Introducing Dr. Sima Bouzid!

Sima successfully defended her dissertation today. We are all really impressed with Sima’s dissertation research. She completed one of the most risky and ambitious dissertation projects that we’ve seen. Congratulations! Diversification and Local Adaptation in Western Fence Lizards (Sceloporus occidentals)

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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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