Tobias Lenz

To argue "infections" are an extrinsic factor to heritability is bizarre to me - as if aging takes place in a vacuum.

Infections are part of longevity. Infection resistance is heritable (e.g. AMP polymorphisms in mammals, insects).

I don't disagree longevity is highly heritable... 1/2

🔔HIRI has opened a new call to recruit Group Leaders. If you are interested in opening an RNA Biology and Infection lab, join us! Deadline: February 15. More info here 👇

Deadline for #SMBE2026 abstract submission is coming up (Feb 3)!

Consider symposium S14 "Evolution of Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Genomic Age", organized by @jcwinternitz.bsky.social, @arcova.bsky.social, @michalvinkler.bsky.social and @diyarhamidi.bsky.social.

Tha'ts what scientists want too. We need AI that makes sure you don't break the dishes (or centrifuge)

It's the annual meeting of the evolutionary biology section @dzg-evol.bsky.social of the German Zoological Society (DZG). Meeting language is English, we welcome participants from all countries and nationalities. Invited speakers are Sophie Armitage (Freie Uni Berlin) and Dieter Ebert (Uni Basel).

Please share: We are hosting the 2026 DZG evolutionary biology graduate meeting at Uni Hamburg on March 25-27: "Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species". #PhD students, early postdocs and advanced Master students in evolutionary biology are welcome to register! t1p.de/dzg2026evolbio

The human pangenome continues to grow and improve! Release 2 is here! Click through for the details, but this is a pretty amazing dataset including not just the phased assemblies, but PacBio HiFi, ONT Ultralong, Dovetail/Illumina Hi-C, PacBio Kinnex, and Illumina WGS for all samples

Establish your own independent research group as Group Leader - AI in Biology.

We’re looking for individuals interested in bridging innovations in machine learning/AI with modern biology.

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“Everyone thinks their genes are the cause for them getting an age-related disease, it’s actually your immune system.” - @erictopol.bsky.social the author of Super Agers on #HealthandVeritas podcast
pod.link/1588414491/e... @thehowie.bsky.social @hmkyale.bsky.social

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution International Event Grants. Applications due September 15.

Applications due Monday September 15 for the International Event Grants! These grants support symposia, workshops, courses, and other evolutionary biology events, including virtual events. Learn more and apply now: rb.gy/76fgi

Introducing The Art of Visualization with ggplot2 – Nicola Rennie I’ve written a book! This blog post gives a brief introduction to The Art of Visualization with ggplot2, a book of data visualization case studies showing the end-to-end process of building charts, st...

I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"!

This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots!

nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-...

#RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday

Haplotype analysis reveals pleiotropic disease associations in the HLA region The HLA region plays an important role in human health but is often excluded in large-scale GWASs. We performed haplotype-based associations from genotype data to investigate pleiotropy across thousan...

📣New today!
📄Haplotype analysis reveals pleiotropic disease associations in the HLA region
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @jkpritch.bsky.social @finngen.bsky.social & colleagues

Graffiti at the end of an underpass in Heidelberg saying 'LAB!'.

Some PIs will stop at nothing to motivate their lab members. 🧪

Join the annual meeting of the Society for Immune Polymorphism (SIP), November 3-5, Netherlands!

A meeting for everyone interested in polymorphic immune molecules (e.g. #MHC/#TCR) and their functional diversity across species.

Early bird/Abstract deadline is Aug 15:
sip-sassenheim.org

Computational Immunology Summer School Join the Computational Immunology Summer School to explore the fascinating world of Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoires (AIRRs), mastering cutting-edge bioinformatics tools and lab techniques to uncover the secrets of immune system diversity.

📣 2 #Immunology #Summer_Schools that might be of interest to you:

If you are working on adaptive immune receptor repertoire:
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If you want to get deeper into new advances in Immunology:
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#ImmunoSky

AI models miss disease in Black and female patients Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say

'Compared with the patients’ doctors, the AI model more often failed to detect the presence of disease in Black patients or women, as well in those 40yrs or younger. Wn the researchers looked at race and sex combined, Black women fell to the bottom, with the AI not detecting disease in half of them'

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Looks great! Thanks for the explanation. Obviously, we are now curious what the selected locus is that drives this, and the ecological context. 😄 Looking forward to the preprint!

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Complete sequencing of ape genomes - Nature Complete sequences of chromosomes telomere-to-telomere from chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan and siamang provide a comprehensive and valuable resource for future evol...

📢 new paper alert for the primate and genomics nerds. telomere to telomere ape genomes. I led MHC annotations on this work w/ @biotobi.bsky.social and @meyerbritta.bsky.social And hey it’s my first nature paper 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Medicine on a Larger Scale Cambridge Core - History of Medicine - Medicine on a Larger Scale

Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent!
#histstm #histmed #sts

Join Us! | King Lab Are you interested in joining the King Lab? More information here!

Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...

IMBA is recruiting a Junior Group Leader! Are you interested in starting your own lab, pursuing curiosity-driven basic research in the life sciences? Apply now to our group leader position. The deadline is May 28. Link is below.

Artemis receiving her PhD hat, an academic tradition in Germany.

Proudly presenting Dr. Artemis Efstratiou, who recently defended her PhD. She worked on variation of #MHC immune genes and dynamics of the T cell receptor repertoire in sticklebacks under different experimental conditions. Congratulations, Artemis! 🥳🎉 www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung...

This seems to be a general thing on Wiley journal websites. I wonder how that interferes with the idea of #OpenAccess publishing, if only 'healthcare professionals' are allowed to view the content...

I just noticed this new header above the website of #MolecularEcologyResources. I'm sure that there are vast numbers of 'healthcare professionals' who will want to read our paper on MHC diversity in sticklebacks (😂), but what about the other few remaining scientsts? Just asking, @wiley.com ...

Admixture as a source for HLA variation in Neolithic European farming communities - Genome Biology Background The northern European Neolithic is characterized by two major demographic events: immigration of early farmers from Anatolia at 7500 years before present, and their admixture with local wes...

Hello Blue world!
I recently migrated from the old Twitter as I got tired of the continuous bombardment of far-right propaganda.
I intend to use this account mainly for scientific exchange with a pinch of politics.

So, why not start with a summary of our recent paper?
doi.org/10.1186/s130...

PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025 Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) & Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR) July 06...

🚀 Registrations are open: 2025 SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses, Oeiras (Lisbon), Portugal
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Please help us sharing this announcement 📣

@gimmfoundation.bsky.social #CBR @moorefound.bsky.social @crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR

CD4-Transgenic Zebrafish Reveal Tissue-Resident Th2- and Regulatory T Cell–like Populations and Diverse Mononuclear Phagocytes Abstract. CD4+ T cells are at the nexus of the innate and adaptive arms of the immune system. However, little is known about the evolutionary history of CD

To all fish immunologists, if you haven't read this @jimmunol.bsky.social paper from Adam Hurlstone lab in #zebrafish which I know it's a few years old please do, the more I read it the more gems I find in it journals.aai.org/jimmunol/art...