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Author Archives: Rob Denton
#NewPI chat: Headed for lockdown edition
We’re bringing back #NewPI chats, where Molecular Ecologist contributors who are in our junior years on faculty convene on Slack to talk about that #NewPI life for an hour. What follows is a transcript of our recent chat (3/16/2020), lightly edited … Continue reading
Walking, galloping, and sauntering towards genetic differentiation
“This validates, at a major scale (across all vertebrates), what a handful of studies have found within narrow taxonomic groups…” My citation manager has a special folder—elegantly named “TEACHING??”—where papers get stored for eventual use in a classroom. These papers tend to … Continue reading
Posted in comparative phylogeography, natural history, speciation
Tagged Fst, locomotion, species richness
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How Molecular Ecologists Work: Sean Hoban on Google Docs and time-per-task calculations
Welcome to “How Molecular Ecologists Work”, the interview series that asks scientists how they get stuff done. In the final installment of this second season of interviews, we welcome Dr. Sean Hoban from The Morton Arboretum. Location: The Morton Arboretum, a botanical … Continue reading
How Molecular Ecologists Work: Hanna Kokko on tending her literature garden and learning by reviewing
Location: University of Zurich Current Position: professor of evolutionary ecology What kind of research do you? Evolutionary ecology Can you use one word to describe the way you work? Multitaskingly. Is that a word?
How Molecular Ecologists Work: Kathryn Hodgins on one liners and the beautiful drone of construction work
Welcome to “How Molecular Ecologists Work”, the interview series that asks scientists how they get stuff done. This week, we are headed to Australia to talk to Dr. Kathryn Hodgins. Her work focuses on understanding rapid local adaptation, especially in the … Continue reading
How Molecular Ecologists Work: Daniel Cadena on the eclectic approach and getting the country view
Welcome to “How Molecular Ecologists Work”, the interview series that asks scientists how they get stuff done. This week, I’m interviewing Carlos Daniel Cadena, Professor at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. Daniel’s work cuts across a broad swath of evolution … Continue reading
How Molecular Ecologists Work: Chris Jiggins on organic collaboration and family gardening
Welcome to “How Molecular Ecologists Work”, the interview series that asks scientists how they get stuff done. This week’s interview is with Dr. Chris Jiggins from the University of Cambridge. Chris and his colleagues broadly study the adaptation and speciation of … Continue reading
How Molecular Ecologists Work: Katy Heath on being an expert sleeper and not over-analyzing
Welcome to “How Molecular Ecologists Work”, the interview series that asks scientists how they get stuff done. This week’s interview is from Dr. Katy Heath from the Department of Plant Biology and the University of Illinois. Katy and her team study … Continue reading
How Molecular Ecologists Work: Craig Primmer on solving problems on the bike and in the sauna
Location: University of Helsinki, Finland (moved there this May after 12 years at the University of Turku, Finland) Current Position: Professor of Genomics (on leave of absence whilst holding an Academy of Finland research professorship) Current mobile device(s): Fairphone, iPad, … Continue reading
How Molecular Ecologists Work: Tatiana Giraud is all about the paper (agendas/lists)
Welcome to “How Molecular Ecologists Work”, the interview series that asks scientists how they get stuff done. This week’s interview is from Dr. Tatiana Giraud. Tatiana and her group focus on the wide world of fungi, asking questions about their … Continue reading