Grad and undergrad students win awards!
Congratulations to . . . - senior undergrad Elaine Hu for winning the Distinction in Research Award for her role in our recent paper in Evolution highlighting the importance of cascading reproductive barriers in speciation. - senior grad student Linyi [...]
2017 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America – Denver, CO
The Egan lab and collaborators will be presenting talks, posters, and co-organizing a symposium titled "Genomics of adaptation: Linking the next generation of genome-wide analysis to understand and manage complex traits". Individual presentations Immigrant inviability promotes reproductive isolation among host-associated populations [...]
New NSF RAPID grant to explore rapid adaptive change after Hurricane Harvey
The red-shouldered soapberry bug (Jadera haematoloma) is a textbook example of rapid adaptive change in the last ~60 years. Soapberry bugs feed on seeds of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae) by piercing the surrounding seedpod with its beak-like mouthparts. Historically, they [...]
PhD student Matt Comerford wins two awards!
Matt recently received the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research from the American Philosophical Society AND the 2017 Joe Davies Prize for Outstanding Service as a Teaching Assistant in our department! Way to go Matt!!
Field work!
Postdoctoral Fellow, Glen Hood, and PhD student, Linyi Zhang, were featured in the Archbold Biological Station newsletter regarding the big field experiment we are running in Florida this year. *LINK*
Egan lab determines ancestry of Rice Moon Tree!
In 1971, NASA launched Apollo 14, the third mission to land astronauts on the moon. During that mission, NASA Astronaut Stuart Roosa conducted experiments from the orbiting command module Kitty Hawk while Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell walked about the lunar surface. Each [...]
PhD student Linyi Zhang wins two research awards!!
Linyi has won a Rosemary Grant Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution and a McCarley Research Award from the Southwestern Association of Naturalists!! Way to go Linyi
Rice Undergraduate Research in the Egan Lab
Three undergraduates in the Egan lab presented their work across campus this week as the semester winds down. Isaac Caroo and Mandy Weaver presented work on measuring the shape and strength of selection in nature at the 2017 Rice Undergraduate [...]
Two new papers on a parasitoid wasp that manipulates its host!
Our group published a pair of papers on a new species of parasitoid wasp that can manipulate the behavior of its host for its own benefit. Photograph by Andrew Forbes, University of Iowa Weinersmith, K.L., S.M. Liu, A.A. Forbes, & S.P. [...]
Rice Historian blog post
Our lab went on a nature hike across campus this week searching for Bassettia crypt galls on the live oaks (Q. virginiana) and water oak (Q. nigra) for new experiments. During our work, we ran into Melissa Kean, the Centennial [...]