Dr. Tim Sullivan will be joining the Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute as a Fishery Research Scientist late spring 2018. Tim has been a wonderful lab member and colleague this past year, and will be missed. Best of luck on this new adventure!
The Westerman Lab had a strong showing at the Arkansas Entomology Society Annual Meeting Feb 17th at Hobbs State Park. MSc student Nikki Robertson gave an oral presentation on her research on larval imprinting; PhD students Matt Murphy and Grace Hirzel gave poster presentations on global and local patterns of insect visual ecology; and senior Read More …
Our paper in collaboration with the Kronforst Lab at UChicago on signal weighting, male preference, and male preference genetics in Papilio polytes was recently published in Behavioural Processes. Check out the link here
Postdoc Tim Sullivan’s paper on the effects of temperature and salinity on disease prevalence and intensity just came out in the Journal of Insect Pathology. Check it out here!
In collaboration with Drs Kronforst, Palmer, Zhang, and Nitzany from the University of Chicago, we studied the evolution of sex limited polymorphism and predator perception of the common Mormon butterfly, Papilio polytes. Check out Tracing the origin and evolution of supergene mimicry in butterflies, published today in Nature Communications. There is a nice write up Read More …
Postdoc Tim Sullivan just published a paper demonstrating that high temperatures increase the effect of disease on mortality in blue crabs. Check out this interesting paper examining the effect of climate change on the disease ecology of an economically important species! Differential host mortality explains the effect of high temperature on the prevalence of a Read More …
A warm welcome to Grace Hirzel and Matt Murphy, two first-year PhD students who joined the Westerman Lab this fall!
Elevated seasonal temperatures eliminate thermal barriers of reproduction of a dominant invasive species: A community state change for northern communities? Dijkstra, Westerman, and Harris (2017) Diversity and Distributions 23(10) 1182-1192 DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12604
Monday’s solar eclipse was 93% max eclipse in Fayetteville. After watching max coverage, we documented how the moon changed the light environment on campus as it moved across the sun. What a change!
A warm welcome to Dr. Tim Sullivan, a new postdoctoral fellow in the Westerman Lab!
