Welcome back Sahas!
Graduate student Sahas Barve has just returned from a long and successful field season studying elevational adaptatation in tits of the western Himalayas.
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Scott Taylor talks on hybridization at CSEE
Taylor SA, White TA, Hochacka W, Ferretti V, Curry R, Lovette I. Spatiotemporally consistent signature of reproductive isolation in a moving hybrid zone. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. 2014. Montreal, QC.
Congratulations to the Class of 2014!
Warmest of congratulations to our Lab’s Class of 2014 graduates, including Hope Batcheller, Kathryn Grabenstein, Andy Johnson, Camille Shaw, and Aimee Van Tatenhove, plus all of the other wonderful Class of ’14 individuals we have known over the past four years!
EvoDay 2014 at the Lab
Our collective thanks to Nick Mason for being the lead student organizer for EvoDay 2014 at the the Lab of Ornithology!
Michelle Moglia wins Stenzler Award
Class of ’14 student Michelle Moglia is the recipient of the first Laura M. Stenzler Award for exceptional undergraduate research, a distinction that seems particularly appropriate since Michelle was trained in molecular techniques by Laura (who retired last month).
Postdoc Scott Taylor awarded 2(!) fellowships
Congratulation to Scott twice over! In quick succession, Scott has been awarded two highly prestigious postdoctoral fellowships from the Canadian government: first a two-year NSERC fellowship, which shortly thereafter he had to decline when he was awarded an even more competitive two-year Banting Fellowship. Scott thereby becomes one of only…
Nick Mason passes his A exam!
Warmest of congratulations to Nick for passing his oral PhD comprehensive exams with flying colors!
Laura Stenzler retires
Our entire lab community (past and present) extends great thanks and warmest wishes to Laura, who is retiring today after having served as the manager of the Fuller Evolutionary Biology program since its inception. In the intervening years, Laura has trained hundreds of students and contributed to dozens of research…
Irby is now Professor
Irby has just been promoted to the rank of full Professor at Cornell.
Irby, Becca, and Nick teaching in Galapagos
Irby Lovette, Becca Brunner, and Nick Mason are in Galapagos over Spring Break with the 12 freshmen enrolled in their semester-long Galapagos curriculum: a 5-credit version of the Introductory Evolution course and a 3-credit Freshman Writing Seminar.
Collaborative paper on chickadee hybridization published
One of the first major papers to result from our collaborative work on chickadee hybridization has just come out in Current Biology, along with an associated commentary in that journal plus extensive popular media coverage! Article: Taylor SA, White TA, Hochachka WM, Ferretti V, Curry RL, Lovette I. 2014. Climate…
Best wishes to Amanda Talaba
All of us wish a very fond farewell to Amanda Talaba, our stalwart lab technician for the past 8 years, who is leaving Cornell for other opportunities.
Irby elected as Member at Large to Cornell Faculty Senate
Irby has been elected by the Cornell faculty to a three-year term as a member at large of the University Senate.
Yula new job in the Lab’s Multimedia Program
Congratulations to PhD student Yula Kapetanakos on her new position as Associate Producer in the Lab’s Multimedia Program.
Leo talks tonight at the Monday Night Seminar
Postdoc Leo Campagna will be presenting tonight at the Lab’s Monday Night Seminar on “Exploring the origins of Neotropical avian biodiversity”.
new paper by Leo on Rufous-collared Sparrows
Congratulations to postdoc Leo Campagna and his co-authors on their new paper resulting from Leo’s PhD research: Campagna L, Kopuchian C, Tubaro PL, Lougheed SC. 2014. Pleistocene divergence, range expansion, and secondary contact followed by gene flow between mitochondrial lineages of a widespread Neotropical songbird (Zonotrichia capensis). Biological Journal of…
Postdoc Scott Taylor on kinglets
Congratulations to postdoc Scott Taylor and his co-authors for another paper resulting from his PhD research at Queen’s University: Burg T, Taylor SA, Lemmen K, Gaston AJ, Friesen VL. 2014. Postglacial population differentiation potentially facilitated by a flexible migratory strategy in golden-crowned kinglets (Regulus satrapa). Canadian Journal of Zoology 92: 163-172.
Postdoc Scott Taylor talks at ASN Asilomar conference
Taylor SA, White TA, Hochacka W, Ferretti V, Curry R, Lovette I. Climate-mediated Movement of an Avian Hybrid Zone Reveals Temporal Variation in Selection and Introgression. American Society of Naturalists. 2014. Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA. Jan 13 – 15.
Postdoc Scott Taylor in Argentina
Postdoc Scott Taylor just gave a seminar on his hybrid zone research at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” in Buenos Aries, Argentina
Leo talks about Zonotrichia
Fuller Postdoc Leo Campagna just presented a talk on the phylogeography of the rufous-collared sparrow at the Argentine Ornithology meeting in La Pampa, Argentina.