About the Author Dr. Elizabeth M. Lombardi is an evolutionary ecologist and postdoc at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She works on plant-virus interactions across spatiotemporal and host genetic clines. Follow Lizzie on BlueSky @emlombardi.bsky.social or at https://elizabethlombardi.weebly.com/. This post is overdue. And, in fact, my paper as an AGA grant recipient is also quite […]
Category: EECG
EECG Embarkation: Adaptation to mitonuclear discordance across repeated contact zones in a North American rodent
About the author Ben Wiens is a Ph.D. candidate in the Mammal Division of the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Kansas, working in Dr. Jocelyn Colella’s lab. He is broadly interested in using natural history collections and genomic data to study the process of speciation, especially when barriers to gene flow remain incomplete. His […]
EECG Embarkation: How a California Skink Could Unlock the Secrets of Animal Coloration
About the Blog Author Dr. Benjamin Karin is an evolutionary biologist and herpetologist working at UC Berkeley as an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow based in Dr. Ian Wang’s Lab. He studies the processes that generate biodiversity and the evolutionary forces and genetic basis of unique traits. Ben works on interesting evolutionary systems both in California […]
EECG Embarkation: Studying the interplay of selection and recombination shaping the genomes of warbler hybrids
About the Blog Author Laura Céspedes Arias (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago and a Research Associate at the Birds collection of the Field Museum, working under the supervision of Dr. John Bates. She is interested on using genomic data from natural hybrid zones to […]
EECG Embarkation: Disentangling evolutionary and conservation genomics questions using ‘time series museomics’ in the California Channel Island deer mouse
About the Author Madeleine Becker (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, and a graduate fellow in the Center for Conservation Genomics at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute. Her research, advised by Dr. Jesús Maldonado and Dr. Cody Edwards, focuses on evolutionary and conservation genomics in […]
EECG Embarkation: Testing the conservation value of range-edge populations: local adaptation, genetic load, and inbreeding in wild lupine
About the Author Cameron So (he/him) is a PhD candidate in Profs. Anna Hargreaves and Daniel Schoen’s labs in the Department of Biology at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is also a student member of the Québec Centre for Biodiversity Science (QCBS). His work focuses on adaptation at species’ range limits and the […]
A tale of twelve tries: an EECG Epilogue
About the author Miranda Wade received her B.S. in Biological Science from Colorado State University and her dual PhD in Integrative Biology and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior from Michigan State University. During her time in the Meek Lab at MSU, her work consisted of using ‘omics to address various conservation questions in both a […]
EECG Embarkation 2024: GRINFISH. Genomics of Reindhartius hippoglossoides on Inshore Fisheries
About the author Daniel Estévez-Barcia is a postdoctoral researcher at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources working in collaboration with several institutions of marine research in the North Atlantic. His work focuses on applying population genomics to fisheries and studying the evolutionary biology and behavior of marine organisms (chiefly fish). Together with other researchers in […]
EECG Extension: Same questions, same region, different system
About the author Shelby Tisinai is a PhD Candidate in the Busch Lab at Washington State University. She is currently using molecular techniques to explore environmental and genomic drivers of local adaptation in plant populations endemic to steep elevational gradients. “It’s called research because you always have to redo it.” A cynical statement formed from […]
EECG Embarkation 2024: Microgeographic adaptation and landscape connectivity in two anoles from the small, environmentally heterogeneous island of St. Martin
About the author Michael Yuan (he/him) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability at the California Academy of Sciences working with Dr. Rayna Bell and Dr. Lauren Esposito. His work is focused on the evolutionary ecology and conservation of reptiles and amphibians, particularly in the Caribbean. Learn more at his […]