The lab has received NSF funding for a project entitled “Intraspecific variation in drought responses of tropical tree seedlings – consequences for species distributions under climate change”. The work is a multidisciplinary study in collaboration with Drs. Liza Comita (Ohio State) and Bettina Engelbrecht (U. Bayeruth). The team will be looking at the degree to which populations of tropical trees are locally adapted to moisture conditions across a rainfall gradient in Panama. Our portion of the project will be looking at the degree to which populations are genetically structured using molecular markers. Opportunities exist for students and volunteers in the field and lab. Contact Andy for details.
Global Genome Initiative
April 16th, 2013Andy is attending in the Global Genome Initiative’s Capturing Genomes Workshop April 18 & 19 at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.
NSF/SENACYT DIMENSIONS OF BIODIVERSITY
April 5th, 2013Andy is off to Panama next week participate in a Dimensions of Biodiversity workshop. The goal is to create a number of collaborative research projects between US NSF and the Panamanian Science Foundation (SENACYT).
Special Issue of Journal of Biogeography: Phylogeography of Neotropical Trees
March 17th, 2013A special issue of the Phylogeography of Neotropical Trees has been published in the Journal of Biogeography. Thanks to Stephen Cavers and Chris Dick for their editorial efforts and compiling a really interesting group of papers.
Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Faculty
March 15th, 2013Andy has joined the faculty of the molecular and cellular biology graduate program at OSU. Prospective graduate students should check out the MCB website
Internship opportunities at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
February 24th, 2013Great opportunity for undergraduates and early career graduate students at Oregon State to do research at STRI in Panama. Contact Andy for more information.
Postdoctoral Position Available in Tropical Landscape Genomics
February 11th, 2013A postdoctoral position is available in the lab to study tropical plant landscape genomics. See Openings in the lab for more details and contact Andy directly about opportunities in the lab.
UPDATE: This position has now been filled.
New Publication: Genetic evidence of Quaternary demographic changes in four rain forest tree species sampled across the Isthmus of Panama
December 12th, 2012New publication on comparative genetic structure and demographic history in four Neotropical trees was recently published in the Journal of Biogeography by Andy, Ivania Ceron-Souza, Denise Hardesty, and Chris Dick. Online early version can be found here
New publication: Comparative population genetics of Neotropical mangroves
November 4th, 2012Check out the new publication in BMC Evolutionary Biology by Ivania Cerón-Souza, Biff Bermingham, Owen McMillian and Andy on spatial genetic structure in mangroves here. Great job Ivania!
