News

April 24, 2024
Thomas LaBarge’s paper on terror birds was just released in Proc B!

April 5, 2024
Our paper on Bergmann’s rule was just released in Nature Communications!

January 17, 2024
Our paper on beak evolution in dinosaurs was just released in Proceedings of the Royal Society. Great work Isaura!

Dec 20, 2023
Emi Bender will join the lab as a PhD student in January!

September 01, 2023
Jack Prall joins the lab as a PhD student!

July 24, 2023
Our lab is moving to the Department of Earth Sciences at Montana State University.

April 26, 2023
Kevin’s paper on punctuated covid evolution was selected by the Frontiers’ editors for inclusion in the highlighted Research Topic Bioinformatics of COVID-19 – challenges in understanding and predicting the emerging properties of COVID-19 variants.

April 14, 2023
Kevin Surya received an Outstanding Graduate Student Award from Department of Mathematical Sciences! Good work!

March 2, 2023
Jacob Gardner passed his PhD viva with external examiner Mike Benton. Good work Dr Gardner!

February 23, 2023
Our paper on covid evolution was just released in Frontiers in Virology

November 7, 2022
The lab presented current research at SVP 2022 in Toronto. We also saw some great work, like this poster by Michael Serio.

September 9, 2022
Jacob was awarded best 3rd-year student presentation at the School of Biological Sciences conference.

August 28, 2022
Finished up some field work in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta with Brian Pickles, Phil Bell, Darren Tanke, and UofR students.

June 15, 2022
Jacob wins the People’s Choice award at the University of Reading’s 3-minute thesis competition.

December 10, 2021
Jacob is an author on a paper in the Journal of Genetics and Genomics. titled ‘Ancient DNA reveals the maternal genetic history of East Asian domestic pigs’.

March 31, 2021
Jacob is third author on a paper in Science Advances titled ‘Ancient Xinjiang mitogenomes reveal intense admixture with high genetic diversity’.

March 12, 2021
Jacob and Chris publish a paper in SysBio titled ‘Evolutionary Sample Size and Consilience in Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis’.

March 7, 2021
Kevin organized a successful campus-wide career panel with scientists from the NIH and industry. He is currently organizing a panel to discuss professional life at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUI).Email Kevin if you want to participate.

February 23, 2021
We received a grant to train high school students in data science and evolutionary biology from the Franklin Education Foundation. We look forward to an exciting summer of science!

December 23, 2020
Chris finished some consulting work for Integrated DNA Technologies where he developed modeling tools for detecting onsite/offsite CRISPR efficiency, as well as a novel method for identifying groups of multicollinear factors.

October 7, 2020
Isaura’s research ‘Facial keratin and tooth presence: coevolution for traits in dinosaurs’ has been chosen as a featured abstract at the annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference!

October, 2020
Thomas will be presenting our work on gigantism in terror birds at SVP!

September 19, 2020
Kevin Surya joins the team as a new PhD student!

August 5, 2020
The tuatara genome paper is published in Nature.

January 13, 2020
Jacob leads our paper about genome size diversity in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

January 05, 2020
Chris, always trying to learn something new, finishes a Data Scientist with Python Career Certificate from DataCamp.

November, 2019
Jacob and Kevin lead our paper on controlling for fossil record bias in biogeographical analyses.

December 14, 2018
Collaborators Sakamoto, M., J. Baker, M. Benton, A. Meade, M. Pagel, and C. Venditti (2019) present our work on the evolutionary dynamics of body size in dinosaurs at the Palaeontological Association.

February 05, 2018
Chris publishes a News & Views on biogeography across deep time relating to a paper by O’Donovan, C., Meade, A. & Venditti, C. in Nat. Ecol. Evol.