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.
Graduate students Petra Deane-Coe, Stepfanie Aguillon, and Natalie Hofmeister led a workshop in ornithology and evolution for 9th-grade girls from across New York as part of Cornell’s Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) Conference this past Saturday. Stepfanie managed a hands-on bird-banding demonstration while lab members Jen Walsh, Dave Toews, and Sahas Barve…
New paper on sparrow hybridization by postdoc Jen Walsh: Jen just published a neat paper from her PhD work at UNH; study looks at the genetic interplay between hybridizing Saltmarsh and Nelson’s Sparrows and finds evidence for neutral diffusion of some regions; strong selection and local adaptation in other genomic…
Welcome to Dr. Jennifer Walsh, a new postdoc based in our program at the Lab of Ornithology. Jen’s work on the genomics of hybridization, adaptation, and divergence in Nelson’s and Saltmarsh Sparrows is supported by a two-year NSF Fellowship she received to explore the evolutionary biology and conservation genomics of…