Curator of Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum (@UMZMuseum) @umontana | mammals 🐀 | deserts 🏜️ | museums 🏛️ | #CollectionsAreEssential 🦉🐢🐿️🧬
Salt Lake City, UT
Joined June 2019
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Katrina Derieg retweeted
Fully funded PhD position on Hominin Life History Evolution available in my new lab @UZH_en
Please retweet!
Link: uzh-my.sharepoint.com/my?id=…
Trying to get off this icky app. Follow me on bluesky: bsky.app/profile/katderieg.b…
Katrina Derieg retweeted
Duplications of a detoxification gene(s), a good thing when it comes to a diet that includes toxic food items. Clues for new #pharmaceuticals and informing food sources for free-range livestock. @DearingLab
Research featured in science, Jan 9:
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Desert woodrats survive on a toxic diet of creosote seeds. @UUtah researchers uncover clues how the rodent rapidly evolved tolerance as the poisonous bush proliferated across the Southwest after the last Ice Age. attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff… @UofUBiology
Katrina Derieg retweeted
PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE #squirrel TREE OF LIFE:
Urocitellus idahoensis
Snake River Plains ground squirrel
ALT PHOTO by Alex Lamoreaux via iNaturalist
Katrina Derieg retweeted
Now that I have keys+office, I guess I can share that I have officially begun my role as Curator of Mammals @DenverMuseumNS. I am honored to join this institution and could not be more thrilled to be part of such an innovative and forward-thinking group of people (and specimens).
Katrina Derieg retweeted
Want to detect reticulate evolutionary signals in phylogenomic data? We have a new review on that -- gratefully co-authored with @jlsteenwyk and crew. Amazingly, this collaboration grew out of the @systbiol early career mentoring program!!
NEW Publication (& I'm last author!)😊
We discuss #phylogenomic methods🌲 for leveraging reticulate #evolution🧬 to elucidate the timing of evolutionary events⏱️, like disentangling #introgression from ILS
So happy to see my fantastic mentee @SaelinBjornson get this work out!
Katrina Derieg retweeted
One month left to apply to these positions! Others perks include: (1) faculty rental houses right next to the college; (2) post-tenure eligibility for a no-interest loan for housing, forgiven over time; (3) eligibility for sabbatical every 4th year; (4) PI-friendly overhead rates
🚨 We are searching for 2 Molecular/Cellular Biologists at @Occidental College! Any area but must be willing to teach Cell/Molec courses. Join a research-enthused & collegial (dare I say fun!) dept at an RUI in northeast L.A. w/ lots of perks. Ad is live: apply.interfolio.com/150510
Katrina Derieg retweeted
Exciting news! Toni Androski has joined us as the new Mammalogy collections manager! Welcome to the LSU MNS, Toni!
Katrina Derieg retweeted
We're looking for a new staff curator of ornithology at the @MVZUCB -- please RT
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…
Applications close on Wed 28 August.
Katrina Derieg retweeted
All the finalists’ presentations and research were fantastic. Never thought I would win this SSB premier award. I am truly honored. It really means a lot. I had to grow and sell catfish to get my first computer. It took a ton of them to get a $500 DIY-built PC in 2007. #Evol2024
Congratulations to Jerrica Jamison (U. Toronto) and Heru Handika (Louisiana State U.), winners of this year's SSB Ernst Mayr Award!
The Ernst Mayr Award is given to the presenter(s) of the outstanding student talk in the field of systematics at the annual meeting.
#Evol2024
Katrina Derieg retweeted
Dieta de ratones del género Phyllotis de distintas elevaciones del norte de Chile 🌋🐀 🧄
doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.23.6…
Spoiler: el animal de la cumbre del Llullaillaco quizás no pase el antidoping y estaría protegido de los vampiros.
#sigmodontinae
#metabarcoding
#metagenómica
Terrible video, but did anybody else know that turkey chicks just... Tumble down hills? They were so cute but so clumsy!
Katrina Derieg retweeted
Welcome Jonathan Nations, our new curator of mammals! Like many scientists, the path from curiosity to profession was a winding journey—one filled with marmots, voles, shrews and rats. 🐀
More about Jonathan:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/scienc…
ALT a smiling person in glasses is standing in a corridor of shelves holding shallow boxes of preserved mammal skulls
Katrina Derieg retweeted
Celebrating #IMD2024 doing museum stuff today: installing new material, cataloging a legacy series from a late ornithologist, double-checking subspecies IDs in woodcreepers/tanagers, and realizing of a new species for 🇨🇴 based a 2005 skin (wrong ID). Have a nice museum day y’all!
ALT @ornicn
ALT colección nacional de aves ICN
Love this idea. Let's take it a step farther and pick a color for de novo reference genomes from specimens. Purple?
Y'all sequencing genomes best be doing it from vouchers! 🧐
I love the days when I get to do good ol' fashioned #mammalogy. Double checking IDs on Peromyscus nasutus and P. boylii from Arizona; only two mis-IDs in the field which I think is pretty darn good considering how similar those mice are 🐭
Katrina Derieg retweeted
Researchers at #UofUHealth are mapping what areas in Utah harbor the Valley fever fungus. The fungal infection spreads through spores in the soil and dust, and could be more widespread than anyone thought. @katwalter7 @katderieg
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