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Introducing Dr. Sima Bouzid!

Adam May 31, 2019 May 31, 2019Burke, Lab

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)

Dr. Ofori-Boateng wins a Whitley award

Adam May 25, 2019 May 25, 2019Burke, Lab

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!

2019 Computational Molecular Evolution Workshop, Hinxton UK

Adam May 24, 2019 May 31, 2019Lab

The 2019 Computational Molecular Evolution Workshop was a big success this year. We met at the beautiful Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK from 13 – 24 May. The workshop aims to provide researchers with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to carry out molecular evolutionary analyses. We cover a…

Oklahoma trip

Adam May 14, 2019 June 11, 2019Burke, Lab

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On a recent trip to Oklahoma, we got lucky and found some really cool reptiles and amphibians. Some were in the field, others were in Dr. Ron Bonett’s lab at the University of Tulsa.

SNPs in population- & phylo-genomics

Adam December 17, 2018 May 15, 2019Burke, Lab

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…