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Welcome to our incoming PhD students Sara , Nikki , and Ajay , as well as our incoming NSF REPS Fellow Abi . Check out their profiles to learn more about our newest lab members!

It’s official! Scott is now an Associate Professor!

Some lab members recently returned from the first in person scientific meetings since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Angela and Scott traveled to Cleveland for the Evolution meeting where Angela gave a talk on her dissertation work and Scott helped with the organizing and running of the inaugural Tri-Society...

At the 2019 Evolution meeting in Rhode Island Scott participated in a storytelling event called Outside the Distribution. Recently Story Collider featured Scott’s story about belonging and navigating being a gay scientist on their blog. You can listen to Scott’s story here: https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2022/5/11/becoming-stories-about-growing-into-yourself

Congratulations to Maria who will be starting a new position as an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst this fall!

The 2022 field season of the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Chickadee Study has wrapped. Mia banded and bled the final mountain chickadees of the season during an outreach event at the MRS with folks from the Denver Field Ornithologists on July 10th. This field season was conducted by Mia, Will, Nikki, Olivia, Bernie,...

Congrats to Olivia for being awarded a summer UROP grant! Olivia's project project aims to further our understanding of birdsong evolution by exploring whether our local canyons act as isolating barriers that facilitate song divergence between black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) populations. She will determine (1) whether canyon-isolated populations have divergent...

Congrats to Kathryn and her co-authors for their recent pulbication in Ecology and Evolution "Sympatry leads to reduced body condition in chickadees that occasionally hybridize" . Kathryn reports an interesting pattern of reduced body condition in black-capped and mountain chickadees that co-occur and discusses potential drivers (e.g., crytpic hybridization, range...

Congrats to Erik who recently found out that his paper " A supergene underlies linked variation in color and morphology in a Holarctic songbird" was one of the most read Nature Communications articles in life and biological sciences in 2021! Erik's paper achieved this status despite being published in November of 2021.

The Taylor Lab is in an exciting period of flux with many folks completing their degrees and positions and heading in new directions (they're fledging, if you will...!). Here is a quick update of recent events for some Taylor Lab members! Dr. Kathryn Grabenstein: Defended her PhD on March 29th...