Seeing how every effort has now materialized into lessons and teachings that truly benefit @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social scientists of all generations has been immeasurable. Thank you, @xavimartiperez.bsky.social, for co-leading this project.
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Thank you @albanietoh.bsky.social and @xavimartiperez.bsky.social for putting the effort to organizing this workshop! 🙏
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Obrigado Nikolas!
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Brazil’s complex genetic history matters—for public health, ancestry, and fairness in precision medicine. Including diverse and admixed populations in genomics isn’t just good science—it’s key to understanding and honoring Brazil’s past.
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📉 Genomic data reveals the demographic toll of colonization:
Massive effective population size declines
Regional differences in genetic isolation
Long IBD segments in Amazonas (northern Brazilian state) reveal deep founder effects and recent inbreeding
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🧬 We identified ancestry-specific regions under natural selection after admixture:
Genes linked to immune response (MHC/HLA), fertility, metabolism
Selection shaped by regional environments & disease burdens
Especially strong signals from Indigenous ancestry
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🌍 Brazilian genomes are a mosaic of haplotypes from Indigenous American, African, and European ancestors.
We uncovered fine-scale structure — some individuals were formed by admixture between African populations that likely never met on the continent itself.
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👩🏽🦱🧔🏻♂️ We reconstructed how admixture shaped Brazilian genomes:
Admixture peaked in the 18th–19th centuries
Initially: sex-biased mating (mostly European men + African/Indigenous women)
Now: ancestry-assortative mating dominates
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💥 Of these new variants, >36,000 are potentially deleterious — affecting immunity, metabolism, and fertility.
Many are rare and ancestry-specific.
We found correlations between ancestry proportions and deleterious variant burden.
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🧬 We generated 2,723 whole-genome sequences (avg. 35x coverage) from across Brazil's 5 regions: including urban, rural, and riverine populations.
This is one of the largest WGS datasets from Latin America.
And we found 8.7 million variants not seen in public datasets.
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🇧🇷 Brazil is home to the world’s largest recently admixed population — shaped by millions of Europeans, enslaved Africans, and Indigenous peoples.
Yet, its genomic diversity remains underrepresented in global databases.
We set out to change that.
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Archaeology and Ancient DNA 🧬
Mobility in the Iron Age and Roman Mediterranean 🏺
Human-Environment Interactions 🌱
https://mootspoints.blogspot.com/
Instructor at Johns Hopkins University (USA), Associate Researcher at Uppsala University (Sweden), and Editorial Board Member at Communications Biology (UK).
Bioinformatics and marine microbial ecology. Right now focused mainly protists + metatranscriptomics! Open science. He/Him/His.
Posts about jobs, conferences, etc. from the Evolution Directory (EvolDir) mailing list https://evol.mcmaster.ca/evoldir.html, run by Brian Golding. This bot is run by @rdmpage.bsky.social. Problems: https://github.com/rdmpage/evoldir-bluesky/issues
Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Epidemiology
Working for Doctors without Borders #MSF
Former: #WHO #LSHTM #MarieCurieFellowship
#AMR #medsky #episky #microsky #aidsky #idsky
The goal of the Canadian BioGenome Project is to produce high-quality reference genomes 🧬 for all Canadian species 🌎
Sequencing Canada's Biodiversity 🌿🦋🐍🧬🐢🦌🐸🌳🐿🐙🦈🦦
Learn more: https://linktr.ee/canadianbiogenome
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a moonshot for biology, aims to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of all of Earth's eukaryotic biodiversity over a period of ten years.
Revista de jornalismo científico publicada pela Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
Posting the latest discoveries in human evolution and primatology. We also spotlight the broader field of biological anthropology—from the history of our discipline to talks, conferences, and job opportunities.
Scientist. Evolutionary Biology, Population Genetics. Genetic adaptations to pathogens & the environment.
Professor & Director, UCL Genetics Institute, GEE Deptartment, University College London.
Associate Editor GBE.
https://wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk/evol-genome/
I study Neanderthals, Denisovans and the effect of their DNA surviving in present day humans. Assistant professor at section for molecular ecology and evolution at Globe Institute Copenhagen, Denmark.
Population and evolutionary genetics @UCDavis. Posts, grammar, & spelling are my views only. He/him. #OA popgen book https://github.com/cooplab/popgen-notes/releases
My lab at Stanford studies human population genetics and complex traits.
Population Geneticist | Ancient DNA
Research Group Leader at MPI-EVA Leipzig
www.hringbauer.com
We work to understand the evolutionary mechanisms that generate biodiversity and to promote its conservation. Joint research centre of @csic.es and @upf.edu.
Professor in Genetic Genealogy @KU_Leuven
Biologist & geneticist inspired by genealogy, history, museums & art
associate professor UCLA. population and evolutionary genetics. www.goldberglab.org
