August, 2024
Kathrina Wellborn presented an excellent talk and poster on her summer of intertidal research on Catalina at the annual REU symposium.
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February 2024, new PhD candidate!
Jake passed his qualifying exams! Posing with champagne and intertidal cheesecake, of course.
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Sept 2023, MEB retreat
Jumping for joy because Alice Coleman and Kimberly Schoenberger both won 2nd prize awards for posters in their respective divisions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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April, 2023
Kimberly Schoenberger’s new project on the evolution of body size in island foxes was profiled on the Wrigley blog.
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