Cloacal swabs, commonly used as a proxy of gut microbiota membership in birds, are really poor at capturing the membership and community structure of lower GI tract microbes in chicken.
Category: Genetics
Genomics course, coming 2020
I will be teaching my population genomics and bioinformatics course once again in Spring 2020. […]
Travis wins awards at PSA
After returning from PSA Montreal, I heard that Travis Williams won two awards this year […]
PSA Montreal
Just returned from the Poultry Science Association annual meeting in Montreal, Canada. We had a […]
Athrey lab receives federal award to survey Golden-cheeked Warbler genetics
We received a an grant from the Department of Defense – US Army Corps of […]
Shawna Hubert defends Ph.D thesis
Shawna Marie Hubert, first graduate student of the Athrey Lab successfully defended her Ph.D thesis […]
Genomics & Bioinformatics 2019
I am teaching my genomics & bioinformatics (graduate) course this spring. It has gone well […]
New paper on Red Junglefowl Genetics
Our first paper on Red Junglefowl captive population genetics has been published in the Journal […]
RJF banding & sampling
Several lab members turned out to help capture, band, and bleed the new cohort of […]
Welcome Jamie Alfieri
Jamie Alfieri (re)joined the lab as a Ph.D Student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology […]
