The lab was just awarded a $3500 grant to do barcoding of aquatic insects in Northern California. Congrats to Brian for all his hard work on this project.
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Check out their site here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Drosophila-Species-Stock-Center/302498296445084
I found out earlier this week that I was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Thanks to everyone who wrote letters or otherwise supported my case.
The lab has gotten funding to do population genetics on some aquatic insects as part of a larger project trying to understand how climate change will impact species in California. This proposal is funded through Berkeley's Initiative in Global Change Biology (BIGCB). Partner labs include Vince Resh, Mary Power and Jonathon Stillman. More information can be found here: http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/globalchange/index.html
Rick will officially get this PhD tomorrow! Please come out and congratulate him!
Our collaborator extrodinaire, Neal Evenhuis, has just published some new species of Hawaiian Campsicnemus, one of which is named after Gordon!
Gordon's revision of the Nesophrosyne specializing on Broussatia arguta has just been accepted in Zootaxa. Congratulations! Here's the link: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02805p025.pdf
The latest issue of MPE is out and it includes TWO papers from the lab. One is a comprehensive phylogeny of the Hawaiian Drosophila, complete with an analyses of the evolution of host plant preference. This paper includes the work of three undergraduate researchers in the lab - Elaine Owen, Jackline Lasola and Yifei Wu. The other is a phylogeny of the spoon tarsus species group and a major component of Rick's dissertation. Congratulations to Rick and to Alex Gidaya, his undergraduate coauthor!
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