Most recent news

• 1 Billion Years of Green Plant Evolution, about the study published in Nature by the Thousand Plant Transcriptome Project

News about the Warnow research group

• Lice
  Science Daily
• Avian Phylogenomics
  • Overview
  • "A flock of genomes tells the tale of bird evolution", article in the L.A Times about our work in reconstructing the avian evolutionary history (reported in the New York Times, December 12, 2014).
  • Voice of America article about the same project.
  • RT article about the same project.
  • "Based on 48 Genomes, New Avian Family Tree Provides Surprising Insights into Bird Evolution", an article in GenomeWeb about the same project.
  • New method helps map species' genetic heritage, article in Phys.Org about the statistical binning technique we used to construct the avian tree.
  • The most complete histor of bird genetics ever, article in Motherboard about the same project.
• Thousand Plant Transcriptome Project (1KP)
  • A look back in time at key events in plant evolution, an article about the phylogenomic analysis of plants published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014.
  • See also this article
• Large-scale multiple sequence alignment
  • A Tree of Life Grows in Texas, an article by TACC about us; see also Alcalde and ISGTW.
  • The Science article was selected for the Faculty of 1000 Biology.
  • Seed Magazine, article by Joe Kloc
  • Genome Web Daily News, article by Andrea Anderson.
  • Science Daily
  • Science Magazine, article by Loytyoja and Goldman.
  • The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe, where we are one of the possible science fiction stories.
• Historical Linguistics
  • New York Times article about my work in historical linguistics with Don Ringe.

News about Warnow's students.

• My former student Siavash Mirarab received honorable mention for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2016 (UCSD announcement) (ACM announcement), and selected as a Sloan Foundation Fellow in Computational and Evolutionary Molecular Biology 2017.