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.
Category: students
Shawna Hubert, Ph.D
Congratulations to Shawna Hubert, as she received her Ph.D degree today during the Summer 2019 […]
Shawna Hubert defends Ph.D thesis
Shawna Marie Hubert, first graduate student of the Athrey Lab successfully defended her Ph.D thesis […]
New paper on Red Junglefowl Genetics
Our first paper on Red Junglefowl captive population genetics has been published in the Journal […]
RJF banding & sampling
Several lab members turned out to help capture, band, and bleed the new cohort of […]
Undergraduates present at campus conference
Four undergraduate researchers (Savannah Butters, Elizabeth Berry, Lauren Arnold, and Daniella Burleson) working on the […]
Welcome Jamie Alfieri
Jamie Alfieri (re)joined the lab as a Ph.D Student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology […]
Congrats Travis Williams on Presentation Award
PhD student Travis Williams won the best oral presentation award in the Genetics and Genomics […]
Undergrad research paper preprint
Our manuscript looking at genetic diversity and effective population sizes in a captive Red Junglefowl […]
Undergrads present at Student Research Week
Undergraduate researchers Nik Faust and Morgan Modrzejewski presented a talk and poster, respectively, on the work […]