Lab News
Sam purchases land in Madagascar! Congratulations, Sam!!
July 13, 2026 Sam buys a little piece (50 ha) of paradise in Madagascar, and in the process, is providing sanctuary for at least 5 (maybe more!) species of lemur…. Read More
Caro gives a talk at the TiBE-STRiVE Conference on the evolutionary role of structural variation!!
July 8, 2026 Caro gave a talk entitled “The role of inversions in the reproductive isolation of recently diverged cryptic mouse lemur species” at the TiBE-STRiVE Conference in Vila do… Read More
Desireé ventures into Duke Forest to record bat calls for her dissertation work!
July 1, 2026 Desireé successfully installed ultrasonic recorders to capture bat calls in Duke Forest! She will use the collected data to analyze preferred bat habitat use in relation to… Read More
Anne is granted a Marcil-Monahan award from Trinity College of Arts and Sciences!!
June 3, 2026 Anne is the recipient of a Marcil-Monahan Scholars Seed Grant to support our lab’s collaboration with Dr. Jason Somarelli. The award provides $40,000 to support efforts described… Read More
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
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