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Tauras Vilgalys

@taurvil.bsky.social

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Postdoc at UChicago. Evolutionary functional genomics, focusing on how humans and other primates respond to infectious disease. Former grad student @EvAnthDuke. 🧪

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Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · 2d

Labcorp is recruiting summer interns in bioinformatics! One of my colleagues did this internship last year and found it to be a wonderful introduction to working in industry careers.labcorp.com/yzXKMn1

Now Hiring: Bioinformatics Intern in Westborough, Massachusetts, United States of America @ Labcorp

Labcorp, a leading global life sciences company, is searching for a Bioinformatics Intern in Westborough, Massachusetts, United States of America. #JoinThePursuit and apply today!

careers.labcorp.com

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 13d

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · 18d

One of the best resources out there for finding faculty positions! I used this so much over the past few years

Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19d

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

docs.google.com

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Aug 28

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.

Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Aug 16

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poster for the program

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · Aug 15

Many thanks to @jennytung.bsky.social, @afogel29.bsky.social, Jordan Anderson, and all the other members of the @amboselibaboonrp.bsky.social who made this work possible!

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · Aug 15

Together, our results suggest that the genetic architecture of DNA methylation is conserved between closely related species. Cis-genetic effects on gene regulation may remain stable for over a million years, which has implications for how we understand modern and archaic human variants.

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · Aug 15

We also show that ancestry effects within Amboseli recapitulates differences between the parent species. These results support a genetic basis for many interspecific methylation differences, despite environmental variation when individuals are sampled from distinct populations.

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · Aug 15

By changing the allele frequency, admixture introduces new regulatory variation - including at sites that would be otherwise fixed in the population!

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · Aug 15

Local genetic ancestry frequently predicts DNA methylation levels, and these differences can be predicted using the allele frequency at cis-acting genetic variants (meQTL).

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · Aug 15

I'm happy to (finally) share the last chapter of my dissertation work. Focusing on DNA methylation levels, we show that admixture increases gene regulatory variation within the Amboseli baboon population.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · May 21

Thank you!

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · May 8

There's some nice work on how the power of selection scans differs based on the time of selection. I can't remember where that figure was published though

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · May 7

Wahoo!!

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Clement Chow @clementychow.bsky.social · May 3

Repost w/ correct link!
The Dept of Human Genetics at the Univeristy of Utah is hosting a Rising Stars in Genetics & Genomics postdoc symposium. We are looking to feature postdocs doing cool science! Please self nominate or nominate an excellent postdoc! #ASHGtrainees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · May 5

Thanks Jun, I couldn't agree more!

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · May 5

Thank you!

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Mingyuan "Merlin" Li @supmerlin.bsky.social · May 5

1/n 🚨Very excited to share our recent work!🚨
To understand gene regulation across diverse environmental conditions and cellular contexts, we treated a broad array of human cell types with three environmental exposures in vitro.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · May 5

Finally, I am immensely grateful to my mentors over the years (particularly @jennytung.bsky.social and Luis Barreiro), as well as all of the collaborators, lab members, and friends who have helped along this journey!

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · May 5

I will be recruiting students, postdocs, and technicians -- if you're interested in this work, please reach out to me!

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · May 5

My lab will study how genetic varation among primates shapes the response to environmental stimuli, focusing on the immune system. Ultimately, I hope to connect genetic variation to immune phenotypes and identify the ecological and evolutionary drivers of immune variation.

Research diagram outlining Tauras' research plan. The research combines integrating primate genetic variation and pathogens in in vitro infection experiments. It then investigates the genome biology and evolutionary mechanisms driving variation in the response, to yield conservation and health impacts.

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · May 5

I'm thrilled to share that I'll be joining the Department of Genetics at UGA as an Assistant Professor in January! @universityofga.bsky.social Genetics@UGA #newPI

University of Georgia Bulldog outside the Georgia Center at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

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Aida Andres @aidaandres.bsky.social · Mar 21

Interested in a starting PI position at University College London to work on Genetics, Evolution or the Environment? My department has opened the call for expressions of interest for sponsorship of independent fellowship applications.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Andrea L Graham @grahammunology.bsky.social · Jan 13

Final week to apply for this year’s round of the Princeton EEB Fellowship Program, folks! Please repost and help spread the word! We’re going tweetless and need the biggest bluest skies you folks can muster, please!!! ☀️ @eseb.bsky.social
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
Thanks!

Andrea L Graham @grahammunology.bsky.social · Dec 30

Just 3 more weeks to apply for the Princeton EEB Fellows Program! 🌵🦥🦩🦠🧫🌻Please identify at least 2 faculty collaborators, craft your research program, & apply here:

puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

@sse-evolution.bsky.social
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Please repost &/or apply!

puwebp.princeton.edu

Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · Jan 10

Exciting! Glad to see it got funded!