Emily Puckett is spending the Spring 2025 semester at Stanford University to study gene regulation in American black bears with her long-term collaborators.
Read MorePuckett on sabbatical to Stanford University
- January 17, 2025
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Emily Puckett is spending the Spring 2025 semester at Stanford University to study gene regulation in American black bears with her long-term collaborators.
Read MoreJoe Opferman, investigator at St. Jude, gave a seminar on his work on the anti-apoptotic gene MCL1 and its role in cancer.
Read MoreLiz Carlen, postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis, visited to discuss urban evolution.
Read MoreCongratulations to Matthew Pollard for successfully defending his dissertation, Mammalian trait evolution: Macroevolutionary and comparative genomic analyses of diet and Ursid-specific adaptations. Matthew will move on to a postdoctoral position at UMass Chan to research metabolic network evolution in mammals.
Read MoreEmily Puckett presented her talk, “Maintaining Bears’ Adaptive Potential: monitoring and assessing genetic indicators in Ursidae” at the 28th International Bear Association Conference in Edmonton, Canada. This work is a collaborative effort with Alex Kopatz from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Trondheim, Norway. We are calling on the world’s bear experts to come […]
Read MoreCongratulations to Phil Douchinsky upon the successful defense of his MS thesis: Comparative landscape genetics and dynamics in demography within sympatric ursids in Southeast Alaska.
Read MoreEmily Puckett was elected as Secretary to the Council of the International Association for Bear Research and Management. Her three-year term will run 2024-2026. IBA is a professional society dedicated to the conservation of the world’s eight bear species. They support managers, researchers, and conservationists through communication, capacity-building, international meetings, and grant opportunities. I am […]
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