Lab News

Congratulations to Dr. Erin McKenney!!! – Erin successfully defended and has accepted a position as a post-doc in Rob Dunn’s lab at NC State! Great work, Erin!


Jumping Genes Suspected in Alzheimer’s


Anne was invited to give a talk for the International Symposium on Biodiversity in Madagascar at Sokendai in Japan!!!

She will present a talk on the origin and evolution of mammals in Madagascar!


Most Primate Species Threatened With Extinction, Scientists Find


Erin was awarded the 2017 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching! – Congrats, Erin!!!

This marks the first time a BioGrad has won the award since its inception! Read more about it here!


Erin presented at the Creativity in Science Teaching Conference in London!

Her talk was entitled “Student-centered course design leverages creativity for effective, enhanced education.”


Ryan has been awarded a Bass Teaching Fellowship!

He will teach his own undergraduate course entitled “Methods in Computation Biology and Genomics” during the 2017-2018 academic year!!!


Erin was invited to give a talk for the Duke Data and Visualization Services seminar series!

She will give her talk entitled “Holistic Imagery: Summarizing the Big Picture” on October 7th.


Erin was invited to give a talk at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute at the National Zoo!

She will present her talk “A tale of two systems: captive studies of gut microbiota at the Duke Lemur Center and the National Zoo” on October 21st!


Senior undergrads Isabelle Clark, Annabelle Mercer, and Emily Hardgrove join the Yoder Lab!!!


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