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New pub: cloacal swab microbiota
chicken, Genetics, manuscripts, students

New pub: cloacal swab microbiota

Posted on May 12, 2020May 12, 2020 by athrey

Cloacal swabs, commonly used as a proxy of gut microbiota membership in birds, are really poor at capturing the membership and community structure of lower GI tract microbes in chicken.

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Shawna Hubert, Ph.D

Posted on August 10, 2019September 3, 2019 by athrey

Congratulations to Shawna Hubert, as she received her Ph.D degree today during the Summer 2019 […]

chicken, Genetics, science, students

Shawna Hubert defends Ph.D thesis

Posted on June 7, 2019September 3, 2019 by athrey

Shawna Marie Hubert, first graduate student of the Athrey Lab successfully defended her Ph.D thesis […]

birds, Genetics, manuscripts, students

New paper on Red Junglefowl Genetics

Posted on October 18, 2018 by athrey

Our first paper on Red Junglefowl captive population genetics has been published in the Journal […]

birds, Genetics, students

RJF banding & sampling

Posted on October 6, 2018October 18, 2018 by athrey

Several lab members turned out to help capture, band, and bleed the new cohort of […]

birds, Conferences, science, students, Texas

Undergraduates present at campus conference

Posted on October 3, 2018October 18, 2018 by athrey

Four undergraduate researchers (Savannah Butters, Elizabeth Berry, Lauren Arnold, and Daniella Burleson) working on the […]

birds, Genetics, students

Welcome Jamie Alfieri

Posted on August 22, 2018 by athrey

Jamie Alfieri (re)joined the lab as a Ph.D Student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology […]

Conferences, Lab, students, talks

Congrats Travis Williams on Presentation Award

Posted on August 7, 2018August 22, 2018 by athrey

PhD student Travis Williams won the best oral presentation award in the Genetics and Genomics […]

birds, Genetics, manuscripts, students

Undergrad research paper preprint

Posted on June 22, 2018August 22, 2018 by athrey

Our manuscript looking at genetic diversity and effective population sizes in a captive Red Junglefowl […]

birds, Conferences, Genetics, students, talks

Undergrads present at Student Research Week

Posted on March 22, 2018 by athrey

Undergraduate researchers Nik Faust and Morgan Modrzejewski presented a talk and poster, respectively, on the work […]

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Department of Poultry Science &
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Texas A&M University
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Phone: 979. 458. 9921
email: giri [dot] athrey [at] tamu [dot] edu

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