Kate Jiang

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🧬 Join us at #Yeast26 - Yeast Genetics Meeting!
📍 Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA
📅 June 13–17, 2026
📝 Abstracts & registration open Jan 5 | Abstracts due March 5
🔗 genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/
@genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Save the date! Next year's edition of the Toronto DNA Replication & Repair symposium will take place on Thursday, April 10th, 2026 in Hart House at the University of Toronto. More details coming soon.

The discovery and patterns of the underlying long-standing mild-effect mutator alleles in S. cerevisiae populations Most mutations are neutral or deleterious, and mutator alleles that increase the mutation rate of an organism are considered rare and short-lived. Here, we report a genomic signature consistent with t...

New preprint with @pyjiang.bsky.social and @kelleyharris.bsky.social! The discovery and patterns of the underlying long-standing mild-effect mutator alleles in S. cerevisiae populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Massively parallel interrogation of the fitness of natural variants in ancient signaling pathways reveals pervasive local adaptation The nature of standing genetic variation remains a central debate in population genetics, with differing perspectives on whether common variants are almost always neutral as suggested by neutral and n...

One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

From genotype to phenotype with 1,086 near telomere-to-telomere yeast genomes - Nature A newly compiled atlas of species-wide structural variants and gene-based and graph pangenomes derived from highly complete assemblies of genomes from 1,086 natural isolates enable integrative genome-...

✨ Latest exciting story of the group in @nature.com. Here, we go beyond SNPs and built a species-wide atlas of genetic variants in yeast. With >1,000 near T2T genomes, we show how large genomic variations affect trait diversity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just a reminder about our faculty search at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Applications due Oct. 15. @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social

Job Alert 🚨

Are you an emerging leader in biomedical discovery or population health data science?
We are looking for outstanding candidates to join our institute!

Learn more & apply:

Biomedical Discovery ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/172703

Population Health Data Science ➡️ apply.interfolio.com/172529

Will be presenting my work on identifying mutagenic natural variants of Rad5 tomorrow afternoon at #yeast2025. Please come if you are interested :)

My colleague David Garfinkel is looking for a postdoc to join our NIH-funded project on the “Evolution of Retrotransposon Control Mechanisms”

More info here: reporter.nih.gov/search/u7dKr....

The official job listing can be found here: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/437...

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📢 New paper out in Mol Syst Biol!
During the development of WT yeast colonies, small cell subpopulations experience transient, high-intensity mutational bursts. Such hypermutation episodes are modulated by the DNA damage tolerance pathway 🧬
🔗 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Postdoc_Evol_Genomics_Sorbonne.docx Postdoctoral position in Yeast Evolutionary Genomics Hosting unit Laboratory of Computational, Quantitative, and Synthetic Biology (CQSB). The CQSB is an interdisciplinary research unit within the ...

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨
A 2-year postdoc position is now open in our lab to explore the fascinating world of yeast polyploid genomes, their structure, stability, and adaptive potential.

🔗 More info here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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#Postdoc #Genomics #Yeast #Polyploidy #Evolution