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. @MarkCUrban#NSFfunded
https://t.co/9KOnA77eff
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.
https://t.co/lk4JxK18ny
🌕!OVER THE MOON!🌕
Both incoming grad students in my lab @UConnEEB Sila Inanoglu (right) and Lorraine Pérez (left) received @NSF GRFP awards this year!🏅
I could not be more honored to be part of their journeys😭
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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 (@uconneeb) to discuss how the two emerging broods may interact, climate change threats to cicadas, & more. https://t.co/NSNuOjUWbd @CicadaScience
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: https://t.co/cMiDwira7i
Apply!
@UCONNRaMP 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.
https://t.co/dnneYjdO26
Meet our next RaMP mentor,🌟Yaowu Yuan🌟 Yaowu's lab studies flower evolution 🧬, diversification, and its impact on the production of diverse phenotypes using monkeyflowers🌺🌼 as a model system. @uconneeb 🧑🔬👩🔬
Learn more about the Yuan Lab 👉 https://t.co/8zmZXW3zx6
🌟Meet Elizabeth Jochusch 🌟 who is a RaMP mentor and plays a major role in the leadership team. Elizabeth's lab studies patterns of phenotypic variation in a diverse array of species including salamanders and treehoppers! 🦎
Jochusch Lab: https://t.co/KxbQ8IpmRb
Oaxaca has a huge diversity of one of the most widely known Agavoideae: Agave!
Today's featured plenary speaker is Karolina Heyduk (@kheyduk) from @UConnEEB, who will share her results on CAM evolution in the Agavoideae. Come join us next October at #SMBPlant2023
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