Author: nlee
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Spotlight: Ian Ausprey
Ian Ausprey joined the EEB program in January 2025 and is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University in the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology. His research spans community ecology, landscape ecology, functional ecology, population biology, and biodiversity conservation, with a focus on birds as model organisms. He investigates critical topics such as how agricultural…
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Spotlight: EEB at STEGG
The TAMU Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Program made a huge impact at this year’s Southeast Texas Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics (STEGG) conference! Held on May 30 at Texas A&M. Organized by our own Dr. Heath Blackmon, STEGG brought together more than 130 evolutionary biologists from across the region and EEB was front and center.…
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Spotlight: Erick Motta
Dr. Erick Motta joined the EEB program Spring 2025. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology. His research work is primarily centered in the field of microbial ecology, in which he investigates organismal interactions in host-associated microbial communities and how environmental stressors play a role in such interactions. Dr. Motta currently uses the…
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Spotlight: Tabitha Olsen
Tabitha Olsen (Butler lab) had her work featured in the U.S. Geological Survey’s Notes from the Field series! Check out “What’s on a sparrow’s dinner menu” to learn more about sparrows and the importance of bird banding.”
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Spotlight: Oluwaseun Ajileye
Oluwaseun Ajileye (Light lab) has published the first publication from his dissertation research! Ajileye, O.D.*, G.G. Verocai, and J.E. Light. A review of filarial nematodes parasitizing tick vectors: unraveling global patterns in species diversity, host associations, and interactions with tick-borne pathogens. Parasites & Vectors 18: 50 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-025-06690-6 See also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-025-06690-6 Congratulations Oluwaseun!
