Leo’s talk at Evolution: genomics of an avian radiation: Leo presented his most recent explorations into genome-wide patterns of divergence in Sporophila seed-eaters using analytical methods pioneered by our collaborators Ilan Gronau and Adam Siepel. This avian radiation is a wonderful test-case of (very) low genetic divergence among a suite…
Current lab members in Guarujá: six of our current lab members are presenting their research this week at the Evolution conference in Guarujá, Brazil: (from left to right) Jake Berv, David Toews, Stepfane Aguillon, Leo Campagna, Scott Taylor, and Nick Mason. By all reports, their talks and presentations have all…
Congratulations to alumnae Marjorie Weber (at right) and (again to) Katie Wagner (at left)! These two past members of our greater lab group are the recipients of the two awards for exceptional early career contributions being given this week at the joint conference in Guarujá, Brazil: Marjorie is this year’s…
Sebastian Cabanne at Evolution: ddRAD studies of Neotropical forest birds. At the Evolution conference in Brazil, our visiting collaborator from Argentina — Sebastian Cabanne — presented his studies of divergence and gene flow among populations of several Neotropical birds. Some of the underlying data were generated by Sebastian and Leo…
Stepfanie on dispersal genomics at Brazil Evolution conference: grad student Stepfanie Aguillon just presented her work on the dispersal genomics of Florida Scrub-jays at the Evolution meeting in Brazil. This project was a robust ‘rotation’ endeavor that Stepfanie motivated during this first year for her at Cornell: Title: Genomic consequences…
These birds aren’t as different as they appear …. the first in our lab group’s series of talks at the Evolution meeting in Brazil:
Katie Wagner wins the Dobzhansky Prize! Warmest of congratulations to lab group alumna Dr. Katie Wagner for being recognized at the highest level by her community of scientific colleagues. The Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize is awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution “to recognize the accomplishments and future…
Congratulations to grads Stepfanie Aguillon and Jake Berv, who were both awarded significant travel grant to participate in NSF-supported workshops hosted by the Society of Systematic Biologists at this summer’s conference in Guaruja, Brazil.
Thanks to Nick for helping coordinate the Center for Teaching Excellence UWide Teaching Conference, in which he also led a workshop on Experiential Learning that featured our field courses in Kenya & the Galapagos.
Congratulations to Stepfanie Aguillon and Nick Mason for winning student presentation awards at the end of the AOU/COS meeting! Likewise congratulations to our former undergraduates Shawn Billerman and Ben Winger for this recognition.
I admit in advance that I’m biased, but I think that today’s symposium organized by our postdocs Scott Taylor and Leo Campagna included many of the best talks in all of the AOU/COS meeting. Scott led off the day with an overview of open questions in speciation research that can…
Our newest graduate student just presented a great talk in Estes Park on the results of her MS research at the University of Arizona: Aguillon, S. M.; Duckworth, R. A.: RESOURCE-MEDIATED BEHAVIORAL DYNAMICS AMONG KIN DRIVE DISPERSAL IN FIRST-YEAR WESTERN BLUEBIRDS (SIALIA MEXICANA)
In what is becoming a tradition, a team of three Cornell undergrads (junior Eric Gulson, senior Teresa Pegan, and recently graduated Andy Johnson ’14) destroyed all competition to win the annual ornithological quiz bowl, soundly beating the LSU graduate student team in the final round. Congratulations to these incredibly well-rounded…
Congratulations to recently graduated Cornell student Andy Johnson for his talk derived from his honors thesis: Johnson, A. S.; Perz, J. S.; Senner, N. R.; Nol, E.; Lovette, I. J.; Van Doren, B. M.: CONNECTING HABITATS AND HEMISPHERES: NON-STOP MIGRATORY FLIGHTS IN WHIMBRELS (NUMENIUS PHAEOPUS)
Most of our lab group is in (or headed towards) Estes Park, Colorado for the annual ornithology conference. Even before the main AOU/COS meeting got underway, graduate student Nick Mason co-led a well attended pre-meeting workshop on programming in R. Nick is also the Chair of the Student Affairs committee…
Leo just gave a well-received talk on Sporophila genomics in one of the very last sessions at this year’s Evolution conference.
Graduate student Sahas Barve just presented a talk on his collaborative study with grad student Nick Mason: “Cavity nesting makes flycatchers fecund and fly farther”. Evolution 2014, Raleigh North Carolina
Kate just presented at talk on “Beloniformes of the western North Atlantic” at the Hollings Symposium in Silver Spring, MD.
Nick presents a talk on his collaboration with Scott on redpoll genomics: Mason, N.A. and S.A. Taylor. Differentially expressed genes unite phenotypes despite undifferentiated anonymous loci in the phenotypically diverse redpoll finches (Acanthis). Evolution 2014. Raleigh, North Carolina.
Taylor SA, White TA, Hochacka W, Ferretti V, Curry R, Lovette I. Spatiotemporally consistent signature of reproductive isolation in a moving hybrid zone. Society for the Study of Evolution. 2014. Raleigh, NC.