News

More good news from the Guralnick Lab ! Rob has just gotten the formal notification of a $1.8 Million award that partners CU, the University of Florida, the University of Hawaii, UC Berkeley and the Smithsonian. A fine set of collaborators! The title of the grant is: BiSciCol Tracker: Towards...

Russ Monson has just received good news from the Terrestrial Carbon Processes program at the Department of Energy (DOE). They are funding his recent proposal, entitled “Carbon cycling dynamics in response to pine beetle infection and climate variation.” Funding is for $1.03 million for three years to study the soil...

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" category. Academics know the value of clear writing, and generally admire talented writers. Nicely done, Leigh.

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 to a news release of their results and...

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 in Germany, Patrik established a collaboration with...

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 Colorado Trends in disease emergence and transmission are in flux throughout much of the globe. Some diseases are...

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 studies of invasive plants in the Fynbos ecosystems of...

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 Size on Host Diversity and Parasite Dilution. Here is some further...

CU’s Innovative Grant Program has awarded grants to Patrik Nosil, Barbara Demmig-Adams and Val McKenzie Val McKenzie's proposal, "Symbiotic microbial communities on amphibian skin and their role in disease resistance," was awarded $42,824. Barbara’s grant title is "Novel Genetic Dissection of Temperature Tolerance in the Model Plant Arabidopsis." Patrik’s grant...