Day 3 - A Song, Balloons and Laughter #SLIGExperience

Endogamy lesson

The first two days of "GPS & DNA" were very noisy and full of learning. If it was quieter today, it's not because we were learning less. It was because we were all engrossed in the presentations by Michael Lacopo, Paul Woodbury and our fearless instructor, Karen Stanbary. I never expected such a complex topic as endogamy to be infused with so much humor. But Paul Woodbury did just that. Not only did he infuse humor but we were treated to a song and balloons a well. You've probably seen the pictures already but I was able to grab one early on.


Michael Lacopo shared a couple of case studies: one involving Y-DNA and the other involving autosomal DNA. I have followed his blog, Hoosier Daddy, for a couple of years and so was somewhat familiar with the Y-DNA story but nevertheless, it was very engrossing and entertaining.

My poor boggled mind!

And Karen Stanbary has been very patient and encouraging as we all work to get our software loaded, data extracts completed and then loaded into new software for chromosome mapping with so many features it is mind-boggling.

Day 4 promises to bring more lab time to get our new software loaded with all that DNA data and then time to explore chromosome mapping. More fun to come!