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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...

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...

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...

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 look at the consequences of monoculture and polyculture for...

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 project summary: Terrestrial ecosystems across the globe are receiving elevated...

Here is her title and abstract: Diversity and disease: how do changes in pathogen communities influence disease risk for amphibians? Growing evidence suggests that diverse ecosystems provide a biological “buffer” from certain human and wildlife diseases, and understanding the underlying mechanisms is essential to predicting the impact of emerging diseases...

NSF has awarded a predoctoral fellowship to Matt Wilkins for his thesis research on sexual selection and incipient speciation in barn swallows. Matt leaves in a few days for Israel and Turkey, so try to congratulate him before he disappears. The title and abstract for the project are below, as...

Rob Guralnick has received an NSF Grant entitled Map of Life: An infrastructure for integrating global species distribution knowledge. This new collaborative research award is from NSF Advances in Biological Informatics and is split between Rob and Walter Jetz at Yale University. The award amount is $990K over three years,...