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.

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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 Journal of Undergraduate Research

 

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