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Can we use the non-model #yeast species Lachancea thermotolerans as a model for population genetics and parallel evolution? Come talk with me at #Evol2023! I’ll be at Poster Session 2, #129 Saturday (6/24) AND talking on Sunday (6/25) at 9:45 in Population Genetics VII!!!

Use the mic, even if you don’t think you need it. Some of your audience may need things louder than you would, or have assistive devices that pick up from the mic (All session rooms at #Evol2023 should have accessible seating both front and back)

The BIG Y1000+ Project manuscript with complete genome sequences, quantitative phenotypic data, and a new ecological ontology for nearly every know species of yeast is now a preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… ! Big thanks to @DOpulente, The Lab LaBella, RokasLab, and the whole team!

Awesome hearing about introgression in hybrid Mimulus populations from Matt Farnitano - and a fabulous refresher on hybridization dynamics as well! #Evo2023

UGA crew at the Evolution meeting #Evol2023 UGA Genetics

Yeast @ #Evol2023 !! Audrey Ward is hard at work developing Lachancea thermotolerans as a model for pop gen 🧽🧬🌎

Loved seeing amazing presentations by friends in my cohort! Matt Farnitano Audrey Ward have awesome research and I loved being there to hear all about it!

I’m a simple woman: I do genetics at work, I come home and play a video game where I’m an apiarist and the whole premise is conservation of flowers and bees via cross-breeding. There’s an in-game Mendelian probability mechanic. Everything is beautiful.

Walking through campus seeing all the undergrads is so exciting - today’s the day! The sun is shining! Another great semester to be a Dawg!

Congratulations to Kelly Dyer for being awarded “WORLD’S GREATEST COORDINATOR”!!! She led our graduate program from 2016-2023.

Congrats to the wonderful UGA Genetics retreat poster presentation winners!

Come hear about what I’ve been up to for the last five and a half years ✨

running up against a never-before-seen error in a pipeline you’ve run hundreds of times (artist: ButtPoems)

Awesome work from my Douda Bensasson lab-mate Jacqueline Peña!!!

Our accidental finding that "Low level contamination confounds population genomic analysis” is on bioRxiv - a fun collaborative project with Audrey Ward, Brent Shuman, Eduardo Scopel and @mcmomany biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats to our newest Genetics PhD, Dr. Audrey Ward! Here, Audrey is with her advisor Dr. Douda Bensasson Douda Bensasson . We are proud of you Dr. Ward!