Catalina Palacios, a PhD student from Daniel Cadena’s lab group in Colombia, is finishing her six-month research visit by talking about the genomic results from her study of two hummingbird species. Catalina’s work shows how whole genome sequencing can help distinguish hummingbird species that resisted delimitation with other techniques (mtdna…
Visiting scientist Luciano Caldarón, our own Leo Campagna, and a cadre of collaborators just published a paper showing that the European Turtle Dove shows genetic evidence of a fluctuating demography over time, and is currently undergoing a shrinking phase. The combined effect of demography, habitat destruction and hunting is causing…
We are enjoying a hard-working visit by Argentinians Dr. Cecilia Kopuchian and Dr. Darío Lijtmaer, who along with Leo Campagna from our lab are in the midst of prepping LOTS of samples for ddRAD sequencing as part of a project investigating the potential role of rivers as barriers to gene…
Dr. Sebastián Cabanne is based at the Argentine Museum of Natural History in Buenos Aires. He spent the past month here in our lab generating genomic data to study the connectivity between biomes in the Neotropics. Among other topics, Sebastián is interested in various passerine systems from various areas of South…
New paper on goose phylogeography and conservation: In this paper, visiting researcher Cecilia Kopuchian (Centro de Ecología Aplicada del Litoral, Argentina) and Leo Campagna from our lab use genomic data to explore the history of colonization of the Malvinas/Falkland Islands by the Upland Goose (Chloephaga picta) and the Ruddy-headed Goose…
We are pleased to welcome back Milene Gaiotti, a visiting researcher from the University of Brasilia, to continue her genetic work here on the extremely endangered Araripe manakin.
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…
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…
A warm welcome to Minene, who is visiting the Cornell through September and working in our lab on paternity analyses. Milene is a PhD candidate at the Universidade de Brasilia (Brazil), where her dissertation project is on the social behavior, evolution, and conservation of a (very cool! and beautiful!) endangered…
We are enjoying a research visit by Dr. Luciano Calderón, who is a postdoctoral fellow at Justus Liebig University (Giessen, Germany) where he works with Dr. Petra Quillfeldt. Luciano is originally from Argentina, where he did his PhD on cormorant evolution under Dr. Pablo Tubaro at the Argentine Museum of…
A warm welcome to Fausto, who is the in-country leader and organizer of all of our Galapagos courses for Cornell students and trips for Lab of Ornithology members — and who is also an exceptional Galapagos naturalist in general. This is Fausto’s first visit to Cornell, though he already has…
Bienvenidos to Arturo Olvera Vital, who is here on a one-day visit as part of a tour of many avian specimen collections. Arturo is a student in Adolfo Navarro’s lab at UNAM, and he is collaborating with our graduate student Nick Mason on studies of Sporophila torqueola.
A warm welcome to Dr. Cecilia Kopuchian and Dr. G. Sebastian Cabanne, who are both visiting the lab from their home institutions in Argentina. Here they will be learning to use new genomic approaches for investigating their research questions about differentiation and conservation genetics. Cecilia comes to us from the…