Congratulations to the newest award recipients for 2011
NESCent is pleased to announce the following new awards:
Postdoctoral Fellows
Kate Hertweck (University of Missouri)
Comparative biology of transposable element proliferation
Mira Han (Indiana University-Bloomington)
Gene evolution in genomic context: Integrating genomic location into gene evolution models
Tami Cruickshank (University of Indiana)
Population genetics of maternal effects and their influence on molecular evolution
Robert Lanfear (Australian National University)
Synthesising methods and data to understand the mutational processes that shape genomes
Elizabeth Sbrocco (Boston University)
Exploring environmental correlates of range limits across a marine biodiveristy hotspot
Adam Smith (University of Texas, Austin)
Evaluating effect of temporal distribution of fossil calibrations on divergence analyses
Paul Harnik (Stanford University)
Ecological controls on evolutionary rates in marine systems
Catalysis Meetings
David Liberles (University of Wyoming)
Modeling protein structural and energetic constraints on sequence evolution
Andrew Groover (US Forest Service and University of California-Davis)
Evolutionary origins and development of woody plants
Jason Wolf (University of Bath, UK)
An integrative understanding of the evolution of genomic imprinting
Erin Crandall (University of California-Santa Cruz)
The molecular ecology and evolution of the Indo-Pacific: a Collaborative Research Network
Working Groups
Doris Bachtrog (University of California, Berkeley)
The tree of sex – a comprehensive synthesis of sex determination systems in eukaryotes
Jennifer Fewell (Arizona State University)
Large-scale demographic, network and behavioral trait analyses of sociality
Arlin Stoltzfus (Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology)
HIP: Hackathons, Interoperability, Phylogenies
Long-term Sabbatical Scholars
Christina Caruso (University of Guelph, Canada)
The evolutionary ecology of genetic conflict in plants
Dena Smith (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Evolution of the Coleoptera: A paleontological perspective
Michael Wade (Indiana University, Bloomington)
A critical synthesis of indirect genetic effects in adaptive evolution
Short-term Sabbatical Scholars
Douglas Soltis (University of Florida), Pamela Soltis (University of Florida
Reconstructing the Great Tree of Life
Rebecca Safran (University of Colorado)
An integrative evolutionary approach to examine sexual selection as a mechanism of speciation
Triangle Scholars
Tyler Curtain (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Darwin and Nietzsche: evolutionary thought within literary theory
Journalist-in-Residence
Molly Samuel (National Public Radio, KQED, freelance)
Shipwrecked on Dry Land: a documentary for public radio
MSI Faculty Travel Awards
Ross McCauley (Fort Lewis College)
Corey Welch (Haskell College/Univ. of Kansas)
Barbara Musolf (Clayton State University)
Stanley Rice (Southeastern Oklahoma State University)
For more information about these scholars and their research projects, please visit /science/awards.php.
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