Joana L. Rocha

Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference Visit our website to learn more.

Mark your calendars for #PEQG26 June 9–12, 2026, at Pacific Grove, CA. I’m excited to attend this cross-disciplinary meeting of researchers doing theoretical and experimental work in broad fields. See you all there! genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/

The Church Evolution Lab (CEL@NYU) is hiring a postdoc! We have several new projects to study the genomic basis of biodiversity in model clades – especially Hawaiian Drosophila. apply.interfolio.com/179354

Come join our new group, you can study bugs and live in NYC! Feel free to share widely!

Post-Doctoral Opportunity in Evolutionary and Conservation Genomics!

If you are curious and passionate about ecology, evolution and the natural world come work with me in the Department of Biology at NYU!

More details here!
apply.interfolio.com/180051

Evolutionary characterization of antiviral SAMD9/9L across kingdoms supports ancient convergence and lineage-specific adaptations - Nature Ecology & Evolution A search for analogues of the human SAMD9/9L antiviral genes identifies convergent evolution of this gene family in the bacterial and animal kingdoms, with species-specific and recent genomic signatur...

📖Latest from the lab:
Evo. characterization #antiviral #SAMD9/9L across #kingdoms🚶‍♀️🦍🦠🧫🖥️: ancient #convergence + #adaptations @natecoevo.nature.com

Led by amazing Alexandre Legrand +major contributions by Rémi Demeure & Amandine Chantharath @ciri-lyon.bsky.social 1/n

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As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll “I began to question whether I truly belonged,” this postdoc writes

As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference Visit our website to learn more.

PEQG website live! genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/

We are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics.
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Very much looking forward to teaching our second edition of the Latin American biodiversity genomics course, this time in Argentina.

Congrats Elise (and team!)! Beautiful paper!

Thank you Seth!

Thank you so much Peter! That means the world! If I am 1% of the scientist you are and of the mentor you are and have been to me that is the truly great accomplishment!

Thank you Kirk! ☺️

Thanks Will!!! :)

I am thrilled to announce that in January 2026 I will be starting my own lab at NYU Biology! Soon enough I will be recruiting postdocs and students! Please reach out if you are interested with a CV and description of your research interests, or if you know of people who could be interested! 🧬🗽 🦊

So happy to share this paper! It's been so much fun working on this project with these amazing collaborators.

On my way #PAG32! Excited to reunite with so many friends and colleagues working on plant and animal genomics, and to be giving a talk at the Wildlife symposium!

Masterpiece

Thanks for re-posting! Wanted my first post on BlueSky to bring some light and optimism to our community <3

The Charming Doodles Charles Darwin’s Children Left All Over the Manuscript of ‘On the Origin of Species’ From fish with legs to carrot cavalries, an endearing testament to the human life of science.

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