We are Paranoid Darwinians in the Patten Lab. We think genes have agendas and we model the evolutionary process with this in mind.

Joined June 2015
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11 Aug 2022
Join us this fall for a conference in Washington DC. Registration is now open. Register by September 1. paradoxoftheorganism.com/
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Biased X shutoff due to sex antagony? Likely not, alas (Manus Patten, "Does sexual antagonism explain biased X chromosome inactivation?") #sciku #evol2023
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Join @PattenLab and me as a postdoc and model the paradox of the organism! evoldir.tumblr.com/post/6664… Please RT!

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18 May 2019
The Patten Lab proudly welcomes Maria José Rivera to the distinguished alumni club.
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16 Oct 2018
This is a theoretician holding what he thinks is a turtle at the @FloridaMuseum @UF. @GUBiology @davidcblackburn #GoTurtles
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20 May 2017
Patten lab adds a distinguished alum
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Check out new study out today in #PNAS led by @pratha_sah on role of communities in infectious disease transmission: bit.ly/2nxmRml

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Our paper has been published in Brain! Thank you @Brain1878! brain.oxfordjournals.org/con…

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Genomic imprinting in outcrossing A. lyrata! Finally somebody looked where parental conflict really matters. Great! nature.com/articles/nplants2…

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28 Jul 2016
Newest lab member -- check out her shirt!
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15 Jul 2016
"Lab meeting"
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Classic case of a sex ratio distorter driving a population to extinction. x.com/GenomeNathan/status/75…

Per #PopSci renderings, >5 in 6 Neandertals were male? (No wonder so few have descendants.) #PopSigh #ArchaicBechdel
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10 Jul 2016
Spending this beautiful Sunday reading an economist's thoughts on evolution
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29 Jun 2016
Having a blast at the AAAS workshop for communicating science with the Biology REU program!
New paper out in JEB. Nice work, undergrad co-authors! @wrydzewski @saracarioscia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/reso…

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Programming Day 2 Input = coffee Output = success
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Day 1 of programming seminar with the Environmental REU Program!
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22 Apr 2016
Had such a great time at bio blast! Thanks for co-hosting, @JeffreyHuang!
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Spring break! Talking evolution and drinking Evolution IPA with @arvidagren
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