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Summer research ramp up and welcomes

6/10/2021

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While everyone in the lab continues to be impacted by the global pandemic, we also pause to appreciate our increased opportunity to begin resuming research and to extend our welcome to the new lab members who are joining us this summer.
  • Welcome to Ezequiel Vanderhoeven, D.V.M., Ph.D., and congratulations on your CONICET international postdoctoral fellowship!
  • Welcome and congratulations to Fabiola Meyer-Garza who has earned a Voss Undergraduate Research Fellowship to conduct a thesis in the lab!
  • Welcome to Caroline Dressler, an undergraduate researcher and musician who plans to do senior research in the lab!
  • ​Welcome to Andy Luo, a rising junior who is starting research on lizard thermal ecology in the lab!
  • Welcome to Camela Moore and congratulations on your award from the Leadership Alliance!
  • Welcome to Logan Torres from the Brown Presidential Scholars Program!
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Congratulations all around!

5/14/2020

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The lab has much to celebrate as we close out another semester, even despite the disruptions of COVID-19.
  • Congratulations to Patrick Freeman for earning a Masters based on a thesis comparing ecological hypotheses about the distributions of plants and large herbivores in Kenya!
  • Congratulations to incoming Voss postdoc Colin Donihue for publishing several high-impact papers, including one featured on the cover of PNAS (generating a buzz in the NY Times and elsewhere) and one in Nature Ecology and Evolution!
  • Congratulations to Courtney Reed for winning a grant from the American Philosophical Society’s Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration & Field Research!
  • Congratulations to seniors graduating with amazing research accomplishments: Amanda Lyons (Honors), Catherine Porter, and Violet Sackett!
  • Congratulations to Amanda Lyons '20 for admission into Brown's 5th year Masters program to conduct research on diamondback terrapins in collaboration with governmental and non-profit partners, and with generous support from a Diamondback Terrapin Working Group Grant!
  • Congratulations to Cate Porter '20 for admission into the University of Virginia's Environmental Science graduate program!
  • Congratulations to Jen Guyton (Princeton PhD) for earning the cover of Nature Ecology and Evolution based on our work to understand and restore the ecosystems of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique!
  • Congratulations to Ashley Bang '19 on her upcoming position in Lian Pin Koh's lab at the National University of Singapore!
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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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Visitors from the Rhode Island School of Design

2/4/2020

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Bianca Brown gives a lab tour to students from RISD, January 2020.
Bianca Brown -- Ph.D. candidate, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, microbiomics extraordinaire -- recently invited 22 undergraduate students from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to tour the lab. Bianca gave a lecture on strategies for using art to communicate science. The group discussed several ongoing projects in the Kartzinel Lab as examples of how art can be used to better aid the public's understanding and engagement in science. Bianca led students on lab tour where they learned about how we get DNA out of animal dung and blood samples in the course of our work. The Brown-RISD connection is a unique and special part of living and working in Providence. 
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Diamondback Terrapin Working Group Meeting

10/28/2019

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Amanda Lyons presented a poster at the recent 2019 Diamondback Terrapin Working Group meeting in Wilmington, NC. The presentation shared information about Amanda's innovative turtle-trapping methods, the benefits of capture-mark-release studies for understanding the ecology of the species, and new work in the Kartzinel Lab to apply molecular tools to our understanding of terrapin biology. The presentation was co-authored by grad-student mentor Bianca Brown, and earned a prize as one of the best student presentations--a testament to the impacts of our conservation research and Voss Undergraduate Fellows programs. Congratulations to Amanda and Bianca for this excellent contribution!
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2019 Diamondback Terrapin Conservation Genetics Field Season

4/16/2019

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Last week, Amanda Lyons (left) and Bianca Brown (right) braved the rainy weather to kick off our terrapin field season. Diamondback terrapins are the only "critically imperiled" reptile in Rhode Island, and a major conservation priority for the state. Amanda and Bianca were joined by our collaborators from the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management and The Roger Williams Park Zoo. Our research goal is to understand how genetically interconnected are the remaining few terrapin populations in the state, and relatedness to populations from neighboring states. This research is supported in part by a 2019 Voss Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Environmental Science and Communication to Amanda Lyons. Congratulations Amanda, and thanks IBES for supporting this research. 
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If only the weather had been better for setting up the study sites!
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Patrick Freeman presents on collaboration with the National Park Service

4/15/2019

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Patrick Freeman presented a poster at the IBES Blue Sky that focuses on our ongoing collaboration with Yellowstone National Park. We are working with the National Park Service to elucidate changes in the diets of GPS-collared large-mammal species over the course of their annual migrations. The research that Patrick presented was the culmination of our semester-long research project in BIOL 1515/2015 last fall (he was an amazing TA!). Class participants received dietary samples from the park, extracted DNA from them, performed DNA metabarcoding to analyze animal diets, and prepared reports for the patterns at the park. In this CURE-formatted course, students have a real-world conservation impact. Thanks, Patrick, for your leadership on this project and for presenting your work. This class will be even more exciting and impactful when we offer it again in 2020, thanks to support from HHMI and The Sheridan Center for Teaching & Learning. 
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Courtney Reed wins big: IBES Research Grant AND Flash Talk

4/12/2019

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Congratulations to Courtney Reed for winning big -- two awards in one week! Courtney won first place in the flash talk competition at the IBES Blue Sky event. She also won an IBES Graduate Student Research Training and Travel Award. These awards highlight he importance of Courtney's research on how defaunation impacts ecosystems in Kenya. Thanks to IBES for supporting our work and helping amplify our research -- and way to go Courtney! 

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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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Molly Magid Wins Voss Undergrad Research Fellowship

3/12/2018

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Congratulations to Molly Magid for her Voss Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Environmental Science and Communication! This prestigious award will support Molly's amazing independent study and honors research, including summer fieldwork opportunities in Kenya.

Molly's research is at the nexus of cutting-edge molecular ecology and good old-fashioned fieldwork in conservation biology: using fly-derived DNA to help characterize vertebrate communities in diverse habitats. Basically, the flies find evidence of what vertebrates occur in local environments -- by sucking blood, eating carrion, ovipositing on feces, etc. -- and then provide us the genetic evidence. This evidence will enable our conservation partners to account for rare and cryptic animals in their activities.

This project is in collaboration with colleagues at Biodiversity Initiative (Equatorial Guinea) and Mpala Research Centre (Kenya). 
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