population genomics. evolution. bioinformatics.
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Zoe, Ciera, Jack, and Priyanshi presented posters on their research at the recent SDSU Student Symposium (S3)! The largest student symposium across SDSU, this was a prime event that brought together student researchers from across campus, with over 400 presentations. Congrats to all Sethuraman Lab presenters!
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 Our programmer and Sethuraman Lab alum, Trevor Mugoya received the AGBT's 2026 NextGen Leadership Award at the annual general meeting in Orlando, FL recently. Congratulations to Trevor!
Dr. Sethuraman recently delivered the keynote lecture at the 2026 S3 Awards Ceremony in Montezuma Hall, San Diego State University. Commemorating 10 years of the Sethuraman Lab, his lecture was titled - "Science of Everything, Everywhere, Everyhow"
Abstract: As the child of two scientists, I have always found that innate itch to question everything, everywhere, and to answer them everyhow. From observing gravid turtles in marshlands along the Mississippi and Missouri, to nail-polish marked larval lady beetles competing for aphids, to clonal 'zombie' wasps that control the brains of their host beetles in my "garage" lab, to assessing disparities among evolutionary biologists in our scientific societies, to discrepancies and biases in our data and how we handle them, to stromatolite mats in the Anza Borrego Desert, to my classrooms. The questions are endless, as are the answers. In this lecture, I will describe how to find that passion to ask the right questions, and how I've trained mentees in my lab to do the same. Do check out his lecture here!  Arun has a new op-ed on missing data problems in population genomics and statistical methods to address them, now out in the January 2026 issue of G3. Do check it out here.
 Priyanshi's manuscript from her MS thesis work, titled "A Novel Machine Learning Approach for Tumor Detection Based on Telomeric Signatures" was recently published in Biology Methods & Protocols! We developed an accurate and precise machine learning framework for predicting tumor status from The Cancer Genome Atlas data. Check out our work here. Congratulations to Priyanshi!
Exciting news! We won first place in the 2025 North American Guild of Beer Writers Awards for "Best in Beer Media" today in the "Best Academic Writing" category for our recent Molecular Ecology publication:
McElwee-Adame, Alexandra, Raya Esplin-Stout, Trevor Mugoya, George Vourlitis, Nautica Welch, John Henning, Kayser Afram, Maryam Ahmadi Jeshvaghane, Nathan Mingham, Alexis Dockter, Jacob Eslava, Giovanni Gil, Amran Mohamed, Tram Nguyen, Fatum Noor, Nathan Salcedo, and Arun Sethuraman. “Evolutionary History and Rhizosphere Microbial Community Composition in Domesticated Hops (Humulus lupulus L.).” Molecular Ecology, (2025). https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17769 Announcement here: https://reportersnotebook.org/uncategorized/north-american-guild-of-beer-writers-announces-2025-awards-winners-honoring-the-best-in-beer-media/ All co-authors are graduate students from our lab, or undergraduate students who were in the Fall 2023 version of BIOL 596 Research Methods in Agricultural Sciences course. Their experiments conducted through Fall 2023 form a big part of the described research. CURE's are integral to our research mission, and I hope that we can continue to teach more of them at SDSU!  Our manuscript titled "Accurate Predictive Modeling of Conservation Status in Animal Species Using Supervised Learning" from Anais' MS thesis work was recently published in Ecology and Evolution! We developed a machine learning model to accurately predict IUCN conservation status across a variety of animal taxa. Check out our work here. Congrats to Anais!
Our manuscript describing biases in summary statistics like genetic differentiation (Fst), diversity (pi), Tajima’s D, and estimates of theta, migration rates, and divergence times when not accounting for ghost gene flow is now published in G3! We establish theoretical expectations for summary stats, use a gamut of simulations (shoutout to msprime + tskit) under the island, and isolation with migration models, & genomes from Native African hunter-gatherers, in this multiyear effort from my grad students Melissa, Michael, and Margaret - congratulations to all of them! Read the manuscript here.   Arun was recently nominated, and made the final 10 list of Out Magazine's Out100 list, which the magazine describes as the "year's most impactful and influential LGBTQ+ people." If you voted for him, watch this space for future announcements!
The Sethuraman Lab had a great time presenting our work at the recent Botanical Society of America meetings in Palm Springs, CA. Watch this space for publications from Trevor, Tamsen, and Alex! |
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