Blog Archives

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

Postdoctoral Position Available

Posted on 4 April 2016 by bob

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…

Posted in informatics, lab, phylogenetics, UH

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

Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship for Anthony

Posted on 30 June 2015 by bob

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…

Posted in informatics, lab, 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

On building a small cluster

Posted on 30 October 2014 by bob

Upon request from a reader, I just put up a quick post over at treethinkers.org that discusses our lab’s cluster, some general thoughts and pros and cons of doing a self build, versus buying, versus just sticking with shared resources.…

Posted in informatics, lab, phylogenetics

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

February Herp Night

Posted on 10 February 2014 by Bob

Posted in conservation, herps, informatics

Turtle Genome Released!

Posted on 28 March 2013 by bob

The first paper on the Chrysemys picta genome came out today in Genome Biology. The paper is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of interesting questions that are currently being explored using these data, but it’s satisfying to…

Posted in genomics, herps, informatics, phylogenetics