Irschick lab news (this module started in 2007)
April 2, 2008: Ph.D. student Justin Henningsen was just awarded a prestigious NSF Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for 3 years. Justin will use these funds to fuel his research on sexual signals in green anole lizards and links to performance and reproductive success. Congratulations Justin!
March 24, 2008: Ph.D. student Philip Bergmann was awarded a prestigious Simpson postdoc at the University of Arizona, and will be starting September 1, 2008. Well done! Philip also received an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship from Canada, but declined this in favor of the Simpson fellowship.
March 14, 2008: In collaboration with a team from Belgium, we have published a paper showing a rare case of rapid macroevolution in lizards follwing a recent colonization. This is the first time that a macroevoluitonary trait (in this case the presence of a new gut structure) has evolved in human lifespans! Check out the paper that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences here
February 2008: Duncan J. Irschick and Jean-Francois Le Galliard have edited a special issue entitled "Natural and sexual selection on biomechanics: An integrative approach". Check out this collection on the website at Evolutionary Ecology Research
August 10, 2007: Check out a recently published paper and cover shot for the Journal Biological Invasions that examines the selective basis of plant chemistry in elk!
Bailey JK, Schweitzer JA, Rehill BJ, Irschick DJ, Whitham TG, Lindroth RL. 2007. Rapid Shifts in the Chemical Composition of Aspen Forests: An Introduced Herbivore as an Agent of Natural Selection. Biological Invasions (Cover). 9:715-722.
August 1, 2007: We got a new cover shot for the journal Physioloigcal and Biochemical Zoology. Check it out below! The paper accompoyning the cover shot appeared in the November/December issue.
June 11, 2007: A special issue for the journal Functional Ecology on "Sexual selection, physiology, and performance" has just been published.
This special issue was organized by D. J. Irschick, R. Van Damme, and A. Herrel. Click on this link to access the articles. Check out the cool cover shot below!!
June 10, 2007: Former Ph.D. student Shawn VIncent was awarded a postdoc working on lubber grasshoppers at Illinois State University.
June 2007: Former postdoc Anthony Herrel was awarded the extremely competitive Society for Experimental Biology President's Medal for 2007! Well-done Anthony!
May 2007: Check out two new papers published in the Irschick lab; The paper by Lailvaux and Irschick examines temperature effects on jumping in green anoles by examining the kinetics of movement. The paper by Miles et al is a meta-analysis of links among foraging mode and performance in lizards. Enjoy!
Lailvaux S, Irschick DJ. 2007. Effects of temperature and sex on jump biomechanics and performance in the lizard Anolis carolinensis. Functional Ecology. 21:534-543.
Miles DB, Losos JB, Irschick DJ. 2007. Morphological and performance correlates of foraging mode in squamates. In Lizard Ecology: The evolutionary consequences of foraging mode. Eds. Steve Reilly, Lance McBrayer, and Don Miles. P. 49-93. Cambridge University Press. Boston.
March 2007: Ph.D. student Philip Bergmann was awarded a prestigious Presidents Fellowship! This fellowship will support Phillip during 2007 during his research on vertebral morphology and performance in lizards.
January 2007: Former Ph.D. student Simon Lailvaux was awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council fellowship to work with Rob Brooks at the University of Sydney in Australia. Good job Mate!
January 2007: In collaboration with Raoul Van Damme, Anthony Herrel, Duncan Irschick and Bieke Vanhooydonck, Katleen Huyghe got a cover shot for the journal Zoology. Check it out!
Huyghe K, Herrel A, Vanhooydonck B, Meyers JJ, Irschick DJ. 2007. Microhabitat use, diet, and performance data on the Hispaniolan twig anole, Anolis sheplani: Pushing the boundaries of morphospace. Zoology (Cover). 110:2-8
