Author Archives: cooplab

Journal tea: A model-based approach for analysis of spatial structure in genetic data

Posted on July 23, 2012 by cooplab

For Wednesday we’ll read: A model-based approach for analysis of spatial structure in genetic data by Yang et al.

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arXiving our papers

Posted on July 22, 2012 by cooplab

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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journal tea

Posted on July 15, 2012 by cooplab

For Wednesday we’ll read: The Limits to Parapatric Speciation: Dobzhansky–Muller Incompatibilities in a Continent–Island Model by Bank et al.

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Back from our grand European tour

Posted on July 15, 2012 by cooplab

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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Partial sweeps paper out.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by cooplab

Peter Ralph and I’s new paper generalizing the model of recurrent hitchhiking was just accepted to Genetics, and appears as a preprint there (it’s also posted on the ArXiv). My slides on this topic provide an overview on this work. … Continue reading →

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Summer travels

Posted on June 8, 2012 by cooplab

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 cooplab

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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Journal tea: May 21st

Posted on May 23, 2012 by cooplab

We read: Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species which was a potentially neat paper, but we were unsure whether it was really introgression of the mimcry genes or maintenance of trans-population/species polymorphism by balancing selection.

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BAPG schedule

Posted on May 14, 2012 by cooplab

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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the coalescent for generalized models of selective sweeps

Posted on May 14, 2012 by cooplab

We’ve just resubmitted our article on the coalescent for generalized selective sweeps to Genetics. I’ve posted the new version to the arXiv.

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