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Together with Angela Rasmussen, were hiring an #integrative biology #postdoc! Love🦇 #bats, 🧬 #ecology, #evolution, #viruses 🦠? Come work with us on a NSF funded collaboration with Tigga Kingston and Simon Anthony. This position is now closed.
Alongside other experts from the Science Panel for the Amazon and industry, PI Dávalos spoke at the United Nations General Assembly side event on The Amazon as a Bioeconomy Superpower: Investing in Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Development which highlighted sustainable options for regional economic growth.
Nicolette Sipperly co-organized and presented at the Botany 2022 Workshop Science, Art, and You which enabled participants to tap into the creative process of science through art.
Lexi Brown won the American Museum of Natural History’s Theodore vRoosevelt Memorial Grant! The award will enable Lexi to sequence transcriptomes from bat auditory systems!
Kristjan Mets graduated in the Spring 2022 doctoral hooding ceremony. Dr. Mets’ dissertation explored how environmental reservoirs and between species interactions influence emergent infectious disease transmission.
Liliana Dávalos has been awarded the 2022 Award for Excellence in Assessment at this year’s 2022 Celebration of Teaching Awards. See the full program here.
Mongabay’s Sean Mowbray has generated a wide-ranging review of environmental impacts of coca at every stage of the illegal drug market and its response. The review highlights deforestation dynamics from production and trafficking, including quotes from Liliana!
William Thomas won the American Genetic Association’s Evolutionary, Ecological, or Conservation Genomics Research Award! Bill joins lab alumni Marisa Lim and Elise Lauterbur in receiving this distinction. The award will enable Bill to parse the relative importance of demography and selection as processes that shape genetic diversity in the Eurasian common shrew!
