Piper Below
@piperbelow.bsky.social
Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Director of the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute. My research is in computational and statistical human genomics.
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Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host?
Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host?
Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host?
Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host?
Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Spread the word! There is a professor position opening at our University @upcite.bsky.social. There are several possible (great) labs to join, but if you are interested in DNA methylation and epigenetics in mammals, don't hesitate to contact me directly!
#JobOffer
💼 Un poste susceptible d’être vacant de Professeur en stabilité des génomes devrait s’ouvrir pour la rentrée 2026 au sein de l’Institut Jacques Monod
➡️ Informations concernant ce poste et la procédure de candidature 🔗 www.ijm.fr/poste-de-pro...
💼 Un poste susceptible d’être vacant de Professeur en stabilité des génomes devrait s’ouvrir pour la rentrée 2026 au sein de l’Institut Jacques Monod
➡️ Informations concernant ce poste et la procédure de candidature 🔗 www.ijm.fr/poste-de-pro...
October 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Spread the word! There is a professor position opening at our University @upcite.bsky.social. There are several possible (great) labs to join, but if you are interested in DNA methylation and epigenetics in mammals, don't hesitate to contact me directly!
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
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I can relate.
I have been a stutterer since I was a child. I hated being the only one who did. Figuring out the best way to work a sentence w/o stuttering is still exhausting.
Graduate school forced me to work extra hard on presentation skills. I got better.
🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
I have been a stutterer since I was a child. I hated being the only one who did. Figuring out the best way to work a sentence w/o stuttering is still exhausting.
Graduate school forced me to work extra hard on presentation skills. I got better.
🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
How my stutter is teaching me humility—in science and beyond
“I will always face the burden of coaxing my body to do what comes naturally and effortlessly for most,” this assistant professor writes
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October 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I can relate.
I have been a stutterer since I was a child. I hated being the only one who did. Figuring out the best way to work a sentence w/o stuttering is still exhausting.
Graduate school forced me to work extra hard on presentation skills. I got better.
🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
I have been a stutterer since I was a child. I hated being the only one who did. Figuring out the best way to work a sentence w/o stuttering is still exhausting.
Graduate school forced me to work extra hard on presentation skills. I got better.
🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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Here are some great opportunities at UNC-Chapel Hill, in a very strong biology department.
I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
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October 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Here are some great opportunities at UNC-Chapel Hill, in a very strong biology department.
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I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Staff Scientist
About EMBL-EBI EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute is a data powerhouse, utilised on a global scale to advance scientific discovery through bioinformatics and solutions to some of the world’s mos...
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October 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Application – EMBL International PhD Programme
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October 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Big day in Lab- one grad student defended (so proud)! Another lectured for me (90 min!) because I had to give a talk for a consortium. Another gave an hour talk for the dept. Another is away getting married. Another had his thesis paper come out today! Phew! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
COMPADRE: Combined pedigree-aware distant relatedness estimation for improved pedigree reconstruction
Designing powerful and unbiased genomic studies requires accurate assessment of familial relatedness even when this information is not captured from p…
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October 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Big day in Lab- one grad student defended (so proud)! Another lectured for me (90 min!) because I had to give a talk for a consortium. Another gave an hour talk for the dept. Another is away getting married. Another had his thesis paper come out today! Phew! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This work, led by my excellent graduate student Grahame Evans, was so much fun to do. we expanded the PRIMUS/PADRE relatedness tool suite to a new and improved all-in-one, scalable and user friendly tool, COMPADRE. Tools for genetic relatedness will always be one of my most fav parts of our work.
📣New from @piperbelow.bsky.social & co!
📄COMPADRE: Combined pedigree-aware distant relatedness estimation for improved pedigree reconstruction
📄COMPADRE: Combined pedigree-aware distant relatedness estimation for improved pedigree reconstruction
COMPADRE: Combined pedigree-aware distant relatedness estimation for improved pedigree reconstruction
COMPADRE improves pedigree reconstruction through a novel combination of genome-wide
IBD-sharing estimates with shared IBD segment data. COMPADRE achieves higher accuracy
in comparison to existing too...
www.cell.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This work, led by my excellent graduate student Grahame Evans, was so much fun to do. we expanded the PRIMUS/PADRE relatedness tool suite to a new and improved all-in-one, scalable and user friendly tool, COMPADRE. Tools for genetic relatedness will always be one of my most fav parts of our work.
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Our paper on clonal expansions in Sperm is out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you are interested in working at an intersection of Mendelian genomics/Population genetics/Clonal expansions +Cancer genetics/ and of course mutagenesis, please rich out about postdoc in my lab
If you are interested in working at an intersection of Mendelian genomics/Population genetics/Clonal expansions +Cancer genetics/ and of course mutagenesis, please rich out about postdoc in my lab
October 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our paper on clonal expansions in Sperm is out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you are interested in working at an intersection of Mendelian genomics/Population genetics/Clonal expansions +Cancer genetics/ and of course mutagenesis, please rich out about postdoc in my lab
If you are interested in working at an intersection of Mendelian genomics/Population genetics/Clonal expansions +Cancer genetics/ and of course mutagenesis, please rich out about postdoc in my lab
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"If everything around you looks dark, look again, you may be the light"
-Rumi
-Rumi
October 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"If everything around you looks dark, look again, you may be the light"
-Rumi
-Rumi
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Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404
October 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404
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Delighted that our paper about the distribution of genomic spans of clades/edges in genealogies (ARGs), and using this for detecting inversions and other SVs (and other phenomena that cause local disruption of recombination) is out in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (1/n)
The Length of Haplotype Blocks and Signals of Structural Variation in Reconstructed Genealogies
Abstract. Recent breakthroughs have enabled the accurate inference of large-scale genealogies. Through modelling the impact of recombination on the correla
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October 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Delighted that our paper about the distribution of genomic spans of clades/edges in genealogies (ARGs), and using this for detecting inversions and other SVs (and other phenomena that cause local disruption of recombination) is out in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (1/n)
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
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Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco
Job Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco Job Summary: The Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a fu...
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September 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
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Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...
Details - Assistant Professor, Developmental Psychology CAHSS | University of Denver
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September 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...
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Please apply to our tenure-track faculty position at
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely!
chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely!
chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
Faculty Recruitment
chemh.stanford.edu
September 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Please apply to our tenure-track faculty position at
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely!
chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely!
chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
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WE ARE... hiring!
Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions.
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Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions.
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September 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
WE ARE... hiring!
Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c
July 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c
We were interviewed by NPR's program Shortwave about our stuttering paper! Aside from my mouth saying "polymorphic" while my brain was thinking "polygenic" I think it came out fantastic! Please check it out! #NPR #VGI
www.npr.org/2025/09/03/n...
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What causes stuttering? It might be in your DNA : Short Wave
For a long time, scientists have suspected that stuttering — a common speech condition that affects an estimated 1 in every 100 people — could be heritable. Despite how common it is, it's still a rema...
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September 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We were interviewed by NPR's program Shortwave about our stuttering paper! Aside from my mouth saying "polymorphic" while my brain was thinking "polygenic" I think it came out fantastic! Please check it out! #NPR #VGI
www.npr.org/2025/09/03/n...
www.npr.org/2025/09/03/n...
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Seeking a Project Manager for the PRIME project:
"Building Infrastructure for Patients, Researchers and Industry for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)". Closing date for applications is 15 September 2025. #pwME #MEcfs
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"Building Infrastructure for Patients, Researchers and Industry for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)". Closing date for applications is 15 September 2025. #pwME #MEcfs
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PRIME Project Manager
The PRIME project is looking for an experienced and dedicated project manager. This role will be crucial to the successful delivery of PRIME, with the post holder responsible for the strategic executi...
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September 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Seeking a Project Manager for the PRIME project:
"Building Infrastructure for Patients, Researchers and Industry for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)". Closing date for applications is 15 September 2025. #pwME #MEcfs
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
"Building Infrastructure for Patients, Researchers and Industry for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)". Closing date for applications is 15 September 2025. #pwME #MEcfs
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity
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Rapid Response: Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research
The purpose of this call for proposals is to meet the current moment by supporting timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding.
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August 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity
www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
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Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines.
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August 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines.
tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...
tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...
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📢PUBLISHED @natgenet.nature.com
📰Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering.
By Hannah G. Polikowsky, Jennifer E. Below and colleagues.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📰Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering.
By Hannah G. Polikowsky, Jennifer E. Below and colleagues.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering - Nature Genetics
Genome-wide analyses in over one million self-reported cases and controls identify genetic variants associated with stuttering and find genetic correlations with autism, depression and impaired musica...
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July 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📢PUBLISHED @natgenet.nature.com
📰Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering.
By Hannah G. Polikowsky, Jennifer E. Below and colleagues.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📰Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering.
By Hannah G. Polikowsky, Jennifer E. Below and colleagues.
⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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fascinating and huge study into the origins of stuttering
I've been anxiously awaiting this @natgenet.nature.com piece from @piperbelow.bsky.social to publish!
news.vumc.org/2025/07/28/l...
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there are clips of the researchers talking about the findings and an animated vid w/study highlights
I've been anxiously awaiting this @natgenet.nature.com piece from @piperbelow.bsky.social to publish!
news.vumc.org/2025/07/28/l...
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there are clips of the researchers talking about the findings and an animated vid w/study highlights
Large-scale study uncovers 57 genetic hotspots into stuttering origins
Findings published in Nature Genetics point to 48 genes associated with stuttering and highlight neurological pathways of risk.
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July 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
fascinating and huge study into the origins of stuttering
I've been anxiously awaiting this @natgenet.nature.com piece from @piperbelow.bsky.social to publish!
news.vumc.org/2025/07/28/l...
🧪🧬
there are clips of the researchers talking about the findings and an animated vid w/study highlights
I've been anxiously awaiting this @natgenet.nature.com piece from @piperbelow.bsky.social to publish!
news.vumc.org/2025/07/28/l...
🧪🧬
there are clips of the researchers talking about the findings and an animated vid w/study highlights