Field experience
Multiple field seasons in tropical rainforests
- plant and insect sampling
- micromammal and bird capture and manipulation
- plant population surveys
- controlled pollination experiment
- survey of ant circadian rhythms
(over a year total)
Laboratory skills
Experiments involving living organisms
- insect breeding
- choice experiments
At the lab bench
- plant / animal / fungal DNA / RNA extractions
- development / amplification / sequencing / genotyping of molecular markers
- next-gen sequencing (shotgun / genome sequencing)
Analytical skills
- statistics (R)
- chromatogram interpretation (Sequencher, GeneMapper, Geneious)
- population genetics (FSTAT, GENEPOP, Arlequin, SPAGeDi, Structure, TESS, Geneland)
- pedigree reconstruction (Cervus, COLONY, MasterBayes)
- bioinformatics (UNIX, NGS analysis tools such as bwa, velvet, OBITools)
- Office, Adobe