Biology Profs
This historical event came first:
Graham Bell's birth or the end of World War II
What is end of World War II (1945)?
The number of mesocosms at the Gault LEAP project
What is 96?
The first organism to have its whole genome sequenced.
What is a bacteriophage?
What is no gene flow, no mutation, no selection, no drift and random mating?
The number of evolution-minded professors in CEEB and MCDB?
CEEB = 18: Ehab Abouheif, Rowan Barrett, Thomas Bureau, Lauren Chapman, Melania Cristescu, Dan Schoen, Anna Hargreaves, Gregor Fussmann, Andrew Gonzalez, David Green, Melanie Guigueno, Andrew Hendry, Rees Kassen, Hans Larsson, Jennifer Sunday, Catherine Potvin, Simon Reader, Anthony Ricciardi
MCDB = 6: Joseph Dent, David Dankort, Paul Harrison, Paul Lasko, Tomoko Ohyama, Rodrigo Reyes-Lamothe
The year that Prof. Dan Schoen was hired at McGill
Bonus: A Canadian botanist who also graduated from UC Berkeley (PhD) in Dan's era
When is 1982?
Who is Prof. Spencer Barrett at UofT?
Prof. Rees Kassen's first studied this organism
What is salmon?
This disease-causing bacterium was used to discover the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool.
What is Streptococcus?
What is R = h2S?
These 5 ingredients are used for PCR.
What is a DNA template, forward and reverse primers, DNA polymerase, deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs), and reaction buffer?
The number of followers on Andrew Hendry's Instagram account
What is 103K?
The number of study organisms in the Barrett Lab
What is 9?
The odd-man out:
R.A Fisher, E.O Wilson, C. Darwin, Ernest Haeckel, Francis Crick, Huxley, Wallace
Who is Alfred Russel Wallace? What is a non-racist/normal person?
Two subpopulations have allele frequencies of 0.7 and 0.5 for a particular allele. What is the Fst between these two subpopulations if the total allele frequency across both populations is 0.6?
What is ~0.042?
Breakdown:
Fst=Ht−Hs / Ht
Ht=2p(1−p)=2(0.6)(0.4)=0.48
Hs=0.5*[2(0.7)(0.3)+2(0.5)(0.5)]=0.5*[0.42+0.5]=0.46
Fst=0.480.48−0.46=0.480.02=0.0417
These 5 supercomputers are available for academic use and are maintained by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.
What is Narval, Beluga, Cedar, Graham, and Niagara?
The distance that Rowan biked in 2023
What is 13,944km?
The total number of ant colonies housed by the Abouheif lab (current and past)
What is 1000?
The captain of the HMS Beagle in which Darwin sailed upon.
Who is Captain Fitzroy?
In a study testing 10,000 SNPs for association with a trait, the p-values are ranked from smallest to largest. If the desired false discovery rate (FDR) is set to 0.05, explain how the Benjamini-Hochberg correction determines which p-values are considered significant.
Benjamini-Hochberg correction ranks the p-values and compares each p-value to its corresponding threshold as (k/n) × α, where k is the ranked of the p-value, n is the number of tests, and alpha α is the desired false discovery rate. It's commonly used in GWAS studies.
This newly hired McGill staffer is responsible for reviewing expense reports from Biology.
Bonus: What is the email?
Who is Angela Codeau?
What is sciencefinancepod1@mcgill.ca?