About the blog author James Walts (He/Him/His) is an accelerated bachelor’s/master’s (ABM) student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is currently studying the effects of phosphorylation of an essential to life protein (HP1a) in Drosophila melanogaster in Dr. Nicole Riddle’s lab. He is interested in exploring more aspects of research to better […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
About the author Julia Harenčár is an evolutionary biologist passionate about combining ecology with genomics to understand plants. She is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz in Dr. Kathleen Kay’s Plant Evolution lab. The story behind our recent article is riddled with modern science clichés; […]
About the Author Dr. Chase H. Smith is an evolutionary biologist and a leader in understanding aspects of the biology, ecology, evolution, and conservation of freshwater mussels. Currently he is a research fellow at the University of Texas at Austin mentored by Drs. Justin Havird, David Hillis, and Mark Kirkpatrick where he […]