Silene collection trip completed!
Silene collection trip completed (VA, CA, NM, TX) – all red Silene species are now in residence at the Arboretum greenhouse. Congrats Dr. Berardi!
We got a new NIH grant!
The lab receives a NIH R35 MIRA Grant to study the genetic and genomic basis of reinforcement !!
Ben’s hybrid speciation paper out in Evolution
Cheers to Ben Goulet-Scott and co-author Austin Garner for their new paper out in Evolution, a cautionary tale of how morphological intermediacy isn’t always a reliable indicator of hybrid origin. Check it out here!
Robin wins Roslyn Abramson Award!
Congrats to Robin on wining the Roslyn Abramson Award for Excellence in teaching undergraduates
Grace passes quals!
Congratulations to Grace Burgin for rocking her qualifying exam and becoming a PhD candidate!
Congrats to Austin for his new SICB award!
Austin receives the SICB Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid of Research Award!
Meghan’s paper out in Plant, Cell & Environment
Congrats to Hopkins lab alum Meghan Blumstein on her new paper in Plant, Cell & Environment, which looks at plasticity and variation of carbohydrate stores in Populus. Check it out here!
Meghan defends!
Congratulations to Meghan Blumstein for her successful thesis defense on August 6th, 2020, entitled “The plastic and adaptive potential of sugar storage in temperate trees under climate change”. Meghan has been awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship (Plant Genome Initiative) and will be heading to MIT to work with David Des Marais on her project, “Untangling the environmental and genetic drivers of phenological timing in red oak (Quercus rubra) to improve climate predictions”. Great work, Meghan, and congratulations!
Robin Receives Graduate Mentoring Award
Robin has received the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award! Recognizing only a small number of Harvard professors each year, the award honors faculty members who offer outstanding support and encouragement while promoting the career and personal development of their mentees. Awards are based solely upon the nominations of graduate students. Congrats, Robin!
Samridhi publishes in Nature Communications
Congrats to postdoc Samridhi Chaturvedi for her new publication in Nature Communications! The paper, “Recent hybrids recapitulate ancient hybrid outcomes” is based on work with Lycaeides butterflies that Samridhi completed as part of her PhD in Zachariah Gompert’s lab at Utah State University.
