Yaen Chen (she/her)
@yaenc.bsky.social
Yah-En. Bioinformatics PhD student (Capra Lab) at UCSF. Psychiatric genetics, evolution, neuroscience, mental health 🧠🧬👩💻
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Here's my latest contribution to the @nytimes "Lost Science" series. Brenna Henn's sweeping study of African genetics has been frozen. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Ypmm1A
January 5, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Here's my latest contribution to the @nytimes "Lost Science" series. Brenna Henn's sweeping study of African genetics has been frozen. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Ypmm1A
I’m officially a cat mom 😭 meet Mei!
December 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I’m officially a cat mom 😭 meet Mei!
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so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
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How did DNA changes that alter protein structures impact evolution on the branch that led to modern humans? As we demonstrate today in Science Advances, biobanking initiatives offer ways to directly assess biological effects of rare archaic variants in living people, & (re)evaluate their roles. 🧬🧪
Evaluating the effects of archaic protein-altering variants in living human adults
Promise and pitfalls of using large biobanks to study impacts of archaic protein-coding variants in living humans.
www.science.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
How did DNA changes that alter protein structures impact evolution on the branch that led to modern humans? As we demonstrate today in Science Advances, biobanking initiatives offer ways to directly assess biological effects of rare archaic variants in living people, & (re)evaluate their roles. 🧬🧪
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SMBE2026 Symposium 10 | Learning from evolution: AI models for genomic function
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
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#SMBE2026
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Hi Bluesky! I’m excited to connect with everyone 🤗. Yesterday, I gave a talk at the Bay Area Population Genomics conference at Stanford, and it was great to connect with the popgen community here. So thankful for these opportunities to share my work!
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Hi Bluesky! I’m excited to connect with everyone 🤗. Yesterday, I gave a talk at the Bay Area Population Genomics conference at Stanford, and it was great to connect with the popgen community here. So thankful for these opportunities to share my work!