Dapper Lab

Mississippi State University

The Dapper Lab uses evolutionary genetic approaches to understand the origin and maintenance of genetic variation.  A major focus of the lab group is the evolution of reproductive traits - from behavior to cellular pathways. Our research employs both theoretical and empirical approaches, ideally in concert with one another.

Dapper Lab @ Evolution 2023

July 12, 2023  /  Amy Dapper

The Dapper Lab had a blast attending Evolution 2023 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dharani and Taylor both gave awesome talks about results from their dissertation research and LeAnn presented a fantastic poster about what she plans to do during her PhD!

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Summer Meetings

September 22, 2021  /  Amy Dapper

Members of the Dapper Lab are busy communicating our research findings this summer! Here is where you can hear more about what we are doing:

Austin is presenting a poster on the results of his Master’s thesis (Modeling recombination rate as a quantitative trait reveals new insight into selection in humans) at the Biology of Genomes (Virtual) Meeting hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories on May 11 - 14, 2021.

Dharani is presenting a On-Demand Talk on her Master’s project (Variation in Intra-Chromosomal Patterns of Recombination Rate between Wild-Derived Populations of Caenorhabditis elegans) at Virtual Evolution 2021 held June 21-25, 2021. Amy and Taylor are also contributing an On-Demand Talk at Evolution - Birds vs. Mammals: Who actually recombines more?

Amy and Austin are contributing a talk (Modeling Recombination Rate as a Quantitative Trait Reveals New Insights in Selection in Humans) to Symposium 23 - Recombination rate variation: implications to genome and organismal evolution organized at by Drs. Judith Mank and Nadia Singh at the all-virtual SMBE 2021 held July 3-7, 2021. You can also hear more about our ongoing collaboration with the Hoffmann Lab at Federico Hoffmann’s SMBE Poster (Differential loss of recombination genes after whole genome duplications in vertebrates).

Last, but certainly not least, Ethan presented a poster on his undergraduate research project in the Dapper Lab (Retention of Duplicated Recombination Genes Following Whole Genome Duplication in Yeast) at the Spring 2021 Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium hosted by the Shackouls Honor College at Mississippi State University held April 8-9, 2021.

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Congratulations, Austin!

September 22, 2021  /  Amy Dapper

Austin Drury, a Master’s student in the Dapper Lab, successfully defended his Master’s thesis on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021 - Modeling recombination rate as a quantitative trait reveals new insight into selection in humans. This fall Austin will be joining the Microbiology PhD program at the University of Washington in St. Louis.

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Congratulations, Riley!

September 22, 2021  /  Amy Dapper

Riley Cutler, an undergraduate researcher in the Dapper Lab, was awarded a summer research fellowship ($1000) by the Honors Undergraduate Research Program at the Shackouls Honors College for her proposal: Research and Illustration on the Evolution of Recombination Rates in Caenorhabditis elegans.

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Background image by Brandon Cooper.