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!
Alex Goetz - Sigma Xi Kelsie Hunnicutt - Society for the Study of Evolution RC Lewontin Early Award Congratulations to our new NSF Fellows!
David Zonana, NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dhaval Vyas, Boulder City Open Space & Mountain Parks Research Grant Dan Swann, Moras and Erne Shubert Graduate Fellowship Kelsie Hunnicutt, Moras and Erne Shubert Graduate Fellowship Brooke Washburn, Northwest Scientific Association Student Research Grant Jay Gallagher, Orthopterists Society Theodore J. Cohn Research Fund Amy Byerly, Orthopterists Society Theodore J. Cohn Research Fund Kelsie Hunnicutt, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Aaron Wikle, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Amy Byerly, Explorers Club Mamont Scholar Grant Jay Gallagher, SICB Grants in Aid of Research Kelsie Hunnicutt, SICB Grants in Aid of Research Brooke Washburn, Society of Systematic Biologists Graduate Student Research Award Kelsie Hunnicutt, Society of Systematic Biologists Graduate Student Research Award Brooke Washburn, Sigma Xi Congratulations to our graduate students for their recent awards!
Amy Byerly, Graduate Studies Doctoral Fellowship Jay Gallagher, Shubert Award Jay Gallagher, Sigma Xi Alex Goke, Graduate Research Fellowship, Colorado Mountain Club Foundation Alex Goke, John Marr Ecology Award, University of Colorado – Boulder Alex Goke, Shubert Graduate Student Award, University of Denver Kelsie Hunnicutt, Sigma Xi Kelsie Hunnicutt, American Society of Mammalogists Grant in Aid of Research Brooke Washburn, Society for the Study of Evolution RC Lewontin Early Award Brooke Washburn, Orthopterists Soceity DUEEB students sweep the awards at the Colorado State University Front Range Student Ecology Symposium!
Claudia Hallagan - 2nd place oral presentation Jake Wilson - 1st place graduate poster Kallie Feldhaus - 1st place undergraduate poster Kirsten Fetrow - 2nd place undergraduate poster |
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