Peter Fields

Post-doc in the Ebert lab, University of Basel

[Pascal Angst @PascalAngst]

What do you think about our new preprint? 🥳🥳🥳Please let us know! It’s about how geography, mode of transmission, and long-term host–parasite coevolution is shaping genomic variation in a microsporidium. @peterdfields https://t.co/OxKRX2xXtW

[Pascal Angst @PascalAngst]

Great conference during the last two days: In person and with free coffee. I got to present a poster about my PhD project. Check it out online: https://t.co/Eh8GPu71hz

Work with @peterdfields and Dieter Ebert (in prep.) #biology22basel @Biology22Basel (1/3)

[Peter Fields @peterdfields]

@ScottTKelley BlobToolkit? https://t.co/jIZbPLd8qa

[Peter Fields @peterdfields]

@kdc509 Also see: https://t.co/Td2T3yzZDw.

[Peter Fields @peterdfields]

@kdc509 A tool I've used recently is liftoff: https://t.co/JGS8FAOJVY so assuming minimap2 works pretty well aligning your two assemblies I'd bet it works pretty well getting the annotations over

[Peter Fields @peterdfields]

@pastramimachine ®

[Peter Fields @peterdfields]

@pastramimachine betterhelp for scientists?

[jim mallet @WTF_R_species]

Evolutionary Biology Field Course, Guarda, Switzerland, summer 2022. Dieter Ebert is reviving this after a 2 y hiatus. John Krebs and @hopihoekstra on the faculty! Details: https://t.co/rusauZslQh

[Jeff Dudycha @JLDudycha]

Cool paper on Cladoceran macroevolution from van Damme, et al. Multiple origins of predation!

Whole-Genome Phylogenetic Reconstruction as a Powerful Tool to Reveal Homoplasy and Ancient Rapid Radiation in Waterflea Evolution https://t.co/fCkJxS3ncX

[Peter Fields @peterdfields]

@mbeisen Bioconda is also used to install R packages.

[Trevor Bedford @trvrb]

There is now enough genomic data from the US and Germany to repeat this approach to estimating Omicron-specific rate of epidemic spread. Here, we observe similar initial rapid spread in the US and Germany. 1/10
https://t.co/VOmgLy0rEy

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

No support for a meiosis suppressor in Daphnia pulex: Comparison of linkage maps reveals normal recombination in males of obligate parthenogenetic lineages. https://t.co/FUZpJeyKdG #bioRxiv

[Trevor Bedford @trvrb]

We've seen exceptionally rapid spread of Omicron in South Africa. Although we should expect this rapid spread to follow in other geographies, we've mostly lacked data to confirm this until recently. 1/21
https://t.co/nHfoybHE4d

[Peter Fields @peterdfields]

@the_real_KVD wo cao!

[Peter Fields @peterdfields]

@joelmcglothlin @BiologyCarly @jbakcoleman But is the sky blue? https://t.co/6eCA4Jx8Sf

[Peter Fields @peterdfields]

@pastramimachine Bummer. Did you get mean read lengths in the 15-20kbp range? Any ploidy uncertainty?

[Peter Fields @peterdfields]

@pastramimachine when you say messy, do you mean more fragmented than you expected? shorter?

[Peter Fields @peterdfields]

@pastramimachine Does an expected genome size of 2Gbp in the range you expected?

[Peter Fields @peterdfields]

@pastramimachine I see. Doesn't look a heterozygosity issue. HiFi?