Natya Hans

Natya Hans

Evolutionary computational biologist

Sitemap

A list of all the posts and pages found on the site. For you robots out there is an XML version available for digesting as well.

Pages

Posts

Digital Planner 2022

less than 1 minute read

Published:

Last year I created a digital planner using Keynote, since I wanted to use my iphone for keeping track of things. “Note” as a note keeping app is great but not I was looking for more organization in my schedule and reducing the clutter from my mind. I live in organized chaos so I wanted to give my mind a break.

Using dev version on hipergator

2 minute read

Published:

Allocating resources on dev

Hipergator allows the users to allocate resources for running simple applications on the cluster. Please see the criteria for short testing jobs allowed on Hipergator here. Remember that the developmental version is only for testing purposes, so do not submit any job that takes a long time to run. I personally do not enjoy using it for longer runs, but simple applications which do not take too much time can be run on dev version by allocating resources and time as follows:

Using HiPerGator without Dual Factor Authentication every time

2 minute read

Published:

Hipergator recently updated to a dual factor authentication for logging in, which means for people who use it daily and and need to login multiple sessions, it can get annoying pretty fast. The workaround is to use ssh multiplexing which can allow you to use an existing TCP connection for multiple sessions. More on multiplexing here. In other words, given that you log in and authenticate once, and as long as the initial terminal remains open, you can log into multiple sessions without authentication. Although I would advise against it, but you can increase the time from 8hrs.

Publication Quality Figures in R

1 minute read

Published:

This tutorial is written to guide relatively new R students on how to make a publication ready figures in R. It can be daunting to figure this out on your own and look at several websites to figure out which R packages are needed,along with how to fulfill each journal’s requirement for fiures, so I am going to try to keep this short and simple. Here are a list of packages that are needed and can be easily installed from CRAN.

‘Bayesian inference using MrBayes on HiPerGator’

3 minute read

Published:

Update on hipergator and allocating resources on dev

Hipergator moved it’s storage from ufrc to blue so the path should be changed to /blue/GROUPNAME/NAME/. I personally do not enjoy using it for longer runs, but simple applications which do not take too much time can be run on dev version by allocating resources and time as follows:

‘Setting up Aliases’

5 minute read

Published:

Setting up Aliases in linux and unix makes life a lot easier. You can choose your own commands and shortcuts to commands you commonly use a lot and save time. Another way to make life easier is to set up SSH keys so you won’t be asked for a password everytime you login to the server. Felicia did an excellent blog on it already, which you can check out here

‘Running jobs on HiPerGator’

2 minute read

Published:

Breakdown of Slurm Script

HiPerGator moved from a PBS to Slurm(Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management), in 2015? or 2016?, not sure.
But let’s break down the sample bash script line by line , which you can download here

‘Modules on HiPerGator’

less than 1 minute read

Published:

Modules on HiPerGator

The tutorial available on UFRC website does a pretty good job explaining how to load a software for running jobs on the cluster.
Click here for Module Tutorial by UFRC After you have loaded the list of modules you want to load, you can save the modules to a default list by,

Transferring files to the cluster (HiPerGator)

2 minute read

Published:

Now that you are on the cluster, let us learn some basic commands to navigate your way.First you need to know your location on the cluster. Type:

Using the cluster (HiPerGator)

1 minute read

Published:

If this is your first time using the cluster, I would advice to learn some basic bash scripting. Navigating your way through different directories and cluster would be a lot easier with basic bash commands such as pwd,cd, mkdir, ls ( Note to self: Make a post about it)

portfolio

publications

talks

Posters

Published:

Poster at Evolution 2017:

I presented a poster at the international Evolution meeting held at Portland OR from June 23-27, 2017. The poster topic is from my dissertation research on characterizing the performance of species diversification models. For more information on the conference program, click here.

teaching

X lab (Cross-Disciplinary Laboratory)

HHMI funded undergrad lab, University of Florida, Department of Biology, 2017

I was instructor for the cross discplinary laboratory for two years. The lab coordinators for this HHMI funded program are Dr. David Jullian and Dr. Gabriela Waschewsky. X lab 1 (ISC2400L) and X lab 2 (ISC2401L)

Integrated Principles of Biology Laboratory

Undergraduate Lab, University of Florida, Department of Biology, 2017

Graduate Lab Instructor for BSC2010L
Lab coordinator: Dr. Kent Vliet I taught principles Fall 2014, Spring 2015 and Summer 2017.

Grad training

Graduate course, University of Florida, Department of Biology, 2019

I was the teaching assistant for Dr Matthew Liebold for principles of graduate training course(ZOO6927-291D). This is a training course for incoming first year biology graduate students. The course provides training for writing NSF style research proposal.

Genetics

Undergraduate Lecture, University of Florida, Department of Biology, 2021

I have taught the Genetics lecture course(PCB3063) for five semesters.

Online Teaching

Undergraduate UF Online class, University of Florida, Department of Biology, 2022

List of online classes I have taught at UF with description:

viz

My year in Review with Google Data Studio

1 minute read

Published:

As the year 2021 ends, I decided to post some example of data visualization dashboards. I have been enjoying learning more about data visualization tools and decided to post sample dashboards for users to customize. I intend on keep learning more and sharing my dashboards experiences next year.

workshops

Courses

Published:

List of grad level courses taken at UF during Ph.D.