Welcome BIG students!
This summer we are delighted to welcome four new BIG (Bruins in Genomics) summer interns to our group: Shavonna Jackson, Etan Dieppa, Kevin Delao, and Maya Singh! Etan Dieppa […]
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New paper on BioRxiv: Detection of hard and soft selective sweeps from Drosophila melanogaster population genomic data
Check out our latest paper on BioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.20.163261v1 Whether hard sweeps or soft sweeps dominate adaptation has been a matter of much debate. Recently, we developed haplotype homozygosity statistics that […]
Leah’s talk at QCB!
Today Leah Briscoe will speak about her work on batch correction of microbiome data for improved phenotype prediction at the QCBio seminar series!
Resources for working from home during COVID-19
Nandita had the opportunity to join the Women in Science group at USC for a virtual coffee hour where she and others had a chance to brainstorm ideas for working […]
Welcome Will and Ricky!
We are delighted to welcome William Shoemaker and Ricky Wolff to our growing group! Will is an NSF-funded postdoctoral scholar and joining us from his PhD lab in Indiana University. […]
Genetic Adaptation in New York City Rats
Our latest collaboration on studying the Genetic Adaptation in NYC Rats is now on BioRxiv! Here we apply the G12 statistic, which can detect hard and soft sweeps from unphased […]
Longitudinal linked read sequencing reveals ecological and evolutionary responses of a human gut microbiome during antibiotic treatment
We are happy to share our latest collaboration examining the evolutionary dynamics in a single indivudual with high-res longitudinal data generated with long-read sequencing technology. Here, we show that genetic […]
Population Genetics in the Microbiome — Review for Trends in Genetics
We are very happy that our review on Population Genetics in the Microbiome has been recently accepted to Trends in Genetics! The review will be officially published in January, but […]
Welcome Leah, Spencer, and Sara!
We are excited to have Leah, Spencer, and Sara join us in the lab. Leah is a 3rd year PhD student working on developing new statistical methods to quanitfy ecological […]
Recombination in bacteria
This quarter, Nandita will be teaching an EEB 297 course on Recombination in Bacteria. Please check out the syllabus with the list of readings and feel free to join us […]