Undergraduate researchers Randee Young and Chelsea Kliebert have joined the lab for the Spring of 2013. Welcome!

Click here to see a nice write-up about the lab's work on using phylogenetic approaches to track HIV transmission for forensic purposes.  A big thanks to Dawn Jenkins and Lauren Manuel in LSU's College of Science for putting the article together.

This fall is a time of rapid growth in the lab.  In the last two weeks, three new members have joined our group.  Vinson Doyle is a new postdoc who just finished his Ph.D. at CUNY/NY Botanical Garden.  John Andersen is a new Ph.D. student who recently finished his Master's at Texas A&M with Jessica Light.  Brad Nelson is a current Master's student in LSU's Dept. of Biological Sciences with a mixture of interests.  Last year, he worked on community ecology in Richard Stevens' lab.

During the Fall 2012 semester, I will be combining last semester's phylogenetics reading group with the departmental molecular evolution seminar (BIOL 7946).  We will meet on Tuesdays from 12-1 in LSB 248 (my lab).  Feel free to bring your lunch with you.  We will post papers and share comments using a Mendeley group.  If you do not already have a free Mendeley account, please sign up for one.

I am pleased to announce that Sarah Davis, a senior at LSU, will be joining the lab for the summer and fall of 2012.  Sarah was recently awarded a competitive Supervised Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) fellowship from the Louisiana Board of Regents.

I am pleased to announce that Kristen Jones, a freshman at LSU, will be joining the lab for the summer of 2012 to work on a computational biology research project.  Kristen was awarded a competitive HHMI summer undergraduate research fellowship.  Congratulations and welcome, Kristen!

If you are interested in working on phylogenetics, molecular evolution, or computational evolutionary biology generally, feel free to contact me.

I'm currently accepting applications for a postdoctoral researcher and graduate students.