Author Archives: Catherine Crawley

Text Publication and More for Former NIMBioS GRA

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Catherine Crawley

Congratulations to former NIMBioS graduate research assistant Austin Milt whose dissertation research recently appeared in a new major text for conservation planning. Conservation Planning: Informed Decisions for a Healthier Planet by Craig R. Groves and Edward T. Game is a new … Continue reading →

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Working Group Publishes Review in American Naturalist

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Catherine Crawley

The work of the NIMBioS Working Group on Computational Landscape Genomics has come to fruition with a synthesis review paper in The American Naturalist. “Finding the genomic basis of local adaptation: Pitfalls, practical solutions, and future directions” provides a critical … Continue reading →

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Special Collection Explores Motivation of Play

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Catherine Crawley

Research on what motivates play in mammals, both human and non-human, has been published in a special issue of the journal Behaviour. The nine papers in the special issue are products of the NIMBioS Working Group on Play, Evolution and Sociality. The … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Teaches the Teachers

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Catherine Crawley

Tennessee math teachers went back to the classroom this month to learn creative and engaging ways to connect mathematics with biology, led by the NIMBioS Education and Outreach team. NIMBioS Associate Director for Education and Outreach Suzanne Lenhart, Education and Outreach Coordinator Kelly … Continue reading →

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SRE Team Publishes in Frontiers in Microbiology

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Catherine Crawley

Congratulations to the three students who participated in the 2014 Summer Research Experiences project on mathematical modeling of granuloma formation in Johne’s disease. The team, along with its mentors, has published their results in Frontiers in Microbiology. “Quantifying limits on replication, … Continue reading →

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Working Group Publishes New Habitat Management Guide

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Catherine Crawley

A new management guide for selecting habitat- and patch-specific metrics in spatially-structured populations was published yesterday in Ecological Indicators. The paper is a result of efforts by the NIMBioS Working Group on Habitat for Migratory Species. The paper reviews the many … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Welcomes New Postdocs

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Catherine Crawley

Several new postdoctoral fellows will begin their research soon at NIMBioS. Joining in the summer are Sarah Flanagan, Nourridine Siewe, and Sergei Tarasov. Flanagan (Biology, Texas A&M Univ.) will develop new predictive approaches for next-generation sequencing population genomics studies. Siewe … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS, UT Welcome New Faculty

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS welcomes two new NIMBioS-affiliated assistant professors to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, beginning in January 2017. Tian Hong will join the Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology as assistant professor of computational biology. Hong’s research focuses on … Continue reading →

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Vazquez to Receive 2016 Blackwell-Tapia Prize

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Catherine Crawley

KNOXVILLE — The National Blackwell-Tapia Committee is pleased to announce that the 2016 Blackwell-Tapia Prize will be awarded to Mariel Vazquez, a professor in the departments of mathematics and of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of California, Davis. … Continue reading →

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Lenhart Receives Cox Professorship

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Catherine Crawley

Congratulations to NIMBioS Associate Director for Education and Outreach Suzanne Lenhart who has been named a James R. Cox Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A professor of mathematics, Lenhart has been affiliated with NIMBioS since its founding in … Continue reading →

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