Warmest of congratulations to the former Petra Deane and Kirsten Coe on their marriage today, and on their utterly charming wedding celebration! PS, We all think that their new name of Deane-Coe is probably a good choice over the alternative ordering…
Congratulations to postdoc Leo Campagna and his co-authors on their new paper resulting from Leo’s PhD research: Campagna L, Silveira LF, Tubaro PL, Lougheed SC. 2013. Identifying the sister species to the rapid capuchino seedeater radiation (Sporophila, Passeriformes). The Auk 130: 645-655.
Lutz, H. L., Jiang, Z., Skeen, H. R., Hackett, S. J., Weckstein, J. D. 2013. The evolution of scientific collecting: Comprehensive biodiversity surveys of avian parasites and pathogens can produce important baseline data and lead to novel eco-evolutionary insights, presented at the 131st Meeting of the American Ornithologists Union, Chicago,…
Leo comes to our group from his PhD on Sporophila seedeaters in his native Argentina, and from a postdoc closer at hand in the Loougheed Lab at Queens University. Leo will be continuing to work on that rapid avian radiation using genomic approaches to understanding its history and process of…
Lutz, H. L., Hochachka, M. W., Engel, J. I., Tkach, V. T., Bates, J. M., Hackett, S. J., Weckstein, J. D. 2013. Ecological determinants of haemosporidian prevalence in tropical African birds, presented at the International Conference on Malaria and Related Haemosporidian Parasites of Wildlife, Vilnius, Lithuania.
“Tooth development, attachment and replacement in the Atlantic Wolffish, Anarhichas lupus” in Fishes and Morphology Today Symposium at American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Albuquerque, NM.
Postdoc Scott Taylor just presented a poster at: Taylor SA, White TA, Curry R, Lovette I. Temporal Variation in Selection and Introgression Across a Rapidly Moving Hybrid Zone. American Genetic Association Annual Symposium. 2013.
Nick Mason just returned from a successful research trip to the Imperial Valley of California, where he was studying local adaptation in horned larks.