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.

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

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