Congratulations to Scott Taylor for garnering the Don Abbott Postdoctoral Research Award for an outstanding contributed presentation (talk or poster) by a current postdoc at the American Society of Naturalists meeting in mid-January. As seen in this photo, a widespread power failure required Scott to gave his talk on the genomics of redpolls, chickadees, and warblers in the dark, with only his laptop screen on which to show his slides. Also fun to see my own PhD advisor Bob Ricklefs on the far left with an intently interested look on his face!
