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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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Coop Lab BBQ (BBCoop?)

Posted on March 7, 2015 by cooplab

Random BBQ/taco night to celebrate the end of the quarter. We forgot to take any pictures until after we moved inside, so we are missing some folks. A great time, and much grilled meat and veggies, were had by all! … Continue reading →

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Figures of Incomplete Lineage Sorting

Posted on February 11, 2015 by cooplab

I find figures really useful for explaining concepts like drift, differentiation, and incomplete lineage sorting. However, I often find textbook figures are not super helpful (although the Tree thinking book by Smith and Baum is good for this). So for … Continue reading →

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Figures of Genetic Drift

Posted on February 11, 2015 by cooplab

Figures are really useful for explaining concepts like drift, however, I often find textbook figures are not super helpful. Pictures of hands reaching into jam jars of beans etc are useful metaphors but don’t really depict the process of transmission … Continue reading →

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Lab trip to 23 & me

Posted on February 9, 2015 by cooplab

We took a trip down to visit 23 & me’s research group. Graham gave a talk on Alisa and Gideon’s work. Thanks to Kasia Bryc for the invitation. Vince, Graham, Gideon, Alisa, Kristin, Chenling and Ivan (Simon and Jeremy not … Continue reading →

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