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Katherine spoke at the REU meeting on her research into plumage variation between two social bird species. She has been busy mapping chickadee sightings and collecting data from captured birds at the Mountain Research Station, and is gearing up to
Scott was the keynote speaker at the 2018 CFO convention and gave a talk on his recent work on chickadees, redpolls, and warblers titled, “Insights into avian evolutionary ecology from genomes and citizens.” Scott had a great time at the convention
The latest edition of The Auk: Ornithological Advances will contain a paper by our very own Erik Funk, which is the product of his work as a Masters student at San Diego State University under the supervision of Dr. Kevin Burns.Erik reconstructed
Dom’s Cheddar Herb Bread really took the cake at the first annual Great Taylor Lab Bakeoff. He properly proved both his bread and his baking skills. Good bake!The rest of the competition was as stiff as a good sourdough starter, and we applaud
Congrats to Katherine Feldmann, one of our undergraduate researchers, for fully funding her upcoming research with a UROP Individual Grant, an NSF funded REU, and an EBIO Hesse grant! She recently presented a poster on her plans for the summer at an
Kathryn, Erik, and Angela all presented their ongoing research at the annual meeting of the American Ornithological Society in Tucson. Erik and Angela both presented posters on their plans for the upcoming field season and their broader thesis work
At the EBIO Spring Student Research Symposium, Angela was recognized with the Best Graduate Poster award (graphic to the right) and Kathryn with the Best Graduate 12-minute talk award. Congratulations to you both, and great work!
Scott and Kathryn’s proposal, “Big data for a big problem: understanding how urbanization alters contemporary evolution using high-throughput sequencing and high-resolution animal tracking,” was fully funded.Congratulations to both him and Kathryn,
Last week, the lab road tripped out to Tucson, Arizona for the 2018 meeting of the American Ornithological Society.As part of being recognized as the 2018 recipient of the Ned K. Johnson Young Investigator Award, Scott gave a plenary talk
We are excited to welcome to the lab a new postdoctoral researcher, Dominique Wagner! He completed his PhD at the University of Miami with a focus on variation in genomes and gene expression in Fundulus heteroclitus, and will continue to