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.
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…
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)
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…
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)
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…
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…