We think it is really, really neat that our colleagues at the National Science Foundation are featuring our newly funded project on cultural and genetic evolution in lyrebirds at their exhibit on real-life “Fantastic Beasts and where to find them” at the San Diego ComicCon! — thereby taking public outreach…
Irby just returned from a month-long adventure on St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea. This island is the most remote location in the 50 United States as measured from its distance to the nearest permanent human settlement. The trip was a partnership between the Lab’s Conservation Media Program and…
Postdocs Dave Toews and Jen Walsh and Research Associate Leonardo Campagna have contributed a chapter on avian genomics to the new population genomics book series. The chapter reviews conceptual advances of avian genomics, along with key examples from the literature. The authors review the utility of genome-wide data in addressing…
Research Associate Leonardo Campagna published a new study in PLOS ONE analyzing capuchino seedeater data gathered by aviculturists over more than a decade. Capuchino’s are common cage birds in South America and will breed in captivity, or under the right conditions, hybridize. The study compares the viability of F1 capuchino…
Grad student Stepfanie Aguillon co-authored a new paper with collaborators from multiple institutions (led by former Cornell EEB postdoc Dr. Cissy Ballen) looking at the influence of class size on performance of women and underrepresented minority (URM) students in STEM classes. They found that small class sizes reduce gaps in…
Over the past weekend Irby joined a large group of project alumni to celebrate the bird research program that has run continuously for half a century at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This project was initiated by Professor Dick Holmes, Irby’s undergraduate mentor…
From July 8-13, graduate student Jake Berv attended the annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) in Yokohama, Japan. The 2018 meeting celebrated 50 years of one of the founding ideas of molecular population genetics, The Neural Theory. Jake’s abstract was accepted for oral presentation in…