About the Blog Author: Brinkley Thornton is a current accelerated bachelor’s to master’s student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and will become a full time masters student in the Summer of 2022. She currently works in the Krueger-Hadfield Evolutionary Ecology Lab. Her research interests include population genetics and plant ecology and evolutionary biology. […]
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Symposium Snippets: Ms. Mason Goes to Snowbird: An Undergraduate’s First Symposium
About the Blog Author: Noelle Mason is an undergraduate at Colorado State University studying biology and conservation. She works with Dr. Kristen Ruegg’s lab researching relative telomere length in migratory yellow warblers. Noelle can be found on Twitter and Instagram. The American Genetics Association President’s Symposium this year focused on Conservation […]
A ‘Cen-sational’ Post
About the Blog Author: Stacy Krueger-Hadfield is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her lab investigates the evolutionary ecology of sex. Lab members can be found in the sea, in streams, or in the snow. When she’s not out in the field or pinning algae […]
Symposium Snippets: Your favorite conservation story
About the Blog Author: Dr. Jessica Judson is a postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State University working with Dr. Sarah Fitzpatrick. She recently received her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Iowa State University. She received her BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Mississippi State University. She is broadly interested in population genetics, including […]
Behind the Science: Recombination and the origin of species
About the Blog Author: Sheela Turbek is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Kristen Ruegg’s lab at Colorado State University. Her graduate research at the University of Colorado Boulder focused on how behavioral and phenotypic traits mediate patterns of genetic exchange between closely related taxa. Lately, however, she is interested in using genomic tools to […]
From the field: Is this headache seasickness or just seaweed genetics?
About the Blog Author: Taylor Williams (she/her) is a Masters student in Dr. Heather Spalding’s lab at the College of Charleston. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Hawai`i, Mānoa where she earned a B.S. in Marine Biology and first became a scientific diver. Since then, she has become an avid scientific diver and […]
Sperm storage as a novel phenomenon in Tree Skinks
About the Blog Author: Alexis Oetterer received her BSc in Biology from Truman State University and is currently a lab tech in Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She will start grad school in the spring and is interested in studying life cycle and reproductive evolution and ecology. […]
AGA 2021 President’s Symposium coming up!
One of the great perks of being President of the American Genetics Association is that you get to organize the President’s Symposium! An opportunity to gather the experts and best scientists that focus on a topic of your choice, and bring them together – I think of it as a two day scientific jam session! […]
Two Ecomorphs Diverged by a Lake – Do Patterns of Multiple Paternity Follow Suit?
About the Blog Author: Nicole Conner is a Researcher III at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her thesis work at UAB was focused on developing both eDNA and UAV (i.e., drone) methodologies to enhance the detection of diamondback terrapins off the coast of Alabama. Her current research in Dr. Stephen Watts’ lab […]
The New Golden Age of Evolutionary Biology
About the Author: Hayden Waller is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University. He works with Hawaiian crickets to better understand the genetic basis of behavioral variation. You can find him on twitter @tbh_i_dont_know Next time you find yourself at a party, walk […]