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Congratulations to our three recently graduated stellar undergrads Sam, Eva, and Nate! All three completed impressive honor's thesis projects that they will be presenting this summer at various scientific meetings and that they are all writing up
Lab members recently attended the 2026 annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in Cleveland. Sara, Sam, Lucas, and Nate all presented their work during the poster sessions. Congrats to Sara for receiving honorable mention for her
Nate received funding from the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant offered by AMNH for his proposal on the genetic basis and spatial patterns of polymorphic mimicry in Lampsilis fasciola or the “wavy-rayed lampmussel”. He will use
Congrats to Lucas who was awarded the Chapman Research Grant from AMNH and a $10,000 postgraduate scholarship from the NCAA. Lucas will use his Chapman Research Grant, which is an ornithology grant for projects focused on the evolutionary
It's the time of year where folks in the lab apply for as many small grants as they can to support their independent research. Thanks to the many funding agencies who have provided grants this year!Nate received a Beverley Sears Award to fund his
Closing out the Research & Innovation week at CU Boulder is the UROP Sidewalk Symposium. This year Sam and Eva both participated, sharing drawings of their honors thesis work, which was funded with UROP grants last summer. Awesome to see
The 52nd Annual meeting of the Guild of Rocky Mountain Ecologists and Evolutionary Biologists took place at the University of Colorado Mountain Research Station Sept 26 - 28, 2025. Surrounded by yellow and orange aspens, the
Congratulations to Kathryn and her co-authors for the recent acceptance of her final thesis chapter in Evolution. The manuscript, titled Extensive local introgression despite rare contemporary hybridization between two backyard
Several members of the lab attended the 2025 AOS meeting in St. Louis. Always an excellent meeting, it was great to catch up with colleagues and see the latest and greats in ornithological research.Congrats to Maria for her early
A warm welcome to Lucas Florsheim and Nate Neal - the most recent PhD students to join the Taylor Lab! Lucas plans to expand on work investigating hybridization between black-capped and mountains chickadees using broader