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  • Taryn Morris, a first year PhD student in the Barger Lab was recently awarded a Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship. This fellowship provides up to $50,000 a year over three years, which will be used to further support her
  • Fantastic news. EBIO has received a 4th NSF Graduate Fellowship!Joseph R. Mihaljevic, currently at 91´ó»ĆŃĽ University, will be joining our graduate program and working in Piet Johnson’s lab. The title of his project is Effects of Metacommunity
  • CU’s Innovative Grant Program has awarded grants to Patrik Nosil, Barbara Demmig-Adams and Val McKenzieVal McKenzie's proposal, "Symbiotic microbial communities on amphibian skin and their role in disease resistance," was awarded  $42,824.
  • An incoming graduate student, Lisette Arellano, has been awarded an NSF graduate fellowship and an AGEP fellowship through CU! Lisette Arellano will be in Val McKenzie’s lab.Project title for NSF proposal: Land use and amphibian decline: A closer
  • Fantastic news! Noah Fierer has just been informed that his CAREER proposal has been recommended for funding.An integrated study of the effects of nutrient additions on grassland soil microbial communities"Amount = $655,617 over 5 years.Here is the
  • NSF has awarded a predoctoral fellowship to Matt Wilkins for his thesis research on sexual selection and incipient speciation in barn swallows. Matt leaves in a few days for Israel and Turkey, so try to congratulate him before he disappears. The
  • Here is her title and abstract:Diversity and disease: how do changes in pathogen communities influence disease risk for amphibians?Growing evidence suggests that diverse ecosystems provide a biological “buffer” from certain human and wildlife
  • Rob Guralnick has received an NSF Grant entitled Map of Life: An infrastructure for integrating global species distribution knowledge. This new collaborative research award is from NSF Advances in Biological Informatics and is split between Rob and
  • Noah Fierer and his colleagues (including Elizabeth Costello, previously in EBIO, now at Stanford) have a paper coming out in PNAS about the possibility of identifying individuals from the community of bacteria on their hands. This was in the
  • Clinton Francis has just heard that he has been awarded a two year postdoctoral fellowships at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) at Duke.Here are the title and the summary of his project:Acoustic signal space conservatism: a
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