As mentioned in my last post I defended my dissertation last week, and successfully passed! It was a great experience and I think it went very well! Thanks to everyone who has supported me throughout my PhD, and to my amazing committee members! Below is a photo of me with my two Smithsonian committee members, Dr. Kris Helgen and Dr. Jesus Maldonado.
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After six years of graduate research I am defending my dissertation on Thursday July 9, 10:30 am at the George Mason University Fairfax campus. I'm also happy to announce the reason for moving up my graduation date is due to receiving a postdoctoral fellowship through the Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha NE. I will be switching focal research areas from Sundaland, to Madagascar! I will get to go do field work, and research the genomics of lemurs. I'm very excited about the new chapter of my life!
My first first-authored paper has been accepted to Molecular Ecology Resources. This paper was a collaborative effort from many lab members at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics. This paper will soon become available online, and will wait until 2016 to be published in a special issue of MER- on Sequence Capture.
Our Journal of Biogeography cover has now been placed on the CCEG's wall of covers! It looks great up there! Thanks Nancy!
Today we heard news that our latest paper will get the May 2015 cover of the Journal of Biogeography! Not only is it great for our paper to receive the cover image, but I took the photograph during my second field season on Mount Kinabalu.
This was about 2,500 m above sea level, and in a very (obviously!) humid forest. I was hiking the trail with my field technician, Rose Ragai, and we noticed the fog move in like a wave. We first checked no zombies were emerging. Luckily not, just a few 'vampires' or leeches that are much more abundant when their is rain or in this case humidity clouds! During our six elevational gradients on Mount Kinabalu we trapped small mammals in lowland dipterocarp forest (the predominant tree type in SE Asian rainforests), lower montane forest, montane (as shown in this photograph), and even subalpine forests at 3,200 m above sea level. The mammal communities change significantly across these habitat types. Below is a link to the May 2015 issue! The next goal is a cover image for one of my first author papers!
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.2015.42.issue-5/issuetoc
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AuthorMissy is a geneticist, and field biologist who enjoys both observing mammals in their natural environment and combining that with DNA detective work. Archives
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