Margaret successfully defended her PhD thesis proposal and advanced to candidacy recently! Congratulations!
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The Sethuraman Lab had a great time presenting our work at PAG32 at the Town and Country in San Diego! Arun gave a lecture in the Molecular Ecology workshop, while Tamsen presented her work on SpecKs at the polyploidy workshop. Until next year!
Congratulations to Priyanshi Shah, who recently successfully defended her MS thesis, titled "Cataloging telomeric variation across diverse human populations, and its utility in predicting cancer using supervised machine learning"! Trevor Mugoya and Surangi Jayasinghe also successfully defended their MS theses proposals - congratulations!
Arun, Tamsen, and Priyanshi recently presented our lab's research at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2024 meetings in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. And we got to do some fun sight-seeing, alongside all the great science!
The Sethuraman Lab, represented by Alex, Priyanshi, Raya, Tamsen and Trevor recently attended the 2024 SCalE Meeting, hosted by CalTech. Alex presented some of our recent research work on the genomic history of domestication in hops. Watch this space for our upcoming manuscript describing these results!
![]() Figure 1. Locations where sturgeon tissue samples were collected from presumed captive (red) and wild (purple) populations. Captive populations included three coastal fish markets in Batumi, Poti, and Tskaltsminda one inland fish market in Tbilisi, and an aquaculture facility. Wild populations were sampled from the Black Sea, Rioni River, and the mouth of the Rioni River. Our new collaborative study that examines genomic evidence for the presence of protected white sterlet, beluga, and stellate sturgeon in fish markets in Tbilisi, Georgia, often hybridizing with locally farmed sturgeons, led by Tamar Beridze, a visiting scholar in the Sethuraman lab in Fall 2022 is now published in Diversity! Read here.
P. quatuordecimpunctata and H. variegata invasive pop-gen study now published in Biological Control!5/8/2024 ![]() Fig. 1. Sampling of (A) H. variegata and (B) P. quatuordecimpunctata across their invasive United States ranges with numerical locality identifiers. Parenthetical numbers denote the number of sequenced samples retained for genetic analyses. Color gradient displays the year of first recorded specimen in each state. Star icon shows approximate location of North American introduction. Our new study on invasive population genomics and behavioral phenology in response to photoperiods in two species of lady beetles used in importation biological control - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata and Hippodamia variegata is now published in Biological Control! Read here.
Christopher Morrissey successfully defended his Masters thesis, and we couldn't be prouder of him! As part of his thesis, he developed an R package called MethylMapR, which can be used to characterize the functional methylome in prokaryotes - watch this space for our upcoming publication describing this package. Congratulations, Chris!
Graduate student Trevor Mugoya was recently awarded the 2024-2025 SDSU Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations, Trevor! We are so proud of you and look forward to your continued success at SDSU and beyond.
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