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Category Archives: evolution
Racing Against the Climate
Sarah Livett wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Introduction to Evolutionary Processes course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sarah was a 5th year MS student at UAB in Dr. Thane Wibbel‘s lab. She worked … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, blogging, evolution, natural history, Science Communication, transcriptomics
Tagged climate change, Evolution, Hsps, scicomm, Science Communication, turtles
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In it to win it: Selective Advantage through Host-Selected Mutations
Julian Jackson wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Julian is a MS student and investigates symbiotic relationships in microbial communities in Dr. Jeff Morris‘ lab. Outside of the … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, evolution, genomics, microbiology, Science Communication, selection
Tagged microbiology, scicomm, Science Communication, symbiosis
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Cricket Plays a Song of Systems Biology
Mina Momeni wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Mina earned her MS degree and is now a research technician at UAB in Dr. Nicole Riddle‘s lab. … Continue reading
A Master Manipulator: How a bacterium tells a plant what to do
Katrina Sahawneh wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Katrina is working on her MS in Biology and her MA in Education. She currently is studying ER stress … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, blogging, evolution, genomics, plants, Science Communication, selection
Tagged Arabidopsis, bacteria, infection, scicomm, Science Communication
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Are we restoring coral reefs for today or for tomorrow?
Elise Keister wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Elise studies the impact of climate change on coral as a PhD student in Dr. Dustin Kemp’s lab. Elise … Continue reading
Evolution 2018 Day 1: From genomics in the wild, to new models of selection
It’s Evolution conference time! Evolution has long been my favourite fixture in the conference calendar, with its diverse mix of theoretical and empirical studies that span the full range of evolutionary biology. This year it’s the second Joint Congress on … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, community, conferences, evolution, genomics, population genetics, speciation, theory
Tagged #Evol2018, Evolution 2018, Montpellier
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Just So Stories addendum: How the stickleback keeps getting its stickles
Model organisms have been essential tools for genetics research since the field was formed. Kelle Freel discussed the characteristics that make for a good model organism in a previous TME post. Briefly, traits like short generation time, lots of offspring, … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, evolution, genomics, natural history, selection, stickleback
Tagged adaptation, gene flow, natural selection, selection, stickleback
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They joy of genome sequencing: when genomics meets natural history
When I have a massive pile of papers that I need to read, I can’t help but look at the ones with interesting natural history first. There’s something exceptionally satisfying about using modern tools to dig deeper into the features … Continue reading
Posted in evolution, genomics, RNAseq, transcriptomics
Tagged natural history, whole-genome sequencing
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