2022
- Postdoc Xander O’Neill visits the Boots Lab from Andy White’s group Heriot-Watt University
- Chadi Saad-Roy joins the Boots Lab as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow
- Elisa has filed their dissertation and has received the NSF PRFB to work with Gavin Sherlock and Dmitri Petrov at Stanford University
- Mike has returned from his sabbatical (!)
- Nina was awarded the Philomathia Fellowship
- Graham, Elisa and Laura are giving talks at the Bay Area EEID 2022 virtual meeting
- Sara Herrejon Chavez was awarded the Mentored Research Award from the Grad Division
- Signe White joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher
- Mike is elected as a AAAS fellow!
2021
- Mike is on sabbatical at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin
- Nina received the Carol Bird Award
- Nina’s NIFA Fellowship rated as “High Priority”
- Sara Herrejon Chavez has joined as a 2021 grad student in Integrative Biology! Welcome!
- Lawrence has been appointed to an Assistant Professor position at Tufts University
- Cara has been appointed to an Assistant Professor position at the University of Chicago
- Cara was awarded the Branco Weiss Fellowship
- Cara was named as a L’Oréal For Women in Science fellow
- We were awarded a NSF EEID grant “US-UK Collab: Heterogeneities, Diversity and the Evolution of Infectious Disease” – collaborating with Andy White
- Senay was chosen for the Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity
- Carly has been appointed to an Assistant Professor Position at York
- Ryosuke has been awarded a RIKEN Fellowship
- Elisa was awarded the Philomena Fellowship
- Sarah was awarded a Rocca Dissertation Grant and the Alber award from CEND
- Nina got her GRFP + sigma xi
- Cara got the Gates grant…
- Graham Northrup joining the lab as a grad student 2019
- Lewis – off to Athens as a CEID Postdoctoral Fellow and BEEKA out and trending.
- Lawrence Uricchio will join the lab in January…
- Nina Sokolow joined the lab as a grad student 2018
- Norma is presenting a poster at the UK Houses of Parliament on TB management. Here: – tanner3708poster
- Senay has a new paper out in Theoretical Ecology – check it out here
- Penny is going to the Jacques Monod Conference on the ecology and evolution of infectious disease – Everyone else is jealous…
- Sarah Guth has joined as a 2017 Grad student – Welcome!!!
- Rotem has moved into a research position in industry -We’ll all miss you!
- Lewis is off to ESA in Portland
- Mike, Senay and Ryosuke are off to Vectorbite 2017
- Carly is off to Italy for fieldwork and then to the SMB
- Great visit by Anna-Liisa Laine talking eco-evolution in metapopulations
- Ben and Mike have a new paper in Ecology letters on Multi-mode fluctuating selection in host-parasite coevolution. – shows equally specific matching allele like fluctuations as subset really of a variable specificity (gene-for-gene) model.
- Matt Silk has been and gone via EEID – more network models of Badger TB were done…
- Ryosuke rocked EEID with his talk on differential host and parasite dispersal: altruism and spite.
- Ben, Carly, Matt, Laura, Elisa, Lewis, Ryosuke, Senay all off to EEID: Rotem at a wedding, Mike waiting for Elliot.
- Congratulations to Senay on his newest paper – looking at how the foraging plasticity of an invasive ant may be the key to how invasive it is. Read the full paper here.
- We’d like to welcome Senay Yitbarek to the lab! Senay has joined us as a post-doctoral fellow following the completion of his PhD in Michigan, and will be developing multi-pathogen experiments in our Plodia system as well as network-based disease models.
- Congratulations to Penny on her recent paper on the role of zoophilic Anopheles and malaria transmission – read the full paper here
- We would like to a say big and fond farewell to Sean Meaden, who is moving on to his next post-doc position with University of Exeter. Sean has done some fantastic work on our Plodia system, and we look forward to seeing the final papers. Safe journey home Sean.
- Congratulations to Rotem on her newest paper! Understanding why different individuals have different viral loads in Dengue infections – read it here (open access).
- Both Elisa and Lewis delivered evolution and ecology themed lessons as part of Splash! at Berkeley – themes included ‘The Biology of Skin Colour in People’, ‘Evolution of HIV’ and ‘Basics of Bee Biology’.
- We are sad to say farewell to our visiting collaborator Matt Silk – Matt was visiting for a month to outline work with Carly Rozins on understanding how contact networks in badgers influence the transmission of bovine-TB within the population. We look forward to the future results!
- Lewis has co-authored a new paper assessing the ability of agriculture to reduce demand for pollination whilst still improving yields and produce quality – read the original article here here (open access) or read a news story summary here.
- Well done Carly for her new paper on how industrial farming can drive evolution to high virulence in pathogens! Read about it here (open access).
- Congratulations to Penny and Mike on their new paper on co-use of repellents and insecticides to combat evolved resistance in malaria mosquitos – read about it here (news article) with the original paper available here (open access).
- A (belated) congratulations to Elisa on the publishing of her influenza mutation research – read it here (open access).
- Rotem Ben-Shachar has arrived to begin her shared postdoctoral position here at UC Berkeley, joint with the Harris lab. Welcome Rotem!
- Ryosuke Iritani has arrived to begin his postdoctoral research with the Boots Lab – welcome Ryo!
- Lewis has a new paper out looking at synergistic effects of habitat loss and fragmentation – read it here (open access).
- We’d like to thank our departing visiting professor – Min Su – for her excellent contribution to the lab group this last year. Safe journey home Min!
- Carly Rozins has arrived to begin her Postdoctoral Research here at the Boots lab – welcome Carly!
- Laura’s 3rd ebola paper has been published – read it here (open access).
- Ben’s first invited talk in Lund! BLAM2016_poster.
- Congratulations to Senay Yitbarek who has won an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology and will join the lab this summer to work on moths and models.
- Elisa Visher has accepted a place in the IB Graduate School and will join us next year to work on moths and models.
- Our Deformed wing virus paper is out – Well done Lena!
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