Mark your calendars for #PEQG26 June 9–12, 2026, at Pacific Grove, CA. I’m excited to attend this cross-disciplinary meeting of researchers doing theoretical and experimental work in broad fields. See you all there! genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/
Posts by Joana L. Rocha
📖Latest from the lab:
Evo. characterization #antiviral #SAMD9/9L across #kingdoms🚶♀️🦍🦠🧫🖥️: ancient #convergence + #adaptations @natecoevo.nature.com
Led by amazing Alexandre Legrand +major contributions by Rémi Demeure & Amandine Chantharath @ciri-lyon.bsky.social 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
We are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Very much looking forward to teaching our second edition of the Latin American biodiversity genomics course, this time in Argentina.
Congrats Elise (and team!)! Beautiful paper!
Thank you Seth!
Thank you so much Peter! That means the world! If I am 1% of the scientist you are and of the mentor you are and have been to me that is the truly great accomplishment!
Thank you Kirk! ☺️
Thanks Will!!! :)
I am thrilled to announce that in January 2026 I will be starting my own lab at NYU Biology! Soon enough I will be recruiting postdocs and students! Please reach out if you are interested with a CV and description of your research interests, or if you know of people who could be interested! 🧬🗽 🦊
So happy to share this paper! It's been so much fun working on this project with these amazing collaborators.
On my way #PAG32! Excited to reunite with so many friends and colleagues working on plant and animal genomics, and to be giving a talk at the Wildlife symposium!
Masterpiece
Thanks for re-posting! Wanted my first post on BlueSky to bring some light and optimism to our community <3