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. […]
Category: Conservation
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 […]
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 […]
Behind the Science: Fire boosts butterfly genetic diversity
About the authors: Dr. Breeanne Jackson is the Director of the Yosemite and Sequoia Field Stations at University of California Merced, and served previously as a Wildlife Biologist for the National Park Service at Yosemite National Park. Her research focuses on wildfire and riparian ecology. Dr. Sean Schoville is an Associate Professor of Entomology and […]
Behind the Science: Capitalizing on NGS to Investigate Adaptations to Global Change in Pikas
About the Author: Katherine Solari is a Postdoctoral researcher and the Associate Director of Genomics for the Program for Conservation Genomics at Stanford University. Her PhD research with Elizabeth Hadly focused on investigating the mechanisms underlying hypoxia tolerance in pikas (genus Ochotona). Her current work with the Program for Conservation Genomics focuses on developing genomic-based tools […]
EECG Embarkation: More than meets the rattle: What can sensory systems tell us about venom evolution?
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where additional funds would allow them to conclude their research project and prepare it for publication. EECG awardees also get the opportunity to hone their science communication and write three posts over their […]