Last week I attended the 18th East-West Immunogenetics Conference in Zagreb, where I presented on insights from ancient DNA regarding HLA evolution. I would like to thank Renata Zunec and Zorana Grubic for the great organization and their kind invitation to speak. #immunology #HLA #MHC #ancientDNA

Dear all, The deadline has been extended to 27 February! We will host the 29th DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology! Don’t miss this great opportunity to share your research, exchange ideas, and connect with other researchers in evolutionary biology. Scan the QR for details👇

We’re getting so many journal submissions from people who think ‘it kinda works’ is the standard to aim for.

I started working on a project in January 2024 and submitted the manuscript in October 2024. Now, after 15 months and a single round of revision, we are still waiting for the editorial decision. My new year resolution might be to withdraw this manuscript and submit somewhere else.

We are very excited to be organising this symposium at SMBE @official-smbe.bsky.social next year! We look forward to your abstracts and to being in Copenhagen!

New manuscript out in NAR! tinyurl.com/4rrbuesn 🧬 VDJbase and OGRDB now support 3000+ IG/TR samples across human and rhesus macaque with curated AIRR-seq and long-read genomic data. From population analysis to precision annotation. @guryaari.bsky.social @cdubsig.bsky.social @williamlees.bsky.social

A new paper about #longevity and #HLA: Men with HLA-DRB1*15:01 might be among the unlucky ones... “HLA-DRB1*15:01 is associated with a reduced likelihood of longevity in northern European men” It was great to work with Nicolas on that paper! genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Join Our Citizen Science Project! We are mapping the house mouse hybrid zone in Schleswig-Holstein, DE, and you can help. Visit our House Mouse Hybrid Zone Project website to learn more jwinternitz.github.io/mouse-hybrid.... Funded by @dfg.de at @uni-hamburg.de #DFG #musmusculus #wildmice

Brilliant paper by Visscher et al. Populations differ in traits/disease burden. Are these differences due to genetics? Comparing single variants or polygenic scores between populations is biased due to environmental confounders correlated with the variants. 1/3 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

I remember back when I was learning Python, a computer engineer mentioned objects and I asked "What is an object?" The answer was: "What do you mean? Everything is an object in Python!" and he continued without expanding. I wish more explanations like this were available back then...

Happy to share our new study from my PhD on the spread of farming across Anatolia and into the Aegean and then into Europe. @compevohumang.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👇🏽

A Matriarchal Society Existed in Çatalhöyük During the Neolithic More Than 10,000 Years Ago, Researchers Find www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/06/a...

Have you recently registered as a blood marrow donor and got your HLA genotyped? Why don’t you try this little app I built? HLA PCA Viewer is a Shiny app that plots your HLA genotype onto a PCA space derived from the 1000 Genomes Project. onur-ozer.shinyapps.io/hla-pca/ github.com/onur-ozer/HL...

I am honored and humbled to receive the Jon van Rood Award for Best Abstract at EFI 2025! My first EFI was amazing and I am looking forward to many more ahead! #EFI2025 #immunogenetics

#EFI2025 is about to kick off in beautiful Prague! 🇨🇿 I’ll be presenting in the Best Abstracts session on Saturday, sharing our work on ancient HLA diversity in Europe. Super excited for a week of science, new connections, and fresh ideas! #HLA #AncientDNA #Immunogenetics #MHC

I have always been proud of my university ODTÜ in Turkey, not only for its academic success but also for the political stance of students. Right now, this is the treatment faced by students who stand up for democracy. (photo credit unknown for now)

Hello Blue world! I recently migrated from the old Twitter as I got tired of the continuous bombardment of far-right propaganda. I intend to use this account mainly for scientific exchange with a pinch of politics. So, why not start with a summary of our recent paper? doi.org/10.1186/s130...