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Spotlight: Heath Blackmon

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Heath Blackmon received his Ph.D. in 2015 from the University of Texas at Arlington where he studied the evolution of sex chromosomes and karyotypes in Coleoptera and other invertebrates. He then transitioned to a postdoc for two years at the University of Minnesota. In Minnesota, he worked on a variety of projects spanning theoretical population genetics and macroevolutionary methods.

His lab will focus on evolutionary genomics with a particular concentration on understanding the dynamics of sex chromosome evolution.  [Read more…]

Spotlight: Jessica Light

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Dr. Jessica Light is an Associate Professor in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, the Mammal Curator at the Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, and Communications Chair for EEB.

Dr. Light is a native Michigander and received her B.S. from University of Michigan. She then moved south and obtained her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University and completed a postdoctoral position at University of Florida.

Research in the Light lab is focused broadly in evolutionary biology with a focus on systematics, population genetics, and coevolutionary associations between distantly related organisms, particularly mammals and their parasites. [Read more…]

Spotlight: David Scott

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Welcome to EEB’s newest associate faculty member David Scott!

Dr. Scott is a Professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences. His research is the sociology of leisure with a focus on the human dimensions of wildlife.

Over the last 20 years he has studied diversity in styles of participation among birdwatchers, and factors that constrain participation in outdoor recreation activities, including fishing and wildlife watching.

Spotlight: Intrepid Scientists and Brave Daddies

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Dryer wouldn't work this morning.

Posted by Gabe Hamer on Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Intrepid scientists, brave daddies, and so-so appliance repairmen.

True to his calling, Dr. Gabe Hamer (ENTO) and his helpers investigate why the dryer wasn’t working. What did they discover?  Well, let’s just say the problem wasn’t lint in the air filter.

Spotlight: Jesse Meik

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Welcome to EEB’s new adjunct faculty member Jesse Meik!

Dr. Meik is an assistant professor of biology at Tarleton State University and studies ecology and comparative evolutionary biology. His major research interests include systematics, taxonomy, and biogeography of reptiles and amphibians, and the evolution of body size and sexual size dimorphism. He has worked extensively in Mexico, where he has conducted research on treefrogs, blunt-headed vine snakes, and island populations of rattlesnakes.

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