On Oct 4-6, Kaixiong, Jingqi, Ake, Yitang, Michael, and Shuang attended the 2019 Southeastern Population Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Conference (SEPEEG) at the Clemson University Outdoor Laboratory. It was our first time joining the SEPEEG community. We were very excited to be there. Kaixiong presented the overall research in the lab and Yitang presented a poster on an ongoing Mendelian Randomization project.

Kaixiong presented at the SEPEEG conference.

Yitang presented his research at SEPEEG.

On Oct 16-19th, Kaixiong attended the 2019 ASHG meeting and moderated a session on "Methods and Resources in Large-scale Population Data". This is an awesome conference and the Ye lab will have growing presence in the future :)

In Oct, Michael attended The Carpentries Instructor Training workshop and is now a certified instructor for The Carpentries.