SMBE2026 Symposium 19 | Causes and consequences of mutation rate variation Organisers - Gustavo Valadares Barroso — University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA & University of Vigo, Spain (Male) - Michael Goldberg — University of Utah, USA (Male) - Pengyao Jiang — Arizona State University, USA (Female) - Aaron Ragsdale — University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (Male) Invited Speaker - Peter Keightley — University of Edinburgh, Scotland (Male)

Organisers
- @gvbarroso.bsky.social | @uwmadison.bsky.social / Universidad de Vigo
- @goldmich.bsky.social | @utah.edu
- @pyjiang.bsky.social | Arizona State University
- @apragsdale.bsky.social | @uwmadison.bsky.social

Invited Speaker
- Peter Keightley | @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

Abstracts & Awards - SMBE 2026 - Copenhagen Denmark SMBE 2026 Abstract Submission abstract Submitting an abstract Here is an overview of the abstract submission.  Length and words: The abstract must be submitted in English and should be less than 250 w...

Together with Pengyao Jian, Michael Goldberg and Aaron Ragsdale, I am organizing a symposium in SMBE Copenhagen:

“Causes and consequences of mutation rate variation”

with Peter Keightley as invited speaker!
It’s high time we discuss this critical topic, abstract submission opens Dec 1 smbe2026.org

Stable hypermutators revealed by the genomic landscape of DNA repair genes among yeast species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03....

And now recommended at PCI Evolutionary Biology!! @peercommunityin.bsky.social evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... Big thanks to co-authors, recommender and reviewers!!

On ARGs, pedigrees, and genetic relatedness matrices Genetic relatedness is a central concept in genetics, underpinning studies of population and quantitative genetics in human, animal, and plant settings. It is typically stored as a genetic relatedness...

VERY excited to announce a pre-print that represents the culmination of several years of work*: “On ARGs, pedigrees, and genetic relatedness matrices”

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Led by Brieuc Lehmann with contributions from @epigenci.bsky.social Luke Anderson Trocme Jerome Kelleher and Peter Ralph

Low accuracy of complex admixture graph inference from f-statistics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03....

peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

A model for background selection in non-equilibrium populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02....