Recent Lab News:
Eliécer Gutiérrez
(see
People) has
received a grant from the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund of the American
Museum of Natural History. The grant will support his research on the
phylogenetics and biogeography of mouse opossums of the genus Marmosa
using DNA sequencing.
Darla Thomas (see
People) has been
selected as an Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution 2008 Scholar; this will fund
her travel to the 2008 joint meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution
and the Society for Systematic Biology.
Maryia
Shcheglovitova (see
People) has been
selected for an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) internship at
Humboldt State University for the summer of 2008.
We have been
recommended for funding for an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates)
supplement to my NSF grant (see below). This supplement will allow two
undergraduates in-depth training in many aspects of modern systematics and
biogeography.
Eliécer Gutiérrez,
Maryia Shcheglovitova and I traveled to
Venezuela in April to conduct fieldwork with Dr. José
Ochoa-G. and colleagues in the Parque Nacional Henri Pittier.
Recent Press:
Essential
Science Indicators (New Hot Paper; Elith et al., 2006; modeling species distributions)
Nature
(Research Highlights; Elith et al., 2006; modeling species distributions)
Blackwell
(Press Releases; Elith et al., 2006; modeling species distributions)
City
College of New York (Recent News; Anderson and Timm, 2006; new species of rodent
from Costa Rica)
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