Tauras Vilgalys

My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have.
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Congrats! I loved hearing about this with at BoG!

Excited to be at #ashg25! I will be presenting my poster on immune evolution today (2005W) and look forward to all the great science!

Also, I'm hiring! Please stop by or message if you want to chat about #postdoc opportunities!

ABS Student Research and Developing Nations Grants! ABS offers the following grants to support graduate student research: Student Research Grants, ABS Conservation Award and Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Awards. The ABS also offers an Early Career Grant in Conservation Behavior and Developing Nations Grant to support students and other researchers from developing nations. Applicants for student grants must be enrolled in a graduate program and must be active members of ABS (student membership fees cost $17-$34). Research grants range from $500-$2,000 USD, depending on the category of the grant and evaluations. Individuals may receive only one ABS research grant during their lifetime. More details on how the grants and how to apply in the link in the post.

Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?)

Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.

More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...

🚨🧪 Interested in primate genomics and GxE interactions?

My lab is recruiting graduate students and postdocs to help start projects on primate gene regulation and immune evolution. Reach out if you would like to learn more, and please spread widely!

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The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

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I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.

Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

poster for the program

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Many thanks to @jennytung.bsky.social, @afogel29.bsky.social, Jordan Anderson, and all the other members of the @amboselibaboonrp.bsky.social who made this work possible!

Together, our results suggest that the genetic architecture of DNA methylation is conserved between closely related species. Cis-genetic effects on gene regulation may remain stable for over a million years, which has implications for how we understand modern and archaic human variants.

We also show that ancestry effects within Amboseli recapitulates differences between the parent species. These results support a genetic basis for many interspecific methylation differences, despite environmental variation when individuals are sampled from distinct populations.

By changing the allele frequency, admixture introduces new regulatory variation - including at sites that would be otherwise fixed in the population!

Local genetic ancestry frequently predicts DNA methylation levels, and these differences can be predicted using the allele frequency at cis-acting genetic variants (meQTL).

I'm happy to (finally) share the last chapter of my dissertation work. Focusing on DNA methylation levels, we show that admixture increases gene regulatory variation within the Amboseli baboon population.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Thank you!

There's some nice work on how the power of selection scans differs based on the time of selection. I can't remember where that figure was published though

Wahoo!!

Repost w/ correct link!
The Dept of Human Genetics at the Univeristy of Utah is hosting a Rising Stars in Genetics & Genomics postdoc symposium. We are looking to feature postdocs doing cool science! Please self nominate or nominate an excellent postdoc! #ASHGtrainees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thanks Jun, I couldn't agree more!

Thank you!

1/n 🚨Very excited to share our recent work!🚨
To understand gene regulation across diverse environmental conditions and cellular contexts, we treated a broad array of human cell types with three environmental exposures in vitro.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Finally, I am immensely grateful to my mentors over the years (particularly @jennytung.bsky.social and Luis Barreiro), as well as all of the collaborators, lab members, and friends who have helped along this journey!

I will be recruiting students, postdocs, and technicians -- if you're interested in this work, please reach out to me!

Research diagram outlining Tauras' research plan. The research combines integrating primate genetic variation and pathogens in in vitro infection experiments. It then investigates the genome biology and evolutionary mechanisms driving variation in the response, to yield conservation and health impacts.

My lab will study how genetic varation among primates shapes the response to environmental stimuli, focusing on the immune system. Ultimately, I hope to connect genetic variation to immune phenotypes and identify the ecological and evolutionary drivers of immune variation.

University of Georgia Bulldog outside the Georgia Center at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

I'm thrilled to share that I'll be joining the Department of Genetics at UGA as an Assistant Professor in January! @universityofga.bsky.social Genetics@UGA #newPI

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Interested in a starting PI position at University College London to work on Genetics, Evolution or the Environment? My department has opened the call for expressions of interest for sponsorship of independent fellowship applications.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Final week to apply for this year’s round of the Princeton EEB Fellowship Program, folks! Please repost and help spread the word! We’re going tweetless and need the biggest bluest skies you folks can muster, please!!! ☀️ @eseb.bsky.social
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Thanks!

Exciting! Glad to see it got funded!