News and Updates

The Diversity of the Indo-Pacific Network

Posted on May 1, 2019

Stretching from East Africa to Easter Island (Rapa Nui), the tropical Indo-Pacific is the largest biogeographic region in the world! Like a bullseye in the middle of the Indo-Pacific, right in the Indo-Malay-Philippines Archipelago, sits the Coral Triangle: the site of highest marine biodiversity in the world. Biodiversity declines in... [Read More]

Marine Microbial Symbiosis Workshop in Panama

About the ecology and evolution of microbial symbiosis in the sea

Posted on January 3, 2019

Recently, I returned from a trip to Panama. You might have noticed a storm of tweets with the hashtag #istmobiome in the first week of December 2018. ‘Istmobiome’ stands for our project and ‘we’ is a group of collaborative people in Jonathan Eisen’s lab at the University of California, Davis,... [Read More]

RCN updates

postdoc ad, spring readings, and more!

Posted on December 19, 2018

We wanted to share an update on RCN activities to look forward to in Spring 2019. 1) We are still looking for a postdoc! The application has reopened and we will start reviewing applications again on January 31. The application materials has been revised, so please check out the ad... [Read More]

PopSim Workshop

New advances in simulation will allow marine biologists to simulate very large population sizes

Posted on November 7, 2018

Last Sunday I attended the PopSim Workshop at Cold Spring Harbor. The workshop was organized in an effort to address the lack of benchmark simulations in population genetics and genomics for evaluating methods. A “benchmark” set is a set of simulations that everyone uses to evaluate and compare their methods... [Read More]

Evolving Marine Biology

A famous bird biologist's foray into marine biology

Posted on October 12, 2018

The modern synthesis of genetics and Darwinian evolutionary thought, which began in earnest in the 1930’s, has enshrined many notable biologists in the annals of science history. There were geneticists, entomologists, paleontologists, botanists, and ornithologists all involved in reconciling Mendelian genetics and the theory of descent with modification. One of... [Read More]