Lab News
- September 2011
- Nikki Forrester joins the lab as a research technician. Welcome to the lab Nikki!
- May 2011
- Deb Triant joins the lab as a post-doc. Welcome to the lab Deb!
- Hilary Edgington joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome to the lab Hilary!
- Lab technician Laura Bergner accepts a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to work in New Zealand!
- April 2011
- Congratulations to Dr. Dan Sloan for defending his PhD dissertation! We are thrilled that he is staying on for a brief post-doc before he is headed to Yale for a post-doc with Dr. Nancy Moran!
- December 2010
- Check out the new Taylor Lab Espresso Bar!!!!!
- September 2010
- Dan Sloan and Doug (and some others) have published the Silene latifolia mitochondrial genome, and reported a remarkable loss of translational machinery from that genome. (Read the paper)
- Laura Bergner has joined the lab as a research technician. Welcome Laura!
- Dan posted the Silene vulgaris transciptome on the web (link)
- August 2010
- Welcome to the lab Brian Sanderson!
- Kim Gilbert has a new position in the lab as a research technician.
- July 2010
- Steve Keller and Doug describe how genomic admixture is associated with increased fitness during a biological invasion. (Read the paper)
- June 2010
- Doug and Dan, in collaboration with Martin Wu, were funded by the NSF to explore the evolution of mitchondrial genomes in Silene.
- May 2010
- Quinn McFrederick successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations Dr. McFrederick!
- Quinn was selected to receive an NSF post-doctoral fellowship to work at UT-Austin!
- Quinn won the Biology Department Graduate Teaching Award.
- Dan, Alice and Doug, with collaborators from Indiana University, discover extensive loss of RNA editing sites in rapidly evolving Silene mitochondrial genomes! (Read the paper)
- Andrea's research is profiled in UVa's Arts & Sciences magazine! (Read it here)
- Dan Sloan was awarded a Faculty Senate Dissertation Year Fellowship.
- April 2010
- Dexter Sowell successfully defended his thesis. Congrats Dr. Sowell!
- February 2010
- Doug Taylor, Butch Brodie and Peter Fields collaborate with a broad network of researchers in an analysis of host-parasite dynamics and the evolution of virulence, Multilevel and kin selection in a connected world
- January 2010
- Happy New Year from the Taylor Lab!
- The Silene Wiki is up and running! Contact us if you would like to make a contribution or have any questions...
- Dana Lapato, Conor Gannon and Corey Costella join the lab as undergraduate researchers. Welcome all!
- December 2009
- Dan and Vijay explore the role of mutation rate variation in the paradox of sex! (Read the paper)
- (Former) Taylor Labbies in the UVa press! (Read the paper)
- November 2009
- Vijay Panjeti successfully defended his thesis. Congrats Dr. Panjeti! Also, congrats on a post-doc in Les Real's lab at Emory!
- October 2009
- Evidence for mitochondrial substitution rate variation in tribe Sileneae (Read the paper)
- June 2009
- Taylor-Antonovics Labs receive NSF funding to genetically characterize metapopulation processes!
- Taylor labbies and collaborators explore the adaptive dynamics of two introduced Silene species (Read the paper)
- January 2009
- Andrea Berardi joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Andrea!
- May 2008
- Congratulations Steve Keller for the Fleming Prize, Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation
- April 2008
- Quinn McFrederick's paper on how pollution affects floral scent trails is all over the popular press! (check out his web page)
- March 2008
- Congratulations Dan Sloan for getting a NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
- Congratulations Quinn McFrederick for getting a NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
- September 2007
- Steve Keller defended his thesis. Congrats Dr. Keller!
- Peter Fields joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Peter.
- April 2007
- Maurine Neiman has accepted a faculty position at University of Iowa!!
- March 2007
- Congratulations Maurine Neiman for winning the ASN Young Investigator Prize. A free trip to New Zealand!
- August 2006
- Maurine Neiman has accepted a Post Doctoral position at University of St. Thomas!!
- Camille Barr has accepted a Post Doctoral position at University of Montana!!
- Steve Freedberg has accepted a faculty position at St. Olaf College!!
- June 2006
- Congratulations to Maurine Neiman and Steve Keller!
- Maurine Neiman has won the first R.A. Fisher Prize for the best paper published in Evolution (2005) from a PhD dissertation.
- Steve Keller is a recipient of an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant.
- February 2006
- Quinn McFrederick joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Quinn.
- September 2005
- Dan Sloan joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Dan.
- July 2004
- Maurine Neiman joins the lab as a post-doc. Welcome Maurine.
- May 2004
- Sheri Church has accepted a Faculty position at George Washington University!!
- Lisa Horth has accepted a Faculty Position at Old Dominion University!!
- April 2004
- Bless the NSF for generously funding our invasive species work!
- March 2004
- Some catch up work to
do
on publications from lab members…
- G. Bernasconi, T.-L. Ashman, T. R. Birkhead, J.D.D. Bishop, U. Grossniklaus, E. Kubli, D.L. Marshall, B. Schmid, I. Skogsmyr, R.R. Snook, D. TAYLOR, I. Till-Bottraud, P.I. Ward, D. Zeh, B. Hellriegel. 2004. Evolutionary ecology of the pre-zygotic stage in animals and flowering plants. Accepted to Science.
- Rissler, L.J., D.R. TAYLOR and H.M. Wilbur. 2004. The impact of ecology and history on salamander populations across the eastern continental divide. Accepted to American Naturalist.
- Freedberg S, Wade MJ. 2004. Male combat favours female-biased sex ratios under environmental sex determination. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 67: 177-181.
- Rieseberg LH, Church SA, Morjan CL. 2004. Integration of populations and differentiation of species. NEW PHYTOLOGIST 161 (1): 59-69 JAN 2004.
- Horth, L. 2004. Predation and the persistence of melanic male mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 17 (3): 672-679.
- Some catch up work to
do
on publications from lab members…
- January 2004
- Welcome to the lab Steve Freedberg. He is an NSF bioinformatics post-doc.
- October 2004
- Welcome to the lab Camille Barr. She is an NSF bioinformatics post-doc.
- August 2003
- Leslie Rissler begins her new Faculty Position at the University of Alabama this month.
- Camille Barr joins the lab this fall with her NSF Bioinformatics post-doc.
- Horth, L. 2003. Inheritance patterns of melanism in male mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki. was accepted to Heredity.
- June 2003
- Ingvärsson, P.K., S. Ribstein and D.R. Taylor. 2003. Molecular evolution of insertions and deletions in the chloroplast genome of Silene was accepted to Molecular Biology and Evolution.
- May 2003
- Congratulations to Camille Barr (Irvine) and Steve Freedberg (Indiana). They both were awarded NSF Bioinformatics Post-docs to join us in the fall.
- Congratulations to Sheri Church for her Fleming Award for the Department's Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation.
- Lisa Horth was funded by the Jeffress Trust for her work on the molecular evolution of melanism in mosquitofish.
- April 2003
- Steve Keller has decided to join the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome Steve.
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