Lab News

Hannah, Sierra, and Maia receive a Student Teams Grant from Duke Bass Connections to continue work on lemur cell lines and transposable elements!

March 2024


Hannah, Elise, and Desireé connect with local students to teach about lemurs and conservation in Madagascar as part of SciREN Triangle.

December 2023

The graduate students designed and led a lesson plan, and Hannah and Elise are part of SciREN’s organizing team! Desireé and Elise also taught the lesson for a different group of students in October 2023.


Sam and Caro head to Madagascar!

May 2023


Ryan Campbell celebrates his thesis defense! Congratulations, Ryan!!!

March 21, 2019


The DNA Zoo is online!

The Yoder lab is collaborating with a network of scientists and zoos led by the Aiden lab at Baylor university to make more high-quality genomic resources publicly available. Visit the DNA Zoo website to download a chromosome-level genome assembly of your favorite lemur.


The Yoder Lab: Mouse Lemur Research on Four Continents!

Maybe it’s time for HQ2? We are now accepting bids from the Pyrenees and Azores.


Thank you – Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society

Ryan and Jelmer enjoy receiving their honorarium from the Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society! Check out their very timely review here


Kelsie Hunnicutt joins the Larson lab at the University of Denver! – Have fun in graduate school, Kelsie!!!


Peter Larsen accepts faculty position at the University of Minnisota! Congratulations, have fun in Minneapolis!!!


Thanks to support from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and Walter Korman, Peter Larsen’s creative instincts, the hard work of Yoder Lab honorary members, Lydia Greene and Marina Blanco, and the “back-at-home” support team of Rachel Williams and Kelsie Hunnicutt, the mobile genomics lab has been deployed in Madagascar!

Enjoy these photos from a training workshop led by Lanto Andrianandrasana, Marina and Lydia at a local university.


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