Yaen Chen (she/her)

Portrait of Brenna Henn next to an open freezer of samples.

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!

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.

insanity.

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.

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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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!