December 2009

We are pleased to welcome postdoctoral fellow Niclas Backström to the laboratory. Niclas recently completed a PhD on evolutionary genetics of flycatchers at Uppsala University in Sweden in Hans Ellengren's lab, and will focus on evolutionary genomics of House Finches here at Harvard.

 

October 2009

Postdoctoral fellow Liang Liu accepts a position as Assistant Profesor in the Deprtment of Agriculture and Natural Science at Delaware State University. He will begin in January 2010.

 

We welcome to the lab new postdocs Matt Fujita and Frank Rheindt and sabbatical visitor Bei An.

 

September 2009

Chris Organ and colleagues publish new finings on the evolution of extinct marine reptiles in Nature.

 

August 2009

The lab bids farewell to Camille Bonneaud, who was awarded a prestigous 4-year fellowship from CNRS

Edwards lab scores two new collaborative grants from NSF: Plumage evolution and gene expression in House Finches (with Geoff Hill) and Olfactory and chemosensory mechanisms of behavior in Leach's Storm Petrels with Gabrielle Nevitt.

 

May 2009

Along with Bono and Nelson Mandela (but without quite as much fanfare!), Scott gets elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. See news story.

 

The Edwards lab looks forward to new members: Matt Fujita (PhD UC Berkeley) will join the lab as a NSF Postoctoral Fellow in Bioinformatics in July 2009. Shane Campbell-Staton (BS, University of Rochester) will join the lab as a graduate student in OEB/MCZ in the fall.

 

April 2009

Graduate student June Lee receives a NSF dissertation improvement grant entitled "Molecular Evolution of Reproductive genes in Australian fairy wrens (Maluridae)

 

Postdoctoral Fellow Miguel Alcaide arrives from the Estacion Biologica de Donana in Seville, Spain, to pursue work in avian immunogenomics

 

Postdoctoral Fellow Dan Janes scores cover of Journal of Heredity for his paper on recombination and nucleotide diversity in Emus

 

Andrew Shedlock contributes to a new book on the TimeTree of Life from Oxford University Press

 

February 2009

Scott speaks to 400 high school students at Darwin Day at the National Museum of Natural History

 

January 2009

Edwards Lab awarded $35,000 from Harvard University's Milton Fund to support Camille Bonneaud's work on 454 transcriptome characterization of House Finch spleen

 

November 2008

Graduate student June Lee receives the cover of the journal Evolution for his study of multilocus phylogeography in the red-backed wren

 

September 2008

Dr. Susan Cameron joins the Edwards lab as a Fellow of the Harvard Center for the Environment

 

Scott contributes to new book on early drawings of John James Audubon published by Harvard University Press

 

August 2008

The Edwards lab is co-funded with Dr. Garth Spellman on a recently awarded NSF grant on phylogeograpy of birds in pine-oak woodlands of North America

 

Postdoc Dan Janes and the Edwards lab are co-funded with Nicole Valenzuela on a recently awarded NSF grant on the evolution of sex chromosomes in turtles

 

June 2008

Graduating senior Elaine Vo is honored with a Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for her senior thesis on temporal trends and evolutionary genetics of mercury tolerance in Black-footed Albatrosses

 

Postdoc Liang Liu wins the prestigious publisher's award from the Society of Systematic Biologists for best paper published in Systematic Biology in 2007 from a graduate student dissertation (Syst. Biol. 56: 504).

 

May 2008

We welcome into the world postdoc Patricia Brito's new baby, Ana Margarida, born 1 May 2008.

Click here for some pictures

 

 

May 2008

Postdoc Chris Organ leads study published in Science on phylogenetic analysis of T. rex and mastadon collagen. See Organ's web site and write-up in the Harvard Gazette

Scott, postdoc Liang Liu, and collaborator Dennis Pearl of The Ohio State University are awarded a 3-year NSF grant to continue developing models to analyze multilocus phylogenomic DNA sequence data. Title: DEB-0743616: Estimating species trees from multilocus DNA sequence data

 

Nineteen undergraduates from 11 states and Puerto Rico are awarded Undergraduate Diversity fellowships to attend the annual meetings of the Society for Systematic Biologists and the Society for the Study of Evolution in Minneapolis. Click here for details of program.

 

February 2008

Postdoc Camille Bonneaud co-authors study on sexual conflict in Anolis lizards

Undergraduate Elaine Vo publishes her field research on Caribbean fisheries in the Harvard Undergraduate Research Journal

 

January 2008

Postdocs Dan Janes and Chris Organ, in collaboration with Nicole Valenzuela of Iowa State University, organize a symposium on reptile genomics for the 2008 meetings of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

 

Postdoc Chris Balakrishnan assumes a NIH-funded postdoc at the University of Illinois to study gene expression evolution in Zebra Finches

Jan 2007

• Chris Organ's work on genome evolution in birds and dinosaurs is accepted to Nature! To appear sometime this spring.
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