Helen Stone, an undergraduate in the Bergland lab won a Harrison award from UVA
Helen Stone, an undergraduate in the Bergland lab won a Harrison award from UVA. This award will support Helen’s research on thermosensation in flies.
Botany One blog post highlights new paper by Jessamyn Manson and colleagues.
Read the blog post here
Priscilla Erickson, a post-doc in the Bergland lab, won a DeLill Nasser award through the Genetics Society of America
Priscilla Erickson, a post-doc in the Bergland lab, won a DeLill Nasser award through the Genetics Society of America to attend the Population, Evolution, and Quantitative Genetics conference. She will be presenting her work on the genetics of overwintering in flies.
Parichy lab has a new paper accepted at PLoS Genetics
Parichy lab has a new paper accepted at PLoS Genetics on mechanisms underlying heterochronic change in stripe development in Danio fishes
Vic Lewis (Parichy Lab) wins 2nd prize in poster competition
Parichy lab graduate student Vic Lewis wins 2nd prize in poster competition at 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology for his work on pigment cell development and evolution in zebrafish and its relatives
Parichy lab awarded NIH grant
NIH awards Parichy lab $225k to purchase a dedicated Illumina NextSeq 550 sequencing platform for evolutionarygenomics and single cell RNA-sequencing
Brittany Sutherland's (Ph.D./ Galloway Lab) talk selected for Hamilton symposium
Matt, Brittany and Laura present in Montpellier at Evolution 2018! Brittany Sutherland’s talk was selected for the Hamilton symposium.
Hanna Makowski joins the Galloway lab!
Hanna Makowski joins the Galloway lab as a PhD student. This summer we were lucky to have Hanna help us figure out if pollinators are interested in Campanula growing outside its natural range. Welcome Hanna!
Cynthia Ong, an undergraduate in the Bergland lab won a Harrison award from UVA
Cynthia Ong, an undergraduate in the Bergland lab won a Harrison award from UVA. This research award will support Cynthia to travel to England this summer to study seasonal dynamics of Daphnia.
Matt Koski and Laura Galloway have a new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Matt and Laura have a new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B with our colleagues from College of Wooster and undergraduate Angela Pham. The study was featured in UVA Today!
Mandy Gibson is spending the fall semester as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin
Mandy Gibson is spending the fall semester as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin
Cory Weller, a PhD student in the Bergland lab wins a Britt travel award
Cory Weller, a PhD student in the Bergland lab wins a Britt travel award and will be using it to support travel to the Population, Evolution, and Quantitative Genetics conference. He will be presenting his work on association mapping methods.
Matt Koski, Laura Galloway, and Lia Leibman (Galloway Lab) publish new paper in Functional Ecology.
Matt, Laura and Lia Leibman (MLBS REU!) have a new paper in Functional Ecology. Populations with greater flexibility in floral traits modify mating system in response to the pollinator environment
Mike Hague (Brodie Lab) awarded Distinguisehd Teaching Fellowship
Mike Hague awarded 2018 Department of Biology Distinguished Teaching Fellowship to lead his own class “Is Evolution Predictable”