Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences & Oceans Research Center @ Lehigh. Chromosome-scale comparative genomics, early animal evolution, bioluminescence. Recruiting PhD students and postdocs. 日本語/Deutsch https://evogeno.me https://github.com/conchoeciahttps://bsky.app/profile/dts.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dts.bsky.social/post/3mthfbd75322aOur new paper in Science Advances asks how animals' genomes have changed since their origin from a common ancestor over 600 million years ago, and what patterns in their DNA have arisen in the churn of speciation and extinction. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz556119 Aug 2026 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:kv2uldlyfo5mky36hl3hdtev/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthfbd75322ahttps://bsky.app/profile/dts.bsky.social/post/3mth7ct7kzs22I'm thrilled to share that I've started as an Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences and the Oceans Research Center at Lehigh University! I'm building a group in evolutionary genomics to study the origin of animals, and to use those concepts to better understand human disease. More: evogeno.me19 Aug 2026 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:kv2uldlyfo5mky36hl3hdtev/app.bsky.feed.post/3mth7ct7kzs22https://bsky.app/profile/dts.bsky.social/post/3mgg7e3rmlk24One thing I'm doing since joining the Tan Lab @ Stanford is working on the computational stack of 3D genome research. I put Dip-C v1.0 out as a release! This is an archive of the original Python 2 code from the single-cell 3D genomes in Science, Nat Struct Mol Biol, and Cell (2018–2023). 🧬06 Mar 2026 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:kv2uldlyfo5mky36hl3hdtev/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgg7e3rmlk24https://bsky.app/profile/dts.bsky.social/post/3mgdysvv6dk2oA little late, but there is a fun new chapter in my life! I joined Longzhi Tan's lab at Stanford Neurobiology in November, and am now working on single-cell 3D architecture, neurodegeneration, and aging. Excited to bring a comparative genomics perspective to these topics. 🧬 Tan lab: 3dgeno.me https://3dgeno.me/05 Mar 2026 23:57 +0000at://did:plc:kv2uldlyfo5mky36hl3hdtev/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgdysvv6dk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dts.bsky.social/post/3mgbl5c7bmk2cWhen you zoom out from individual genes to consider the context of whole chromosomes across animal diversity, animal evolution takes on a different look. Oleg Simakov and I published a review in @annualreviews.bsky.social on topological approaches in comparative genomics. 🧬 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-animal-030424-08454105 Mar 2026 00:47 +0000at://did:plc:kv2uldlyfo5mky36hl3hdtev/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgbl5c7bmk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/dts.bsky.social/post/3kfxqf5zoyx2oOur paper on the octopus genome made the cover of G3! 🐙 Congrats to my mentee Dalila Destanović, Eve Seuntjens, and the CNAG team in Barcelona! Photo courtesy of David Stohlmann - a graduate student at the University of Vienna. https://academic.oup.com/g3journal/article/13/12/jkad220/7319708?login=false07 Dec 2023 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:kv2uldlyfo5mky36hl3hdtev/app.bsky.feed.post/3kfxqf5zoyx2o