Lab News

Sheena is awarded a Duke University Graduate School Katherine Goodman Stern Fellowship!


Postdoctoral Associate Jason Brown accepts a tenure-track position at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale — Congratulations Jason!!!


Conservationist Dame Alison Richard visits Duke University and the Duke Lemur Center!

Click here and here for Sheena’s coverage of her visit!


Erin is awarded a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant to pursue her research on microbial community assembly after birth and disease in captive lemur species!!!


Junior Biology major Lauriane Pinto joins the Yoder Lab! — Welcome to the lab, Lauriane!!!


Sheena wins a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant! — Congratulations!!!

This grant will support her project entitled “Gene expression and physiologic extremes in primate hibernation!”


National Geographic interviews Peter Larsen about using vaccines to help save endangered lemurs!

Click here to watch his interview about lemur antibody research!


Erin wins Best Presentation at the 10th Comparative Nutrition Society Symposium! – Congratulations, Erin!!!

Her talk was entitled, “Microbiota reflect lemur nutrition and feeding across time scales.”


Ryan wins an Information Initiative at Duke (IID) Data Expedition Grant!

Ryan, along with his co-applicant and graduate student Mike Rosario, will teach an R-based data focused module of Sheila Patek’s How Organisms Move Undergraduate Biology course. Read more about IID… Read More


Peter will present his research on lemur immunogenomics at the 2014 Evolution meetings in Raleigh!

His will give a talk entitled “Immunogenomics of non-model species: what can Ig-seq tell us about the evolution of the primate adaptive immune system?”


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