June 2025, SSE conference
Jake and Suzanne gave talks at the annual Evolution conference in Athens, GA. Also got to hang with illustrious copepodologists.
November 2024, introducing Dr. Coleman
Alice Coleman masterfully defended her dissertation on “Application of evolutionary theory and methods to aquatic ecotoxicology”. Congrats Alice!
March 2025, congrats Eliza!
Eliza Kirsch earned a $20,000 grant from USC’s Center for Ecological & Evolutionary Dynamics. This award supports her dissertation work on ‘Poisoned Cities: Investigating Rodenticides and Wildlife Toxin Exposure in Urban Mesopredators’. Photo by Chris Ensminger @ unsplash.com.
August 2024, REU research
Kathrina Wellborn presented an excellent talk and poster on her summer of intertidal research on Catalina at the annual REU symposium.
February 2024, new PhD candidate!
Jake passed his qualifying exams! Posing with champagne and intertidal cheesecake, of course.
Sept 2023, MEB retreat
Jumping for joy because Alice Coleman and Kimberly Schoenberger both won 2nd prize awards for posters in their respective divisions.
August 2023, new PhD student
Eliza Kirsch joined the lab as a new PhD student. She’ll be working partly at the LA County Natural History Museum where she is co-advised by Allison Shultz.
June 2023, Hello Albuquerque!
Jake Denova and Suzanne Edmands both presented work at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Evolution in Albuquerque.
May – June, 2023
Our recent study of the genetic vulnerability of island foxes (Adams & Edmands, 2023) received a fair amount of media attention, including stories in Science Daily, the Wildlife Society, KNX and the LAist.
April, 2023
Kimberly Schoenberger’s new project on the evolution of body size in island foxes was profiled on the Wrigley blog.
