I’m less that a year into my postdoc, and all along I’ve been telling myself that I was not going to worry about getting a job, yet, unless the *perfect* job came up.. Then I saw the posting for a genomics job at REDACTED. This job is in the perfect city, a great department, great […]
I’d like to announce the arrive of my newest paper, Is Promiscuity Associated with Enhanced Selection on MHC-DQ? in Mice (genus Peromyscus)? , which was published in PLoS One yesterday. MacManes MD, Lacey EA (2012) Is Promiscuity Associated with Enhanced Selection on MHC-DQ? in Mice (genus Peromyscus)? PLoS ONE 7(5): e37562.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037562 This paper was the result of chapter 2 of my dissertation, and it […]
Here are the basic assembly stats for the bird data: contig cutoff size=250bp N:250 n:N50 N80 N50 N20 max sum name Average 105054.3 8628.2 1235754.8 3899483.5 9540090.4 19342630.9 1.03E+09 849 57 2283 8580 20266 51162 1933317 bird_8C_contigs.fa 826 47 2930 11620 23347 57581 2026432 bird_8C_scaffolds.fa 70467 7137 15629 39414 87076 554547 1.04E+009 bird_6C_contigs.fa 16495 […]
I thought I’d add a link to my newest paper: (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-011-0848-2) Abstract: Differences in the number of sexual partners (i.e., mating system) have the potential to exert a strong influence on the bacterial communities present in reproductive structures like the vagina. Because this structure serves as a conduit for gametes, bacteria present there may have […]
Well, it’s certainly been a long time since ive written anything here, and I won’t claim to be up you giving a full update now… besides, it seems that a grand total of 2 people look at this non-existant blog, and that includes me.. I guess this is that I get for trying to finish […]
I was thinking about doing a small project looking at selection on genes associated with innate immunity- like the TLR family.. Might serve as a nice contrast to all my work with the MHC.. What do you all think about that??
Not sure how much Im going to write here, but…