WEEOLab at JMIH
Calvin, Sneha, and Desi all attended the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Spokane, WA in July 2022. What a great opportunity to present …
Spring Semester Wrap Up!
Congrats to everyone! Doctoral student Sneha Dharwadkar received an International AAUW fellowship for next year! Doctoral student Calvin Schaefer received a Bryan P Glass Fellowship …
Sneha on the WEE podcast!
WEEOLab doctoral student Sneha was just on the Women in Ecology and Evolution Podcast! Sneha tells us about her path to turtle research, her recent …
Newly published paper on ephemeral speciation among southern African birds
We just published a new paper that uses comparative phylogeography to demonstrate that an ephemeral speciation model may underlie some of the complex patterns by …
New paper on Colombian Gladiator Treefrogs!
Ricardo Medina just led us through the publication of one of his master’s thesis chapters as a new paper in Molecular Ecology focused on populations …
New Graduate Students
The 2021-22 academic year welcomes the first cohort of graduate students to the lab! Three doctoral students ~ Sneha Dharwadkar, Calvin Schaefer, and Desi Wilson …
New paper on Myanmar’s frogs!
Our study investigating the diversity of Micryletta frogs in Myanmar was just published in the first issue of the newly named journal, Ichthyology and Herpetology. …
Phylogenomics and biogeography of the White-eye radiation!
I am excited that this paper is now out in elife! We used target capture of 700+ loci to infer the phylogenomic and biogeographic patterns …
Cape Robin-chats & Biome Structure in Southern Africa
Cape Robin-chats (Cossypha caffra) are found throughout southern Africa, and are generalist species found in most aridland biomes. We used genetic information (highly informative msats …