Casey Bergman
Dad, bioinformatician, ex-expat. Currently working on transposon bioinformatics & infectious disease genomics.
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- Reposted by Casey BergmanCrushed to hear of Mark Batzer’s passing. He was the Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University. His influential research revealed how mobile elements shape the genomes of humans & other mammals. Mark’s personality, generosity & positivity were larger than life. He lifted everyone up. HUGE loss 💔
- Reposted by Casey Bergman🍄Transposon traffic in the mycocosmos🍄 Fascinating work reveals extensive horizontal TE transfer across fungi (@jromeijn.bsky.social, Iñigo Bañales & @mfseidl.bsky.social; doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...). I wrote a Dispatch to prime non-specialists,check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu.... #TEworldwide
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- Reposted by Casey Bergmanvery sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
- Reposted by Casey BergmanWe are excited to invite abstract submissions for talks and posters for the 2026 Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases meeting at Virginia Tech (June 2-4). Abstract submissions should be made by February 3, 2026 for consideration, using the google form here: cpe.vt.edu/eeid2026/abs...
- Hivemind: has anyone had a response from #NCBI about submissions started prior to the government shutdown?
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- Reposted by Casey BergmanCongratulations to Richard Durbin on being awarded our Genetics Society Medal!
- Reposted by Casey Bergman💡 Novel work supported by HPRC members highlights Locityper, a tool bringing accurate genotyping to some of the most challenging regions of the human genome. Fast and precise, it outperforms current pipelines and scales to biobank-sized cohorts. More at: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Casey Bergman#Wolbachia has puzzled scientists with its power to rewire insect reproduction. What if I tell you that we found one of the keys Wolbachia use to rewire its host AND a small molecule inhibitor uses this key to mimic what this microbe has mastered for millions of years. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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- Reposted by Casey BergmanYesterday, Nina Marthe, our wonderful PhD student with Matthias Zytnicky, resubmit our tool GrAnnoT, for pangenome variation graph annotation! @ird-fr.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social @peercommunityin.bsky.social #pangenomics 💻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Casey BergmanWhen transposons jump, genomes diverge - even in cultured cells. I am happy to share our new preprint: a chromosome-scale genome assembly for Drosophila OSC cells, one of the key model systems in the piRNA field, especially for nuclear piRNA biology. 🧬🧵 (1/12)
- Reposted by Casey BergmanC. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]
- Reposted by Casey BergmanCome be our head of bioinformatics at @mrc-lms.bsky.social ! Our bioinformatics team are closely involved with lots of interesting science and we love working with them. Topics inc. development, cancer, metabolism, aging, TEs (my favourite of course 😜) #TEsky lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
- Reposted by Casey BergmanKicked off a series on #Drosophila TE discovery and naming. The first post covers elements that predate the term "mobile element", and more. artemilin.dev/posts/te_nam...
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- Reposted by Casey BergmanWe are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)
- Reposted by Casey BergmanPangene, an innovative computational tool, maps gene orientation, order & copy-number changes across genomes. Applied to the human pangenome, it reveals both known variation & complex haplotypes. Read more: academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
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- Reposted by Casey BergmanLooking forward to this new installment of the Woods Hole Mobile DNA Meeting! Fantastic program, laid-back atmosphere, and gorgeous setting at the Marine Biological Laboratory ⛵️🪼🐋 Abstract submission closes Aug 7 but registration after that date is possible. www.eventsquid.com/event.cfm?ev...
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- Reposted by Casey BergmanPostdoc position opening in my group! Research projects: pangenomes for diverse organisms, genome evolution, biocomputing, language models. Please reach out if interested!
- Reposted by Casey BergmanPls. share widely Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025 → Vibrant & friendly community → Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology → Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating) submit abstract by July 29
- ⏰ Abstract deadline for 'The mobile genome' is 29 July! 👉 s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl Join us 4–7 Nov 2025 at EMBL Heidelberg (or online) to explore the impact of TEs across biology. 🧬🔍 ⭐🧑🏼🔬 24 talks + 15 flash talks from posters – don't miss out! #EMBOMobileGenome
- My colleague David Garfinkel is looking for a postdoc to join our NIH-funded project on the “Evolution of Retrotransposon Control Mechanisms” More info here: reporter.nih.gov/search/u7dKr.... The official job listing can be found here: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/437... Please repost! #TEsky
- Reposted by Casey Bergman🦟 Bioinformatics Research Scientist position open in my lab in Nice (FR) to study Aedes mosquito retrotransposons & their interactions with arboviruses collab w/ @salehlabparis.bsky.social & @lambrechtslab.bsky.social Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/359830 Please boost! #ArboRetro #Bioinformatics
- @brunolemaitre.bsky.social once told me not to trust big claims from papers with no follow-up work. People have likely tried and failed to replicate, but not published negative results. One of the best pieces of scientific advice I’ve ever received.
- The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field? That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience A 🧵 1/n
- Reposted by Casey BergmanThe "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field? That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience A 🧵 1/n
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- Reposted by Casey BergmanThe SMBE Lifetime Contribution Award winner is Chung-I Wu. ⭐ 2025 Winners: members.smbe.org/news/Details... 📄 Information on the Faculty Awards: www.smbe.org/faculty-awards
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- Transposable element enthusiasts at #Evol2025, please come by posters I12 on 6/22 and E17 on 6/23 to chat about horizontal transfer of Ty elements in yeast and oliverlevine.bsky.social's new method to predict TE insertions in pangenomes.
- Reposted by Casey BergmanThe first paper of my PhD is now available as a preprint! 🎉 Transposable elements (TEs) don't just jump within fungal genomes, they also move extensively between species. In this study, we screened over 1,300 fungal genomes and found a conservative estimate of 5,500+ horizontal transfer events.
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- Reposted by Casey BergmanSlides from my talk (with @kamilsjaron.bsky.social) on an history of k-mers in bioinformatics: rayan.chikhi.name/pdf/2025-kme...
- A new simulation pipeline enhances benchmarking of transposon polymorphism detection tools genomics.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
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