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CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: Adam Siepel

How much are we learning? Natural selection is science’s best critic

12/17/2018

Researchers determine that natural selection and our evolutionary history may be the best guides for future research. Read the story »

A science writer’s quest to understand heredity

5/30/2018

LabDish spoke with science writer Carl Zimmer about what he learned about heredity as he zig-zagged through CSHL while writing his new book. Read the story »

Evolving sets of gene regulators explain some of our differences from other primates

1/29/2018

What makes us different from our primate relatives? Gene regulation is one important evolutionary factor Read the story »

Base Pairs Episode 13: A lesson in class

12/15/2017

We share three stories about classification in life sciences and how genetic information is changing how we define important categories. Listen to the podcast »

A lesson in class

12/15/2017

In this episode of Base Pairs, we discuss how genetic information is changing how we define important categories. Read the story »

Reconstructing ancient human history from DNA

6/20/2017

Free public lecture featuring Adam Siepel, Ph.D., CSHL Professor and Chair of the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology. Watch the video »

Non-modern family

8/15/2016

This episode on Base Pairs explores how genetic information to better understand human history. Read the story »

Neanderthals mated with modern humans much earlier than previously thought

5/17/2016

Using several methods of DNA analysis, a research team has found strong evidence of interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans. Watch the video »

Neanderthals mated with modern humans much earlier than previously thought, study finds

2/12/2016

Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of interbreeding. Read the story »

Harnessing data from nature’s great evolutionary experiment

1/21/2015

Scientists develop a computational method to estimate the importance of each letter in the human genome Read the story »

New senior faculty join CSHL

11/10/2014

Interviews with new faculty Adam Siepel and Douglas Fearon. Read the story »

Re-learning how to read a genome