Assistant Professor in the EEOB Department @UCRiverside. Studying evolution and recombination using genomics. 🇨🇦🔬🖥️. Also: @ksamuk.bsky.social
Riverside, CA
Joined January 2014
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Kieran Samuk retweeted
Yes.
Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.
Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Kieran Samuk retweeted
Excited to announce my first resource publication “Correcting for Bias in Estimates of Watterson’s theta
and Tajima's D From Missing Data in Next-Generation Sequencing” out now in Molecular Ecology Resources! Article linked below in short thread 👇
Kieran Samuk retweeted
New paper with @smishra677 ! Maybe it will bring you some joy given all this (waves arms around).
"Estimating recombination using only the allele frequency spectrum"
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biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Kieran Samuk retweeted
For folks still here, the first big project from my group is pre-printed. Super talented postdoc @mariaakop explored how reference bias can skew estimates of diversity, demography, divergence and recombination rate with help from @_ellie_cat and @GMenchev. Thread 👇🏽
1/7 🧬 New Preprint Alert: Our study highlights the risks of using divergent reference genomes in population genomics. The choice of reference genome can skew key inferences about demography, diversity, and selection. Read on for insights! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Kieran Samuk retweeted
My department is searching for 2 ecologists, broadly defined:
aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01983
Hi all, my lab at UC Riverside is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025! These positions will be fully funded and include NIH-funded projects on recombination rate evolution and chromosomal inversions. Get in touch with me at [email protected], and please RT!
Kieran Samuk retweeted
Widely observed negative correlation between recombination rate and TE abundance is usually interpreted as recombination rate being the "cause," influencing the efficacy of selection purging TEs. Yet, our recent study "flipped" this causality! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…… (1/5)
Kieran Samuk retweeted
Just posted our first official paper from the lab! Fantastic postdoc @gabbrosandstone led this work, and we're so so happy to have it out! 1/
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Kieran Samuk retweeted
This is wrong, but there is a lot of confusion about why (thread)
Most people don't realize that interbreeding with other races means that strangers on the street from your own race are more related to you than your own child. Amplify this, @elonmusk and spread the knowledge!
Kieran Samuk retweeted
We know that DNA introgressed from one population into another is often deleterious, but why?
@carl_veller and I show that stabilizing selection, by itself, can induce selection against introgressed ancestry.
doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.20.6…
My lab at UC Riverside is looking to hire a *lab manager/technician*. We are a evolutionary genetics lab and we are especially looking for someone with experience working with fish (or a desire to learn!). See here for details: samuklab.com/files/TechAd.pd…
Pleased to announce that my lab at UC Riverside has been awarded an NIH/NIGMS MIRA. This grant will fund our research on the evolution and genetics of recombination rate variation. We are also now recruiting at multiple levels, starting with postdocs (see QT below!).
Hey #evolution2024 I am recruiting a postdoc, starting as early as September 2024, to work on a variety of evolutionary genomics projects in my lab at UC Riverside. Project specifics are flexible, and the position is renewable up to five years. Please RT and get in touch!
Hey #evolution2024, come see my awesome student Alex talk about her work on a very unusual stickleback species pair today at 1130!
Hey #evolution2024 I am recruiting a postdoc, starting as early as September 2024, to work on a variety of evolutionary genomics projects in my lab at UC Riverside. Project specifics are flexible, and the position is renewable up to five years. Please RT and get in touch!
Kieran Samuk retweeted
GATK 4.6.0.0 reverts back to ./. for no-calls instead of 0/0 with DP=0 github.com/broadinstitute/ga…
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"Our results suggest that hybridization can significantly influence the recombination landscape, and that the reduction in allele shuffling contributes to the initial purging of introgression in the generations following a hybridization event." biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Kieran Samuk retweeted
July's 40th anniversary Perspective by @SuseJohnston helps celebrate 40 years of MBE by highlighting past and current knowledge on the genetic basis of variation in meiotic recombination. buff.ly/4cJomH2
Kieran Samuk retweeted
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Kieran Samuk retweeted
Fine-scale contemporary recombination variation and its fitness consequences in adaptively diverging stickleback fish nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
