Category Archives: genomics

In it to win it: Selective Advantage through Host-Selected Mutations

Posted on 2 Oct, 2018 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

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 →

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Cricket Plays a Song of Systems Biology

Posted on 25 Sep, 2018 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

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 →

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Microbiomes of a small conference

Posted on 23 Sep, 2018 by Laetitia Wilkins

The conference season is almost over. There are still a few gems out there worth attending before school starts. I just came back from the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics Conference which took place at a UCLA resort in the mountains. … Continue reading →

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A Master Manipulator: How a bacterium tells a plant what to do

Posted on 18 Sep, 2018 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

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 →

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Evolution 2018: assortative mating, combinatorial speciation and genome dynamics

Posted on 24 Aug, 2018 by Alex Twyford

The Evolution conference in Montpellier is over, and as the sun, wine and great science become a memory, here is my recap of some conference highlights following on from a great first day: Sharon Strauss (University of California Davis) gave … Continue reading →

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Evolution 2018 Day 1: From genomics in the wild, to new models of selection

Posted on 19 Aug, 2018 by Alex Twyford

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 →

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Just So Stories addendum: How the stickleback keeps getting its stickles

Posted on 6 Aug, 2018 by Katharine Coykendall

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 →

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They joy of genome sequencing: when genomics meets natural history

Posted on 30 Jul, 2018 by Alex Twyford

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 →

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The eyes have it!

Posted on 20 Jul, 2018 by Kelle Freel

Eyes are pretty darn complicated, which makes them cool models for studying complex trait evolution.  Maybe the first time I realized how interesting eyes are when I saw this by the oatmeal about the amazing-ness of the mantis shrimp (are they your … Continue reading →

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What is DAS? A new tool to recover genomes from metagenomes

Posted on 8 Jun, 2018 by Kelle Freel

There are a lot of data out there, and if you haven’t already noticed the ‘omics train has steadily stayed its path through the fruitful (but challenging) world of metagenomics. Metagenomics offers the chance to unravel complex microbial communities without … Continue reading →

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