Kirk Lohmueller

Lastly, I’m excited to announce that as of July, I am the Director of the Bioinformatics IDP at UCLA and am also the Interim Home Area Director for Bioinformatics. I’m grateful to have the chance to help steer our graduate programs through this critical challenging juncture.

Learn about our three training Home Areas within the Bioinformatics Interdepartmental PhD program (IDP). These include Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics, and Systems Biology. We’ll provide information to help you decide which Home Area to apply to.

Interested in learning more about PhD programs in computational biology and genomics at UCLA? Join our virtual Open House on Monday, Nov 3 at 1:30pm. More info: bioinformatics.ucla.edu/event/gpb-virt…

@mitoPR Congratulations!!!😀

🤓 😊 So excited !

@jsb_ucla Congratulations Jessica!!! So well-deserved!

I’m deeply honored to be named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow—especially as part of the Foundation’s historic 100th class. Grateful to be in the company of so many brilliant artists, scholars, and scientists. #guggfellows2025

It's almost incomprehensible to me how much slower progress would be if it all needed to be done by for-profit companies who would seek patents for everything. We need a basis in basic science, which the market really can't support.

My time in industry convinced me of the importance of basic, government funded science research. It was crazy how much of the stuff we did was based directly on academic research that in-and-of-itself would have been too risky and/or too low-return for the company to do

@evilsmaug Congratulations!!!!!

I received my promotion and tenure approval letter from the university president today, which is also my 47th birthday. I have spent many days feeling too old or unqualified to make it in this biz, but today I feel appreciated and supported. Party time!

Congratulations Daniela!!! Super grateful to have the chance to work with you and Soojin on this exciting project!😀

@EcoEvoGal Awww! Thank you!! Wishing you happy holidays as well!😊

@lohmueller Super happy to see this! Congrats 🎉 and happy holidays to you and yours!

I am super-honored to have been elected and am looking forward to serving the GSA!

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Before you fill up on turkey and pie, apply for our Conservation Genomics faculty position at UCLA! The deadline is 11/29! Come join us! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09875?utm...

Looking forward to the 2025 Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Gordon Conference in Italy this summer! This meeting was fantastic in 2023 and promises to be outstanding again! Get more info and register here: grc.org/ecological-and…

A reminder for GSA members 📣 Make your voice heard and vote in the GSA Board of Directors elections. Read the candidate statements on our website carefully and then cast your vote: bit.ly/4fx8fhK A new and improved voting interface will make the process a breeze!

"We conclude that causal cis-eQTL effects are highly similar in European and African individuals, and allele frequency differences have a large impact on the accuracy of gene expression prediction." ~ Saitou et al. AJHG 2024 cell.com/ajhg/abstract/…

I am truly honored to have been nominated to run for a Director position of @GeneticsGSA! GSA members, vote before December 6. My candidacy statement can be found here: #DirSeven" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">genetics-gsa.org/2024-election-…

@DocEdge85 We know what comes next..there's going to be a new form to count coaches and a new web training on countable coaches....you can...count on it😀

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@PetrovADmitri They're dressing for the job they want? 😃

My lab dressed up as me for Halloween. First I thought that they all looked somehow familiar and then it got spooky!

THE DODGERS ARE WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS! 🏆 Congrats to our @Dodgers and Bruin alum Dave Roberts for bringing the title home. #WorldSeries