We have a new grad student – Katie Monat! Katie joins us from the University of Toronto, where she worked in Luke Mahler’s lab as an undergrad. Welcome to the lab, Katie!
Author: Ian Wang
2/24/24: New paper on genomic architecture and climate change
Drew’s dissertation chapter on how genomic architecture influences responses to climate change has just been published in Global Change Biology!
Terasaki Hart D.E. and Wang I.J. (2024) Genomic architecture controls multivariate adaptation to climate change. Global Change Biology, 30: e17179.
8/22/23: Pooneh Kalhori joins the lab!
We have a new grad student! Pooneh Kalhori has joined the lab after completing a BS at UCLA and MS at SF State. Welcome to the lab, Pooneh!
6/21/23: New software for mapping genetic diversity
Anusha Bishop has developed a new R package for generating continuous maps of genetic diversity from individual based sampling. The wingen package is available from CRAN, and you can read more about it in Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Bishop A.P., Chambers E.A., and Wang I.J. (2023) Generating continuous maps of genetic diversity using moving windows. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14: 1175-1181. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14090
8/25/22: Dan Oliveira joins the lab!
Daniel Oliveira has joined the lab as a new grad student. Dan has an MS from Clark University and worked as a technician for the California Conservation Genomics Project at UCLA for the last year. Welcome to the lab, Dan!
6/12/22: Anusha received an SSE grant!
Anusha Bishop received an R.C. Lewontin Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution. The $2,500 grant will support her dissertation research on the genomics of adaptation to climate change.
2/18/22: Erin’s book, Sea Turtles to Sidewinders, is now out in print!
Erin has published a fantastic book on some of the most fun, exciting, and ecologically-important amphibians and reptiles from western North America. It’s an easy-to-get-into guide with cool information on each species and outstanding photography – check it out!
Sea Turtles to Sidewinders: A Guide to the Most Fascinating Reptiles and Amphibians of the West
10/4/21: New paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution!
Led by Drew Terasaki Hart, we have a new paper out in MBE describing a new Python package for complex landscape genomic simulations, called Geonomics. The Geonomics package is freely available and can be installed via pip. You can find documentation for setting up simulations in Geonomics on PyPI.
Terasaki Hart D.E., Bishop A., and Wang I.J. (2021) Geonomics: forward-time, spatially explicit, and arbitrarily complex landscape genomic simulations. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38: 4634-4646.
9/15/21: Jess McLaughlin joins the lab!
Jess McLaughlin has joined the lab as a new postdoc and will be working on our Dimensions of Biodiversity project. Welcome to the lab, Jess!
7/1/21: Welcome to the lab, Kinsey!
Kinsey Brock has joined the lab as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research will examine the evolution of color polymorphism in Podarcis lizards in Greece. Welcome, Kinsey!