John Pool's Lab studies Population Genomics and the Genetic Basis of Adaptive Evolution at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Latest Pool Lab News... Winter 2022: ~ Welcome to Myron Child as a new PhD student! ~ We have 3 more new papers: an MBE paper looks at genomic changes across ~500 generations of natural evolution, while two others examine the genetic architecture of adaptive changes in alcohol resistance and size. Summer 2021: ~ Jamie Freeman and Dr. Max Shpak join the lab as research staff. ~ We have a new paper in Genetics on transcriptome adaptation. ~ Congratulations to recent graduates Clarice Danen, Olivia Gargulak, and Zach Johnson! Winter 2021: ~ Congratualtions to Dr's Jeremy Lange and Quentin Sprengelmeyer on their successful PhD thesis defenses! Fall 2020: ~ Siyuan Feng joins the lab as a new PhD student! Spring 2020: ~ Maud Duranton joins the lab as a new postdoc! ~ Thank you NIH! John receives an R35 MIRA grant. ~ Marcus Stensmyr's "wild fly" art graces the MBE cover in conjunction with our paper on D. melanogaster origin and history. Fall 2019: ~ Our study on wilderness African flies, their genomes, and species history is published in MBE. Spring 2019: ~ John returns from sabbatical work in Puerto Rico, California, and Utah. Fall 2018: ~ Thank you NIH! The lab is receiving a new R01 grant, in collaboration with Mark Rebeiz. ~ Our collaboration with Marcus Stensmyr is bearing fruit: Marula as an ancestral host fruit for Drosophila melanogaster (see NPR coverage). ~ Tanager J. Pool becomes the lab's 6th baby in its 7 year history, and John's 1st. And then, Isla Sprengelmeyer becomes #7. Summer 2018: ~ 2 new accepted papers! (1) Selective sweeps may not undermine demographic inference in flies, and (2) Directional selection undermines genetic and environmental robustness. Spring 2018: ~ Thank you NSF! The lab gets a new grant on parallel cold tolerance evolution, and Chris McAllester gets a predoctoral fellowship! ~ Vedika Ramesh graduates! Winter 2018: ~ Welcome to Matt Lollar as a new PhD student, and to Juliana Cordeiro as a visiting professor! Summer 2017: ~ Welcome to Murillo Fernando Rodrigues as a visiting graduate student! Spring 2017: ~ Audrey Simard, Ben Groth, Grant Hoppel, & Matt Monette graduate! ~ John gets tenure! (his seminar is HERE) Winter 2017: ~ Welcome to Chris McAllester & Tiago Ribeiro as new PhD students! Fall 2016: ~ John was on the Whad'ya Know Podcast! Skip ahead in this VIDEO to 2:11:22. ~ We have *4* new papers accepted at Genetics and MBE! (see Papers and John's TAGC talk) Summer 2016: ~ The Pool Lab welcomes Yuheng Huang as a new postdoctoral researcher! ~ Version 1.1 of the Drosophila Genome Nexus is HERE. ~ Amir is co-first author on a Current Biology paper on the recurrent origin of a sexually-dimorphic trait (Article) (Press Release) Spring 2016: ~ Amir Yassin led our PNAS study on a novel fly population that specializes on a toxic fruit! (Article) (Press Release) (John's talk at Evolution 2016) ~ Congratulations to Amir on his prestigious faculty position at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris! (LINK) ~ Vedika Ramesh received a Sophomore Research Fellowship for her population genomic analysis of olfactory receptor genes! Winter 2016: ~ Our 2 new papers are featured in this UW press release! Our PNAS paper shows that wing size evolution entailed a loss of developmental buffering. Our Nature Communications paper shows the genetic basis of a female-specific color dimorphism under ancient balancing selection, and even inspired a Shakespearean sonnet, "Rough in Love" (Text) (Audio) |
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