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Leo Malingati appears on an episode of Wildlife Warriors!

8/3/2022

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Collaborator and University of Wyoming PhD student, Leo Malingati, appears on an episode of the documentary series Wildlife Warriors and shares his experience studying the small mammals of Mpala Research Centre!

The conversation featuring our work to analyze small mammal diets -- poop science!

​Short video available on 
YouTube. Episode on Vimeo.
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New Research in Journal of Animal Ecology

6/9/2020

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Multiple dimensions of dietary diversity in large mammalian herbivores -- a new article from the lab -- was featured on the cover of the June issue of Journal of Animal Ecology.
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Grad student honors and awards

3/25/2020

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Honors and awards are rolling in...
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Congratulations to Bianca Brown for a 2020 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention!
Congratulations to Courtney Reed for a 2020 Animal Behavior Society Student Research Grant!
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Welcoming Chrishen Gomez

3/5/2020

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Chrishen Gomez is the recipient of a prestigious 2019 Merdeka Award Grant from Malaysia, which was established “to reward citizens and organizations who have made outstanding contributions in their respective fields to the people of Malaysia.” 

Chrishen joins the lab for three months as a Visiting Research Associate affiliated with EEB. During his visit, Chrishen will collaborate on DNA-based analyses of animal diets and genetics. Chrishen aims to apply these approaches and his affiliation with the Bornean Carnivore Program to establish a conservation genetics research program that focuses on the Sunda Clouded Leopard in Malaysia.

Check out Chrishen's Merdeka Award acceptance speech to learn about his amazing research and conservation efforts in Borneo!
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Recent papers highlighted for impact

12/6/2019

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A pair of recent papers from the lab were highlighted for the creative use of DNA metabarcoding to solve problems and ask new questions in fields that span ecology and biomedical science.

1. Our recent paper documenting variation in diet-microbiome linkages in African megafauna was highlighted on the cover of PNAS, Brown University's news, The Division of Biomedicine's 'Kudos' memo, and in the media. This open access paper reflects the results of a long-term collaboration with Rob Pringle from Princeton, Paul Musili from the National Museums of Kenya, a creative honors thesis by Julianna Hsing, and the microbiome-bioinformatics chops of current grad student Bianca Brown.

2. ​Our recent paper in mSystems creatively translated the DNA metabarcoding approaches that we've been using for wildlife research into a biomedical context to evaluate the plant component of human diets. Using DNA-based evidence of human diet composition could be highly complementary to the current standard of asking human subjects to maintain diet logs in research on human health and nutrition. The paper was highlighted as Editor's pick in the area of Clinical Science and Epidemiology by the journal, as well as in a thoughtful commentary by Frank Maixner, who further highlighted the connections between this work and the fields of archaeology and ancient DNA. The paper was co-led by Aspen Reese based on samples from a prior experimental study investigating the influences of diet interventions on human gut microbiomes, which was led by Lawrence David.
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New NSF Award

8/5/2019

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Testing predictions of the core-satellite and resource-breadth hypotheses in small mammal communities: field tests of a macroecological pattern. Together with collaborator Jake Goheen, the lab earns NSF support to study the relative influences of dietary generalism/specialism and dispersal limitations on the diversity of small mammal communities in Kenya. This research leverages Project BASEPAIR, the UHURU experiment, and our new DNA sequencing facility at Mpala Research Centre. Grant: 1930820.

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Colleague Dr. Jake Goheen from U. Wyoming is recruiting a grad student (MSc or PhD) to collaborate on our NSF-funded research on small mammal communities and food webs in Kenya. This is an outstanding new opportunity (application deadline: October 1, 2019); Dr. Goheen is a fantastic mentor. ​
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Welcomes, fieldwork, and research updates

10/7/2018

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As the fall semester gets into swing, the lab is having a lot of fun and making progress on research. Several milestones should not go unnoticed, and there are photos to boot. In no particular order:
  • A big WELCOME to the lab for PhD student Courtney Reed! Courtney joined us this summer, having recently completed a Masters at Harvard in Hopi Hoekstra's lab.
  • CONGRATULATIONS to PhD candidate Bianca Brown, who passed her qualifying exams and advanced to candidacy last week!
  • We had a wildly fun and successful field team representing our lab and others from Brown University in Kenya this summer, including Loren Albert (Voss postdoc fellow, Kellner lab), Patrick Freeman, Courtney Reed, Jesse Tarnas (Mustard lab), and Molly Magid (Voss undergrad fellow). 
  • Ashley Bang's summer research was featured on the NOAA website for Estuary Week in September. 
  • Brian Gill spent a month interfacing with Conservancy managers to address conservation challenges in Kenya, where he lost count of rhino sightings and yet still managed to submit an excellent manuscript for publication while on the road. 
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Bianca Brown wins IBES research & travel award

4/17/2018

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Congratulations to Bianca for her winning proposal to conduct exploratory research on the microbiome of the small mammals in Kenya. The competitive award, from the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), is offered to graduate students to pursue research, training, and travel abroad. Bianca will use the award to study how the microbiomes of a diverse guild of small mammal species differ in the presence or absence of large mammalian herbivores, and across a climatic gradient, at Mpala Research Centre.
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