Todd A. Castoe, Ph.D.

Research - See research page for details

•Applications of Next-Generation sequencing
•Non-model species comparative genomics
•Squamate reptile genomics and evolution
•Molecular evolution and adaptation in vertebrate mitochondria
•Phylogenetic methodology
•Probabilistic models of nucleotide and protein evolution
•Adaptation and evolution of protein structure and function

I also maintain a website on Snake Genomics:

www.snakegenomics.org

Todd Castoe’s Home Page:

http://www.snakegenomics.com/ToddCastoe/Home.html

Todd A. Castoe, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Biology

University of Texas at Arlington

Todd.Castoe@uta.edu

Office: ERB-433

817-272-9084

LAB: ERB-474

817-272-9615

Google Scholar Citation Link

NEWS AND UPDATES

Octt 2012 - The new CASTOE LAB WEBSITE is now online. Come check it out!

Sept 2012 - Setting up the new lab at The University of Texas Arlington.

Contact me if interested in PhD, tech, or Postdoc positions!

Feb 2012 - Crocodilian comparative genomics progress paper in Genome Biology (St. John et al., Genome Biol.)

Jan 2012 - Our paper (deKoning et al., PLoS Genetics) on human genome repeat content featured as Research Highlight in Nature Reviews Genetics

Jan 2012 - Several new papers in press, including work on identifying repetitive DNA in the human genome, and TEs in huge salamander genomes.

Jan 2012 - Our manuscript coming out detailing new method and software - PAL_FINDER - for identifying PCR-amplifiable microsatellite loci from Illumina paired-end shotgun sequencing - see publication page...

Jan 2012 - Python genome assembly showcased at Plant and Animal Genomes Conference - San Diego, CA

Aug 2011 - Crocodilian genomes working group meeting Link

Aug 2011 - Python Genome Progress Paper - Genome Biology PDF

July 2011 - Media coverage of our snake genomics work (from our talk at the Evolution Meetings)