Congratulations to Jake Berv, who defended his PhD and then rolled right into the Cornell graduation ceremony. Jake’s work has focused on processes of differentiation in birds, ranging from recent patterns of phylogeographic differentiation in tropical manakins all the way to the deepest parts of the avian tree of life…
Sophomore undergrad Kelsie Lopez presented an impressive poster at this weeks Cornell Undergraduate Research Board symposium, featuring the work she has done under the mentorship of postdoc Daniel Hooper. Kelsie’s project examined the pattern of mitochondrial DNA variation across a finch hybrid zone in northern Australia.
Undergrad Chloe Mikles presented her work on the genomic divergence of song sparrows around San Francisco Bay at the Spring meeting of the Cornell Chapters of the American Fisheries Society and the Wildlife Society. Chloe’s talk was part of a mini-session preview of the joint society meeting in Reno this…