Peter was awarded a grant from Sigma Xi to investigate transcriptional differences underlying adaptation to high altitude in deer mice!
Shannon was promoted to be the Reviews Editor for the Royal Entomological Society's journal "Ecological Entomology"
Congratulations to PhD student Jay Gallagher and postdoc David Zonana, both of the Tinghitella lab, who are co-first authors on a new paper in the high profile journal Evolution Letters! Co-authors include postdoc Dale Broder, undergraduate researcher Brianna Herner, and Associate Professor Robin Tinghitella. The new paper presents a huge body of work investigating how novel traits evolve even when there are multiple co-evolved, integrated underlying forms contributing to trait function. The researchers capitalize on the recent diversification of sexual signals in a cricket and show that novel songs have evolved through restructuring of relationships between songs and the underlying wing morphology that produces them. They characterize multiple newly evolved morphs that produce distinct songs via unique alterations to wings. These novel morphs are effective at attracting mates while avoiding death from a recently introduced parasitoid fly, demonstrating alternate solutions to conflicting selection from mates and natural enemies.
Claire Guzinski and Alex Goetz were both selected to present their research to our congressional representatives at the capitol! They both presented the highlights of their research so that our representatives could learn more about their important research.
Jay Gallagher has accepted a postdoc position at UC Davis in Kate Laskowski's lab and will start this summer. Congratulations Jay!
Alaina was awarded a scholarship from the American Wildfire Experience for an essay she wrote about working with and studying fire!
Over the summer, Alex presented invited oral talks at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Montreal and at Northern Arizona University's Biennial Conference of Science and Management in the Colorado Plateau.
Jay Gallagher wins American Society of Naturalists Best Student Poster Award at Evolution. Congratulations Jay!
Congratulations to our graduate students for their recent awards!
Blyssalyn Bieber - University of Denver Shubert Award Blyssalyn Bieber - Colorado Native Plant Society John Marr Grant Blyssalyn Bieber - Colorado Mountain Club CMC Foundation Fellowship Claire Guzinski was awarded first place for Student Paper Presentation at the 2021 Entomological Society of America conference, held in Denver. Congratulations Claire! Alex Goetz was awarded the Teaching Excellence award for the Biology Department. Congratulations Alex! Congratulations to our graduate students for their recent awards!
Gabrielle Welsh - Society for the Study of Evolution RC Lewontin Early Award Cameron Venable has been awarded a prestigious Ford Foundation Fellowship. Congratulations Cam! Read more HERE. Dr. Sher has been awarded both the 2020 DU Distinguished Scholar Award and the Robin Morgan Outstanding Faculty Woman Award
Congratulations to our graduate students for their recent awards!
Alex Goetz - Sigma Xi Kelsie Hunnicutt - Society for the Study of Evolution RC Lewontin Early Award After departing from Denver on Independence Day 2019 Tom Quinn travelled first to Canada and then to Denmark. When not filling out complex tax forms, he devotes much of his time to reaching some form of fluency in the Danish language. He is living with his wife, Pia, in an apartment near Copenhagen where he continues to write in the third person and to entertain fond memories of the EEB group. Once Tom and Pia buy a house and the Covid 19 pandemic subsides, lodging and tours of Copenhagen will be available for EEBers passing through the area!
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