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Douda Bensasson

@dbensasson

Mostly @dbensasson.bsky.social .. Population geneticist, bioinformatician, ecological genomicist, working to understand microbial evolution and #DiversifySTEM.

 University of Georgia
bensassonlab.wordpress.com
Joined April 2013
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UGA Genetics@uga_genetics24 Mar 2025
Congrats to our newest Genetics PhD, Dr. Audrey Ward! Here, Audrey is with her advisor Dr. Douda Bensasson @dbensasson . We are proud of you Dr. Ward!
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Our accidental finding that "Low level contamination confounds population genomic analysis” is on bioRxiv - a fun collaborative project with @audreykward, @Brent__Shuman, Eduardo Scopel and @mcmomany biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Low level contamination confounds population genomic analysis

Low level contamination confounds population genomic analysis

Genome sequence contamination has a variety of causes and can originate from within or between species. Previous research focused primarily on cross-species contamination or on prokaryotes. This...

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Phylogenetic trees were wrong for in silico contaminated data from 2 different fungal species - S. cerevisiae and A. fumigatus - and using multiple tools (incl. NJ and ML approaches).
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Using B-allele frequency plots, we now screen our genome data for contamination as well as aneuploidy
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It’s been great working with @J_Pena412 on Footprints of human migration in the population structure of wild wine yeast! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… .. A quick summary 🧵:
Footprints of human migration in the population structure of wild wine yeast

Footprints of human migration in the population structure of wild wine yeast

Humans have a long history of fermenting food and beverages that led to domestication of the wine yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Despite their tight companionship with humans, yeast species that...

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Using a ballpark estimate of the S. cerevisiae mutation rate, it seems that migration into European forests roughly coincides with the spread of winemaking
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Even though natural and domesticated yeast populations are distinct, humans may have helped spread S. cerevisiae around the forests of the world.
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Professor Sarah Otto FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for her contributions to the solution of fundamental problems in evolutionary biology, including a mathematical foundation for explaining the evolution of sexual reproduction. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/people/sara…
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We’re thrilled to share the news that @mcmomany has been elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. This is a well-deserved honor for a highly valued PBIO and @UGAFranklin colleague. 🦠🍄🐶 @ASMicrobiology @universityofga @UGAResearch asm.org/Press-Releases/2024/…
65 Fellows Elected into American Academy of Microbiology

65 Fellows Elected into American Academy of Microbiology

In Feb., the American Academy of Microbiology elected 65 new fellows to the Class of 2024.

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Holly Bik@hollybik1 Aug 2023
If people can do photoshoots with burritos, then I can definitely announce my promotion to Associate Prof LIKE THIS - Its August 1st, and I'm OFFICIALLY TENURED today!! (✨sound on✨) 🚢💃🍾
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As an academic writing coach, here are the 9 mistakes I see PhD and grad students make when writing scientific papers. A thread. 🧵
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Jason Tsai@ishengtsai29 Jun 2023
This should be my lecture one first slide. – at New Taipei City, Taiwan
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This is the best video to introduce a computational biology course. There will never be a better one teapaw.org/fan_of_gpu/status/1673…
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