Author Archives: Cassandra

Congrats to passing your A-exam, Jacob! We had a great celebration and another fabulous cork dent in the ceiling.

Scienceline has recently tweeted about one of their articles discussing our Viking mouse project. Check it out! Viking rodents left an impact on the environment still felt today. By @DyaniSabin. https://t.co/PyV9ice6tf — Scienceline (@scienceline) January 26, 2016

Ben Johnson is joining our lab for a PhD co-advised by Jeremy and Jed Sparks. It’s great to have you with us, Ben!  

Nick was awarded an NSF doctoral dissertation improvement grant for the project: A Hybrid Zone Lens on Rapid Speciation During Refugial Isolation in the Field Vole (Microtus agrestis). Amazing!  

Allan McDevitt has long been associated with the Searle lab (as a shrew man!) and he has become a Lecturer in Global Ecology and Conservation at the University of Salford, UK. Wishing you the best!

We’ll miss you, Bret, but many congratulations on your Assistant Fellowship at the University of Northern Arizona! We’ll come out to see you in Flagstaff!

We recently had a great departmental holiday party full of delicious food and challenging trivia. Happy Holidays from the lab!

The Koch et al. 2015 paper on human-mediated dispersal of cats in Australia has attracted attention on some online sites, including the Nature World News and the BMC Series Blog. Read all about it!

We’ve had more great visitors this fall, including: Paulo Alves (7 Nov – 12 Nov), a co-advisor with Jeremy for Soraia Barbosa from CIBIO in Portugal, working on the conservation genetics of small mammals including the Iberian rabbit Alexander Gomez Lepiz (20 … Continue reading →

During the month of September, we have had the pleasure of having three wonderful visitors to the lab from international institutions: Joana Pauperio, a PostDoc from CIBIO in Portugal, working on the phylogenetics of voles on the Iberian peninsula Pablo Colunga and … Continue reading →