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Kathryn, Erik, and Angela all presented their ongoing research at the annual meeting of the American Ornithological Society in Tucson. Erik and Angela both presented posters on their plans for the upcoming field season and their broader thesis work
At the EBIO Spring Student Research Symposium, Angela was recognized with the Best Graduate Poster award (graphic to the right) and Kathryn with the Best Graduate 12-minute talk award. Congratulations to you both, and great work!
Scott and Kathryn’s proposal, “Big data for a big problem: understanding how urbanization alters contemporary evolution using high-throughput sequencing and high-resolution animal tracking,” was fully funded.Congratulations to both him and Kathryn,
Last week, the lab road tripped out to Tucson, Arizona for the 2018 meeting of the American Ornithological Society.As part of being recognized as the 2018 recipient of the Ned K. Johnson Young Investigator Award, Scott gave a plenary talk
We are excited to welcome to the lab a new postdoctoral researcher, Dominique Wagner! He completed his PhD at the University of Miami with a focus on variation in genomes and gene expression in Fundulus heteroclitus, and will continue to
Congratulations to our PhD students, all of whom were awarded the Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant!!!With his funds, Erik will survey two regions in the mountains of Montana and Idaho where hybridization between gray-crowned rosy finches and
Scott was recently selected by the graduate students of the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science to give a talk in the Museum Seminar Series. His March 16th talk was titled “Insights from avian hybrid zones into the origin and
At the beginning of March, Scott gave two informal talks on the ecology and history of the Peruvian guano islands as part of the Naturalist Nights series at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and in Carbondale for Roaring Fork Audubon. He
Kathryn recently gave the keynote talk at Boulder’s inaugural Nerd Nite to a packed house of ~100 people. Her informal talk focused on the main topic of her dissertation, hybridization in human-altered habitats, and introduced the audience to some
Congratulations to Kathryn, who recently published her first dissertation chapter in Trends in Ecology and Evolution! Her paper explores the causes, consequences, and experimental utility of human-mediated hybridization across a diversity