My paper on toxin-resistance evolution in garter snakes with Butch Brodie was published in Molecular Biology and Evolution. Thanks to help from VT libraries, we were able to publish this Open Access. The paper was also honored as a “Fast Track” article by the editors of MBE. In this paper, we show that garter snakes, which have […]
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Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium
Undergraduate researcher Thomas Wood has been working in the lab all summer as a SURF fellow. Today he’s presenting a poster describing his work at the VT Summer Research Symposium.
Evolution meetings in Raleigh, NC
Tamara, Eric, and I all presented posters at Evolution 2014 in Raleigh, NC. Both Tamara’s and Eric’s posters included contributions from undergraduate co-authors Prabh Dhillon, Anastasia Arkhipova, Chris Noble-Molnar, Andy Schurtz, and Thomas Wood. These posters contained some early data obtained our lizard colony. My poster was based on some prelimary analyses of voltage-gated sodium channels in […]
Rosemary Grant Award
Tamara was awarded a Rosemary Grant Graduate Student Research Award fro the Society for the Study of Evolution to fund the initial stages of her dissertation research. Congrats!
Lizard collecting on San Salvador
Graduate student Tamara Fetters, VT colleague Ignacio Moore, and I have just returned from a collecting trip to Gerace Research Centre in San Salvador, The Bahamas. The lizards we collected will allow us to begin work on the VT half of a long-term collaborative project we are working on with Bob Cox at UVA. We collected […]
GRFP award for Tamara!
Tamara was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! The competition for this award is intense, so this represents a great honor for Tamara and for the lab. The GRFP will fund three years of Tamara’s Ph.D. program and will allow her more time to focus on her dissertation research. Congratulations!
Hamilton’s rule and quantitative genetics
My paper on Hamilton’s Rule with Jason Wolf, Butch Brodie, and Allen Moore was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B as part of a special issue on inclusive fitness. We review several different ways that Hamilton’s rule, which predicts whether altruism should evolve, has been incorporated into the standard quantitative genetic model of […]
Maternal effects in Evolution
My paper on maternal effects with Laura Galloway was just published in Evolution. We compared the fit of multiple quantitative genetic models of maternal effects to data from a greenhouse selection experiment in Campanulastrum americanum. We showed that these models differ in subtle ways and that the best predictions are made from a fairly complex model […]
IGC fellowship for Tamara Fetters
Tamara was awarded a one-year fellowship from the Interfaces of Global Change program, which is designed to explore the interfaces of science and policy.
New lab manager, Eric Wice
Eric Wice, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia and an alumnus of both the Brodie Lab and the Cox Lab, has joined the McGlothlin Lab as lab manager and chief lizard wrangler. Welcome!