Very excited to welcome Heather Clendenin to the Puckett Lab! Heather recently finished her MS at the University of Idaho where she investigated sibling relatedness in gray wolves (Canis lupus). For her PhD, she will estimate genetic load in black bear (Ursus americanus) populations with varying demographic histories.
Read MoreThe Puckett Lab hosted Dr. Marc Tollis for seminar. Dr. Tollis studies cancer evolution within mammals, transposable elements, and has broader interests in the systematics of vertebrates. His talk was titled, “Tempo and mode of Peto’s Paradox: Comparative genomics and the evolution of cancer suppression.”
Read MoreThe Puckett Lab hosted Dr. Greg Barsh for seminar. Dr. Barsh is a Faculty Investigator at HudsonAlpha and Professor at Stanford University. He studies the genetic basis of mammalian coat color and patterning (e.g. stripes, spots) variation. His talk was titled, “Stripes and spots: Genetics of mammalian color pattern.”
Read MoreThe Puckett Lab hosted Dr. Emily Latch for seminar. Dr. Latch is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. She studies phylogeography and landscape genetics of several mammal species, with an emphasis on using this information to inform management. Dr. Latch met with the students in the Urban Ecology & Wildlife Management class, […]
Read MoreVery excited to welcome Matthew Pollard to the Puckett Lab! Matthew recently finished his MS at Cardiff University where he was investigating the Y-chromosome of brown bears (Ursus arctos). For his PhD, he will work on comparative genomics of bears.
Read MoreI 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 MoreAs part of my postdoc with Gideon Bradburd, I’m using his new software package conStruct (bioRxiv; GitHub) to analyze dozens of genomic datasets. conStruct requires three input files: 1) genetic data, 2) coordinate data (longitude in the first column, latitude in the second), and 3) a pairwise distance matrix with the same number of sites […]
Read MoreI want to use BayesAss on a large SNP dataset generated with RADseq. But I found out when I went to convert the data into the .immaq format that my favorite converter, PGDspider, would only convert the first 40 loci. I didn’t get 10,000s of loci for nothing, so that wasn’t going to work. But […]
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 […]
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