BrykLab

NorthernBUG 14 in Huddersfield

Nothern Bioinformatics User Group meeting #14 in Huddersfield

Last week, on Friday 28th March 2025, the 14th edition of the Northern Bioinformatics User Group took place at the University of Huddersfield. For the first time, the…

A new website - again!

What could possibly go wrong?

Finally! After a long while I have updated this website to Quarto, rearranged some sections to highlight my work at STLT plus UNIGEMS and other resources, and moved over all…

TASO Institutional Data Use Project

Outcomes from the TASO project we participated in

For the last year, STLT has taken part in the Institutional Data Use project run by the Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO) The project aims…

UNIGEMS paper is published

Open access, and with extra resources, too.

This paper was a long time coming and I am very glad it is finally, officially out (although the resources it describes have been stealthily popular for some time already).…

We have won!

STLT team gets an award from THE

The Strategic Teaching and Learning Team, where I have worked on the HuDAP - Huddersfield Differential Attainment Project (see the research page, has been awarded the Times…

Congratulations, Dr Rohan Raval!

Rohan is now a Doctor!

Finally! Rohan has actually been a doctor for a good while now, but only now we were able to put a hat on it. It is my great pleasure to congratulate him on successful…

Chimeras paper is published

PhD-students-driven paper is published in Molecular Ecology Resources. Read it to learn more about chimeras in RAD-seq.

The wealth of genotyping that we have done in the last 5 years (and by “we”, I mean Marisa and Rohan), coupled with the upgraded quaddRAD genotyping protocol, enabled us to…

UNIGEMS preprint is live!

UNIGEMS project finally sees the official announcement. If you teach with plasmids and bacteria, you may find it useful.

Just what is says on the tin - we have finally put our UNIGEMS paper on biorxiv: UNIGEMS: plasmids and parts to facilitate teaching on assembly, gene expression control and…

A new website!

What could possibly go wrong?

Testing… testing… one two three… Please expect gremlins and other bugs in the next few weeks as I am updating the site and moving things over…

Next generation biologists cloud computing workshop

Out last workshop in the series.

We are happy to announce the next - and likely the last (!) - workshop in our “Next Generation Biologists” series. During two days in January 16-17 (Thursday and Friday) at…

Hello, Haeyam!

A new BrykLab lab member :-).

We are very happy to welcome Haeyam Taiy, a new member of the BrykLab, for her year-long research placement with our group. Haeyam is a current student at Huddersfield and…

Congratulations, Dr Martin Cerezo!

Marisa is now a Doctor!

It is my great pleasure to congratulate Marisa on successful completion of her doctoral thesis “European phylogeography and genetic structure of wood and yellow-necked mice A…

Announcing Programming for Evolutionary Biology Conference

Buttermere, Lake District, 2-6 September, 2018.

UPDATE 20th July 2018 Thanks to generous funding from our supporting organisations, The Genetics Society and The Company of Biologists, we are able to keep the registration…

Hello, Alex!

A new BrykLab lab member :-).

We are very happy to welcome the third member (!) of our merry band, Alexandra Siddall, who joins us from the ~~wrong~~ other side of the Pennines for her year-long research…

Hello, Rohan!

A new BrykLab lab member :-).

We are very happy to welcome Rohan Raval, a new PhD student in Huddersfield, who came to Huddersfield from the depths of the Silwood Park in the faraway lands of somewhere…

Fully-funded PhD position on comparative genomics of Apodemus

Genetics and genomics of metabolism in Apodemus flavicollis

The BrykLab has* a fully-funded PhD position available to continue and expand our work on Apodemus genomics, from phylogeography to genome-wide scans for positive selection.…

My talk at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

A Cake and Nature Talk.

I was recently invited by Kara Jackson from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (YWT) to give a talk on our research and/or evolutionary biology. I wasn’t aware of the YWT before…

Hello, Marisa!

A new BrykLab lab member :-)

I am very happy to welcome Marisa Martín Cerezo, a new PhD student in Huddersfield, with whom I will be working on the Apodemus and Mustela projects. Marisa came to The…

Hello, world!

Welcome to the website of a research group of Dr Jarek Bryk at the University of Huddersfield in the north of England.