Apr. 2017:
- New paper accepted in Journal of Heredity!
- Congrats to Elizabeth for winning the Grossfeld Award: best 2016 student/postdoc publication in the W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology!
Mar. 2017:
- New paper published in Environmental Conservation!
- See some media attention here, here, here, here.
Feb. 2017:
- Great time at the wonderful Gordon Conference on Speciation in Italy!
- New paper accepted in Environmental Conservation!
- The lab celebrates Darwin Day at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences with an excellent interactive exhibit!
- Brian gives a fun talk in the Daily Planet for Darwin Day at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences!
Jan. 2017:
- New paper accepted in British Journal of Criminology!
- August Langerhans wins Best in Show at 4th grade Science Fair! 2 years running...
Dec. 2016:
- New paper accepted in Evolutionary Ecology Research!
Oct. 2016:
- Kaj and Brian complete another successful field trip to Andros!
Sep. 2016:
- New paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B!
- New paper published in Animal Behaviour!
Aug. 2016:
- New paper accepted in Proceedings of the Royal Society B!
July 2016:
- Fantastic American Genetic Association meeting at Asilomar, CA!
- New paper accepted in Integrative and Comparative Biology!
- Great ICVM meeting and ecomorphology symposium in Wash D.C.!
June 2016:
- Successful transfer of live Bahamas mosquitofish from 8 blue holes to our new NCSU facilities!
- Another great field course on Andros completed!
- New paper accepted in Animal Behaviour!
- New paper published in BMC Evolutionary Biology!
- Some media attention for our new zebrafish paper! See some here, here, here, and here.
- New paper published in Animal Behaviour!
April 2016:
- Alison and Danielle present wonderful posters at the Keck Center Symposium!
- Renovations begin for new fish facility!
Mar. 2016:
- Justa successfully defended her dissertation!
- New paper accepted in Animal Behaviour!
- Paper published in Biodiversity and Conservation!
Feb. 2016:
- Brian interviewed for New Scientist magazine!
- Fabulous Darwin Day at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences!
- New paper accepted in Biodiversity and Conservation!
- Brian had a great time giving a Geometric Morphometric Workshop at East Carolina University!
Jan. 2016:
- August Langerhans wins Best in Show at 3rd grade Science Fair! Excellence starts early in this lab...
- Lab research featured in Science and Science News!
- Brian gives rowdy "debate" at the outstanding ASN meeting in Asilomar, California!
- Brian gives symposium talk and participates in panel at the wonderful SICB meeting in Portland!
Dec. 2015:
- The lab proudly welcomes new postdoctoral researcher Kaj Hulthén!
Nov. 2015:
- New paper out in Journal of Evolutionary Biology!
Oct. 2015:
- New paper out in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society!
- New paper out in Journal of Animal Ecology!
Sep. 2015:
- Now accepting applications for our summer course: Conservation Biology in The Bahamas!
Aug. 2015:
- Our new Evolution paper getting some media attention! See some here, here, here, here, and here.
- New paper accepted in Journal of Evolutionary Biology!
July 2015:
- New paper accepted in Journal of Animal Ecology!
- New paper accepted in Evolution!
June 2015:
- New paper accepted in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society!
- Another Successful Course Trip to Andros...now the real work for the students begins (data collection, analysis, writing...)!
May 2015:
- Another Field Course in the Bahamas Begins!
- Congrats to all the graduating seniors, and hello to summer school!
April 2015:
- Farewell to Elizabeth, off to South Korea!
- New paper accepted in Evolutionary Applications!
- Justa accomplished another successful field trip to Andros!
March 2015:
- Elizabeth successfully defended her PhD thesis! Congrats!
- Paper published in Behavioral Ecology!
- New paper in BJLS on bigmouth sleepers getting some media attention! See some stories here and here.
February 2015:
- Elizabeth ties the knot! (from "Hassell" to "Kern")
January 2015:
- Congrats to Justa for winning the Grossfeld Award: best 2014 student/postdoc publication in the W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology!
- New paper accepted in Ocean & Coastal Management!
November 2014:
- New paper accepted in Behavioral Ecology!
- New paper accepted in Ecology and Evolution!
- Justa's recent Evolutionary Applications paper getting some media attention! See some here, here, here, here, and here.
October 2014:
- New paper accepted in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society!
September 2014:
- New paper accepted in Wetlands Ecology and Management!
August 2014:
- Another semester begins... let's have a great Evolutionary Ecology course this fall!
- New paper accepted in Evolutionary Applications!
- New paper published in Fisheries Research!
- Another successful Bahamas field course comes to a conclusion. Way to go students!
June 2014:
- The lab contributes 5 presentations at Evolution 2014 (right here in Raleigh!), which was outstanding!
- Don't ever fly United! After paying $275 in baggage fees), they lost bags twice, for a total of 6 days of missing bags, with damaged contents and thawed samples to boot!
May 2014:
- Justa receives ASIH Raney Award ($908)!
- New paper accepted in Fisheries Research!
- Congrats to our 5 graduating undergrad researchers!
- Congrats and Good Luck to MS graduate Chris Anderson!
- New paper published in Proceedings B!
March 2014:
- New paper accepted in Proceedings B!
- Congrats to Chris Anderson in successfully defending his MS thesis!
- Rudy's paper in Ecology Letters highlighted in Evolutionary Applications!
- Brian gives Biology seminar at Lund University, Sweden!
February 2014:
- Justa receives NSF DDIG Award ($19,695)!
January 2014:
- Brian gives Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology seminar at the University of Colorado!
- See the NCSU story on Rudy's recent Ecology Letters paper!
December 2013:
- Rudy's paper featured on the cover of Ecology Letters!
November 2013:
- Nature highlights Rudy's Ecology Letters paper!
- Erik Archer joins the lab as the new lab manager!
- See the NCSU story on Ryan's recent Evolution paper on the evolution of male coloration!
October 2013:
- Justa's recent JEB paper getting some media attention! See some here, here, here, and here.
- Paper accepted at Ecology Letters!
September 2013:
- Writeup on Justa's recent paper in NewScientist and others, see here and here!
- New paper out in J. Evolutionary Biology!
August 2013:
- Paper accepted at Evolutionary Ecology!
- Paper accepted at Evolution!
July 2013:
- Paper accepted at Evolutionary Ecology Research!
- Bahamas field course goes splendidly! ...now time for students to write those research papers!
June 2013:
- Brian's talk at Evolution 2013 featured at ScienceNews!
- Chris, Elizabeth, and Brian gave great presentations at Evolution 2013 in Snowbird, Utah!
- Paper accepted at J. Evolutionary Biology!
- Semi-farewell to Justa, who's working mostly from Minnesota now!
May 2013:
- Congratulations to former postdoc Ryan Martin: accepted faculty job at Case Western Reserve University!
- Congratulations to Taylor Lansing and Patrick McCarthy: excellent undergrad research, no longer undergrads!
Apr. 2013:
- Justa Heinen-Kay is now an official PhD candidate!
- Brian gives Biology Dept. seminar at Virginia Commonwealth University!
- Visiting grad student from Univ. of Georgia!
- Caitlynn and Patrick present at the Undergrad Symposium!
Mar. 2013:
- Justa ties the Knot!
- Brian conducting field work on Andros!
- Visiting grad student from Texas State Univ.!
Feb. 2013:
- Justa gives great talk at the Keck Center Symposium!
- Windows on Evolution Art Exhibit, see #23 by Jennifer Landin!
- Elizabeth Hassell is now an official PhD candidate!
Jan. 2013:
- Grad student from Mexico visiting the lab for 2 months!
- New MS student Chris Anderson officially joins the lab!
- New paper out in Current Zoology!
Dec. 2012:
- New paper out in American Naturalist!
- Paper accepted at Evolutionary Ecology!
Nov. 2012:
- Paper accepted at Current Zoology!
Oct. 2012:
- Research featured in The Technician!
- We bid farewell and good luck to Rudy Riesch as he begins his new Postdoc with Patrik Nosil at the Univ. of Sheffield!
- Brian gives seminar at UNC-Asheville (opposite Mitt Romney)!
Sep. 2012:
- New Gambusia species in the News!
- See some stories here, here, here, and here.
- Hear Quirks & Quarks Interview.
- Rudy gives excellent seminars at ECU and NCSU!
- Brian gives a public talk for Periodic Tables at Broad Street Cafe in Durham!
- We bid farewell and good luck to Ryan Martin as he begins a Postdoc at NIMBioS!
Aug. 2012:
- Fall semester underway, and the beginning of a great Evolutionary Ecology course!
- Brian gives Biology departmental seminar
- Langerhans Lab research featured in NCSU magazine Perspectives!
- Elizabeth wrapping up a summer of NC stream fieldwork, and preparing for fall fieldwork!
July 2012:
- Justa, Ryan, and Brian survived a rough field trip in the Bahamas.
- Paper accepted at American Naturalist!
- Rudy, Ryan, Justa, and Brian present talks at Evolution 2012 in Ottawa!
June 2012:
- Elizabeth's new paper out in Ecology and Evolution!
- Description of new Gambusia species accepted at J. of Fish Biology!
- Elizabeth Hassell attends Animal Behavior meeting in Albuquerque, NM, and is otherwise out catching fish and collecting data in NC!
May 2012:
- Gearing up for summer research, with 6 undergrads on hand!
- Invited for full grant proposal at NSF!
- Tara Easter graduates from NCSU, heading to California!
- Caitlynn Filla receives research internship at the Duke Lemur Center!
- Rudy, Ryan, and Justa conduct field work in Florida!
Apr. 2012:
- Elizabeth Hassell wins best oral presentation by PhD student at NCSU Grad Symposium!
- Rudy Riesch lands Human Frontier Science Program postdoctoral fellowship.
- Ryan Martin lands National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) postdoctoral fellowship.
- Elizabeth Hassell receives (second) Honorable Mention recognition from NSF.
- Tara Easter lands internship with San Diego State.
- Taylor Lansing presents research poster at NCSU Undergraduate Research Symposium.
- Elizabeth Hassell and Justa Heinen present research talks at NCSU Biology-Genetics Graduate Symposium.
Mar. 2012:
- We have a new Lab Manager, Jennifer Warrillow!
Jan. 2012:
- Papers accepted in Aqua, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., and Bull. Fish Biol.!
Oct. 2011:
- Papers accepted in PLoS ONE and published in Zoology!
- Tara Easter and Taylor Lansing (undergrads) received HHMI Research Scholars Program awards!
Sep. 2011:
- 2 students from UNAM visiting the lab for 2 months!
- New papers accepted in Env. Biol. Fishes, Int. J. of Evol. Biol., Animal Biology, and in print in Evolution.
Aug. 2011:
- Bahamian Conservation Biology course successfully completed.
Aug. 2011:
- New Poeciliid book out! Check out Ch. 21!
Jun-Jul. 2011:
- Evolution meeting in Oklahoma a grand success, and Behavior meeting in Indiana great fun!
Apr. 2011:
- Two postdocs get 5 papers accepted in 1 week!
Mar. 2011:
- BBC News covers Rudy's recent study in killer whale communication.
Jan. 2011:
- Corwin Hess: New Lab Manager!
- Rudy gets the BES Triple Crown: 3 independent papers accepted in Behav. Ecol. & Sociobio. in 1 day!
Dec. 2010:
- New lab publications in ICB, J. Evol. Biol., and Ecology
