Lab News

• 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 McFrederisk for getting a NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
• September 2007
  • Steve Keller defended his thesis. Congrats Dr. Keller!
  • Peter Fields joined the lab. 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.
• 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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