Last year I applied for NSF’s Postdoc utilizing museum collections, the first year for that particular competition. My colleagues have started asking for advice on applying, so I went to NSF’s awards website and saw the types of projects they funded. I summarize a few results below. In 2015, there were 56 proposals submitted and […]
Read MoreAt this point, who hasn’t read Patterson et al 2006 about population structure and eigenvector analysis? It’s a great paper as it introduced the EIGENSOFT package for analyzing genomic data using principal components analysis (PCA). PCA is a great way to identify both population structure and admixture relationships. For anyone that works with microsatellites, you […]
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 […]
Read MoreI wanted to enter the Dance Your PhD contest since before I was accepted into a PhD program! Although never formally trained in dance, I did dance on my high school’s team and generally enjoyed the process. So Dance Your PhD seemed totally up my alley combining art and science. I had the vision for my […]
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