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ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ’s Innovative Grant Program has awarded grants to Patrik Nosil, Barbara Demmig-Adams and Val McKenzieVal McKenzie's proposal, "Symbiotic microbial communities on amphibian skin and their role in disease resistance," was awarded  $42,824.

An incoming graduate student, Lisette Arellano, has been awarded an NSF graduate fellowship and an AGEP fellowship through ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ! Lisette Arellano will be in Val McKenzie’s lab.Project title for NSF proposal: Land use and amphibian decline: A closer

Fantastic news! Noah Fierer has just been informed that his CAREER proposal has been recommended for funding.An integrated study of the effects of nutrient additions on grassland soil microbial communities"Amount = $655,617 over 5 years.Here is the

NSF has awarded a predoctoral fellowship to Matt Wilkins for his thesis research on sexual selection and incipient speciation in barn swallows. Matt leaves in a few days for Israel and Turkey, so try to congratulate him before he disappears. The

Here is her title and abstract:Diversity and disease: how do changes in pathogen communities influence disease risk for amphibians?Growing evidence suggests that diverse ecosystems provide a biological “buffer” from certain human and wildlife

Rob Guralnick has received an NSF Grant entitled Map of Life: An infrastructure for integrating global species distribution knowledge. This new collaborative research award is from NSF Advances in Biological Informatics and is split between Rob and

Noah Fierer and his colleagues (including Elizabeth Costello, previously in EBIO, now at Stanford) have a paper coming out in PNAS about the possibility of identifying individuals from the community of bacteria on their hands. This was in the

Clinton Francis has just heard that he has been awarded a two year postdoctoral fellowships at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) at Duke.Here are the title and the summary of his project:Acoustic signal space conservatism: a

Becca Safran, Matt Wilkins, Joey Hubbard and Julie Marling have published a paper in PLOS One, describing the dynamic nature of carotenoid concentrations in barn swallows, and relationships with fitness. Here is a link to the paper:www.plosone.

Ned Friedman will deliver the Keynote Address for the Darwin Day celebration at the University of Tennessee. This is the most recent of his many activities (teaching and lecturing) expressing his abiding interest in pre-Darwinian evolutionary