Dr. Ofori-Boateng wins a Whitley award

Our friend and collaborator in Ghana, Dr. Caleb Ofori-Boateng, has won a Whitley Award for his conservation work on the critically endangered Togo slippery frog (Conraua derooi). The Whitley Award, also called the “Green Oscars”, is a prestigious international prize presented to individuals in recognition of their achievements in nature conservation. Congratulations, Caleb!

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SNPs in population- & phylo-genomics

In December 2018, I was invited to teach at a workshop in Canberra, Australia on bioinformatics, population genomics and phylogenetics with SNP data. There was a really terrific group of instructors and students. “Have you got large SNP datasets and now are wondering how best to filter the data, to…

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