LAB NEWS:
-Nine Co-PI's and collaborators visit North Carolina for the FLYTREE ATOL workshop.
Discussion of current research, project goals and products were featured at the workshop held at the Coweeta Hydrologic Lab in western North Carolina. Participants: Brian Wiegmann, David Yeates, Chris Thompson, Rudolf Meier, Greg Courtney, Marcus Freidrich, Jeff Skevington, Brad Sinclair, Gail Kampmeier, Thomas Pape, Christine Lambkin, Shelah Morita, Matt Bertone, Michelle Trautwein, Keith Bayless, Jason Caravas.
- We Welcome New Lab Members!
Masters Student Keith M. Bayless, comes to the Wiegmann lab as the first graduate student on the tabanid PEET project. He earned a B.S. in Entomology and Biology, with a concentration on genetics and development, from Cornell University, NY. His Honors thesis, advised by Torsten Dikow, is titled: Taxonomic revision of the genus Schildia Aldrich, 1923 (Diptera: Asilidae: Leptogastrinae) with descriptions of new extant and fossil species. He has a broad interest in flies and is a content contributor to the Diptera pages for the Tree of Life web project. Keith will be working on horse flies within the subfamily Tabaninae.
- ESA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis
A success! Lab members presented various topics of research. If you attended the meeting but missed the talks you can access the recorded presentations:
Matt Bertone wins Ph.D. display competition at the Southeastern Branch Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. To view the winning poster please click here.
Michelle Trautwein discussed a molecular phylogeny of the Holometabola based on nuclear protein encoding genes. [RECORDED]
Jungwook "Woogie" Kim presented the results of the first tier molecular data set for the Diptera Tree of Life Project (FLYTREE)
Brian Wiegmann presented new findings on empidid relationships resulting from the addition of more taxa and genes [RECORDED]
Shelah Morita presented a talk on her experiences studying long-tongued tabanids in South Africa at the North American Dipterist's Society symposium
Matt Bertone presented research on the relationships of the nematocerous fly families based on molecular and morphological data in the Student Competition for the President's Prize (Session A4), which garnered an honorable mention [RECORDED]
- The Evolutionary Biology of Flies (eds. D. Yeates & B. Wiegmann) now available through Columbia University Press [see publications for details]
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