Molly Schumer

@MollySchumer

Evolutionary biologist, all things hybridization

Joined April 2018

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    Jan 31

    Today is the last day to nominate an outstanding young evolutionary biologist for this prize! Nominations due tonight at 11:59 pm Pacific US time.

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    Jan 30

    An updated version of our ( and ) work on the factors affecting the performance of polygenic scores--beyond genetic ancestry—is accepted and now up [thread]

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    Jan 25

    Happy 120th birthday to Theodosius Dobzhansky

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    Jan 23

    Please RT: We're looking for a postdoc to do speciation genetics in our lab . Feel free to DM me with informal inquiries.

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    At the in Mexico city we have an open call for an Assistant Professor position in Theoretical Ecology details about the post - in English and Spanish - here: Please spread the word!

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    Jan 16
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  7. Jan 9

    We are looking for a fish room/lab technician to join us at Stanford & support projects on hybridization in swordtail fish. Please pass along to possible candidates and RT! More information about our group and the position here: &

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    Jan 7

    We made hybrid populations with two species pairs of Drosophila. After 20 generations, the genomes and phenotypes of the admixed populations resembled one of the parental species. With et al. Now in

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    Jan 5

    receiving an award for supporting sustainability with science and art outreach in the community of Calnali, Hildago! Felicidades! Mazel Tov!

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    Jan 1

    Happy 2020! With the holidays behind us, wanted to highlight a few key take-aways from our preprint: . Our study focuses on a basic question: how do gut microbial communities respond to routine antibiotic treatments?

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    26 Dec 2019

    Wow! SO excited to see the first chapter of my dissertation officially out!!!

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    23 Dec 2019

    Excited to announce a new preprint w/ on the ecological and evolutionary responses of the human gut microbiome during antibiotic treatment. . A lot of surprises in here for me -- will post a longer summary after the holidays.

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    22 Dec 2019

    Come join us ! We are broadly searching for an ecologist or evolutionary biologist at the assistant or associate level. Please apply!

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    18 Dec 2019

    Great postdoc opportunity for Danish scientists (or those trained in Denmark) to come to Stanford: We have a wonderful community here in evolutionary biology and genomics and many great labs to consider:

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    15 Dec 2019

    Are you in your first or second year of a PhD? Need research funding? Check out our R.C. Lewontin Early Award - part of our Graduate Research Excellence Grants. Proposals due February 15!

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    13 Dec 2019

    A story of star crossed lovers among swordtail fish.

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  17. 13 Dec 2019

    Thanks to and many others for helpful discussions along the way!

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  18. 13 Dec 2019

    We also found evidence for strong viability selection against the melanoma incompatibility in natural hybrid populations. Puzzlingly, the melanoma is maintained at moderate frequencies in some populations, which we are excited to dig into in future work.

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  19. 13 Dec 2019

    We used a variety of approaches to fine map the genes involved in this incompatibility, ultimately identifying an interaction between cd97 and xmrk. This was surprising because xmrk causes melanoma in a distantly related swordtail cross, that does not hybridize in the wild.

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  20. 13 Dec 2019

    These melanin spots originate from one of the parental species (X. birchmanni). Histology and gene expression showed that in hybrids some of these spots had become malignant melanomas. In some hybrid populations, rates of melanomas reached ~20%.

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