NESCent supports sabbatical scholars, post-doctoral fellows, working groups and catalysis meetings. The abstract from each proposal can be found by clicking on the project title. For more information about when groups are meeting, see the Calendar.
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| NAME | YEAR AWARDED | PROJECT TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| Catalysis Meeting | ||
| Samantha Price (University of California-Davis) Graham Slater (UCLA) Lars Schmitz (Keck Graduate Institute (Claremont,CA)) |
2012 | Integrating approaches to macroevolution: combining fossils and phylogenies |
| Bette A Loiselle (University of Florida (Gainesville,FL)) Alice Boyle (University of British Columbia) Barney Schlinger (UCLA) Chris Balakrishnan (East Carolina University) Emily Duval (Florida State University) Kimberly S Bostwick (Cornell) Michael Braun (Smithsonian Institution) |
2012 | Genome-enabled Research on Manakins |
| Catherine Badgley (University of Michigan (Ann Arbor,MI)) Brett Riddle (University of Nevada-Las Vegas) |
2012 | Integrating historical biogeography and phylogeography with the fossil record and landscape history |
| Lee Cronk (Rutgers University (New Brunswick,NJ)) Beth Leech (Rutgers University) |
2012 | Synthesizing the Evolutionary and Social Science Approaches to Human Cooperation |
| Andrew Storfer (Washington State University) Mary Poss (Pennsylvania State University) Michael Antolin (Colorado State University) |
2012 | Developing a Roadmap for The Future of Landscape Genomics |
| Joan Roughgarden (University of Hawaii (Kaneohe,HI)) Camilla Hinde (Wageningen University) David Shuker (University of St. Andrews) Dustin Rubenstein (Columbia University) Ellen Ketterson (Indiana University) James Fearon (Stanford University) Jeremy Van Cleve (Santa Fe Institute) Louise Barrett (University of Lethbridge) Michael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania) Nathan Bailey (University of St. Andrews) Richard Prum (Yale University) Robert Warner (UC Santa Barbara) Shoshana Grossbard (San Diego State University) Simon Griffith (Macquarie University) Suzanne Alonzo (Yale University) Thierry Hoquet (Université de Paris Ouest) |
2012 | Sexual Selection Studies: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions |
| Course | ||
| Emily Lemmon (Florida State University (Tallahassee,FL)) | 2012 | Generation and Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing Data for Phylogenetics and Phylogeography |
| Graduate Fellow | ||
| Michael Landis (UC Berkeley (Berkeley,CA)) | 2013 | Bayesian model testing of Bergmann’s Rule on mammalian biogeography |
| Heath Blackmon (University of Texas-Arlington (Arlington,TX)) | 2013 | Comprehensive analysis of the rates and patterns of sex chromosome evolution in arthropods |
| Matthew Wilkins (University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder,CO)) | 2013 | Factors shaping acoustic signal evolution and implications for decision-making contexts |
| Journalist in Residence | ||
| Lynn L Fellman (Fellman Studio Inc.) | 2013 | I am a Multi. An iBook about human genetic ancestry. |
| Carrie Arnold (Freelance writer (Williamsburg, VA)) | 2013 | Our Microbial Minds: How Microbes Make Us Human |
| Long-term Sabbatical | ||
| Jeffrey Conner (Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University) | 2013 | Synthesizing data on natural selection and genetics across multiple scales |
| Uri Gophna (Tel Aviv University (ISRAEL)) | 2013 | Do microbial immune systems reduce lateral gene transfer in prokaryotic genomes? |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | ||
| Daniel Ksepka | 2012 | LARGE SCALE PATTERNS OF DISPARITY BETWEEN THE FOSSIL RECORD AND DIVERGENCE DATING ANALYSES |
| Fabricia Nascimento | 2012 | The evolutionary dynamics of endogenous retroviruses |
| Jonathan Lombard | 2012 | Early membrane cellular functions: new insights from phylogenetic comparisons |
| Short-term Visitor | ||
| Meghan Balk (University of New Mexico (Albuquerque,NM)) | 2013 | Predator-Prey Interactions: Drivers of Mammalian Body Size Evolution |
| Triangle Scholar | ||
| Tyler Curtain (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill,NC)) | 2011 | Darwin and Nietzsche: evolutionary thought within literary theory |
| Working Group | ||
| Tamra Mendelson (University of Maryland - Baltimore County) Mark Hauber (Hunter College, City University of New York) Rebecca Safran (University of Colorado Boulder) |
2012 | Toward a unified evolutionary theory of decision-making in animals |
| Jason Wolf (University of Bath) Hamish Spencer (University of Otago (New Zealand)) |
2012 | Testing theories for the evolution of genomic imprinting |
| Nina G Jablonski (Pennsylvania State University) Catherine Bliss (Brown University) Eric Plutzer (Pennsylvania State University) Mark Shriver (Pennsylvania State University) |
2012 | Genetics and Genealogy: Teaching Evolution and Human Diversity to Middle School Students |
| Alexie Papanicolaou (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Monica Munoz-Torres (Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History) Yannick Wurm (Queen Mary, University of London) |
2012 | Building non-model species genome curation communities |
