Thrilled to share our lab's newest paper! A collaboration with @NirajRai3 and team, led by GenSCAPE postdoc Shreya Ramachandran and @NagarjunaPasup5, with our incredible team across India and Sri Lanka! 🧵below on what we found studying South Asian gut microbiomes:

🥛Some communities like the Spitians have eaten wheat & dairy for generations, but others only recently added them after urbanizing; we see this in their Bifidobacterium
🩺 Controlling for community, urban folks show lower diversity & more Megamonas, linked to obesity risk.

🤝🏽 We are so grateful to every community member who partnered with us. We returned to all participant communities to thank donors in person & share results! Paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Press release: biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/gut-mic...
Happy to answer questions!

What did #ancient #viral #ecosystems look like? 🦠🧬 Sedimentary #aDNA from lakes and oceans reveals 2,000+ viral taxa and shows how #virus–host interactions changed from the #Pleistocene to today.
doi.org/10.1093/ismejo…
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #sedaDNA

Complex peopling history and expansion events inferred from large-scale modern and ancient Y chromosome sequences | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

📢Our aDNA study has been published today in @NatureComms! A great collaboration with Ricardo RodríguezVarela, Anders Götherström, @cschlebu & team.
Analysis of medieval burials from Ibiza reveals genetic and pathogenic diversity during the Islamic period. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Last month, I published part of my PhD thesis in @NatureMedicine : Clinical genetic variation across Hispanic populations in the Mexican Biobank.
🔗 nature.com/articles/s4159… ... and we got the cover of the February issue!

Second time the MX biobank project (mxbiobank.org) gets the cover in a @Nature journal! This time in @NatureMedicine highlighting the work by @BarjonCar on Clinical genetic variation in Mexico. Another amazing cover by @mauguz33! nature.com/nm/volumes/32/…

Our paper on clinically relevant genetic variation in the MX Biobank is out today in @NatureMedicine! Big congrats to @BarjonCar, who led the development of the MexVar platform. A joint effort by @cinvestav @inspmx @incmnszmx @LIIGH_UNAM and @ucsc nature.com/articles/s4159…

In #GENETICS, @JeremyJBerg et al. introduce an evolutionary model of complex disease susceptibility, where a variant's effect on disease risk follows from liability threshold model and a variant's effect on fitness follows from its effect on disease risk. buff.ly/XkB8hPb

🚨 NEW pub in @ScienceMagazine !!! 🚨

🐈‍⬛🐈 The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2,000 years ago 🐈‍⬛🐈

Our article provides novel evidence suggesting new hypotheses about the history of domestic cats! 🧬

After a four-year journey, my PhD work is out in @ScienceMagazine!
Endless gratitude to the amazing @felix_erc team, all coauthors and collaborators, and my loved ones. Without you all this could not be real! 💛🐱✨
@ERC_Research @NatGeo @unitorvergata2 #aDNA

Carla Daniela Robles Espinoza, coordinadora del @LIIGH_UNAM, nos comparte su experiencia de hacer el doctorado en el Reino Unido… #AlumniUK ➡️ t.ly/wBxIO

✨Thrilled to share that the first chapter of my Ph.D. thesis is NOW OUT in Science Advances (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…)! ✨🥳🎉 🧬. This couldn't have been possible without the support of everyone involved @MaanasaRaghavan @NirajRai3 @Conydelafc @mootspoints and others.

1/n Delighted to share our newly published work in Science Advances, investigating human genetic histories at the northern frontier of the Himalayas 🧬🏔️: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

5/n This study provides first insights into the admixture dynamics and adaptive histories at the northern frontier of the Himalayas.

6/n This study could not have been possible without the incredible support of the local communities in Himachal Pradesh, our archaeological collaborators, and every co-author who made this work possible - Thank you all! 🥳