I’m excited to welcome Phil Douchinsky to the Puckett Lab!  Phil had been working as a research technician on a conservation genomics project looking at gene flow in fish across the landscape. For his MS, he will compare and contrast isolation by resistance of black (Ursus americanus) and brown (U. arctos) bears across the Southeastern […]

The Puckett Lab hosted Dr. Loren Cassin Sackett for seminar. Dr. Cassin Sackett studies how introduced parasites affect genomic diversity and population persistence in native wildlife populations. Her talk was titled, “The consequences of introduced pathogens on host evolution” and focused on studies in prairie dogs and Hawai’i ‘amakihi.