Joana L. Rocha
Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator at NYU Biology | Ecology & Evolution | proud Sudmant lab alumnus | typos and views are my own & I can be wrong :)
joanocha.github.io
- Mark your calendars for #PEQG26 June 9–12, 2026, at Pacific Grove, CA. I’m excited to attend this cross-disciplinary meeting of researchers doing theoretical and experimental work in broad fields. See you all there! genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/
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- Post-Doctoral Opportunity in Evolutionary and Conservation Genomics! If you are curious and passionate about ecology, evolution and the natural world come work with me in the Department of Biology at NYU! More details here! apply.interfolio.com/180051
- Reposted by Joana L. Rocha📖Latest from the lab: Evo. characterization #antiviral #SAMD9/9L across #kingdoms🚶♀️🦍🦠🧫🖥️: ancient #convergence + #adaptations @natecoevo.nature.com Led by amazing Alexandre Legrand +major contributions by Rémi Demeure & Amandine Chantharath @ciri-lyon.bsky.social 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Joana L. RochaPEQG website live! genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/
- Reposted by Joana L. RochaWe are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/n)
- Reposted by Joana L. RochaVery much looking forward to teaching our second edition of the Latin American biodiversity genomics course, this time in Argentina.
- Introduction to Biodiversity Genomics Course 📅 Nov 24–28, 2025 | 📍 Mendoza, Argentina In-person course for Latin Americans starting with genomic data analysis. 📝 Pre-registration open 🔗 biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com @joanameier.bsky.social @evoargentina.bsky.social
- I am thrilled to announce that in January 2026 I will be starting my own lab at NYU Biology! Soon enough I will be recruiting postdocs and students! Please reach out if you are interested with a CV and description of your research interests, or if you know of people who could be interested! 🧬🗽 🦊
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