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Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Parris Humphrey who was just awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the Division of Environmental Biology at NSF! The title of Parris' grant is "Dissecting microbial mediation of plant-herbivore interactions in the wild."
The lab received an NSF grant from the Division of Environmental Biology at NSF to study interactions between plants, phyllosphere microbes and insects in nature! This research will take place in the field at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory and in the laboratory at the University of Arizona, involving undergraduate researchers, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, a high school teacher and high school students.
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Parris Humphrey received a graduate research grant from the Center for Insect Science! Congratulations Parris
Noah returned from a fantastic trip to the University of Toronto, where he presented on the evolution of herbivory in insects.
Noah received a joint appointment in the Department of Entomology and School of Plant Sciences.
Dr. Anna Nelson Dittrich (PERT Postdoctoral Fellow), Dr. Paul Nabity (USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow) and Tim O'Connor (NSF GRF and Ph.D. student) arrive in Tucson! Our paper "Genes involved in the evolution of herbivory by a leaf-mining drosophilid fly" was accepted for publication at Genome Biology and Evolution! This was a multi-year, complex analysis pushed by UA Ph.D. student Andy Gloss and my colleague and postdoc Tim Sackton (Harvard), in collaboration with UA PERT postdoc Rick Lapoint, UA Ph.D. candidate Parris Humphrey and colleagues from Harvard University. Transcriptional profiling without a genome was not straightforward. But, the result is quite exciting and points to the recent evolution of mustard folivory in drosophilid flies and to a generalized mechanism for dealing with isothiocyanates (mustard oils) in the diet--stay tuned for the next, exciting piece of this puzzle!
Paul Nabity, a doctoral student advised by Evan DeLucia and May Berenbaum at the University of Illinois, receives a prestigious NIFA-funded postdoctoral fellowship from the USDA to study genomics of phylloxera-grapevine symbioses! We'll be celebrating with a glass of Arizona wine when Paul arrives.
Tim O'Connor lands a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Tim is currently in Dr. Jessica Green's lab at the University of Oregon, and has accepted an IGERT Fellowship in Comparative Genomics from the University of Arizona and will join the EEB Ph.D. program and our research group this August. Welcome Tim! Tim previously worked with Dr. Sydney Cameron at University of Illinois on social wasp evolution and species-level systematics, Dr. Corrie Moreau at the Field Museum of Natural History (on Neotropical termite social behavior and molecular ecology) and is interested in complex symbioses between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Ph.D. candidate Parris Humphrey receives a research fellowship from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory for summer 2012 research.
The lab received a Research and Exploration grant (Repeated Evolution of Herbivory in the Drosophila Radiation) from the National Geographic Society to study fern-feeding drosophilid flies in Hawaii and Australia-Papua New Guinea (thanks NGS!).
Ph.D. student Andy Gloss lands a travel award from the Center for Insect Science in 2011 to attend the Insect Molecular Science conference in Amsterdam. In 2012, Andy won a Galileo Circle fellowship from the College of Science! Andy also presented his poster to the Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago in March, 2012.
Ph.D. student Ben Goldman-Huertas lands a travel award from the Graduate College and the Center for Insect Science in 2011 to attend the Insect Molecular Science conference in Amsterdam, and in 2012 won a Galileo Circle fellowship from the College of Science.
Anna Nelson Dittrich (Texas A and M, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics) was awarded a awarded three-year NIH-funded University of Arizona Center for Insect Science PERT Postdoctoral Fellowships to study the molecular mechanisms underpinning mustard oil detoxification in flies using a comparative biochemical approach! Anna will be joining us in the summer of 2012.
University of Arizona sophomore student Martha Villalobos lands an NSF REU fellowship to work at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in 2012! Martha Villalobos was featured in the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory's Fall 2011 issue.
University of Arizona Honor's College student Lauren Johnston lands a UBRP scholarship for summer 2012 to study legume-desert mistletoe-bird interactions at Tumamoc Hill and wins a research fellowship for a related project from the Honors College.
Noah receives a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Neuroscience, at the University of Arizona.
Dr. Katharina Schramm and Dr. Daniel Giddings Vassao from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, visited the lab for a very productive and fun month of collaboration in late 2011. Their visit was part of an ongoing collaboration we have with Dr. Jonathan Gershenzon on mustard oil detoxification in flies. We conducted a feeding experiment using radiolabeled glucosinolates and the results are quite exciting--stayed tuned.
We received a grant from the Faculty Seed Grant Program through the Office of the Vice President for Research and the University of Arizona Foundation to study the molecular basis of mustard oil detoxification in the Drosophilidae and the impact of mustard oils on the aging process.
Story in The Scientist on how we stumbled on an interesting and useful plant-herbivore interaction system:
http://f1000scientist.com/article/display/57768/
Story in the UA News on plant-insect interaction research in the lab:
http://www.uanews.org/node/35612
News and Views piece by David Giron and Elisabeth Huguet (CNRS, Tours, France) in Molecular Ecology on first paper on the Scaptomyza-Arabidopsis system:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04902.x/full
Noah returned from a fantastic trip to the University of Toronto, where he presented on the evolution of herbivory in insects.
Noah received a joint appointment in the Department of Entomology and School of Plant Sciences.
Dr. Anna Nelson Dittrich (PERT Postdoctoral Fellow), Dr. Paul Nabity (USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow) and Tim O'Connor (NSF GRF and Ph.D. student) arrive in Tucson! Our paper "Genes involved in the evolution of herbivory by a leaf-mining drosophilid fly" was accepted for publication at Genome Biology and Evolution! This was a multi-year, complex analysis pushed by UA Ph.D. student Andy Gloss and my colleague and postdoc Tim Sackton (Harvard), in collaboration with UA PERT postdoc Rick Lapoint, UA Ph.D. candidate Parris Humphrey and colleagues from Harvard University. Transcriptional profiling without a genome was not straightforward. But, the result is quite exciting and points to the recent evolution of mustard folivory in drosophilid flies and to a generalized mechanism for dealing with isothiocyanates (mustard oils) in the diet--stay tuned for the next, exciting piece of this puzzle!
Paul Nabity, a doctoral student advised by Evan DeLucia and May Berenbaum at the University of Illinois, receives a prestigious NIFA-funded postdoctoral fellowship from the USDA to study genomics of phylloxera-grapevine symbioses! We'll be celebrating with a glass of Arizona wine when Paul arrives.
Tim O'Connor lands a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Tim is currently in Dr. Jessica Green's lab at the University of Oregon, and has accepted an IGERT Fellowship in Comparative Genomics from the University of Arizona and will join the EEB Ph.D. program and our research group this August. Welcome Tim! Tim previously worked with Dr. Sydney Cameron at University of Illinois on social wasp evolution and species-level systematics, Dr. Corrie Moreau at the Field Museum of Natural History (on Neotropical termite social behavior and molecular ecology) and is interested in complex symbioses between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Ph.D. candidate Parris Humphrey receives a research fellowship from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory for summer 2012 research.
The lab received a Research and Exploration grant (Repeated Evolution of Herbivory in the Drosophila Radiation) from the National Geographic Society to study fern-feeding drosophilid flies in Hawaii and Australia-Papua New Guinea (thanks NGS!).
Ph.D. student Andy Gloss lands a travel award from the Center for Insect Science in 2011 to attend the Insect Molecular Science conference in Amsterdam. In 2012, Andy won a Galileo Circle fellowship from the College of Science! Andy also presented his poster to the Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago in March, 2012.
Ph.D. student Ben Goldman-Huertas lands a travel award from the Graduate College and the Center for Insect Science in 2011 to attend the Insect Molecular Science conference in Amsterdam, and in 2012 won a Galileo Circle fellowship from the College of Science.
Anna Nelson Dittrich (Texas A and M, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics) was awarded a awarded three-year NIH-funded University of Arizona Center for Insect Science PERT Postdoctoral Fellowships to study the molecular mechanisms underpinning mustard oil detoxification in flies using a comparative biochemical approach! Anna will be joining us in the summer of 2012.
University of Arizona sophomore student Martha Villalobos lands an NSF REU fellowship to work at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in 2012! Martha Villalobos was featured in the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory's Fall 2011 issue.
University of Arizona Honor's College student Lauren Johnston lands a UBRP scholarship for summer 2012 to study legume-desert mistletoe-bird interactions at Tumamoc Hill and wins a research fellowship for a related project from the Honors College.
Noah receives a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Neuroscience, at the University of Arizona.
Dr. Katharina Schramm and Dr. Daniel Giddings Vassao from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, visited the lab for a very productive and fun month of collaboration in late 2011. Their visit was part of an ongoing collaboration we have with Dr. Jonathan Gershenzon on mustard oil detoxification in flies. We conducted a feeding experiment using radiolabeled glucosinolates and the results are quite exciting--stayed tuned.
We received a grant from the Faculty Seed Grant Program through the Office of the Vice President for Research and the University of Arizona Foundation to study the molecular basis of mustard oil detoxification in the Drosophilidae and the impact of mustard oils on the aging process.
Story in The Scientist on how we stumbled on an interesting and useful plant-herbivore interaction system:
http://f1000scientist.com/article/display/57768/
Story in the UA News on plant-insect interaction research in the lab:
http://www.uanews.org/node/35612
News and Views piece by David Giron and Elisabeth Huguet (CNRS, Tours, France) in Molecular Ecology on first paper on the Scaptomyza-Arabidopsis system:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04902.x/full
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