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| Project Leader: | Nicole Foley nfoley@cvm.tamu.edu Veterinary Integrative Biosciences |
| Faculty Mentor: | Bill Murphy, Ph.D. |
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Meeting Times:
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Wednesday 9:30 – 10:30am |
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Team Size:
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5
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| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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The candidates selected for our team will have the opportunity to gain core bioinformatic skills including mapping of high throughput sequence data and variant calling and the filtering and selection of variants. Candidates will gain hands on experience dealing with high throughput genetic data and learn core skills applicable to any number of research fields that employ genomic data. Candidates will also receive opportunities to contribute to scientific publications and present their research findings at scientific workshops (e.g., TAMU Student Research Week, Southeast Texas Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics Symposium)
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Team Needs:
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We are looking for enthusiastic, determined and reliable candidates to join our Recombination Map Team. Having previously taken some bioinformatic modules or having some prior experience using the TAMU HPRC computer cluster Grace is helpful, but not required |
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Description:
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Resolved phylogenomic trees are key tools required to enable us address questions about how and when genes, genomes, traits, phenotypes, and species evolved. For many years, many questions in the field of phylogenomics have gone unanswered due to hybridization between related species, which confounds standard phylogenomic analyses. Emerging research shows that a recombination map is key to determining the correct species tree for hybridizing species. However, even among the best studied groups of animals (mammals), recombination maps are scarce, existing only for a small number of model organisms. Using a new machine learning-based method and population genomics we will assemble a team of students to begin generating recombination maps to address exciting outstanding evolutionary questions in mammalian species |