2013 Annual Report
Brief summary of the tasks and work I accomplished this calendar year. Broady organized along NSF grant proposal criteria.
Teaching
- Taught in Citizen Science program at Bard College
- Guest lectures in Exploring Biology, Human Genetics and Population Genetics courses at UVM
Research
- Started postdoc at UVM on Dimensions of Biodiversity project in February
- Set up and administer antlab workstation with 18 bioinformatics programs software packages for 12 users
- Aphaenogaster transcriptome (ApTranscriptome)
- designed experiment and collected data
- preliminary data analysis done and manuscript draft in progress (~50%)
- Aphaenogaster adaptive evolution of gene expression by latitude (ApGXL)
- coordinated permits and collection of Aphaenogaster colonies from about 30 sites from Pennyslvania to Maine. Collected Aphaenogaster from 3 sites in NY and VT
- coordinated Phytotron experiment with NCSU
- Designed protocol and collected first set of Aphaenogaster samples for RNAseq from Phytotron
- Planned and ordered materials for digital gene expression (DGE) tag analysis of Phytotron samples
- Aphaenogaster adaptive potential (ApAdaPt)
- designed experiment
- collected 50 colonies at Harvard Forest and collected first year of data
- Created pipeline for simulated transcriptome assembly
- Planned and ordered materials for ddRADseq of Aphaenogaster samples for population genetics
- Planning and DNA isolation for Aphaenogaster genome sequencing
- Paper (in press) In defense of P-values: comment on the statistical methods actually used by ecologists with Cristian Dambros and Cintia Gomez de Freitas
- Papers officially published:
- Attended and presented at Aphaenofest
- Attended Gordon Conference on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics
Broader Impacts
