Kendra Zwonitzer

PhD Student at UT Austin

[Havird Lab @HavirdLab]

Our lab is in Hawaii again! This time our anchialine research program is geared towards shrimp genetics, gut microbiomes, microbial ecology, and eDNA. New grad students are seeing the habitats for the first time and we're having a blast with local collaborators. 🤙🦐

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

We’re proud to announce the winners of our inaugural CNS Mentoring Excellence Award, which honors outstanding mentorship of graduate students & postdoctoral researchers:
• Caroline Farrior
• Justin Havird
• Fatima Varner
@CarolineFarrior @HavirdLab @ProfFV

[NaturalSciences @ UT @TexasScience]

New research led by @UTAustin Ph.D. student @KendraZwonitzer solves a mystery as to why mitochondria in some plants evolve faster than others
🌱 @Texas_IB @HavirdLab @TexSciGradEd @UTGradSchool #PlantScience #UTAustin
https://t.co/pQV2BnvYVh

[Havird Lab @HavirdLab]

@KendraZwonitzer @pnas And the UT write-up:

https://t.co/IGOQMFn8qe

[Havird Lab @HavirdLab]

Anytime I talk about extreme rate variation in plant mtDNA evolution, people ask why some lineages evolve fast. @KendraZwonitzer took that personally. Her paper out today @PNAS offers some evidence for one possibility.

https://t.co/rhq2EFyeFO

[Kendra Zwonitzer @KendraZwonitzer]

@biodiversityge1 @PoisonEcology Look at his website. There are claims of being featured in news sites where he isn't featured.... I'm for grace but when he is pulling similar things in his new career already....

[Havird Lab @HavirdLab]

Went to Hualalai and Waikoloa today for 🦐 and microbes 🦠. Students had to feed a spotted eagle ray first...

[Kendra Zwonitzer @KendraZwonitzer]

It was really cool to be a part of this project!! Looooots of pipetting and cell counting 😅. @SurlyJill and @HofmannLab were amazing to work with and tackled some really complex questions.

[Hofmann Lab @HofmannLab]

Social life happens w/in groups: some animals respond to stimuli, others watch. Yet we rarely look at n>2 at a time. In a new paper, multi-talented @SurlyJill tackled territorial intrusion in a social group context! @SBNTweets @EcoEvoBevo @TexasScience 1/6 https://t.co/n7Bze5Ijtf

[Kendra Zwonitzer @KendraZwonitzer]

@BuMussels @TexasScience @DSHonors Congrats!!!

[SICB Division of Botany @SICB_DOB]

Lower organelle copy numbers may result in less-efficient double-stranded break repair in Silene (+others) due to a lack of templates. Grad @SICB_DOB research from @KendraMaclaine to check out on SICB+! #SICB2022 @SICB_PUI #iamabotanist https://t.co/OeoiD2oLJd

[Kendra Zwonitzer @KendraZwonitzer]

@HavirdLab Thanks! My pandemic quarantine project 😀

[Kendra Zwonitzer @KendraZwonitzer]

@BirdKeeperToby Don't worry! We always move around the species in our phylogenetic trees too 😆

[Kendra Zwonitzer @KendraZwonitzer]

@BirdKeeperToby Your tree of life poster is now in a real evolutionary biology lab 🧪

[Kendra Zwonitzer @KendraZwonitzer]

My first project with @HavirdLab! The preprint discusses mtDNA selection within and between Polg mice. Check it out!

[[email protected] @ICB_journal]

#SICB2021 Did you encounter any of these difficulties when making your talk?

@KendraMaclaine introduces the 5 struggles of making a @SICB_ virtual talk (great to keep in mind for future virtual conferences and with a bit of humor) :)👍

https://t.co/Sjl48iaesI

#biologists