Sarah presents the results of her bioinformatics-based UROP study!

During 2020, Sarah Myint worked through the pandemic to accomplish the goals of her ambitious undergraduate research project focused on using genome skimming data for phylogenetic inference in a hybrid species. Shallow-coverage genome sequencing (<1× coverage) can provide valuable data for evolutionary analyses, especially for genes that are present in high copy numbers within the plant cell (e.g., chloroplast genes). In this study, Sarah leveraged Illumina HiSeq (150 bp paired end) to examine nuclear genes in the Myriopteris yavapensis complex.

Click here for Sarah’s research presentation, summarizing the poster below (prepared for the University of Minnesota Duluth Undergraduate Research Symposium, Spring, 2021).