Cornell article on our Patagonia field course
Cornell article on our Patagonia field course: http://spring2016.periodicals.cals.cornell.edu/students/new-ecology-course-takes-students-patagonia
Category: Leonardo Campagna
NSF smiles upon us
NSF smiles upon us. In this era of 4% funding rates, we are particularly appreciative of having been awarded a significant grant from the National Science Foundation for a new study entitled “Quantifying genomic porosity in non-model radiations.” In addition to Irby and Leo Campagna (Leo was a prime mover…
Dispatch in Current Biology by Leo Campagna
Dispatch in Current Biology by Leo Campagna: A review of the work by Tuttle et al. (2016) Current Biology on the origin and possible fate of a fascinating supergene that determines the coloration and mating behavior of a widespread North American bird. Accompanying artwork is by Liz Fuller, a Bartels…
Postdocs Scott and Leo in Science on Avian Supergenes
Postdocs Scott Taylor and Leo Campagna have a substantial commentary appearing in this week’s issue of Science (!) on avian supergenes, as exemplified by recent studies of ruffs and white-throated sparrows. Read it here: TaylorCampagnaScienceAvianSupergenes
Video highlights from our Patagonia field course
Video highlights from our January 2016 field course in Patagonia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9jGu7ErMsE
Leo and Irby in Patagonia
Leo Campagna and I are finishing up our trip to Patagonia, where we are setting up logistics for our forthcoming field course and generally having a great time with both wildlife and Leo’s friends and family here in his home town of Puerto Madryn. Right whales, elephant seals, guanacos, grisson,…
Lovette lab Post Docs and Students Publish New Review on Methods and Applications in Avian Genomics
Required reading on avian genomics… Marshaling a diverse group of co-authors, post-docs Dave Toews, Scott Taylor and Leonardo Campagna spearheaded the publication of a new synthetic review in the Auk: Ornithological Advances on genomic applications in avian systems. Lab PhD students Nicolas Mason and Petra Deane-Coe are also co-authors on…
How to prepare for a trip to Patagonia
How to prepare for a trip to Patagonia: (1) get Leo (from Argentina) to agree to be master chef/jefe de asado; (2) obtain two sheep; (3) watch Leo chase sheep around pasture; (4) humanely dispatch and partly deconstruct said sheep; (4) invite the lab group plus 100 other people over…
Leo’s Molecular Ecology Cover
Congrats to postdoc Leo Campagna for making the cover of Molecular Ecology with his most recent research paper on seedeaters!
Our crew at AOU: Scott, David, Leo, and Nick
Our crew at AOU: Scott, David, Leo, and Nick:
Postdoc Leo Campagna at AOU/COS
Postdoc Leo Campagna presented his work at the AOU/COS conference in Norman, Oklahoma. Leo uses genomic tools to understand the evolution of capuchino seedeaters, and has documented the complex demographic history that has led to this incredible radiation of birds, including an extremely large ancestral effective population size at the…
Genomics of a rapid radiation, and the promises and pitfalls of massive datasets
Postdoc Leo Campagna’s new paper on dissecting the complex demographic and phylogenetic history of the Sporophila seedeaters is just out in Molecular Ecology. In addition to revealing new insights into this avian rapid radiation, Leo and his collaborators also make some useful but sobering points about the potential for spurious…
Luciano Calderón at Argentina Evolution conference
Luciano Calderón at Argentina Evolution conference: visiting Lab researcher Luciano Calderón is talking today at the first-ever Argentine Evolution meeting (I Reunion Argentina de Biología Evolutiva, in Cordoba, Argentina) about the population genomics of turtle doves across Europe. Luciano visited Cornell in February and worked with postdoc Leo Campagna to…
Leo’s talk at Evolution: genomics of an avian radiation
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
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…
Sebastian Cabanne at Evolution: ddRAD studies of Neotropical forest birds
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…
Our first undergraduate genome is assembled…
Our first undergraduate genome is assembled… or since we study birds and not humans, maybe it is more correct to say that our first complete genome generated as part of an undergraduate thesis project is assembled. Congrats to Ben Van Doren, and thanks to Leo Campagna and Bronwyn Butcher, for…
Leo and Nick teach Genomics in Mexico City
Two members of our group–Postdoc Leo Campagna and PhD student Nick Mason–just returned from leading a special multi-day genomics course at the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. Their course, taught in Spanish to a large and enthusiastic cadre of students and researchers, was an “Introducción a los…
breaking news: new Patagonia field course in Fall 2015!
Irby and Leo will co-lead a new undergraduate seminar and field course entitled “Ecology and Conservation of Wildlife in the Neotropics” in Fall 2015. The course will meet throughout the Fall semester, and then have a two-week field learning component in wildlife-rich coastal Patagonia in January 2016. Students who want…
Leo is a CVG Genomics Scholar!
Congratulations to postdoc Leo Campagna, who has just been selected as a Genomics Scholar by the Cornell Vertebrate Genomics program. This award recognizes Leo’s leadership and exciting research program, and provides substantial financial underwriting for Leo and his projects. Way to go, Leo!!!