William DeWitt

wsdewitt.github.io

05 June 2026 22:38

This started in 2019 as daydreamy PhD student musings with Tatsuya Araki. We're as excited as ever about germinal centers as a platform for experimental evolution. Many thanks to PIs @victora.bsky.social @matsen.bsky.social, co-1st authors Ashni Vora and Tatsuya, and many other key collaborators!

William DeWitt

wsdewitt.github.io

05 June 2026 22:37

Game over, phylogeneticists! New DNA foundation model "Carbon" reconstructs the tree of life. 🙃 huggingface.co/spaces/Huggi...

Sudarshan Pinglay

sudpinglay.bsky.social

05 June 2026 22:35

How much of the human genome is essential? Two pieces out today from our lab: 1) a method to map essential genomic intervals at gigabase scale, and 2) an argument that it's time to consider synthesizing a minimal human genome. biorxiv.org/content/10.6... nature.com/articles/d41...

Nicholas Mancuso

nmancuso.bsky.social

06 May 2026 23:28

Super excited to see this out! Fantastic collaboration with Luke O'Connor and trainees Amber Shen and Xinran Wang. Thread with details will come soon, but linear ARG provide a HIGHLY efficient representation of genotype data that can be treated as a linear operator www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

UW Genome Sciences

uwgenome.bsky.social

28 April 2026 23:18

Congratulations to Jesse Bloom on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences! www.nasonline.org/news/2026-na...