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Welcome to our incoming PhD students Sara , Nikki , and Ajay , as well as our incoming NSF REPS Fellow Abi . Check out their profiles to learn more about our newest lab members!

It’s official! Scott is now an Associate Professor!

Some lab members recently returned from the first in person scientific meetings since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Angela and Scott traveled to Cleveland for the Evolution meeting where Angela gave a talk on her dissertation work and Scott helped with the organizing and running of the inaugural Tri-Society...

At the 2019 Evolution meeting in Rhode Island Scott participated in a storytelling event called Outside the Distribution. Recently Story Collider featured Scott’s story about belonging and navigating being a gay scientist on their blog. You can listen to Scott’s story here: https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2022/5/11/becoming-stories-about-growing-into-yourself

Congratulations to Maria who will be starting a new position as an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst this fall!

The 2022 field season of the Boulder Chickadee Study has wrapped. Mia banded and bled the final mountain chickadees of the season during an outreach event at the MRS with folks from the Denver Field Ornithologists on July 10th. This field season was conducted by Mia, Will, Nikki, Olivia, Bernie,...

Congratulations to the Taylor Lab graduates of 2022! From left to right, Will recieved his undergraduate degree with honors, while Dr. Grabenstein, Dr. Theodosopoulos, and Dr. Funk all had their PhD conferred. Not pictured is Cori who also recieved her undergraduate degree with honors.

Congratulations to Angela who just found out that she won a Fulbright Award for Sweden starting this fall! Angela will be using her time as a Fulbright recipient to expand on her recent discovery ( published in Biology Letters ) that the highly invasive SGS1 strain of the avian malaria...

Congratulations to Will who was recently awarded a research grant from the American Ornithological Society! This research grant will be used by Will to expand on his honors thesis documenting a region of hybridization along the Front Range between eastern and western Houre Wren lineages. Specifically, the grant money will...

Congrats to Olivia for being awarded a summer UROP grant! Olivia's project project aims to further our understanding of birdsong evolution by exploring whether our local canyons act as isolating barriers that facilitate song divergence between black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) populations. She will determine (1) whether canyon-isolated populations have divergent...