The constant barrage of terrible news on bluesky has made me feel weird about promoting papers, but people in the lab have been doing so much amazing work over the past few months that I want to share a few brief teasers/links:

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur

Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies

📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD

Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...

#JobOpportunity #Research

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

Over the past 5+ years I've had the honor of working with @wsdewitt.github.io @victora.bsky.social and many others on a project to "replay" affinity maturation evolution from a fixed starting point.

matsen.group/general/2025...

In #GENETICS, @kai-shimagaki.bsky.social and @jpbarton.bsky.social present a novel computational method for inferring epistasis that substantially reduces computational costs without affecting accuracy, and successfully validated this approach on longitudinal HIV-1 evolution data.
buff.ly/6pYhfee

excited to announce that this January we are relocating to Yale to start a theory initiative at the Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology (CSEI): @yalecsei.bsky.social

looking to hire 2 postdocs to join us in this endeavor.

more details can be found here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/statp...

The Mahan postdoctoral fellowship offers 21 months of support to develop your own research with Fred Hutch computational biology faculty-- lots of excellent labs to choose from!
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/172697
Faculty: www.fredhutch.org/en/research...

Applications for the 2026 Stengl-Wyer Scholars Program are open! The program provides up to 3 years of support for talented postdoctoral researchers in the broad area of the diversity of life and/or organisms in their natural environments. Learn more here: utexas.infoready4.com/CompetitionS...

I am recruiting a Ph.D. student in microbial ecology, evolution, and systems biology for fall 2026. Please share!
Details: qevomicrolab.org/Documents/Gr...
Apply by October 1 here: forms.gle/38pPS1Ky84HB...

New OpEd by @michaelmina.bsky.social on #HHS vaccine policy changes driven by ideology rather than evidence that will increase infectious disease threats.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

My first post here brings lovely news: just heard that all of my NIH and NSF grants were officially terminated today. Have been expecting this for some time, but still jarring to see the news.

Have heard similar news from dozens of colleagues. Will be hard, but we'll find a way forward.

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

I’m excited to share some new work, out now in Nature Communications. We used genomic surveillance data 🧬 to identify mutations that could make SARS-CoV-2 more transmissible.

rdcu.be/d8cS7

Hey there! A short intro 🧵: My lab studies evolution (esp. viral pathogens) and the immune system. We often use ideas from statistical physics, which was the focus of my PhD. Here are a few recent highlights to give an idea of the kinds of problems we like to work on. 👇