Post Lab research on eco-evo effects highlighted in Science.

Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies External Advisory Board Chair, Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, has received another distinguished award celebrating his extraordinary contributions to our planet. Read more

Third Member of Yale Class of 2012 wins Gates Scholarship Chidiebere (Chidi) Akusobi. CONGRATULATIONS, Chidi! Read more...

NEW GRAD COURSE

Course Number: E&EB718
CourseTitle: Using Genomic Methods to Solve Evolutionary Problems

Instructors: Nancy Moran and Howard Ochman

Course Description. Modern technologies that provide in-depth information about genomes, transcriptomes, and proteomes have revolutionized how we can investigate evolutionary processes. This course will examine some of the major questions in evolutionary biology and show how the incorporation of genomic approaches has helped to resolve several longstanding issues in evolutionary biology and to merge evolutionary biology with other areas of biology. The course will reflect student interests, but likely evolutionary questions will involve the roles of natural selection, genetic drift and mutation in shaping organismal traits, species formation, coevolution of lineages, and phylogenomics.

The class will meet on Tuesday afternoons (tentatively 4-5:30 pm). The first class meets on September 4, 2012.

Matthew Walsh, John DeLong, Torrance Hanley and David Post "A cascade of evolutionary change alters consumer-resource dynamics and ecosystem function" published online 23 May in Proc. R. Soc. B. Read more at Yale News.

The undergraduate thesis work of 2010 Belknap prize-winner Daniel Rice, "A test for selection employing quantitative trait locus and mutation accumulation data", was published in the April 2012 issue of the journal Genetics.

Matt Walsh (Post lab, YIBS Donnelley Fellow) receives the 2012 Jasper Loftus-Hills Young Investigator Award

Thomas Near "Fish of Antarctica threatened by climate change" published in Feb. 13 PNAS. Read more at Yale News.

Tortoise species thought to be extinct still lives, genetic analysis reveals

Wagner lab published Nature Paper.

A recent paper by Francesc Lopez-Giraldez and Jeffrey Townsend, PhyDesign: an online application for profiling phylogenetic informativeness, has earned the designation "Highly Accessed" in less than a month after its publication in BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Suzanne Alonzo is recipient of 2011 Yale University Postdoctoral Mentoring Prize!

Announcement of Carl Zimmer's Science Writing Workshop

The Townsend Lab's recent paper, Multi-targeted priming for genome-wide gene expression assays, has earned the designation "Highly Accessed" in less than a month after its publication in BMC Genomics.