Lab News
Maia wins the James B. Rast Award for Comparative Organismal Biology and presents her senior thesis!!
April 17, 2026 Maia is the recipient of this year’s James B. Rast Award for Comparative Organismal Biology. The award is given to a student who has demonstrated excellence working… Read More
Sajni presents a poster at the Duke Undergraduate Research Symposium!
April 16, 2026 Sajni did a wonderful job presenting her poster entitled “Building recombination maps for wild Microcebus species using population data.” Caro, Blair, Anne, and Maia cheered her on!… Read More
Blair and Maia are both recognized by NSF for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program!
April 12, 2026 Maia won Honorable Mention and Blair was awarded a GRFP! We are so excited for Maia’s future at UC Berkeley and Blair’s future at NC State as… Read More
Anne organizes a PNAS Special Feature on “Monitoring and Restoring Gene Flow in the Increasingly Fragmented Ecosystems of the Anthropocene.”
September 22, 2025 Anne organized a PNAS Special Feature with Dr. Silu Wang (University of Buffalo) on Monitoring and Restoring Gene Flow in the Increasingly Fragmented Ecosystems of the Anthropocene!… Read More
Hannah, Blair, and Maia present posters at Evolution 2025 in Athens, Georgia!
June 23, 2025 Hannah, Blair, and Maia traveled to Athens, Georgia, for the Evolution Conference. They had a wonderful time presenting their posters, meeting new people, and learning about the… Read More
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
Anne and Caro attend the Speciation Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, California, and Caro wins best poster!
March 2, 2025
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
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