- Graham Coop receives the College of Biological Sciences Faculty Research Award
- http://biosci.ucdavis.edu/awards-and-recognition/faculty-awards/faculty-research-award.html
- CPB postdocs Marjorie Weber and Heather Kharouba form the Davis Women in Science group (WiSci)
- Carole Hom receives the College of Biological Sciences Principles of Community Award
- CPB members publish several papers on the loblolly pine genome. More news here:
- http://www.pinegenome.org/pinerefseq/loblolly_press.php and see this interview with several of the authors: http://www.biomedcentral.com/biome/langley-salzberg-neale-and-wegrzyn-on-sequencing-the-loblolly-pine-genome/
- Why do zebras have black and white stripes? Tim Caro's work suggests this is to avoid blood-sucking flies.
- Graham Coop's work traces human genetic ancestry over many generations
- Annie Schmitt is awarded the 2014 Molecular Ecology Prize. Her work has contributed to the 2013 National Research Council report on Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises
- Santiago Ramirez receives the Packard Foundation fellowship
- At the annual CPB graduate student symposium held on November 15th, 24 graduate students affiliated with CPB gave ten minute talks on their research. This symposium is an important venue for new students to introduce their research and for continuing students to update their peers on their progress
- CPB Postdoctoral Fellow Marjorie Weber receives the American Society of Naturalists Young Investigator Award
- New workshop - CPB Postdoctoral Fellow Heather Kharouba will teach a workshop on the Meta-analysis of Ecological and Evolutionary Data during the last week of April 2015. This workshop will be aimed at graduate students and postdocs but anyone is welcome to attend. Stay tuned for exact dates and times.
