Lab News

Dr. Elise Paietta celebrates her thesis defense! Congratulations, Elise!!!

March 26, 2025 Elise presented her public defense entitled “Madagascar as a hotspot for viral discovery: The oral DNA viromes of lemurs and rodents from captive to natural populations,” then… Read More


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… Read More


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 meets with students from University of Antananarivo

June 2024


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.


Dr. Priya Moorjani visits the lab. Thanks for stopping by, Priya!


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… Read More


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