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Fisheries geneticist at NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center. Interested in using genetics to inform fisheries management and understand evolution and local adaptation. eDNA, genomics, salmon, rockfish, groundfish, crab epigenetic aging
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Quick break from the doom and gloom for science! We're really proud of this one. We found that two major effect loci on duplicated versions of the same ancestral chromosome play a major role in run timing diversity across four species of salmon (pink, chum, sockeye, coho) shorturl.at/GISX2

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Check out the latest paper from our lab quantifying stock-specific impacts of bycatch on albatross. We used WGS and GT-seq to assess stock structure and assign birds back to their colonies of origin. Certain colonies were disproportionately represented in bycatch. #congen #genomics shorturl.at/B4q0z

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to be here and excited to rekindle some of the magic of the former platform. To start here's a paper (with media release) that we published recently on population genomics of king crab in Alaska. They are highly structured with evidence of local adaptation. shorturl.at/Eojlw shorturl.at/S4HkJ

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to announce our work on kelp genomics is now out at Current Biology. Lead by Postdoc extraordinaire Jordan Bemmels, we sequence WGS for 600+ bull and giant kelp across BC and Washington. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSP93QW8S...

submitted 132 days ago • 2 comments