About Peter Fields

Feb 9, 2015 • Peter Fields

Peter Fields is a post-doc in the lab of Dieter Ebert at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His work in the Ebert lab focuses on the population genomics of the species Daphnia magna, a crustacean. Peter received his PhD in Biology from the University of Virginia, where he was a member of Douglas Taylor’s lab.

What I found hardest about using Git the first time was identifying the proper syntax to perform tasks via command line that I’d become used to manipulating via GUI tools provided by GitHub, in particular making a pull request and updating a fork.