Katie Fisch successfully defends her Ph.D. (UC Davis). Congratulations Dr. Katie!
Postdoc Sean Schoville moves on to an NSF Fellowship in Grenoble, France. Congratulations and good luck! New grant award: NSF Evolutionary Process Cluster "The Molecular Basis of F2 Hybrid Breakdown" (2011-2014) This will continue funding our work on hybrid breakdown and local adaptation in the copepod Tigriopus californicus, including new transcriptome and RNAi approaches. In other news: Asako returns, now as a lab assistant!
Graduate student recruiting success!
Lani Gleason (UCSD) and Tessa Pierce (Stanford) will be joining the lab as PhD students Fall 2012. Lani has received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and Tessa Peirce and Carolina Bonin have received fellowships to participate in the NSF funded interdisciplinary training program in Global Change, Ecosystems, and Society! Sean Schoville (Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2009) joins the lab after a 5-month research fellowship in Japan.
Click here for Sean's website. SeptemberUCSD undergrad Asako Yamamoto continues her work on phytoplankton quantification using the Luminex system-- now as a MS student. OctoberPostdoc Felipe Barreto joins the lab after completing his doctoral work with John Avise at University of California, Irvine. NovemberCheck out Nature News Feature by Nick Lane: "Biodiversity: On the origin of bar codes" which cites our work on the potential role of nuclear/mitochondrial interactions in speciation.
Celeste Benham defends her MS thesis on population structure in red urchins. In April, Celeste started a new job at Hubbs Sea World Research Institute.
Moving on... Postdoc Xavier Mayali has taken a position at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Xavier has been the brains behind our Luminex/microbial ecology project for the past year and a half and a half and will be missed!! Congratulations and good luck Xavier!! Also moving on... Christine Tat- longtime undergraduate lab assistant is headed off to prepare for vet school. Christine played important roles in several projects, including fish bar-coding and microbial ecology. Bummer for us, but good luck Christine!! New postdoc Dr. Tiffany Malek joined the lab in September after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Tiffany worked in Katie Peichel's lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and studied divergence in male nuptial coloration in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Tiffany will join the Tigriopus team in the Burton lab.
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