Lab News

Anne is invited speaker in NAS Colloquium entitled “In the Light of Evolution X: Comparative Phylogeography!

Erin has been awarded a Bass Teaching Fellowship!

She will develop and teach her own undergraduate course, Bio490S: Microbiomes (a study of coevolution) in Spring 2016!!!

Anne begins her one-year term as President of the International Society of Systematic Biologists!

Sheena writes about bugs and worms, highlighting Erin’s research for a blog post at Scientific American!

Click here to read her article entitled “Want a Stronger Defense System against Diseases? Add Some Worms.”

Kelsie Hunnicutt joins the Yoder Lab as a Research Associate! — Welcome to the lab, Kelsie!!!

Second year DCMB graduate student Matt Dubin begins rotating in the Yoder lab! — Welcome, Matt!!!

Anne, Peter and Ryan, along with Lab Alum Dave Weisrock, attended the 2015 Mouse Lemur Workshop in Paris!

Anne and Peter served on a discussion panel.

Anne, Dave and Peter all gave talks. Peter’s talk was entitled “Improving the Microcebus murinus genome assembly using optical maps.

Sheena presents a talk at the Computational Biology Seminar at the Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona (PRBB) in Barcelona, Spain entitled “Dwarf lemurs are “cool”: Primate hibernation in Madagascar!”

DukeToday writes an article about Peter Larsen’s work with the Duke Computing Cluster! – Congratulations Peter!!!

Check out the DukeToday article here about the Yoder lab’s usage of the Duke Research Computing system for lemur genomics!

Sheena lands a Sunday front page story in The Philadelphia Inquirer! — Great job, Sheena!

Click here to read her article on the ethical considerations of egg freezing.

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