Lab News
- March 2013
- Former labbie Quinn McFrederick had a great month! A new paper out on the dynamics of Acrostichus nematodes and halictid bees (Read the paper). Also, check out Quinn's blog post summarizing the results. Quinn has also accepted a faculty position at California State University, Fresno! Congratulations, Quinn!
- January 2013
- Taylor labbie Hilary in bat catching action!!!!! An acquired skill from field work in caves!
- November 2012
- We're still in the nematode-bee business in the Taylor lab! Quinn and Doug have a new publication out in MPE focusing on co-speciation dynamics of Acrostichus nematodes and halictid bees (Read the paper) Also, check out Quinn's blog, Ode on melittology for further description of his work with the Taylor lab and his multifarious work with John Jaenike (University of Rochester), Ulrich Mueller, and Bill Wcislo (University of Texas at Austin).
- October 2012
- Present and past labbies join forces to reconstruct invasion history of Silene latifolia using approximate Bayesian computation! (Read the paper)
- August 2012
- Megan Sebasky joins the lab as a Master's student, and Colleen Ingram as a post-doc. Welcome new Taylor labbies!
- Taylor labbies popping up on YouTube! Dexter Sowell, currently with the Florida Forest Service, provides a tour of Picayune Strand State Forest!
- June 2012
- Congratulations to Dr. Jessie Abbate for defending her PhD dissertation!
- April 2012
- Former labby Quinn McFrederick, Doug, et al. describe the origins of acidophilic bacteria in multiple sweat bee species! (Read the paper)
- March 2012
- Andrea Berardi received a NSF DDIG to bridge the gap between genotype and phenotype in the flavonoid pathway using RNA-seq based analyses. Congratulations Andrea!
- January 2012
- Dan Sloan et al. describe acceleration in plastid sequence and structural evolution, consistent with Silene genera showing extreme mitochondrial sequence divergence. (Read the paper)
- Dan Sloan et al. describe the developing epidemic of mitochondrial obesity! (Read the paper)
- October 2011
- The Taylor lab presents a new community resource, a S. vulgaris transcriptome derived from 454 NGS sequencing technology! Resources can be accessed here. A full description of the resource, and it's derivation, can be found here. Many more datasets to come...
- 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, Doug et al. 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
- UVa Graduate student Dan Sloan and Undergraduate Alice MacQueen et al. describe the loss of RNA editing sites in Silene mitochondrial genomes! (Read the paper)
- 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.
- Dan and Doug describe selection on synonymous sites in plant mitochondrial genomes (Read the paper)
- April 2010
- Dexter Sowell successfully defended his thesis. Congrats Dr. Sowell!
- Former labby Maurine Neiman and Doug describe mutation accumulation in asexual lineages of the freshwater snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum! (Read the paper)
- 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 yies 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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