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  • Sample measurements of chickadee cap by UV Chroma, Reflectance, and Patch Size
    Katherine spoke at the REU meeting on her research into plumage variation between two social bird species. She has been busy mapping chickadee sightings and collecting data from captured birds at the Mountain Research Station, and is gearing up to
  • 2018 Colorado Field Ornithologists Convention
    Scott was the keynote speaker at the 2018 CFO convention and gave a talk on his recent work on chickadees, redpolls, and warblers titled, 鈥淚nsights into avian evolutionary ecology from genomes and citizens.鈥 Scott had a great time at the convention
  • The Auk 2018 Biogeographic origins of Darwin's finches (Thraupidae: Coerebinae)
    The latest edition of The Auk: Ornithological Advances will contain a paper by our very own Erik Funk, which is the product of his work as a Masters student at San Diego State University under the supervision of Dr. Kevin Burns.Erik reconstructed
  • The Great Taylor Lab Bakeoff 2018
    Dom鈥檚 Cheddar Herb Bread really took the cake at the first annual Great Taylor Lab Bakeoff. He properly proved both his bread and his baking skills. Good bake!The rest of the competition was as stiff as a good sourdough starter, and we applaud
  • Congratulations Katherine!
    Congrats to Katherine Feldmann, one of our undergraduate researchers, for fully funding her upcoming research with a UROP Individual Grant, an NSF funded REU, and an EBIO Hesse grant! She recently presented a poster on her plans for the summer at an
  • AOS Graduate Presentations
    Kathryn, Erik, and Angela all presented their ongoing research at the annual meeting of the American Ornithological Society in Tucson. Erik and Angela both presented posters on their plans for the upcoming field season and their broader thesis work
  • Angela wins best poster, Kathryn wins best talk!
    At the EBIO Spring Student Research Symposium, Angela was recognized with the Best Graduate Poster award (graphic to the right) and Kathryn with the Best Graduate 12-minute talk award. Congratulations to you both, and great work!
  • Awardees of CU鈥檚 2018 Research & Innovation Seed Grant
    Scott and Kathryn鈥檚 proposal, 鈥淏ig data for a big problem: understanding how urbanization alters contemporary evolution using high-throughput sequencing and high-resolution animal tracking,鈥 was fully funded.Congratulations to both him and Kathryn,
  • AOS Plenary Speaker
    Last week, the lab road tripped out to Tucson, Arizona for the 2018 meeting of the American Ornithological Society.As part of being recognized as the 2018 recipient of the Ned K. Johnson Young Investigator Award, Scott gave a plenary talk
  • Welcome Dom!
    We are excited to welcome to the lab a new postdoctoral researcher, Dominique Wagner! He completed his PhD at the University of Miami with a focus on variation in genomes and gene expression in Fundulus heteroclitus, and will continue to
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