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Journal tea: May 14th

Posted on May 9, 2012 by cooplab

Alisa will lead Monday’s paper about speciation in Drosophila (simulans and close relatives) using whole-genome data: Garrigan et al. Genome sequencing reveals complex speciation in the Drosophila simulans clade

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journal tea: May 7th

Posted on May 5, 2012 by cooplab

Estimation of the number of individuals founding a colonized population. Anderson and Slatkin 2007

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

Posted on May 3, 2012 by cooplab

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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Journal tea: April 30th

Posted on April 27, 2012 by cooplab

For Monday Peter will lead our discussion of: Analysis of population structure: a unifying framework and novel methods based on sparse factor analysis by: B E Engelhardt, and M Stephens

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BAPG VI at UC Davis

Posted on April 26, 2012 by cooplab

The Coop Lab will be hosting the sixth Bay area population genomics (BAPG) meeting at UC Davis on May 26th. This is a great informal meeting 2-3 times a year of the Bay area evolutionary and population geneticists. The signup … Continue reading →

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journal tea: April 10th

Posted on April 7, 2012 by cooplab

Let’s read the stickleback paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7392/full/nature10944.html

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Intro. to Evolution (EVE100) Reading

Posted on April 5, 2012 by cooplab

Thought I’d quickly post our reading list from my round of teaching EVE100 intro. to evolution: Week 1. Darwin and Wallace’s 1858 letters to the Linnean Society Week 2. Scaduto et al. Source identification in two criminal cases using phylogenetic … Continue reading →

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journal tea April 4th

Posted on April 5, 2012 by cooplab

Let’s read: “Detecting selective sweeps from pooled next generation sequencing samples”

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journal tea: 26th March

Posted on April 5, 2012 by cooplab

forgot to post this but we read Simon Gravel’s paper on admixture: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4811

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journal tea 20th March

Posted on March 18, 2012 by cooplab

For tuesday let’s read: the Hudson and Kaplan chapter from the Golding book “Non-Neutral Evolution”. A scanned copy is here. It’s good intro. to background selection.

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