by Andrea | Apr 20, 2021
Upon completion of his Ph.D., Adam took on the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. Research in his lab focused on phylogenetics, systematics, phylogeography, and species delimitation. Adam and his lab staff and...
by Andrea | Apr 20, 2021
Wildlife migration carries important ecological functions and social values in many ecosystems, especially in arid and semi-arid rangeland. However, linear infrastructures such as fencing have proliferated around the world. Wenjing’s search focuses on ecological...
by Andrea | Apr 20, 2021
Why specialists exist in the face of broad-niched generalists remains a central question for the biological sciences. At a fundamental level, this question underpins most of our theories for why there is so much genetic, phenotypic, and species diversity in...
by Andrea | Apr 20, 2021
Jackie’s research focuses on understanding the processes that underlie species diversification and phenotypic evolution by integrating analysis of character trait data with phylogenetic approaches. For her dissertation she is studying the Weavers (family Ploceidae),...
by Andrea | Apr 18, 2021
Ryan’s research focuses on bacterial reduction of perchlorate, a toxic compound found in drinking water. His work integrates comparative genomics, genetics, and biochemistry in an effort to uncover how this metabolism functions, how it is regulated, and how...
