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Jeremy’s exit seminar & outstanding dissertation prize

Posted on June 3, 2016 by cooplab

Congratulations to Jeremy Berg on his exit seminar & on winning the UCDavis Merton Love Evolution and Ecology outstanding dissertation prize. Jeremy gave a great seminar on his dissertation work on soft sweeps and polygenic adaptation on human height. The … Continue reading →

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Nancy’s biology of genomes talk

Posted on May 21, 2016 by cooplab

Nancy presented her work on the genomics of short-term selection in the Florida Scrub Jays  at the CSHL Biology of genomes meeting. You can read a writeup of the work here. Nancy’s talk was wonderfully illustrated by Alex Cagan:

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what is genetic correlation?

Posted on April 19, 2016 by cooplab

With the availability of genomic data on large cohorts of well-phenotyped individuals, there has been an increased interest in “genetic correlations” between traits. That is, when testing a set of genetic variants for association with two traits, are the effects … Continue reading →

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Coopon Brunch

Posted on April 6, 2016 by cooplab

Anita To, Jeremy Berg, Graham, Nancy Chen, Emily Josephs, Vince Buffalo, Kristin Lee, Simon Aeschbacher.

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Slides of Coop Lab talks/posters at SMBE

Posted on July 17, 2015 by cooplab

Slides from the Coop lab talks are posted below. Note that much of this work is ongoing, so please treat it as provisional. Contact us if you’d like to know more, or if you want to build on it. Alisa … Continue reading →

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illustrations of lab SMBE talks by Alex Cagan

Posted on July 15, 2015 by cooplab

One of the best features of conference coverage of SMBE has been Alex Cagan’s illustrations of talks. A few folks in the lab were luckily enough to be in the sessions that Alex was drawing in; his illustrations of their … Continue reading →

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Does grasshopper sperm evolve to make female meiosis fair?

Posted on July 14, 2015 by cooplab

Juan Pedro M. Camacho alerted Yaniv and myself towards Herrera et al. 1996 –a potential example of male control of female meiotic drive being exposed in crosses among grasshopper populations– as we predicted in our paper (Brandvain and Coop, “Sperm … Continue reading →

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Coopons at SMBE

Posted on July 9, 2015 by cooplab

The Coop lab are looking forward to SMBE in Vienna next week. We’ve listed our talks below. Jeremy Berg. Patterns of Genetic and Haplotypic Variation surrounding a Sweep from Standing Variation 130B Poster session A Mon 13-Thurs16 Alisa Sedghifar. The … Continue reading →

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Gideon’s exit seminar & FroYo in Space

Posted on June 29, 2015 by cooplab

A few pictures from Gideon’s exit seminar celebrations. Chenling, Helena, Marge, Gideon, Jeremy, Kristin, Graham, Vince, Alisa, Ivan, & Simon. Gid’s exit seminar was great. A bunch of Gid’s friends and family contributed good luck messages including Luke, Peter, & … Continue reading →

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Coop Lab BBQ/BBCoop

Posted on May 10, 2015 by cooplab

Gid and Marge kindly hosted a BBQ at their place for the Coop Lab. Front row: Kristin, Chenling, Alisa, Graham. Back row: Gideon, Ivan, Jeremy, Vince, Simon. Much violence was done to wooden blocks. Vince taught us how to play … Continue reading →

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