News
- Joey Hubbard and others (including Becca Safran) have a new paper in Trends in Genetics and they captured the cover. Joey chose the photos and made the collage. (The zebrafish is from the Stock lab)
- This academic year Center For the American West hosted the 11th annual writing competition to award Thompson Awards for Western American Writing. Leigh Cooper's submission entitled "Branding Day" won in the "Creative Nonfiction/Memoir"
- After examining more than a million data points, Philip Taylor and Alan Townsend have discovered a global relationship between nitrates and organic carbon that is mediated by microbes. Their article is in the April 22 issue of Nature.Here is a link
- Patrik Nosil and Tim Farkas are currently in the field in California, studying speciation in their model system of Timema walking-sticks. Patrik reports that the work is going very well, but he also wanted to share a spate good news.During his year
- John Mischler, in the Townsend lab, has been awarded an EPA STAR grant. Here is the title and abstract from his proposal:Catching the Itch: A Study of Cercarial Dermatitis in ColoradoTrends in disease emergence and transmission are in flux
- Taryn Morris, a first year PhD student in the Barger Lab was recently awarded a Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship. This fellowship provides up to $50,000 a year over three years, which will be used to further support her
- Fantastic news. EBIO has received a 4th NSF Graduate Fellowship!Joseph R. Mihaljevic, currently at Washington University, will be joining our graduate program and working in Piet Johnson’s lab. The title of his project is Effects of Metacommunity
- CU’s Innovative Grant Program has awarded grants to Patrik Nosil, Barbara Demmig-Adams and Val McKenzieVal McKenzie's proposal, "Symbiotic microbial communities on amphibian skin and their role in disease resistance," was awarded $42,824.
- An incoming graduate student, Lisette Arellano, has been awarded an NSF graduate fellowship and an AGEP fellowship through CU! Lisette Arellano will be in Val McKenzie’s lab.Project title for NSF proposal: Land use and amphibian decline: A closer
- Fantastic news! Noah Fierer has just been informed that his CAREER proposal has been recommended for funding.An integrated study of the effects of nutrient additions on grassland soil microbial communities"Amount = $655,617 over 5 years.Here is the