Congratulations to all the NASA-MSU professional enhancement awardees, including my own student, Ashely! Thanks for supporting the next generations of landscape ecologists! IALE-NA Fun story - I also received this award when I was a graduate student, back in 2016! Time flies!

Lab members (including myself 😁) gave three presentations IALE-NA and received fantastic feedback! We feel encouraged to know that landscape ecologists are interested in the laboratory work we are doing with #celegans! Looking forward to share our first lab pub coming out soon!

Big congratulations to Owen for successfully defending his MS thesis today, excellent job! I feel extremely proud of him! Thanks for his committee members’ support and mentorship Michael Reichert Lu Zhai Also thanks @IntegrativeBIOL for all kinds of support

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Congratulations again to my recent graduated MS student, Owen, who received 2024 Honorary Graduate Commencement Marshal, check this nice article about his work at OSU @IntegrativeBIOL OKState College of Arts and Sciences news.okstate.edu/articles/arts-…

First graduate student of my lab! Could not be more proud of him!

Happy to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the fall! PhD positions are available. Please reach out if you're interested! Focusing on plant traits and performance across scales.

Feel free to say hi to Luca either in the conference room or in the pool! #ESA2024

We are welcoming virtual participants for the upcoming 5-day workshop at the Banff Research Station, “Dynamical Models Inspired by Biology” birs.ca/events/2024/5-… If you would like to attend the talks and participates virtually, please sign up: forms.gle/d1m4vNTrnZCE4m…

Both Jamaal and Owen got their paper accepted in Conservation Biology & Journal of Animal behavior. One on the effect of habitat fragmentation on species with different movement rates, another on Physiological and morphological traits affects range expansion of green tree frogs.

2012 workshop “everything disperses to Miami”, 2024 workshop “Dynamical Models arising in Biology”. I’m lucky to be part of these MathBio community! See you all next time!

Big congratulations to my second MS student, Jamaal, who successfully defended his thesis today! He has one publication Conservation Biology and another under review, and probably even a third manuscript on the way. I could not be more proud. Many thanks to collaborators and committees.

I have two positions one master and a PhD available to start in Spring 2026 and I am looking for highly motivated students passionate about physiology and immunology to join my lab at OSU (Oklahoma State University, Stillwater). DM for info at [email protected]

Check our new publication that showed only slow mover declined significantly in abundance as fragmentation increased, while fast mover changed little in abundance but they had the lowest abundance and growth rates. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

a research article on "disentangling the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on a highly diverse European wildlife" can be found below: buff.ly/4ISFhQY

🔬 🚨 New Research Highlight - Targeted ‘infectiosome’ for disease ecology: A new tool to answer old questions ➡️ buff.ly/5F2i8We