In genomic analyses, especially when working with non-model species, we often need to infer gene function based on similarity to other species. This means that lots of people are running the same, or similar, analyses on the same genomes and these can take a really long time to run. Everyone running the same analyses seems… Read more »
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PhD student wanted!
I’m recruiting a PhD student to join the lab! If want to do a PhD with me, let me know. If you know a great potential PhD student, let them know. PhD Position in Disease Ecology at East Carolina University (ECU): One Ph.D. position is available in the newly formed lab of Dr. Seth Barribeau… Read more »
Big thanks!
I have recently moved to a new position but want to take a moment to thank all the amazing students that I have worked with and all the lovely people I have collaborated with in my time at the ETH in Zürich. It has been a great pleasure and while I am looking forward to… Read more »
IUSSI 2014 in Cairns and our symposium on immunity in social insects.
Next year the IUSSI (International Union for the Study of Social Insects) is hosting its meeting in Cairns in Australia. These meetings are held only every four years. I have only been to one of these meetings, which was held in Copenhagen last time, but everyone raves about them. The Copenhagen meeting was excellent… Read more »
A fellowship.
I have just begun a fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. The WIko, or Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, is a place for academics, both junior (me) and senior (me at the end of each day), to focus on a particular project, interact with other researchers, and generally think. It sounds… Read more »
The promises of big data, long nights, awamori, and fine porcelain.
I was recently lucky enough to attend a workshop on the promises and challenges of big data held at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). I have a personal affinity to Japan after living there for a short time, and had previously visited Okinawa briefly, so I was thrilled to have a… Read more »
Overview of the year thus far.
With overhauling my site, I’ve decided to try and share some of the goings-on of my work and the work of my students. But now I have a backlog of stuff that has happened this year to share. So, rather than pretend to go back in time and rehash each event I’ll try to summarise… Read more »
Welcome!
This is where I will try and keep a log of my and my students’ activities. Right now it’s a bit barren, but I am in the process of fleshing it out!