Owen Moosman was awarded the prestigious 2025 Dean’s Award in recognition of his undergraduate research on long read assembly errors and their impact on inferences of copy number variation! Congratulations Owen!
Itzel recently attended the 2025 NIH NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Meeting in Philadelphia and presented her research on the population genomics of hibernation-relevant metabolism genes in brown bears. Congratulations and great job Itzel!
Members of the Kelley Lab attended the Plant and Animal Genomes 32 conference in San Diego last week. In total, the lab presented five posters and four talks!
(Kelley Lab members and alumni in bold, presenting author underlined)
Ryan, K., De-Kayne, R., Arias-Rodriguez, L., Tobler, M., Kelley, J.L. (2025) Movement of Adaptive Alleles Among Locally Adapted Fish Populations. Plant and Animal Genomes 2025. San Diego, CA.
Bogan, S.N., Moosman, O.W., Yee, M.C., Kline, I., Place, S.P., Kelley, J.L. (2025) Determining Causes and Consequences of Copy Number Evolution in Antifreeze Protein Genes of Polar Fishes Using Long-read Sequencing. Plant and Animal Genomes 2025. San Diego, CA
Kelley, J.L., Ryan, K., Tobler, M. (2025) Parallel Adaptation in Sympatric Extremophile Fishes. Plant and Animal Genomes 2025. San Diego, CA
Perry, B.W., Duttke, S., Jansen, H.T., Robbins, C.T., Kelley, J.L. (2025) Regulatory evolution and physiological adaptation: insight from hibernation in bears. Plant and Animal Genomes 2025. San Diego, CA.
(Kelley Lab members and alumni in bold, presenting author underlined)
Ryan, K., De-Kayne, R., Arias-Rodriguez, L., Tobler, M., Kelley, J.L. (2025) Adapting to Toxicity: Identifying the Source of Adaptive Variation in the Repeated Evolution of Hydrogen Sulfide Tolerance in Live-Bearing Fishes [Poster Presentation]. Plant and Animal Genomes 2025. San Diego, CA
Jeremias-Lin, A., Ryan, K., Arias-Rodriguez, L., Tobler, M., Kelley, J.L. (2025) Utilizing Genomic Approaches to Understand the Evolution and Demography of Sulfide-Adapted Gambusia and to Further Conservation Efforts for the Species [Poster Presentation]. Plant and Animal Genomes 2025. San Diego, CA
Salih, D., Armstrong, E.E., Kelley, J.L. (2025). Linking historical brown bear (Ursus arctos) micro satellite data with current whole-genome sequencing data using STR-detection tools. [Poster Presentation]. Plant and Animal Genomes 2025. San Diego, CA.
Cai, Q., S.N. Bogan, W. Dowd*, J.L. Kelley* (2025) DNA methylation underlies responses to heat stress in the California mussel. [Poster Presentation]. Plant and Animal Genomes 2025. San Diego, CA.
Moosman, O.W., Kelley, J.L., Bogan, S.N. (2025) Validating Gene Copy Number Variation in Haplotypes of Phased Genome Assemblies: A Study of Antifreeze Protein Genes in Marine Fishes [Poster Presentation]. Plant and Animal Genomes 2025. San Diego, CA
Kara passed her qualifying exam and presented her proposal defense this week! Congratulations and great job Kara!
Joanna recently visited a local elementary school to talk to students about bear biology. The students even had the opportunity to get up close and personal with real examples of bear fur and bones!
Tina presented a poster at the 2024 XXIII Bay Area Population Genetics Conference (BAPG) in Berkeley titled “DNA Methylation Underlies Responses to Heat Stress in the California Mussel.” Congratulations Tina!
The lab attended the Annual Meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico this July. Joanna, Sam, and Tina presented research, and Ellie co-organized a symposium on sex chromosomes. Check out some photos from the conference!
Tina was accepted to attend the NSF-Sponsored workshop “Detecting adaptive evolutionary events in genomes of polar species” at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, St. Augustine, Florida. This workshop will cover methods for analyzing positive selection in diverse organisms and provide opportunities to network with other polar biologists.
Congratulations Tina!
Itzel recently presented at the Cultivamos Excelencia Research Symposium for transfer students at UC Santa Cruz. She presented on work studying genetic mechanisms underlying mammalian hibernation. Congratulations on a great presentation Itzel!