Each month we highlight individuals or programs that have received funding from SSE. This month we hear from RADCamp NYC 2019 [1], which received funding through the Early-Career Vocational Opportunities (EVO) Workshops grants [2]:

“Last year we received $1500 from the Society for the Study of Evolution for an Early-Career Vocational Opportunities Workshop and $1500 in ad hoc funding from the Society for Systematic Biology to run the RADCampNYC-2019 workshop. Our goal for this workshop was to teach participants how to generate and analyze RADseq data to understand genetic differences among species/populations. During this workshop, we were able to provide a diverse group of participants with hands-on training across a broad array of techniques from lab work to bioinformatic processing, and statistical inference. Participants arrived for part 1 with extractions in hand from 16 samples, and left at the end of part 2 with an assembled pilot dataset and a phylogeny & PCA plot generated from their real data. The success of this workshop was due in no small part to the financial contributions of SSE and SSB. Look out for RADCamp 2020 hopefully coming this summer.”