Genetics – Athrey Lab

Genetics, grants, Lab, science, students

Travis awarded the Tom Slick Fellowship

Posted on June 21, 2021June 21, 2021 by athrey

PhD Student Travis Williams was awarded the highly competitive Tom Slick Fellowship from the College […]

chicken, Genetics, manuscripts, science

New chicken genomics paper

Posted on May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 by athrey

Our latest paper on the role of lighting in stimulating immune responses following vaccination in […]

chicken, Genetics, manuscripts, students

New pub: cloacal swab microbiota

Posted on May 12, 2020May 12, 2020 by athrey

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.

Genetics, teaching

Genomics course, coming 2020

Posted on December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 by athrey

I will be teaching my population genomics and bioinformatics course once again in Spring 2020. […]

award, Conferences, Genetics

Travis wins awards at PSA

Posted on July 19, 2019September 3, 2019 by athrey

After returning from PSA Montreal, I heard that Travis Williams won two awards this year […]

chicken, Conferences, Genetics

PSA Montreal

Posted on July 18, 2019September 3, 2019 by athrey

Just returned from the Poultry Science Association annual meeting in Montreal, Canada. We had a […]

birds, Genetics, grants

Athrey lab receives federal award to survey Golden-cheeked Warbler genetics

Posted on June 21, 2019September 3, 2019 by athrey

We received a an grant from the Department of Defense – US Army Corps of […]

chicken, Genetics, science, students

Shawna Hubert defends Ph.D thesis

Posted on June 7, 2019September 3, 2019 by athrey

Shawna Marie Hubert, first graduate student of the Athrey Lab successfully defended her Ph.D thesis […]

Genetics, science, teaching

Genomics & Bioinformatics 2019

Posted on January 11, 2019March 19, 2019 by athrey

I am teaching my genomics & bioinformatics (graduate) course this spring. It has gone well […]

birds, Genetics, manuscripts, students

New paper on Red Junglefowl Genetics

Posted on October 18, 2018 by athrey

Our first paper on Red Junglefowl captive population genetics has been published in the Journal […]