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Congrats to Taylor Lab alum Dr. Sheela Turbek who just received TWO early career awards! Sheela is a 2024 awardee of the Early Career Research Award from the American Society of Naturalists as well as an Early Professionals Award from the
Georgy's most recent work on the genetics of variation in spatial cognition in food-caching chickadees was just published in Current Biology. This work is the product of a collabroation with Dr. Valdimir Pravosudov and his lab at the University
The good news keeps coming! Nikki (Documenting responses to experimental and natural nest intrusions in two species of cavity-nesting chickadee) and Will (Using acoustic and genomic data to evaluate the taxonomic status of Northern Pygmy Owls) were
Congrats to Sara Padula, a second-year PhD student in the lab, who was granted a 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time
Scott recently spent part of his sabbatical visiting Jay in Gamboa, Panama. During his visit, Scott gave the Tupper Seminar at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and spent some time with the RaMP-UP Fellows. Other than eating delicious food
Congrats to Sara, Nikki and Will for their recently awarded research Grants! Sara was awarded the Zena Hunter Andrews Graduate Student Award for her project "Comparing the genetics of spatial memory in two species of food caching
Scott will be participating as a panelist in an upcoming workshop focused on inclusion and diversity in scientific fieldwork at Yale University on May 13 and 14, 2024. The brief schedule is below and you can follow the link to register! https://
The "smart feeder" arrays up and running at the Mountain Research Station!
Members of the Taylor lab are busy in the field these days, braving the cold and snow to collect exciting data on black-capped and mountain chickadees. Haley is conducting feeder-based agression experiments in Boulder, Nikki has been getting our