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Current Grants (updated September 2009)

2009-2012 NSF IOS-0922640 - Collaborative research: Molecular mechanisms of scent mediated self / non-self recognition in a pelagic seabird (PI, Gabrielle Nevitt, UC Davis) $270,000
2009-2012 NSF IOS - 0923088 - Collaborative Research: Plumage redness and good genes in the House Finch - (PI, Geoff Hill, Auburn University)
2008-2010 NSF DEB-0815705 - Collaborative Research: Multilocus Comparative Phylogeography of Pine-Oak Woodland Birds in North America (PI, Garth Spellman, Black Hill State University; co-PIs, John Klicka, and Scott Edwards) $143,000
2009-2012 NSF - MCB - 0817687: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Evolution of Sex Chromosomes in Turtles. (PI, Nicole Valenzuela, Iowa State University; Edwards, co-PI) $205,000
2008-2012 NSF DEB-0826811 (URM - Undergraduate Research & Mentoring): Undergraduate Diversity at SSE/SBB 2008-2012 ($67,500)
2008-2011 NSF DEB 0743616 "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Estimating Species Trees from Multilocus DNA Sequence Data" (co-PI, Dennis Pearl) $450,000
2007-2010 NSF 0646400 "Computerization of the Ornithology Collections at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University" ($479,656)
 
Recent Grants
2001 - 2005 NSF DEB-0108249 - Multilocus Tests of Speciation Models and Comparative Phylogeography of Australian Birds (P. Beerli co-PI; 4 yrs., ; $375,000)
2002 - 2006 BAC Libraries for the Reptilia, Including Birds: Genomic Resources for Comparative Biology (NSF 0207870; Edwards, PI; C. Amemiya, J. R. Macey, co-PIs; 3 yrs.; $1,095,539)
2002 - 2006 NSF UMEB (Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology): Undergraduate Diversity at the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society of Systematic Biologists. NSF, DEB-0227714, 4 yrs., $60,000; E. Zimmer, co-PI)
2003 - 2006 NSF, DEB0315806 - " Accomplishment-based renewal: Hitchhiking and Molecular Evolution of the Major Histocompatibility Complex in Birds" (3 yrs., $345,000)

 

 

Collaborators

Dennis Pearl
The Ohio State University

Geoffrey Hill,
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

Garth Spellman
Black Hills State University

Nicole Valenzuela
Iowa State University

Chris Amemiya,
Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle

Hilary Miller,
Victoria University of Wellington

Takashi Shiina, Hidetoshi Inoko,
Tokai University, Japan

Manolis Kellis and Matt Rasmussen
MIT

Jennifer Marshall Graves,
Comparative Genomics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University

Gabrielle Nevitt UC Davis

 

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