Climate change is happening worldwide, but the Arctic provides an unusually rich and diverse environment to study its effects. Enter: the Evolving Meta-Ecosystems (EvoME) Institute. Mark C. Urban #NSFfunded
today.uconn.edu/2024/05/arctic…

Professor of @UConnEEB Daniel Bolnick, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Statistics Ming-Hui Chen, and Professor of @UConnMath Guozhen Lu have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (@aaas). today.uconn.edu/2024/04/six-uc…

IN THE NEWS | The Norwalk Hour: Could climate change lead to one Connecticut coastal bird's extinction by 2050? Professor of @UConnEEB Chris Elphick explains why protecting the saltmarsh sparrow could help protect a critical ecosystem. thehour.com/news/article/c…

Please donate during #UConnGives to support undergraduate training in #biodiversity and #conservation genetics! UConn Research UConn CLAS UConn EEB Department UConn MCB givingday.uconn.edu/o/university-o…

Thanks to Andrius Dagilis and UConn EEB Department for a cheerful day of science talk (& huskies), despite the bonus snow…!

Congratulations to Cynthia Webster - leader of #EASEL , assembler of #butternuts (the walnut, not the cucurbit), Nextflow evangelist, and soon-to-be #pangenome extraordinaire U.S. National Science Foundation #GRFP recipient! #ProudPI UConn EEB Department 🔥🌳💻 🧬

Remember the 'anthropause' at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when human activity outdoors seemed to vanish? A new global study ft. @UConnEEB professor Erin Kuprewicz reveals how wildlife behavior changed during this time.
today.uconn.edu/2024/03/global…

Big congrats to Javi for being awarded an NSF GRFP UConn EEB Department 👏👏👏

🌕!OVER THE MOON!🌕

Both incoming grad students in my lab @UConnEEB Sila Inanoglu (right) and Lorraine Pérez (left) received U.S. National Science Foundation GRFP awards this year!🏅

I could not be more honored to be part of their journeys😭

🪰+MORE PARASITES!+🪰

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A HUGE congrats to the UConn RaMP Scholars who successfully submitted their first manuscript today describing their newly sequenced and assembled scorpion genome!!! 🥳🎉🦂 #postbac #nsf #Genomics

Reporters: book a 15-min Zoom interview with cicada expert Dr. Chris Simon (UConn EEB Department) to discuss how the two emerging broods may interact, climate change threats to cicadas, & more. bit.ly/3IfbpYv Chris Simon

UCONN Bioinformatics is offering virtual #RadSeq #ddRAD analysis training March 18th-21st - Join us online (real instructors) - Training in #Stacks , #Freebayes , Rstats - best practices in #variant detection and basic population assessments UConn Research
bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/

It's the final countdown! Today is the day 🎉 Be sure to get your UConn RaMP applications in TONIGHT by 11:59pm. Conduct independent research🥼, participate in professional development activities, attend scientific conferences and more!

RaMP Website: genome-postbac.biology.clas.uconn.edu

The #Biodiversity and #Conservation Genomics training program is accepting a new cohort of UConn undergraduates starting this Summer! Integrated research with UConnMCB UConn EEB Department - sequencing IUCN Red List species with Oxford Nanopore - apply by March 11th! UConnResearch UConnCLAS

Apply!
RaMP @ UConn is the yearlong Research Training Program for recent graduates.
Our program offers a unique blend of structured cohort-based learning and individualized research experiences.
Submission are due March 1st, 2024.
genome-postbac.biology.clas.uconn.edu

[ #Entomology ] 🦋 A review of Mexican Stamnodes (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) with the description of 16 new species ⤵️

✒️ Tanner Matson from Smithsonian NMNH & UConn EEB Department
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20…
#Lepidoptera #Geometridae #Cercocarpus #Lamiaceae #Butterflies #entomologist #newspecies

UCONN Bioinformatics is offering 2 virtual #bioinformatics training workshops in Jan! #Genome Assembly (Jan 8-11) and Genome Annotation (Jan 22-25). 1/2 days, real instructors, real data examples! Learn more & register here: bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/

Check out two amazing posters at SICB on Wednesday and Thursday!

Lorraine Perez 1/3 P1-88 🪰
Sila Inanoglu 1/4 P2-94 🐣

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#UConnMag | Yaowu Yuan, associate professor of UConn EEB Department, explains how a single gene change caused monkeyflowers to lose their yellow — and what it means for evolution of species. magazine.uconn.edu/2023/10/24/mel… magazine.uconn.edu/2023/10/24/mel…

ICYMI: Robin Chazdon, professor emeritus of UConn EEB Department, is among five UConn professors on Clarivate's list of the world’s most highly cited researchers. today.uconn.edu/2023/12/five-f… today.uconn.edu/2023/12/five-f…