Graham Coop

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Evolutionary and population genetics @UCDavis. Toots, grammar, & spelling are all my own fault. He/him.
#OA popgen book https://github.com/cooplab/popgen-notes/releases
Graham CoopAug 6, 2024
Matt OsmondAug 6, 2024

3 years (and 2 kids) later, I finally revised the manuscript:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.13.452277v2

we develop a #popgen method to locate genetic ancestors from tree sequences and apply it to arabidopsis thaliana.

software is ready to be applied to any dataset with Relate trees:
https://github.com/osmond-lab/spacetrees

check out our video to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4itER1uEKbQ

thanks for your patience @gcbias !

Graham CoopMar 20, 2024
Alexis SimonMar 20, 2024
I've received sad and enraging news yesterday 🤬.
@EC_REA is taking away my MSCA postdoc fellowship.
The reason is an eligibility issue regarding mobility: they consider remote work in a 2021 pandemic world as counting towards the country I was residing in (which could have been anywhere in the world, but I happen to have French citizenship and was stuck there).
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Graham CoopSep 22, 2023
Tanja SlotteSep 22, 2023

Now there are six cases of independently evolved distyly supergene that are hemizygous in thrums, in contrast to the classical genetic model for distyly.

Check out this cool new study on distylous Nymphoides indica in New Phytologist: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19264

#supergene #distyly #heterostyly #MatingSystem #FloweringPlants

Graham CoopSep 21, 2023

The UC Davis Center for Population Biology postdoctoral fellowship is now being advertised. This is a great opportunity to come join our wonderful community of Evolution & Ecology here at Davis. Please RT.

https://cpb.sf.ucdavis.edu/cpb-postdoc-fellowship

CPB Postdoctoral Fellowship

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW IN POPULATION BIOLOGY EFFECTIVE:  September 27, 2024 DEADLINE:  November 1, 2024 

Center for Population Biology
Graham CoopSep 9, 2023
Vince BuffaloSep 8, 2023
My preprint with Andy Kern on a new genome-wide model of background selection (and statistical methods) applied to humans is now on BioRxiv! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.07.556762v1
Graham CoopSep 9, 2023
Uncle DukeSep 8, 2023
Exhausted and dehydrated, I slowly walk the last few steps. “This has to be it,” I think to myself. Taking a deep breath, I close my eyes and turn the handle, whispering a little prayer as I step through. I open my eyes and the last trickle of hope leaks away. I am still in IKEA.
Graham CoopSep 8, 2023
Alex WildSep 8, 2023

Entomology Job!

Insect Biology Professorship, UC/Davis.

#EntomologyJobs #Entomology #UCDavis

https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05990

Assistant Professor of Insect Biology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

Show threadGraham CoopAug 18, 2023
Even if you're ok with US law enforcement having access to such searches, these databases are just as easily usable by law enforcement, governments, & other interests outside the US to identify anonymous DNA samples often presumably w even fewer legal guardrails
Show threadGraham CoopAug 18, 2023

The big picture here is that a small number of companies, some with serious COIs, have created a near US-wide searchable genetic database that they have effectively turned over to private contractors working for law enforcement.

Such a database would face controversy & legal hurdles if say the government tried to set one up themselves (see the legal debates over CODIS), yet the US has sleepwalked into allowing an even more dubious private system be setup apparently with few legal protections.

Show threadGraham CoopAug 18, 2023
Ancestry and 23&me are not publicly searchable and so not usable by regular LE genetic genetic genealogy searches, but LE & genetic genealogists are finding some partial ways around this