Becky Chong and I had the chance to visit the Burgess Shale the other day, which has been a career-long dream of mine. It’s an incredible hike high up in the Canadian Rockies with beautiful views and many many fossils. It seemed like every other rock had something in it.
Some of us will be in Snowbird, Utah July 24-28 for the 2019 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. If you’re around, please come say hi and check out these talks!
11:30 am. Sean Harrington, Riley Parks, Robert Thomson. Tip-dated phylogenetics and biogeography of Xenosaurus (Ballroom 3 – Cliff Lodge)
2:45 pm. Van Wishingrad, Robert Thomson. Sceloporus occidentalis lizard landscape genetics in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. (Primrose A&B)
Anthony and I are just back from some fieldwork in the desert southwest focusing on our new NSF-funded whiptail project. Me, him, and Amber Wright did a big loop through Arizona, New Mexico, and west Texas. He has a nice writeup over at his website.
Amber and Bob prepping specimens near Socorro, NM.
In case you missed it, check out videos of Thomson Lab talks from this year’s Evolution meeting (list will be updated as videos are available)
The role of geography and climate in the global diversification of turtles
Bob Thomson
Part of: The bright side of phylogenetics 1
Spatial scale and gene flow in landscape genetics processes
Van Wishingrad, Bob Thomson
Part of: Gene Flow 1
Patterns of phylogenetic MCMC convergence across empirical datasets
Sean Harrington, Bob Thomson
Part of: Systematics 2
The role of model testing and evaluation in phylogenomics
Jeremy Brown, Bob Thomson, Lyndon Coghill, Ashley Schoonmaker, Lauren Rodriguez
Part of: Phylogenomics 2
Several members of the Thomson Lab will be in Providence, Rhode Island June 21-25 for this year’s Evolution meeting. If you’re around, please come say hi and check out our talks and posters!
Population genomics of an endemic Hawaiian bird and the effect of habitat fragmentation on ‘elepaio demography (Poster board #54)
Luke Campillo, Erik VanderWerf, Bob Thomson
Part of: Posters: Conservation biology 1
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM, Exhibit Hall B/C
The role of geography and climate in the global diversification of turtles
Bob Thomson
Part of: The bright side of phylogenetics 1
10:00 AM – 10:14 AM, Ballroom A
Spatial scale and gene flow in landscape genetics processes
Van Wishingrad, Bob Thomson
Part of: Gene Flow 1
10:30 AM – 10:44 AM, Room 551
SSB Symposium: New measures of phylogenetic support for the genomic era
(organizers: Jeremy Brown, Rob Lanfear, Bob Thomson)
2:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Exhibit Hall D
Patterns of phylogenetic MCMC convergence across empirical datasets
Sean Harrington, Bob Thomson
Part of: Systematics 2
9:30 AM – 9:44 AM, Room 556
Reconstructing patterns of hybridization and the origins of parthenogenesis in whiptail lizards (Aspidoscelis)
Anthony Barley, Bob Thomson, Adrián Montes de Oca, Norma Manríquez Morán
Part of: Phylogenomics 2
11:30 AM – 11:44 AM, Ballroom BC
The role of model testing and evaluation in phylogenomics
Jeremy Brown, Bob Thomson, Lyndon Coghill, Ashley Schoonmaker, Lauren Rodriguez
Part of: Phylogenomics 2
12:00 PM – 12:14 PM, Ballroom BC
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.
Ahead of next weekend’s AMS sectional meeting in Honolulu, Elizabeth Gross (UH Math), Sean Harrington, and I have organized a special symposium/discussion on the intersection of mathematics and phylogeny which will take place here on the UH campus Thursday March 21. It features talks from several mathematicians focusing on phylogenetic issues, as well as phylogeneticists that are interested in math. Please visit the symposium website for more information, all are welcome to join.
“I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for […those…] endowed seem to have an extra sense.” – CRD
Some photos from field work over the last summer.
