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com/External_JAX...

🚨Don't miss the GREGoR Consortium's Ancillary Session at #ASHG25 on Thursday at 11:45 am.

Featuring: Dr. Ben Heavner, Dr. Alex Wagner (@alexphd.bsky.social) & Dr. Mike Schatz (@mikeschatz.bsky.social)

#RareDisease #Research

Population-scale Long-read Sequencing in the All of Us Research Program The All of Us Research Program (AoU) is a national biobank seeking to enroll one million individuals in the United States to link genomic and biomedical data, including short- and long-read whole-geno...

Read the preprint here with all the details, plus lots of other long-read powered analysis! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

This uncovers strong links between population-enriched SVs and conditions such as metabolic disease, cardiovascular disorders, and immune phenotypes. Huge thanks to the whole team co-led by Kiran Garimella, @sedlazeck.bsky.social, Michael Talkowski, Evan Eichler, and me.

We call SVs from PacBio HiFi long read data, and then impute into 10k AoU short-read datasets with EHR data to identify 291 SV–disease associations across 226 traits, with over half absent from the short-read callset. Fine-mapping revealed that SVs were the lead variant for ~70% of loci!!!!

Getting excited for #ASHG25. The must see talk is tomorrow at 1:30 by Qiuhui (Iris) Li presenting the first large-scale integration of long-read genome sequencing with electronic health record data across >1000 All of Us participants meetings.ashg.org/event/ASHG25...

Postdoc Description.docx Title: Postdoctoral Associate Summary statement: The postdoctoral research associate is responsible for developing novel computational methodology for high-throughput sequence genomics tasks, as well ...

Have you recently completed (or finishing soon) a PhD in CS or a related discipline? Do you want to do research advancing the theory & practice of algorithmic genomics & build tools that people love to use? I'll be looking to hire a postdoc! Official ad coming soon:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Xcode is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used | Hold The Robot The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time; try breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions

After vibe coding a little swift this summer, I feel totally validated by this post! holdtherobot.com/blog/xcode-i...

Easy! We dont we change the USA to the metric system too while we are at it!