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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!

William Thomas won the Society for the Study of Evolution’ Graduate Research Excellence Grant! The award will help William generate population genomic data to discover shrew wintering adaptations!

Bats, forests, and life in science featured in long interview for Mongabay by Nicolás Bustamante .

Lab & life partnership as well as new research featured in PBS Nova (go to min 7) by Raphaël Hitier .

William Thomas won the Society for Systematic Biologists’ Graduate Student Research Award! The award will help William generate population genetic/epigenetic data for discovering shrew wintering adaptations!