Troy M. LaPolice

Simulations reveal hybridization in Caribbean Acropora restoration poses low risk of genetic swamping but limited potential for ... biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #biorxiv_bioinfo

Congrats to the 15 student teams who have moved forward to the next stage of the Nittany AI Challenge! Two of these teams have members of the Eberly College of Science on them — Ameya Panchal, who is working on a physics minor, and Troy LaPolice, a biology doctoral student.

Thank you to my excellent co-authors Colin Howe, Nicolas Locatelli, and @ChristianDHuber!

📰 I’m thrilled to share our latest preprint, now available on bioRxiv: 🔗biorxiv.org/content/10.648… “Simulations reveal hybridization in Caribbean Acropora restoration poses low risk of genetic swamping but limited potential for adaptive introgression”

Had a great time presenting for the @PennStateBio department yesterday and seeing excellent talks from other grad students students at PSU! Thank you BIOGSA for the opportunity!

@stavi_rt @HistArcDNA @christiandhuber @NatureComms Thank you very much Stavi!

@TroyLaPolice @HistArcDNA @christiandhuber @NatureComms Congrats Troy! Excited to check this out. :)

I am thrilled to announce my work with @HistArcDNA and @christiandhuber, "Modeling the European Neolithic expansion suggests predominant within-group mating and limited cultural transmission" has been published today in @NatureComms! nature.com/articles/s4146…

I had a great time at the #Evol2024 conference in Montréal this week! I learned so much- and met many people doing really cool science! It was also great catching up with old colleagues and friends. Also, thank you to everybody who came to my talk!

I’m excited to have the opportunity to give a talk on Saturday the 27th at #Evol2024! I will be speaking about how we can use insights from computational modeling to inform coral restoration efforts in the Caribbean. If you are interested, come check out my talk at 10:30 in 520B!

Had the amazing opportunity to play a small part in this excellent project along with many talented authors! Happy to share it is now available!

Lastly, I'd like to thank Dr. Huber and Dr. Williams for their work on this project!! [End 🧵]

This cautions against oversimplified interpretations of cultural expansion mechanisms from a lack of ancestry shifts alone, calling for a revaluation of other cultural expansions.

I’m thrilled to share the new preprint I’ve written with @christiandhuber and @HistArcDNA about the human transition from foraging to agriculture! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Please see the following thread about the work below! 🧵