Just posted on BioaRxiv, a pre-print of our new findings on genes associated with migration in warblers: Selection on VPS13A linked to long-distance migratory behavior in a songbird David P. L. Toews, Scott A. Taylor, Henry M. Streby, Gunnar R. Kramer, Irby J. Lovette Abstract Animal migration demands an interconnected…
Postdoc Shawn Billerman recently started an impactful new job here at the Lab of Ornithology related to the recently announced merger between the Handbook of Birds of the World and Cornell. Shawn will be a science editor for the new Birds of the World project, which will involve, among other things…
Grad student Jake Berv has been selected as Life Sciences Fellow at the University of Michigan. After completing his PhD later this Spring, Jake will move to Michigan where he will begin a postdoctoral position as a Life Sciences Fellow. The Michigan Life Sciences Fellows program is a multidisciplinary community…
Grad student Stepfanie Aguillon’s personal essay describing her experiences with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is out today in the Working Life series in Science Careers. In it, Stepfanie calls attention to this issue that affects a surprisingly large fraction of people. https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2019/03/how-i-learned-cope-seasonal-affective-disorder-grad-school
After a very productive period as a postdoc here, Dave Toews has fledged to become an Assistant Professor! His Toews Lab is officially open for business just a few short hours south of Ithaca in the Department of Biology at Pennsylvania State University. Dave will be recruiting new graduate students…
Dr. Sabrina McNew joined our group as a Rose Postdoctoral Fellow back in November. Somehow I seemed to have missed posting this arrival as an update here — my apologies, Sabrina! Sabrina comes to us from the University of Utah where she recently defended her PhD under supervisors Sarah Bush…
Research associate Leo Campagna and postdoc Nati Garcia are co-leading the “Ecology and Conservation of Wildlife in the Neotropics” course that started in Fall 2018 and featured another successful field trip to coastal Patagonia over Winter Break. Leo and Nati were joined in their winter migration by Eliot Miller (Collections…
Natalie received the Cook Award yesterday from Cornell’s Office of Development and Diversity, which recognizes her “commitment to women’s issues” and her “contribution to changing the climate for women at Cornell.” Natalie’s service as former president of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Association and current president of Graduate Women in…
Research from Shawn Billerman’s dissertation on sapsucker hybridization was recently published in Molecular Ecology. In the paper, Shawn and co-authors Carla Cicero, Rauri Bowie, and Matt Carling show how the Red-naped x Red-breasted sapsucker hybrid zone has shifted over time using specimens collected over a 40-year period, with high levels…
We are very happy to welcome Tulane University PhD student Sarah Khalil to our lab for the first half of 2019! Sarah is working here on the genomics of coloration in red-backed fairy-wrens as part of her broader dissertation project on that species. At an earlier stage of her career…