October 2023

at long last! Hicker-lab out for a Astoria feast 🇬🇷 to welcome in Yamaly and celebrate 2 recent papers led by Connor and Melina (as well as some other big things … 👩‍🎓👶💍)

News:

May 2023      Congratulations newly minted Dr Melina Giakoumis! Melina will be starting her new position at the AMNH as the assistant director of the Sackler Center of Comparative Genomics

June 2019       Recent funding from NSF – IIBR RoL: Collaborative Research: A Rules Of Life Engine (RoLE) Model to Uncover Fundamental Processes Governing Biodiversity. Led by Andy Rominger at the Santa Fe Institute 

March 2019      Celebrating new paper from Isaac Overcast and a great visit/seminar from his iPyrad collaborator Deren Eaton

February 2019          team MESS at the Santa Fe Institute (MESS: Massive Eco-Evolutionary Synthesis Simulator).

From left, Megan Ruffly, Isaac Overcast, Mike Hickerson, James Rosindell, and Andy Rominger

More info here: Sketching the Rules of Life: Developing a Model of Biodiversity

September  2018         Lab cookout/Campout. Thank you Laura for the photos!   

July  2018         New folks to welcome to the lab! New PhD student Connor French, Masters student Andrea Calderon Brito, and undergraduate Casey Sniffin

July 2018          Rad-Camp SNP analysis workshop at Universidade de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brasil. Instructors: Isaac Overcast, Laura Bertola and Mariana  Vasconcellos.

 

One month later we have Rad-Camp, the New York City edition at Columbia University Instructors Isaac Overcast, Deren Eaton, and Sandra Hoffberg

 

 

 

November 2017         Welcome to the lab! New PhD student Melina Giakoumis

November 2017         Welcome to the lab! New visiting PhD student Victor Garcia-Olivares from the lab of Brent Emerson oat the Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA) in La Laguna (Spain).

May 2017         Welcome to the lab! New visiting PhD student Pedro Taucce from the lab of Celio Haddad of the São Paulo State University (Unesp), Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil. Pedro is using acoustic and molecular data to delimit cryptic frog species as well as reconstruct their evolutionary history. Pedro is now focusing on using anchored phylogenomics to understand the diversification and evolution of some leaf-litter dwelling frogs (the Ischnocnema guentheri complex) within the Brazilian Atlantic forest.

May        2017  New methods paper for Xander’s R package: Multi‐DICE: R package for comparative population genomic inference under hierarchical co‐demographic models of independent single‐population size changes in Molecular Ecology Resources

April        2017  Funded working group at iDiv with Rosemary Gillespie (sEcoEvo – Biodiversity Dynamics – The Nexus Between Space & Time)

February       2017  Welcome to the lab!  New Postdoctoral researcher Laura Bertola, who will be focusing on comparative adaptive genomics.

February       2017  Welcome to the lab!  New visiting PhD student Vanessa Bonatti who is visiting from the lab of Tiago Mauricio Francoy of the Universidade de São Paulo.Vanessa is using RAD data to infer the demographic history of Melipona subnitida, a stingless bee of Northeast of Brazil