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Dr Alice Balard

@alicebalard.bsky.social

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Molecular (esp. DNA methylation) 🧬 ecology 🌱 & evolution 🦠🪱🐭🐟🤸‍♀️, biostatistics 📊 she/her UCL, London, UK https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/99848-alice-balard

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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · Sep 3

You want to learn about all of the amazing ways epigenetics 🧬can inform wildlife 🐻🐟 research? Check the online presentations me and colleagues will give 16-18th of Sept! Thanks NKV, and Chloé Nater from @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social for putting together this great learning & networking workshop!

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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · Sep 1

Come to join a great team and a super exciting project!

Lucy van Dorp @lucyvandorp.bsky.social · Sep 1

If you like generating genomic data from unusual medical samples, past and contemporary epidemiology and advancing methods in phylo/population genetics please get in touch.

Group website: www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpvan/

Closing date Sept 25th 2025.

#aDNA #microbialgenomics #ISBA #popgen #UCL

New preprint on the early evolution of BA.2.86

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you want to know more about DNA methylation in conservation, especially temperature-sex dependent species, check this cool video & the paper tinyurl.com/yvspkzp6! It was a pleasure to be part of such cool collaboration, very well done for the intense work @eugeniecyen.bsky.social you're a queen!

Charley Yen, PhD @eugeniecyen.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thanks @gigascience.bsky.social for the cool video opportunity, and thanks again to all co-authors! @alicebalard.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social @qmulsbbs.bsky.social et al

GigaScience Journal @gigascience.bsky.social · Aug 29

Watch this new explainer video from @eugeniecyen.bsky.social on her labs work on on conservation #genomics and #epigenomics of endangered Loggerhead Turtles youtu.be/3C4D43mEBBk?...

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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · Jul 26

A nice review paper from the lab!

Nancy Bird @nancybird1.bsky.social · Jul 26

Check out our recent review 'Power and Limitations of Inferring Genetic Ancestry'- what do we even mean by the term 'genetic ancestry' and what do commonly-used methods actually tell us?

Annals of Human Genetics @ahgeditor.bsky.social · Jul 16

An Early View: Dr @nancybird1.bsky.social , Prof @turiking.bsky.social, & Prof Hellenthal examine the methodological advances and interpretive limits of genetic ancestry inference. The authors emphasize the need for a stronger focus on conveying uncertainty to mitigate risks of over-interpretation.

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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · Jul 17

You can catch UGI post-doc @nancybird1.bsky.social presenting at @official-smbe.bsky.social #SMBE next week on her work: "A flexible and efficient new model to infer multiple admixture dates via joint analyses of modern and/or ancient individuals".

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · Jul 5

#SMBE2025 Symposium 27: Population genetics through time session B

🔗 smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/program/25070

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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · Jul 9

✨🧬 Sharing our UCL Genetics Institute starter pack of researchers, friends and alumni past and present 🧬 ✨

#UGISKY
(DM us to be added)

go.bsky.app/Gw1NqRa

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Charley Yen, PhD @eugeniecyen.bsky.social · Jun 10

Great to see this published in @gigascience.bsky.social! Using @nanoporetech.com, we generated genome and methylome resources simultaneously to drive molecular insights for conservation of loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde 🐢🧬🇨🇻
doi.org/10.1093/giga...

Chromosome-level genome assembly and methylome profile yield insights for the conservation of endangered loggerhead sea turtles

AbstractBackground. Characterizing genetic and epigenetic diversity is crucial for assessing the adaptive potential of threatened populations and species i

doi.org

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · Mar 4

Tomorrow is the first #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk this semester, with @alicebalard.bsky.social from UCL @ucl.ac.uk who will be talking about the role of methylation
in adaptive response to environmental pressures.
Join us! Details: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar...
@klivvvienna.bsky.social

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Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · Jan 20

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳

With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

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Dr Alice Balard @alicebalard.bsky.social · Dec 3

Hi, great idea, I'd love to have the link please!

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