Tatiana joins the lab!
We are excited to welcome Tatiana Ruiz Bedoya to the lab! Tatiana is here for six months as part of the Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology (MEME), an institutional partnership between Uppsala University in Sweden, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich, and Harvard. She will be studying the mutational source of flower color differences in Phlox drummondii.
Shayla wins E. Arthur Bell Prize
Congratulations to Shayla for winning the E. Arthur Bell Prize for significant achievement as a student in the study of the nonprotein amino acid BMAA for her poster “Assessing the potential for bacterial degradation of BMAA in the guts of cycad-feeding insects” at the 2017 International BMAA Conference in Salt Lake City.
Matt Farnitano joins the lab
Welcome to Matt Farnitano, who joins the lab as a research technician.
A new baby in the lab!
Adrian Hopkins Desmarais is the lab’s newest member!
Congratulations, Dr. Callin Switzer!
Callin Switzer successfully defended his thesis, “Bee pollination biology: buzzing,
behavior, and biomechanics”! He is the Arboretum’s first PhD candidate to defend his dissertation.
Sevan will be assistant professor at University of San Francisco!
Sevan Suni accepted a position at the University of San Francisco, in San Francisco CA. She will join the biology department as a tenure track assistant professor in January 2018. She is looking forward to teaching courses in field ecology and evolution, and to continuing research on the evolutionary ecology of plants and their pollinators.
Ben gets honorable mention for NSF GRFP
Ben received honorable mention for his NSF GRFP proposal to study hybrid speciation in Phlox
Ben passed his qualifying exam!
Ben successfully defended his dissertation proposal on a putative case of homoploid hybrid speciation in the Phlox pilosa complex.
Federico and Robin’s paper out in Molecular Ecology
Transcriptome sequences reveal the history of introgression between sympatric Phlox drummondii and P. cuspidata. [Roda et al. 2017]
