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Postdoctoral Position Available

We’re looking for a postdoc to join the team. Please share the ad below with any colleagues that may be interested. Postdoctoral position in phylogenetics and bioinformatics at the University of Hawaii The Thomson Lab is looking for a postdoctoral

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Posted in informatics, lab, phylogenetics, UH

Emilie Defends

Hearty congratulations to Emilie Richards who successfully defended her masters thesis yesterday! Emilie’s work focuses on characterizing the performance of model assessment tests for phylogenomic datasets. She gave a great talk on an interesting, important project that she’ll be submitting

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Posted in genomics, informatics, lab, phylogenetics, UH

Summer 2016 REU at UH

There is a brand new research program for undergraduates starting this summer at UH. Get in touch with the program coordinators, or faculty sponsors with questions! The quick advertisement follows, but see the project website here for more detail. Participants in

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Posted in lab, outreach, UH

Lab BBQ

Good times at Kaimana Beach to kick off the new semester and say farewell to Adrián.

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Spring Lab Meeting Schedule

20 January – Organize 27 January – Mojave Stuff 3 February – Anthony 10 February – Anthony 17 February – Amber 24 February – Kristen 2 March – Emilie Bob 9 March – Bob Emilie 16 March – Rachel Robyn 23

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September Herp Night

Exploring species diversity in Southeast Asian Sun Skinks Anthony Barley Thursday September 24, 2015. 3rd Floor Edmondson Hall.   Herp night this month will take place 6pm Thursday on the 3rd floor of Edmondson Hall. Anthony Barley will be talking

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Posted in genomics, herps, Natural History, phylogenetics, travel, UH

Fall Lab Meeting Schedule

Sept 7 – No meeting – Labor Day Sept 14 – No meeting – Several of us in Baton Rouge Sept. 21 – Amber Sept. 28 – Sam Oct. 5 – open Oct. 12 – Adrián Oct. 19 – Robyn

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August Herp Night

Detangling 40 million years on a life raft; the biogeography of the Fijian Island herpetofauna Robert Fisher   I am very happy to welcome Robert Fisher from the San Diego USGS field station as our first herp night speaker of

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Posted in conservation, herps, Natural History, travel, UH

Everybody loves turtles

We were happy to host a visit from the UH Manoa Children’s Center the other day. The class brought by their pet turtle turtle, George, and had some fun interacting with other animals that are around the lab. Two year

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Posted in herps, lab, outreach, UH

Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship for Anthony

Congratulations to Anthony who just received notification that he was selected as an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow! This is great news and well deserved. These highly prestigious fellowships provide an independent postdoctoral salary and research money. Anthony has some

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Posted in informatics, lab, UH