Graduate student Heather Clendenin presented a talk, “Population Genomics of the Eastern Lineage of American Black Bears” at the Evolution Meeting in Athens, GA.
Read MoreGraduate student Heather Clendenin presented both a talk and a poster at the Eastern Black Bear Workshop (EBBW) in Lake Placid, NY. Her talk, “Promoting Ursus americanus connectivity across the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley” highlighted her landscape genetics work on American black bears in Louisiana; while her poster, “Population Genomics of the Eastern Lineage of […]
Read MoreI am ecstatic to join the faculty at the University of Memphis as an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department. The Puckett Lab will open Fall 2018 and focus on phylogeography and evolutionary genomics within the bear family. If you are interested in joining the lab, please see the “Positions in the Lab” page for […]
Read MoreToday is the first day of my postdoc with Jason Munshi-South at Fordham University! I’m super excited about starting this position and not just because I get to go to work everyday in a mansion (see below). The Munshi-South Lab focuses on adaptation to the urban environment. I think this is a really unique way […]
Read MoreI wanted to enter the Dance Your PhD contest since before I was accepted into a PhD program! Although never formally trained in dance, I did dance on my high school’s team and generally enjoyed the process. So Dance Your PhD seemed totally up my alley combining art and science. I had the vision for my […]
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