Benson defends his Ph.D. thesis
Congratulations to Benson Hsieh on defending his Ph.D. thesis! Benson will be starting a postdoc in the laboratory of Evan Eichler in the summer.
Author Archives: Ryan Gutenkunst
Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics
Ryan had a wonderful time teaching at the 2016 Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic. Ryan lectured about demographic inference and ran tutorials on Python programming and using ∂a∂i. The slides and exercises he developed are available here.
Two papers on African Pygmies published
Congratulations to Benson Hsieh on his two papers that were recently accepted for publication in Genome Research. Both result from our close collaboration with Michael Hammer, Benon’s PhD co-supervisor. In the first paper, we infer a complex demographic model for Central African Pygmies and neighboring farmers. We then use that model as the basis for whole-genome neutral… Read More »
Two undergraduates join the group
We are pleased to welcome Alyssa Lyn Fortier and Brandon Jernigan to the group. Aylssa and Brandon, both undergraduates, will be working on extending our studies of network dynamics and protein evolution to coevolution between pairs of proteins and protein domains.