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 […]
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EECG Embarkation: Listening to the Laupala
**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 […]
EECG Embarkation: Seasonal variation in amphibian resistance to chytrid fungi – The project.
**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 […]
EECG Embarkation: Pairing Behaviour and Genetics to Uncover the Secret Social Lives of Lizards
**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 […]
EECG Embarkation: a maternal brain—investigating neuroplasticity associated with cooperative behaviors in bumble bees
**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 […]
Hybridization shapes the evolution of sex
**This post is a part of the series on the 2019 AGA Presidential Symposium – Sex and Asex: the genetics of complex life cycles** About the Author: Taylor Williams wrote this post as a part of Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Ecological Genetics course taken as a special topics course at the College of Charleston. […]
Behind the science: Looking for the population genetic signatures of variable clonality across an environmental gradient
About the author: Will H. Ryan is a postdoc currently working in the Krueger-Hadfield Lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on the evolutionary ecology of marine organisms with complex life cycles. In order to better understand mechanisms driving local adaptation and life cycle diversity, he studies how environmental variation interacts with genetic and plastic […]
Behind the science: publishing genomic features of parthenogenetic animals
**This post is a part of the series on the 2019 AGA Presidential Symposium – Sex and Asex: the genetics of complex life cycles** About the author: Kamil S. Jaron is a Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Kamil is interested in genome evolution of species with unusual reproduction. His previous […]
Behind the Science: Approximating the Coalescent Under Facultative Sex
**This post is a part of the series on the 2019 AGA Presidential Symposium – Sex and Asex: the genetics of complex life cycles** About the author: Matthew Hartfield is a NERC Independent Research Fellow at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh UK. His research explores the interaction between genetic selection and reproduction, using mathematical […]
Partial clonality – a force to be reckoned with
**This post is a part of the series on the 2019 AGA Presidential Symposium – Sex and Asex: the genetics of complex life cycles** About the Authors: Sarah Shainker (she/her/hers) is a PhD student in Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She uses population genetics to research the mating […]