population genomics. evolution. bioinformatics.
 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!
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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! Congratulations to Trevor on his successful MS thesis defense! Trevor will continue working in the Sethuraman Lab as a Scientific Programmer, starting Fall 2025. MS student Trevor Mugoya will defend his thesis on July 25th, 2025 (Friday) at 11 AM in Life Sciences North 101 and via Zoom! He will then head to the Botanical Society of America meetings in Palm Springs, CA along with postdoctoral scholar Tamsen Dunn and PhD student Alexandra. We hope to see you all there! If you're going to be in Athens, GA for the Evolution 2025 meetings, do check out our lab's talks!  Congratulations to Sethuraman Lab MS candidate Surangi Jayasinghe who recently successfully defended her MS thesis! She will commence a position with Zymo Research in July 2025. |
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