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Sept 2020 Our latest work on founder events. Reconstructing the history of founder events using genome-wide patterns of allele sharing across individuals. Congrats Remi and Gillian!
Aug 2020 New paper published on South Asian genetics: Alzheimer’s Disease risk SNPs and episodic memory in South Asians from LASI-DAD.
Aug 2020 New paper published on mutation rate: A comparison of humans and baboons suggests germline mutation rates do not track cell divisions. Congrats Felix and other involved!
July 2020 New paper published: Evolution of mutation rate across primates. Congrats Manjusha!
June 2020 Manjusha and Mehreen presented their work at TAGC 2020!
May 2020 Profile of our research in Berkeley Science Review – UC Berkeley Women 150 celebration!
May 2020 Kailey Ferger, Yulin Zhang and Meaghan Marohn join the lab as our first PhD students. Welcome Kailey, Yulin and Meaghan!
Dec 2019 Welcome to rotation students, Yun Deng and Kailey Ferger. We are excited to work with you!
Nov 2019 New pre-print uploaded. A comparison of humans and baboons suggests germline mutation rates do not track cell divisions. Congrats Felix and other involved!
Oct 2019 Congratulations Manjusha for winning the best runner up talk at the Computational Biology Retreat.
Oct 2019 Welcome to Mehreen Mughal who is a Visiting Scholar in the lab, while completing her PhD at Penn State University. We are excited to work with you!
Sept 2019 Welcome to rotation students, Hunter Nisonoff and Andrew Vaughn and undergraduate student, Gillian Chu. We are excited to work with you!
Sep 2019 New study published: The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia. Congrats Neel, Nick and others involved!
Sep 2019 Our new method DATES, for inferring admixture time in ancient genomes, is now released. Great collaboration with Neel, Manjusha and Nick Patterson. https://github.com/priyamoorjani/DATES
Aug 2019 New study published: Simultaneous precise editing of multiple genes in human cells. Congratulations Manjusha!
Apr 2019 New study published: Overlooked roles of DNA damage and maternal age in generating human germline mutations.
Feb 2019 Priya received the Sloan Research Fellowship. We thank the Sloan Foundation for their support.
Feb 2019 Priya and Roded Sharan received a joint grant from Koret – UC Berkeley – Tel Aviv University (KBT) Initiative. Thank you KBT for supporting our work.
Jan 2019 Welcome to postdoctoral researcher, Remi, who is joining us after completing his PhD at University of Montpellier. We are excited to work with you!
Jan 2019 Welcome to postdoctoral researcher, Manjusha, who is joining us after completing her PhD at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. We are excited to work with you!