Category Archives: cooplab

“Ask me anything” Reddit on our European ancestry paper

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

Peter Ralph and I are doing an “Ask me anything” on our paper about the Recent genetic genealogy of Europe over at the askScience reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1ee560/askscience_ama_we_are_the_authors_of_a_recent/ today [May 15th]. Feel free to pop by and ask us questions.

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Hardy-Weinberg and Ask Science

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

Jeremy (one of the students in the lab) acts as a moderator at the Ask Science reddit, helping answer questions on evolution, genetics, and genomics. I thought I’d post a link to a nice response of his to the question: … Continue reading →

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Disentangling the effects of geographic and ecological isolation on genetic differentiation

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

We’ve been a bit quiet on the coop lab blog, as I’ve been devoting a bunch of my spare energy to Haldane’s Sieve, see our about page. Gideon Bradburd, Peter Ralph, and I have just submitted our latest paper on … Continue reading →

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arXiving our papers

Posted on July 22, 2012 by

We’ve just submitted our latest paper to the preprint arXiv (you can read more on the arXiv and its history here). We have done this for every paper we’ve submitted so far as a group; a list of our papers … Continue reading →

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Back from our grand European tour

Posted on July 15, 2012 by

We are all back from our European adventures. Both SMBE and the “Probability, Population genetics and Evolution” meeting at the CIRM were great. The countryside around the CIRM (near Marseille) was spectacular. One of the afternoons after the talks were … Continue reading →

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Summer travels

Posted on June 8, 2012 by

Off to Europe! Peter Ralph and I will be attending the CIRM Probability, Population Genetics, and Evolution meeting. Then Yaniv, Alisa, Peter, and I will be at SMBE. Later on Yaniv will be at the Evolution meeting. We are looking … Continue reading →

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BAPG at UCDavis podcasts

Posted on May 29, 2012 by

On Saturday we had a great turn out at the sixth Bay area population genomics (BAPG) meeting, which the Coop lab hosted at UC Davis. Over 70 people attended, and we had a great range of posters and talks. Thanks … Continue reading →

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BAPG schedule

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

BAPG VI SATURDAY MAY 26th 9:00 am – 4:00 pm 1322 Storer Hall, UC Davis 9:00-10:00 – Morning reception and poster set-up, Coffee, and snacks provided 10:00-11:00 – Talks (20 min each. 10 min for questions / discussion) 10:00 Ethan … Continue reading →

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There’s copper in dem der hills. Copperopolis or bust!

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

A few of us from the Coop lab (Yaniv, Joel, and I) ventured out to Copperopolis, in the sierra foothills, to visit Kevin Wright’s field site on the copper mines out there (Kathy Toll a grad student in the Willis … Continue reading →

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Torsten swept the USA

Posted on March 17, 2012 by

You can read more about Torsten’s travels and experiences in the USA while visiting the Coop lab at his trip blog SweepingUSA. My german is rusty enough that I can only just follow the general sense, so hope he doesn’t … Continue reading →

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