Category Archives: postdocs

SRE Students Publish in Population Ecology

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Catherine Crawley

Celebration is in order for a group of students from the 2017 Summer Research Experiences (SRE) for Undergraduates Program whose research has been published this month in Population Ecology. The paper, “Space, density and extra‐pair matings have opposing impacts on … Continue reading →

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Team Science at NIMBioS Produces Top Paper

Posted on August 1, 2018 by Catherine Crawley

This is the story of how researchers from different corners of the scientific universe can come together to create new synthesis — it involves two former NIMBioS postdocs, a former sabbatical fellow and the special alchemy of a NIMBioS Working … Continue reading →

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Spanning the Globe: Fall Updates from Education & Outreach

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS Education & Outreach has been busy this fall with events that have spanned the globe. Associate Director Suzanne Lenhart presented at the SAMSA-Masamu Program STEM Education Workshop in Tanzania in November. Held at Arusha Technical College in Arusha, the … Continue reading →

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A Predator-Prey Model of Poverty Traps, New Paper from Ngonghala

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

Former NIMBioS postdoc Calistus Ngonghala has published a new paper that draws on economic, ecological and epidemiological models to examine the underlying drivers of rural poverty. “General ecological models for human subsistence, heath and poverty,” published this month in Nature … Continue reading →

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Grizzlies Feel the Heat

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

A short term visit to NIMBioS two years ago has resulted in a study showing the effect of climate change on the diets of grizzly bears in Yellowstone. Lead author Jack Hopkins, an assistant professor of wildlife biology at Unity … Continue reading →

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Science Pub for Postdoc Martin

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Catherine Crawley

Research on adaptation and climate change by Ryan Martin while a postdoc at NIMBioS appears this month in Science. “Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection” quantifies how climate variation influences selection. With plant and animal data from multiple terrestrial biomes, temperature explained … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Postdocs: Where Are They Now?

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Catherine Crawley

Where do NIMBioS postdoctoral fellows go upon completion of their fellowship? More than 85% of NIMBioS postdoctoral fellows accept faculty positions at the world’s top institutions (Top 500, Shanghai Rankings), a far higher success rate than most postdoctoral programs. Postdocs … 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 Hosts Field Trip for Rural Middle School Students

Posted on April 27, 2016 by admin

Nearly 50 sixth graders and their teachers from Greenback School visited NIMBioS last week for an exciting day of STEM and getting a taste of the college experience. The rural school located about 30 miles southeast of NIMBioS. Beginning with a mock “university … Continue reading →

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Postdoc Collaboration Yields Results

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Catherine Crawley

Congratulations to four former NIMBioS postdoctoral fellows whose collaboration while at NIMBioS has come to fruition in a paper published last week in Methods in Ecology and Evolution. In the paper, lead author Orou Gaoue, along with Calistus Ngonghala, Jiang Jiang … Continue reading →

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