If you are interested in how species coexistence and community composition might be impacted by climate change, you might be interested in this new paper from Mary Van Dyke from her doctoral dissertation research at UCLA EEB. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congrats!

Kirk Lohmueller infers selection at short tandem repeats (microsat) in human pop. STR mutations convey greater fitness burden than SNVs. Deleterious de novo STR mutations enriched in #autism . Elegant & important work in collab w Melissa Gymrek lab
nature.com/articles/s4158…
#stuckonrepeat

Congratulations Morgan Tingley!

Congratulations Elsa Ordway!

Please consider joining us at UCLA!

What's a good way to teach math to students interested in biology and medicine? Most colleges have a 'calculus for life sciences' course, but these folks at UCLA have redesigned their course around dynamical systems and mathematical modeling. lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cb…

UCLA EEB faculty member Shane Campbell-Staton, Ph.D. talks about some of his exciting work! #rockstarscientist

Huge thanks to Morgan Tingley 🐦🏳️‍🌈 *mwtingley.bsky.social* and UCLA EEB's incredible Assistant Profs Nandita Garud, Colin T Kremer, Shane Campbell-Staton, Ph.D. & Felipe Zapata for hosting a fun and creative online holiday party (w/ scavenger hunt!). We are so lucky to have each of you in our department! You are the best of us.

Live: NewstalkFM: Team Marmot from UCLA EEB is with us discussing the survival lessons we can learn from the wild Science Foundation Ireland #NTFM #Believeinscience

UCLA grad student Watcharapong Hongjamrassilp has published some fascinating research about the parading shrimp of northeastern Thailand!

More on his work : winbiologist.wixsite.com/winbiologist UCLA EEB

Dylan Burge UCLA EEB examines conservation genomics and pollination biology of an endangered, edaphic-endemic, octoploid herb: El Dorado bedstraw

Read the full PeerJ Publishing article bit.ly/2IZFXlq
#Conservation #Biology #Ecology #Genomics #PlantScience

Congrats to Benjamin Ha of UCLA for your student presentation award in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology! #SACNAS2020

HUGE congratulations to lab member Aidan Howenstine who has been awarded an NSF GRFP! The title of Aidan's project is 'testing the role of gene network structure in the generation of phenotypic variation.' Woohoo! Aidan Howenstine UCLA EEB

Round #1 of #2020MMM ends with Jamie Lloyd-Smith + Van Valkenburgh labs leading the UCLA EEB pool (trailing only the child [age 10] of the dept chair). Said chair is also taking a moment to remember the bats, especially those destroyed by burning Condor vomit. #notcoolMMM SearsLab

UCLA College professor Jamie Lloyd-Smith found that the new coronavirus can live on surfaces for up to 2-3 days. These tips can help you keep them clean: ow.ly/HjQY50yNorM UCLA EEB #UCLACollege #novelcoronavirus

Important update: UCLA is suspending in-person classes, offering final exams remotely starting Wed 3/10 through 4/10.

Large conferences and UCLA Athletics guidelines also changing.
No confirmed UCLA cases of #coronavirus #COVID19 at this time.

Details: ucla.in/2TEqWs7

Chancellor just officially announced that UCLA is suspending in-person classes wherever possible and transitioning to online platforms through April 10. Winter finals will be offered remotely. Nonessential meetings of >100 people are also cancelled until April 10. UCLA EEB