Our lab group enjoyed an all-day retreat today, with a break to attend the Lab of Ornithology holiday party. We covered lots of ground in discussing research, outreach, and professional development topics. But perhaps the most important outcome of the sillier part of the late afternoon was the anointing of…
Happy SNEEB to all: Our lab group joined with the Lab of Ornithology postdocs more generally to host the inaugural Fall semester SNEEB (the Friday social hour for departments with the prior names of Systematics and Ecology, Entomology, and Neurobiology and Behavior…) last evening. Took a little more pre-planning than…
Lovette Lab field trip, with 600 lbs of party favors for people to take home… left to right, that’s Jen Walsh, Natalie Hofmeister, Leo Campagna, Irby Lovette, and half of Daisy the former Cow.
Welcome back! At our first lab meeting of the semester Nick Mason presented a methods paper on Sequence Capture using PCR-generated Probes (SCPP – pronounced “skip”) by Penalba et al. This may provide an affordable method for phylogenetic studies making use of about 25-100 loci. Take a look and see…