Ariella L. Gladstein

The paper expands the stdpopsim species catalog and improves genome simulations by adding non-crossover recombination and species-specific annotations, making simulations more realistic for non-model organisms.

The paper introduces msprime 1.0, a high-performance simulation tool for ancestry and mutation in population genetics, showing it is faster and more memory efficient than existing alternatives.

The paper uses Approximate Bayesian Computation to infer demographic history of Ashkenazi Jews, finding population differentiation between Eastern and Western groups ~400 years ago due to differing growth rates.