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Month: September 2014

AOU/COS meeting: grads Stepfanie and Nick (plus two lab alumni) win presentation awards!

Congratulations to Stepfanie Aguillon and Nick Mason for winning student presentation awards at the end of the AOU/COS meeting! Likewise congratulations to our former undergraduates Shawn Billerman and Ben Winger for this recognition.

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Irby Lovette September 27, 2014 - 10:05 pm October 24, 2014Awards, Conferences, Nick Mason, Stepfanie Aguillon

The best talks at the AOU/COS meeting

I admit in advance that I’m biased, but I think that today’s symposium organized by our postdocs Scott Taylor and Leo Campagna included many of the best talks in all of the AOU/COS meeting. Scott led off the day with an overview of open questions in speciation research that can…

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Irby Lovette September 27, 2014 - 6:04 pm October 4, 2014Conferences

Grad student Stepfanie Aguillon at AOU/COS

Our newest graduate student just presented a great talk in Estes Park on the results of her MS research at the University of Arizona: Aguillon, S. M.; Duckworth, R. A.: RESOURCE-MEDIATED BEHAVIORAL DYNAMICS AMONG KIN DRIVE DISPERSAL IN FIRST-YEAR WESTERN BLUEBIRDS (SIALIA MEXICANA)

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Irby Lovette September 26, 2014 - 11:07 pm October 24, 2014Conferences, Stepfanie Aguillon

Cornell undergrads win AOU/COS Quiz Bowl!

In what is becoming a tradition, a team of three Cornell undergrads (junior Eric Gulson, senior Teresa Pegan, and recently graduated Andy Johnson ’14) destroyed all competition to win the annual ornithological quiz bowl, soundly beating the LSU graduate student team in the final round. Congratulations to these incredibly well-rounded…

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Irby Lovette September 26, 2014 - 10:02 pm October 4, 2014Awards, Conferences

Undergrad Andy Johnson at AOU/COS

Congratulations to recently graduated Cornell student Andy Johnson for his talk derived from his honors thesis: Johnson, A. S.; Perz, J. S.; Senner, N. R.; Nol, E.; Lovette, I. J.; Van Doren, B. M.: CONNECTING HABITATS AND HEMISPHERES: NON-STOP MIGRATORY FLIGHTS IN WHIMBRELS (NUMENIUS PHAEOPUS)    

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Irby Lovette September 24, 2014 - 11:22 pm October 4, 2014Conferences

AOU/COS meeting: Nick Mason

Most of our lab group is in (or headed towards) Estes Park, Colorado for the annual ornithology conference. Even before the main AOU/COS meeting got underway, graduate student Nick Mason co-led a well attended pre-meeting workshop on programming in R. Nick is also the Chair of the Student Affairs committee…

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Irby Lovette September 23, 2014 - 11:01 pm October 24, 2014Conferences, Nick Mason

First lab meeting of the Fall Semester

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…

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Bronwyn Butcher September 5, 2014 - 3:45 pm October 4, 2014Lab meetings
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