Brian was interviewed by Srijana Mitra Das of the Times of India about how insects evolved and why they are Earth's "primary engineers." Read the article here (opens in new tab...
Congratulations to Alyssa for successfully defending her disseration, "Where the rubber meets the road: How do phytophagous beetles hold onto host plants?"
Now available in Ecology and Evolution: Brian, Bruno, and colleague M. Lourdes Chamorro's article "First phylogenetic analysis of Dryophthorinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) based on structural alignment of ribosomal DNA reveals Cenozoic diversification."
"Dryophthorinae is an economically important, ecologically distinct, and ubiquitous monophyletic group of pantropical weevils with more than 1,200 species in 153 genera. This study provides the first comprehensive phylogeny of the group with the aim to provide insights into the...
Brian has been awarded funding from DRCLAS to research "The evolutionary history and timing of the Tetraopes beetle diversification in Mesoamerica." Congratulations to Brian and to Sang Il, who will be collaborating on this!
Congratulations to graduating senior Dylan Ryals of the Farrell Lab for being awarded the Hoopes Prize for his senior thesis, “Of Mites and Men: Using Spatially Explicit Sampling and Genetic Sequencing to Uncover Disease Dynamics of Honeybee Parasite Varroa destructor in Migratory Apiculture.” Read more about Dylan awarded Hoopes Prize
Congratulations to Sang Il Kim, awarded the Graduate Student Research Enhancement Award (Program Award) from The Coleopterists Society for his project, "Target enrichment phylogenomics of longhorned beetle genus Anoplophora Hope, 1839 (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) with emphasis on their adaptation to the temperate zone."
