Happy to be a part of this re-visit/tribute to Felsenstein 1981 in Evolution, lead by Roger Butlin, Maria Servedio and Carole Smadja.
Congratulations to Kelsie Hunnicutt, who was awarded the R.C. Lewontin Early Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution!
Uma Knaven was awarded a Grant in Aid of Research from Sigma Xi to support her undergraduate Honor’s thesis on cottontail mitochondrial DNA. This project is a collaboration with Kelsie Hunnicutt, who is leading the lab efforts to quantify population structure and hybridization among local cottontails. Congratulations Uma!
Erica and Kelsie reviewed Shrews, Chromosomes and Speciation edited by Jeremy B. Searle, P. David Polly and Jan Zima for Evolution. The review is online in early view.
Erica, Robin Tinghitella and Luana Maroja were awarded an NSF Rules of Life grant to study the evolution of variable species boundaries in field crickets. As part of our public education efforts, Julie Morris will be helping us organize Nature Challenges on singing insects. The team is excited to get started!
Congratulations to Brooke, who was awarded a Northwest Scientific Association Student Research Grant!. Brooke will use this grant to travel to the Washington (whenever travel restrictions are lifted) to collected red and black sticklebacks.
Congratulations to Amy who was awarded The Explorers Club Mamont Scholar Grant and an Orthopterists Society Theodore J. Cohn Research Award. Amy will use these grants to travel to Pennsylvania to collect crickets.
Congratulations to Kelsie, who was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Erica and Kelsie were awarded a grant from Jefferson County to study three species of cottontail rabbit in the Denver area. This grant is a collaboration with Dr. John Demboski at the Denver Muesum of Nature and Science. Kelsie is ready to get to the DMNS and get started!
Congratulations to Brooke and Kelsie, who were both awarded the 2019 Society of Systematic Biologists Graduate Student Research Award.
Congratulations to Kelsie who was just awarded a grant from SICB.
Congratulations to Brooke who was just awarded a grant from Sigma Xi. Brooke is using her grant to travel to Washington this summer to collect sticklebacks.
Uma Knaven was just awarded a Partners in Scholarship (PinS) Award to support her research project with Kelsie Hunnicutt to sequence mitochondrial DNA in Denver rabbits.
Erica, Robin Tinghitella and Scott Taylor have a new review on the impacts of climate change on temperature sensitive reproductive barriers in insects. Check out the open-access article in Frotiners of Ecology and Evolution (here)
Erica attended the Biology of Spermatozoa meeting in Nynäshamn, Sweden. As always, it was a great meeting! Information about this unique meeting is available HERE.
Our hybridizing Chrysochus beetles are featured on the cover of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology!
Erica’s review with Robin Tinghitella and Scott Taylor on insect hybridization and climate change is accepted at Frontiers Ecology and Evolution! Abstract here.
