Alison Feder

Early career faculty? #FreemanHrabowski Scholar applications open Nov. 3! In the words of current Scholar Claudia Moreno (@uwdeptmedicine.bsky.social), “Don’t think twice — apply." Register now to check your eligibility, preview the application, unlock additional resources, & more: bit.ly/fhs26.

I am so honored and excited to receive NIH Director's New Innovator Award for our lab!🌟 I am really grateful to our lab members and all mentors supporting me past and present. We are looking forward to exciting science we can do and relatedly, hiring at all levels!! newsroom.uw.edu/blog/3-from-...

I had a fantastic time working closely with Pleuni during my PhD! Strong endorse!!

Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

1/17 Submissions are now open for the 2027 Microbial Population Biology GRC! We expect this meeting to be extraordinarily oversubscribed. If you want to come, time is of the essence--apply ASAP! June 27–July 2 • Andover, NH www.grc.org/microbial-po...

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch. Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.

Two faculty searches at Berkeley Plant & Microbial Bio @PMB_Berkeley Submit applications by Sept 30 Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522

Today is the day! So excited to share with my colleagues a bit of what we accomplished!

Open your lab here at Utah! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...

If you are thinking of applying to the @uwgenome.bsky.social PhD program this fall, we have a couple of zoom info sessions set up for Oct 6 and Oct 22. Please register at the link. Our website also has a ton of useful information about crafting your application. www.gs.washington.edu/news/graduat...

Finishing your PhD or looking for a post-bac research position? We’re recruiting postdocs and research technicians to study somatic evolution! Come do interdisciplinary science in a friendly, collaborative environment at @harvardmed.bsky.social Genetics www.naxerova.hms.harvard.edu/contact

Junior faculty position in Basic Sciences @fredhutch.org! Please repost!

Kicking off Day 2 of #SocialViruses26: Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social from University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research @cvrinfo.bsky.social with "Mechanisms and consequences of influenza virus superinfection exclusion"

Come be our colleague. I have been in this Division for 27 years (4 as a postdoc and 23 as a PI). It is an amazing place to work, collaborate, and be inspired. If you are applying to be an Assistant or Associate Professor this Fall, don't miss this deadline.

For those not able to make it to #socialviruses this year, Sam is live-tweeting all three days of talks, touching on all aspects of social evolution in viruses! #evosky #virosky 🧪 🦠 🔬

Back from lunch at #SocialViruses26 — Alexander Robertson @alexrob.bsky.social (University of Washington) on "Cooperative interactions facilitate measles virus brain infection"

Concisely summarizes one of my favorite insights from @alexrob.bsky.social 's latest work!

Yuksel: Research available in a recent pre-print www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #SocialViruses26

Hi Everyone! I will be broadcasting live from the Social Lives of Viruses 2026 conference @zoology.ubc.ca @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social in beautiful Vancouver BC, organized by @asherleeks.bsky.social and myself with the support of Canadian Institutes of Health Research and @moorefound.bsky.social.

Thrilled to post thread re: new single-cell lineage of mouse embryo reconstructed w/ DNA Typewriter. One animal, zygote to late organogenesis (E13.5). Tree has 1,340,794 transcriptionally profiled, annotated tips (cells), 1,142,588 dated internal nodes, rooted at zygote 1/n

Cannot be more excited about the lineup for the inaugural Function of Evolving Systems GRC conference I am co-organizing with the amazing Joy Bergelson. Less than a month away: August 9 - 14, 2026. Still a few spots left! And do check out the amazing list of speakers: www.grc.org/function-of-...

Genuine question for folx who look at bacterial phylogenies: How do you interpret the bootstrap support and posterior probabilities that you get on your tree estimates? Do you take them seriously? Do you think: "Wow, all 99%, that must be a reliable tree!"? 1/

It's go time!

Very proud of this preprint out of my lab, our first (of hopefully many) host-microbe spatial transcriptomics paper. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing insights into P. aeruginosa biology and chronic airway disease @cysticfibrosis.org.uk @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk

Inaugural post! We are a brand new lab @pasteur.fr studying how pathogen antigens evolve and how we can exploit these proteins' evolution to make better vaccines! Read a few words from the currently sole member of the lab @spyroslytras.bsky.social below! 😁 www.pasteur.fr/en/research-...

Pls share: U of Washington has an opening for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position is expected to specialize in molecular virology or bacteriology. Here is a link: microbiology.washington.edu/index.php/ne...

What if an embryo made immune cells before it finished building the tissue they usually come from? In our new preprint, we show that annual killifish embryos specify neutrophils before germ layers are fully resolved. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Huge thanks to my PI, @ohnolog.bsky.social ! 🧵

I'm hiring a #postdoc 🥳 and applications are open 🤩 Candidates with interests in EITHER statistical methodology or microbial ecology / microbiome are welcome to apply. The position / projects will be tailored to the candidate 🌟📈🎤 Thank you for sharing widely! apply.interfolio.com/188571

Elena Romero @elena-romero.bsky.social is now on bluesky! She has been doing awesome work at @uwgenome.bsky.social on HIV evolutionary dynamics in the context of recombination and bNAb escape, and is starting a postdoc with @matsen.bsky.social in a few months. Give her a follow!

🚨 #Evol2026 attendees - our team at @arcadiascience.com is hiring! We're looking to hire a computational evolutionary biologist interested in asking how and why protein sequences/structures/functions differ across the tree of life 🧬 jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien... Please share widely!

Replaying germinal center evolution on a quantified affinity landscape www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Congratulations to the winners of the GS outstanding Service Award: Bonny Brewer (faculty), Josh Malamy (staff), Joe Min (student), and Ryan Friedman (postdoc)!

Two pleas from a journal editor: 1. If you're mid-career or senior and are declining a review, please recommend a junior colleague. 2. If you're early-career and want to be asked to review papers, please ensure editors can readily discover your expertise, current affililation, and email address.

Excited that Elena Romero is speaking about HIV intra-host evolution in the Crow Award session today at #PEQG26! Her talk focuses on her recent paper (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...) and unpublished follow up work asking what diversity and linkage signatures look like for "ultra-soft" sweeps!

#PEQG26 folks! I will be presenting my postdoc project with @jkpritch.bsky.social and @jeffspence.github.io about inferring population structure dynamics over time with tensor decomposition on ARG. The talk will be at the James Crow Talk session on Wednesday. Look forward to seeing everyone there!