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Congratulations OEB Graduates! OEB 2016-2017 Newsletter Congratulations OEB Graduates! Pierre Baduel Leonora Bittleston John Boyle Glenna Clifton James Crall Kara Feilich Ambika Kamath Leandra King Joel Nitta Daniel Rice Allison Shultz Jingyi Yu NEWS AND NOTES Faculty News • E.O.Wilson, Professor Emeritus, • L. Mahadevan was elected Fellow of received the Humane Medal from the the Royal Society, April 2016 Notable Awards Humane Society of New York, Decem- • Gonzalo Giribet received the Guggen- • Hopi Hoekstra was elected to the ber 2016 heim Fellow Award, April 2016 American Academy of Arts and Sci- • Elena Kramer and Martin Nowak • Mansi Srivastava was named Searle ences, April 2017 were awarded the Fannie Cox Prize Scholar, April 2016 • E.O. Wilson, Professor Emeritus, was for Excellence in Science Teaching, • Bence Ölveczky received the Promis- awarded the 2017 Reed Environmental December 2016 ing Scientific Research Award from the Writing Award for his book, “Half- • Naomi Pierce was awarded the Har- Star Family Challenge, April 2016 Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life!” vard Global Institute (HGI) grant, • Richard Lewontin, Professor Emeri- October 2016 Research Highlights tus, received the Thomas Hunt Morgan • Hopi Hoekstra was elected to the Medal, March 2017 Board of Directors of the Genetics So- An international team of scientists led by • Pardis Sabeti was awarded the Richard ciety of America, September 2016 Mary Caswell Stoddard (former postdoc, Lounsbery Prize from the National • Hopi Hoekstra was elected to the Na- Edwards Lab) and L. Mahadevan have Academy of Sciences, January 2017 tional Academy of Sciences, May 2016 OEB 2016-2017 Newsletter News and Notes answered the question of why there is great is in collaboration with Catherine Dulac’s Pierce Lab), and Naomi Pierce published a diversity in egg shape and sizes. The answer lab in MCB. The study was covered by the study in the November 2016 issue of Fron- may also help explain how birds evolved. New York Times. tiers in Microbiology, showing that, unlike The groundbreaking study, published in the most herbivores, lycaenid butterflies do not June 2017 issue of Science, was chosen for Working with Emmanuel College scientists, rely on bacterial symbioses to mediate their the cover image. Martin Nowak and Ben Allen (researcher diet. in Nowak Lab) developed an algorithm to David Haig teamed with professors at the predict whether a social structure is likely to James Hanken was part of a team of sci- Department of Economics at the Univer- favor cooperation. Their findings, published entists that discovered three new speices of sity of Warwick to examine the effect of in the April 2017 issue of Nature, suggest minute salamanders in the Sierra Madre del learning a child’s gender on parents’ atti- strong pairwise relationships, rather than Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico. Until this discovery, tudes towards risky behaviors. The authors loose scattered networks, are more favor- only a single species had been reported gathered prenatal and post-birth data from able for cooperation. from the region. The three new salaman- the pediatric wards of hospitals in both the ders, in the genus Thorius, are the tiniest United Kingdom and Ukraine, allowing for L. Mahadevan used mathematical models tailed tetrapods known to science. The longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses to form a theory of how stems and shoots discovery was published in the November of those attitudes; a first for a study of this develop a sense of self and environment to 2016 issue of Peer Journal. kind. The study was presented at the 26th grow in the manner they do. The study is Society for Risk Analysis-E Conference, published in the March 2017 issue of Jour- Pardis Sabeti was part of two teams of June 2017. nal of Royal Society Interface. scientists that reported a genetic mutation that may have made Ebola more deadly by Thomas Powell (former PhD student, PhD student, Danny Haelewaters (Pfister improving the virus’s ability to enter human Moorcroft Lab), James Wheeler (former Lab) collaborated with Jasmin Casmacho cells. The study, in the November 2016 PhD student, Holbrook Lab) and Paul (PhD student, Hoekstra Lab) to screen issue of Cell, analyzed thousands of Ebola Moorcroft examined the unknown effects ectoparasitic bat flies from Hungary and genomes before discovering the deadly mu- of drought tolerance among mature Ama- Romania for the Presence of ectoparasitic tation. The exciting discovery was covered zon rainforest trees. The study, published Laboulbeniales fungi. The study, published in the New York Times, NBC News, Science in the May 2017 issue of Global Change in the February 2017 issue of Parasites & Magazine and The Atlantic. Biology, found the differences in xylem and Vectors, shows a complex network of bats, leaf hydraulic traits not only explain the bat flies and Laboulbeniales fungi. Research Associate, Ricardo Mallarino differences in drought tolerance among (Hoekstra Lab) and Hopi Hoekstra looked mature Amazon rainforest trees, but are Postdocs, Rosa Fernandez and Ana Lucia to the African striped mouse to investigate critical in determining the fate of the Tourinho (Giribet Lab), Prashant P. the periodic stripes pattern, which is com- Amazon rainforest if precipitation patterns Sharma (former PhD student, Giribet Lab) mon in mammals. Their findings, published change substantially. and Gonzalo Giribet used transcriptomics in the November 2016 issue of Nature, on the broadest taxonomic sampling to reveal the mechanisms that lead to the Pardis Sabeti and her team authored shed light on the harvestmen (Opiliones) evolution of these patterns. The study was one of three studies published in the May interrelationships. The study, published covered in BBC News, The Atlantic, Science 2017 issue of Nature on the evolution and in the February 2017 issue of Proceedings News and HHMI News. spread of the Zika virus. The Sabeti lab of the Royal Society B, also pieced together and two international teams of researchers an overview of the general biogeographic Gerard Talavera (postdoc, N. Pierce Lab) sequenced and studied the genomes of the patterns of the ancient arthropod group that discovered the mass migration and breeding Zika virus to trace its origin and spread dates back at least to the times of Pangea. of the painted lady butterfly (Vanessa car- across the Americas. Using a genetic clock dui) between Europe and central Africa. The and looking at DNA from samples from Heidi Fisher (former postdoc, Hoekstra study is published in the September 2016 people and mosquitoes, the three teams Lab), Emily Jacobs-Palmer (former PhD issue of Biological Jouranal of the Linnean determined the virus was spreading long student, Hoekstra Lab), Jean-Marc Las- Society. before the first cases were reported. The sance (postdoc, Hoekstra Lab) and Hopi study was covered by NBC News and Time. Hoekstra compared two closely related spe- cies, the deer mouse (peromyscus manicu- Student News Why are some mice and people monog- latus) and the oldfield mouse (P. polionotus) amous? Why are monogamous fathers and found the promiscuous deer mouse has Notable Awards better at parenting? In a study led by a gene that makes their sperm faster and Tauana Cunha (Giribet Lab) was awarded postdocs, Andrés Bendesky and Jean- more virile. The study is published in the the GSAS Merit Fellowship for her research Marc Lassance (Hoekstra Lab), and Hopi December 2016 issue of Nature Communi- proposal, “Integrative research in gastro- Hoekstra, the answer to the questions cations. pods: Phylogeny and shell shape evolution”, point to a genetic basis for parental care in May 2017 monogamous parents that can elvolve inde- Postdoc, Melissa Whitaker (N. Pierce Lab), pendently in males and females. The study, PhD student, Shayla Salzman (N. Pierce Min Ya (Kramer Lab) was selected as FAS published in the April 2017 issue of Nature, Lab), Jon Sanders (former PhD student, N. Featured Artist of the Month, April 2017 OEB 2016-2017 Newsletter News and Notes Min Ya (Kramer Lab) and Danny Haele- Thesis Defense • Christopher Tomkins-Tinch (Sabeti waters (Pfister Lab) were awarded the Les Congratulations to the 2017 PhD graduates Lab) Mehrhoff Botanical Research Fund, March successful defense and graduation! • Brianna Weir (Haig Lab) 2017 • Pierre Baduel (Bomblies Lab), “Pat- • Denise Yoon (de Bivort Lab) terns of genome evolution and habitat Several OEB PhD students received the adaptation in tetraploid Arabidopsis Undergraduate News 2016 Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction arenosa.” • Julius Bright Ross awarded the 2017 in Teaching. Fall 2016 Recipients: John • Leonora Bittleston (N. Pierce Lab), Marshall Scholarship Boyle (OEB 155R), Liming Cai (OEB 59), “Convergent interactions among pitch- • Annie Opel won the 2017 AAAS Stu- Samuel Church (OEB 115), Benjamin er plant microcosms in North America dent Poster Competition Goulet (OEB 50), Philip Grayson (OEB and Southeast Asia.” • Ezekiel Benshirim awarded the 119th 125), Danny Haelewaters (OEB 54), Am- • John Boyle (N. Pierce Lab),“Causes Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize bika Kamath (OEB 210), Clara Levy (OEB and consequences of coexistence in 10), Min Ya (OEB 50), and Kira Treibergs the Vachellia drepanolobium ant-plant (OEB 10). Spring 2016 Recipients: Glenna mutualism.” Event Highlights Clifton (OEB 399), Mark Cornwall (OEB • Glenna Clifton (Biewener Lab), The OEB Seminar series had a successful 57), Tauana Cunha (OEB 51), Miriam “Anatomical patterns, kinematics, and 2016-2017 season with an incredible lineup Johnston (OEB 52), Ambika
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