Lab News
The Yoder Lab’s work is featured in a cover issue of Nature Ecology and Evolution!
January 10, 2025
Check out the cover issue here! Our work is featured in Van Elst et al. which presents a generalizable, integrative framework to characterize the species diversity of the taxonomically controversial mouse lemur genus.
First-year CBB student Jason Mohabir joins the lab for a rotation! Welcome, Jason!!!
January 8, 2025
Tristan’s NSF proposal “Doctoral Dissertation Research: The evolutionary pressures of forest fires and dietary niche on wild primates” has been recommended for funding! Congrats, Tristan!!!
December 16, 2024
Tristan’s NSF proposal has been recommended for $34,105 of funding on the very first submission. Congrats!!!
Hannah is officially a PhD Candidate after passing her prelim exam! Congrats, Hannah!!!
December 3, 2024
Hannah & Sierra attend Transposable Elements at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
October 2024
Hannah & Sierra attended Transposable Elements at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories where they presented a poster on benchmarking de-novo TE discovery pipelines.
Anne is inducted into the National Academy of Sciences!
April 2024
Election to membership in the NAS is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. Read more about the NAS here.
Hannah travels to Madagascar with Sam and Caro!
May 2024
Hannah traveled to Madagascar with Sam and Caro, her first time performing fieldwork in Andohahela National Park. Sam and Caro stayed an additional 2 months, and returned to the field from September 2024-December 2024.
Anne, Elise, and Desireé receive a grant from the Duke Climate Research Innovation Seed Program (CRISP). Congratulations!!
May 2, 2024
Anne, Elise, and Desireé will research climate extremes, rainforest and community health in southeastern Madagascar alongside Brian McAdoo, Camille DeSisto, and Ryan Parks. Read more here.
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