Category: birds

Athrey lab receives federal award to survey Golden-cheeked Warbler genetics

We received a an grant from the Department of Defense – US Army Corps of Engineers […]

Chicken circadian-microbiota paper published

Our first paper on circadian rhythms and microbiota acquisition under extended photoperiods is now published. Circadian […]

2018 wrap up

As 2018 comes to an end, I am going to be out of office the rest […]

New paper on Red Junglefowl Genetics

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

RJF banding & sampling

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

Undergraduates present at campus conference

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

Welcome Jamie Alfieri

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

Undergrad research paper preprint

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

Undergrads present at Student Research Week

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

Animal Genetics Conference in Cambridge, UK

I recently presented at the Animal Genetics and Disease conference at the Wellcome Genome Campus in […]