Associate Prof at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, MSU. Thinking about evolution and conservation in small populations. she/her 🏳️‍🌈

Kalamazoo, MI
Joined May 2012
Excited to share this preprint with @tpLinderoth @popgenchen, Lauren Deaner, Raoul Boughton, and the late @reed_bowman: Translocations spur population growth but exacerbate inbreeding in an imperiled species biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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🟠 La @AlianzaJambato estuvo presente en el I Congreso Ecuatoriano de Herpetología, organizado por la @redherp_ec, del 27 al 29 de marzo de 2025, en la ciudad de Loja (Ecuador). Varios miembros y colaboradores de nuestra iniciativa asistieron al evento. 🐸🧡 #ICEH25 #ICEH2025
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#USFQ_Research Ranas arlequín 🐸🐸(Atelopus) Enorme colaboración liderada por #StafanLotters y #AmadeusPlewnia. Zootaxa: mapress.com/zt/article/view/…
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Postdoctoral position available on population and landscape genomics to inform host-pathogen co-evolution and conservation of wild 🦌and CWD as part of highly integrative, fun team!: drive.google.com/file/d/1qAy…. Please RT! @sse_evolution @molecology @keziamanlove @csubiology
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Beyond proud of @meaghansaurus for a spectacular defense of her PhD today! SLiM, snakes, genomics pedigrees, inbreeding depression -- some really fascinating and important work to come from her dissertation. Congratulations Meaghan! 🤩🥳🐍🐍🐍
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New DN Alert! Do you love to travel? Follow Isabela’s story as she uses a dataset from her advisor’s field research and pedigrees to ask whether Trinidad guppies that travel more have more offspring . #DNOTW datanuggets.org/guppies-on-t… @KelloggBioStn @SarahFitz @ilborges
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MSU’s @KelloggBioStn serves as a hub for groundbreaking research in ecology, evolution, agriculture and environmental sustainability that benefits the state and beyond. msutoday.msu.edu/news/2024/u…
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Our paper was selected as one of the Featured Papers in ⁦@evoecology⁩ and will be freely accesible until Nov. 30, 2024. Conspicuous and cryptic poison frogs are picky and prefer different meals in syntopy | Evolutionary Ecology link.springer.com/journal/10…
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CALLING ALL BIRD NERDS we are hiring Asst Prof Avian Ecology at UW Seattle! Please apply, or spread the word: ap.washington.edu/ahr/positi…
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We are excited to share the preprint of the main project I worked on during my PhD: understanding the color polymorphism of the strawberry 🍓 🐸 poison frog in Bocas del Toro, Panama biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… @ras_nielsen
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Bummed to miss #Evol2024 @Evol_mtg this year, but great talks (& exciting results 👀) will be presented by @jjudson28 @meaghansaurus @CinnamonMittan 🐟🐍🦋 👇👇
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Searching for a project manager for our NSF-funded mosquitofish mesocosm work testing 'adapt or die' responses to stress careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/51… Based at @ArchboldStation with opportunities for independent research and travel to @KelloggBioStn . Please spread the word!
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Two from @KelloggBioStn!
📣We're happy to announce the 2024 class of ESA Fellows and Early Career Fellows! Congratulations to these ecologists whose pioneering research, dedicated mentorship & tireless advocacy improve our science & society Read the full announcement: esa.org/blog/2024/04/30/ecol…
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Congrats to my PhD advisor Becky Fuller on being elected president of ASN! @darterfish24
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Congratulations to @Sprunger_PhD for her new grant to explore how regenerative ag practices enhance soil health & yield stability, evaluate the relationship between soil health & greenhouse gas emissions, & identify factors influencing farmer adoption of climate-smart practices!
The new Agricultural Climate Resiliency Program has funded four research projects. The initiative is a partnership among @michiganstateu, @MichDeptofAg and the Michigan Plant Coalition aimed at solving long-term climate- and water-related challenges. READ: canr.msu.edu/news/new-agricu…
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On a day like today, in 2016, David Jailaca re-encountered one of the most enigmatic little frogs of Ecuador, believed to be extinct for almost 30 years. Today we celebrate its rediscovery. Today is “Jambato Day.” 🐸🟠⚫
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Excited to share our pre-print for a shiny new Florida-Scrub Jay genome assembly and annotation! Long-read sequencing and a linkage map helped us add ~260 Mb of sequence and find a few more chromosomes in comparison to previous assemblies. @popgenchen ✨🧬 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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So proud of @CinnamonMittan and VERY excited to continue working with her and our collaborators on Mitchell's satyr butterfly conservation genomics! @nickmhaddad @mw_casc @KelloggBioStn @EEB_MSU
We are thrilled to announce the 2024 Class of @SmithFellows ! Congratulations to Reza Goljani Amirkhiz, Leo Gaskins, Gisselle Mejía, Cinnamon Mittan-Moreau, and Diego Ellis Soto! conbio.org/publications/scb-…
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Recruiting postdoc(s) for my lab at Michigan State next year! Come join us careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/51…
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