I am ecstatic to join the faculty at the University of Memphis as an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department. The Puckett Lab will open Fall 2018 and focus on phylogeography and evolutionary genomics within the bear family. If you are interested in joining the lab, please see the “Positions in the Lab” page for […]
Read MoreIn 2008 I graduated with my MS from Larry Smart’s Lab at SUNY-ESF. Larry gives his students a personalized graduation gift, something that reflects the rapport he had with each student. Mine included a hunter green sweatshirt, a hunter green picnic blanket, and a green water bottle because as he said, “she needs more green […]
Read MoreToday is the first day of my postdoc with Jason Munshi-South at Fordham University! I’m super excited about starting this position and not just because I get to go to work everyday in a mansion (see below). The Munshi-South Lab focuses on adaptation to the urban environment. I think this is a really unique way […]
Read MoreI’m new to Perl so this may not be the most elegant script. The script converts fastPHASE output into a ChromoPainter input file. The for loop makes an input file for each scaffold for which my data maps to (in my case 284 scaffolds of the polar bear genome). #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use […]
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