Category Archives: community

TME in 2016: A new plan for independence

Posted on 4 Jan, 2016 by Jeremy Yoder

2015 was a great year for The Molecular Ecologist. With a bigger team of regular contributors than at any time in the site’s history, we’ve had 200 new posts (more than half of the total number of posts in the … Continue reading →

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Best laid plans of algae and academics oft go astray

Posted on 4 Dec, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

When you’re stuck in R and feel some procrastination is in order … write another travelogue post! I’ve wanted to spin some yarns about field mishaps. There’s no way we could sample over 45 sites without something going wrong. For our Northeast … Continue reading →

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We're looking for a few (more) good molecular ecologists

Posted on 30 Nov, 2015 by Jeremy Yoder

The Molecular Ecologist has big plans for 2016, and we’re seeking new regular contributors to help make them reality. We seek contributors with expertise and experience in our core topic, the use of genetic data to understand the past and … Continue reading →

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Workshop: Gene Conservation of Tree Species

Posted on 23 Nov, 2015 by Jeremy Yoder

From friend-of-the-blog Sean Hoban, an update about a workshop that should be of interest to molecular ecologists: A reminder, the deadline to submit abstracts for the “Gene Conservation of Tree Species – Banking on the Future” conference, to be held … Continue reading →

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Three Views of Japan

Posted on 23 Oct, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

By the time we reached Sendai, we were heading into our fourth week of sharing one tiny suitcase of clothes, while bags of silica were luxuriously spread across three large suitcases! Games of Jenga in the teeny rental cars were … Continue reading →

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Along the Mackerel Road

Posted on 16 Oct, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

We left Hokkaido and flew to Osaka where we collected our next rental car (our first teeny tiny one!) As our flight was delayed due to weather in Hokkaido, we decided to break the journey between Osaka and Obama (it … Continue reading →

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In the northern biosphere

Posted on 2 Oct, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

As regular readers will know, I’ve spent the summer traveling around the Northern Hemisphere sampling the red seaweed Gracilaria vermiculophylla, an introduced alga in North America and Europe. I’ve rewound to the beginning of the summer in order to highlight our … Continue reading →

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Dozens of talks from the Evolution 2015 meetings are on YouTube

Posted on 22 Jul, 2015 by Jeremy Yoder

If, like me, you didn’t make it to the 2015 Evolution meetings — maybe the logistics of a trip to Brazil were beyond your financial and/or temporal means — you can make up for it with the big cache of … Continue reading →

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Dōmo arigatō

Posted on 3 Jul, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Along with my collaborators, Erik Sotka, Courtney Murren, Allan Strand and our battery of students, we have embarked on an intense summer field season. Erik and I are leading the effort of sampling populations of the introduced red seaweed Gracilaria … Continue reading →

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Conversation starter: common mistakes in population genetics

Posted on 20 May, 2015 by Rob Denton

When interpreting the results, it is important to focus more on biological relevance than on statistical significance. That does not mean that significance is unimportant; results that have a straightforward interpretation but are not significant should not be considered. On the … Continue reading →

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