The American Genetic Association grants awards each year to it’s members for support of special events that advance the mission of AGA, particularly to support students to attend the event. Eligible events include specialized workshops and short courses in topical areas of organismal genetics and genomics, but any event relevant to AGA’s purpose will be […]
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AGA Elections 2025: Candidates
The 2025 AGA Council elections are here! Members should receive their ballots via email. Voting is open through 22 December, 2025. AGA Presidential nominee Prof Sudhir Kumar https://www.kumarlab.net/ Academic Appointments: Laura H. Carnell Professor of Biology (2014– ), and Founding Director of the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Temple Univ. Previously: Regents’ Professor (2012–2014), […]
A dragon a day keeps the blues away (maybe)
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 […]
AGA Special Event Award: 53rd Ontario Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution Colloquium – OE3C 2023
About the Blog authors Joseane Moreira do Nascimento is a postdoc and Jorden Maglov is a PhD student, both from the Grbic lab at Western University. They study all things two-spotted spider mite – TSSM (Tetranychus urticae) genetics. Their research investigates how molecular tools (such as RNAi) can be used to control TSSM crop […]
EECG Embarkation: Understanding the genomic basis of adaptive radiation
About the author Dr. Jae Young Choi was a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dr. Michael Puruggan at New York University. His research focuses on understanding the evolutionary basis of island adaptive radiation in plants using genomics and fieldwork based approaches. In collaboration with Dr. Elizabeth Stacy at University of Nevada Las […]
EECG Embarkation: Tree speciation in a Riparian Zone—the role of disease-resistance genes in the evolution of isolating barriers
About the Author: Hossein Madhani is a second-year Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he is a member of Dr. Elizabeth Stacy’s lab. He received his B.Sc and M.Sc in Plant Biology from the University of Tehran, Iran, where he studied the molecular […]
EECG Embarkation: The genetic basis of divergent reproductive strategies in three-spined stickleback
About the Blog Author: Colby Behrens is a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the lab of Dr. Alison Bell. Colby is interested in the evolution of behaviors and the underlying genetic mechanisms that regulate them. He uses three-spined stickleback fish to explore these patterns. […]
EECG Embarkation: Measuring local adaptation through constitutive gene expression
About the Blog Author Shelby Tisinai is a PhD Candidate with Dr. Jeremiah Busch 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. Follow Shelby on Twitter @s_tisinai for updates on her work. […]
EECG Embarkation: Reefscape genomics: Mapping hybridization and adaptation across the Caribbean coral reef slope
About the Blog Author Dr. Jennifer Hoey is an evolutionary ecologist and NSF-OCE Postdoctoral Fellow in the Reefscape Genomics Lab at the California Academy of Sciences. She studies how marine organisms adapt to changing conditions by investigating the evolutionary processes that contribute to genomic and morphological patterns of variation in the sea. Follow […]
EECG Embarkation: How connected are oceanic islands? The trans-oceanic journeys of the island-hopping Hibiscus sect. Lilibiscus.
About the author Brock Mashburn is a PhD Candidate at Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden, working in the labs of Dr. Christine Edwards and Dr. Ken Olsen. He is interested in applying genetic methods to practical conservation, as well as questions regarding speciation and biogeography. […]