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- Jamie successfully defended her Ph.D. (September 2022) and is now Dr. Marks!
- Gina
Zwicky has successfully defended her Master's thesis (April 2022).
Congratulations Gina!
- Jamie has won the
department's 2022 Dee Saunders Dundee graduate student award for ecology and
evolution! Well done Jamie!
- Fadeke has had her first paper on octopamine
and house cricket performance accepted in Behavioral Ecology (March
2022), and her first dissertation paper accepted in Hormones and
Behavior (April 2022).
- Jamie has had her first dissertation manuscript
published in Journal of Experimental Biology (July
2021).
- David
Weber has had his Master's work on the factors affecting spatial
organization of male green anoles accepted in Ecology and Evolution
(January 2021).
- Simon was interviewed by WWL TV
about invasive brown anoles (July 2019).
- Mahaut published her first paper on altitude effects on performance and physiology in Podarcis muralis
(February 2019).
- Simon has joined the editorial board of Ecology and Evolution
as of January 2019.
- Annie, Fadeke,
and Simon presented at the 2019 Tampa SICB meeting on work
done in the lab on sexual conflict, trade-offs, and predicting
performance with machine learning.
- Feats of Strength was reviewed in Current Biology!
- Simon has written a book for general readership on whole-organism performance called Feats of Strength: How Evolution Shapes Animal Athletic Abilities to be published in May 2018 by Yale University Press (available for pre-order from YUP or Amazon)
- Annie
Cespedes defended her dissertation on multivariate performance
evolution in September 2017, and is now Dr. Cespedes!
- Simon
and Jerry Husak co-organized a symposium on the integrative
life-history of whole-organism performance at the 2017 SICB
meeting. You can read the papers arising from that symposium in Integrative and Comparative Biology.
- Jessica
Edwards successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation (July 2017).
Congratulations Dr. Ed!
- Alex's snake phylogeny
was among the top 1% of papers downloaded from PLoS One in 2016.
- As of 2017, Simon holds the Virginia Kock/Audubon Nature Institute Endowed Chair in Species Preservation.
- Congratulations
to David Weber on successfully defending his Masters (October 2016),
and moving on to a Ph.D. at the University of Maryland!
- Congratulations
to Alex Figueroa, who successfully defended his Ph.D. (June 2016)
and had his large snake phylogeny accepted for publication in PLoS One!
- Simon and Jerry Husak's Quarterly Review
paper on the life-history of whole organism performance (cunningly
titled "The Life-History of Whole Organism Performance") was highlighted by ScienceDaily
- Simon is a (very occasional) contributor to the Anole Annals lizard research blog. His latest post is here.
- Long-time
undergraduate researcher Stephen Gipson will be joining Matt Hall's
research group at Monash University, Melbourne, as a Ph.D. student in
2014.
- Catie
Policastro successfully
defended her Master's thesis (December 2013). Well done,
Catie!
- Ed's second
dissertation chapter on aggressive female lizards was just accepted by
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (July 2013)!
- New Scientist's Zoologger devoted some blog space to a new paper by Simon and collaborators on aggressive Croatian lizards.
- Congratulations to Ed and Alex for passing their general exams and advancing to Ph.D. candidacy.
- Simon penned a guest blog post/rant for www.robbrooks.net on why antibacterial household products are pointless and potentially dangerous.
- Ph.D. student Alex Figueroa was awarded an NSF EAPSI award to get
attacked by venomous snakes in southeast Asia this summer (2011)!
Congratulations Alex, and nice knowing you!
- The lab was recently featured in a story by the New Orleans Times-Picayune on the interaction between native Anolis carolinensis and invasive Anolis sagrei here in the city. Read the article here and check out the research page for more on the lizard wars!
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