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Van’s latest talk

Posted on 18 May 2020 by van

Take 5 minutes and check out Van’s latest talk at the Zoology mini-symposium!

Posted in conferences, genomics, herps, research, UH

Fieldwork on Kauai

Posted on 18 November 2019 by Luke Campillo

Luke recently returned from conducting fieldwork in the upper reaches of the island of Kauai. Here, in some of the last remaining intact Hawaiian forests, native birds actually outnumber introduced birds! Seen here is ‘anianiau, a Hawaiian honeycreeper endemic to…

Posted in genomics, Natural History, research, travel

Short Course in Phylogenomics

Posted on 15 April 2019 by bob

This fall, Jeremy Brown and I will be offering a short course in Phylogenomics in Valencia, Spain. Registration is open now. More information is available here.

Posted in genomics, informatics, phylogenetics, teaching, travel

Bodega 2017

Posted on 17 March 2017 by bob

I’ve been spending the week teaching in the Bodega Marine Lab for the 2017 Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics. It’s been a fun week of statistics, phylogenies, data analysis, and beautiful weather. This year, Jeremy Brown (@jembrown) and I put together…

Posted in genomics, informatics, phylogenetics, teaching, travel

Emilie Defends

Posted on 2 April 2016 by bob

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…

Posted in genomics, informatics, lab, phylogenetics, UH

September Herp Night

Posted on 21 September 2015 by bob

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…

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

Barley et al (2015) on the Molecular Ecology cover

Posted on 8 April 2015 by bob

Anthony (and co-authors) new paper on Sun Skink landscape genetics is out today on the cover of Molecular Ecology. Way to go Anthony!

Posted in genomics, herps, informatics, Natural History

More on microRNAs

Posted on 19 August 2014 by bob

Casey Dunn has new commentary up at PNAS on our recently published microRNA paper. Check it out here. Dunn, CW (2014) Reconsidering the phylogenetic utility of miRNA in animals. PNAS.doi:10.1073/pnas.1413545111.

Posted in genomics, informatics, phylogenetics

Pond Turtles

Posted on 11 August 2014 by bob

(Bio)accumulation blog is doing a nice job of aggregating literature on the Western Pond turtle. A couple of new additions to the list are up, including our recent SNP paper that proposes splitting the Western Pond Turtle into two species.

Posted in conservation, genomics, herps, Natural History

microRNAs in Phylogenetics

Posted on 28 July 2014 by bob

Our paper on the use of microRNAs for phylogenetic inference is out today in the early edition at PNAS. A news story on the paper is also up at Nature, along with a news highlight at PNAS. Fun fact: The turtle…

Posted in genomics, phylogenetics