Preprint of NPS survey results now on BioRxiv!
The preprint of our MS detailing the main National Postdoc Survey results from 7,600+ U.S. postdoc respondents can now be found here on BioRxiv.
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Congratulations to graduating seniors Peyton Rather and Abby Herzog!
Westerman Lab Seniors Peyton Rather and Abby Herzog graduated Friday, May 11th 2018, after spending a year and a half studying Heliconius mating behavior and learning ability, and helping us set up our butterfly facility. Wishing them both much success in all their future endeavors!
Congratulations to postdoc Tim Sullivan on his new job at the Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute!
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!
Westerman Lab heads to the Arkansas Entomology Annual Meeting
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 …
Paper on signal weighting and genetics of male preference in Papilio polytes published in Behavioural Processes!
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
Congratulations to Tim on his paper examining the effects of salinity and temperature on disease in blue crabs!
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!
Paper on the evolution of mimicry in butterflies published in Nature Communications
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 …
Congratulations to Tim on his new paper on differential host mortality!
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 …
Graduate students Grace Hirzel and Matt Murphy join the Westerman Lab!
A warm welcome to Grace Hirzel and Matt Murphy, two first-year PhD students who joined the Westerman Lab this fall!
Article on climate change, sex, and community state changes published in Diversity and Distributions
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