​​News Archive

2018​

• Happy holidays everyone! See you in 2019! (December 2018)
• TWO IN A ROW! MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED! Chewing louse population genetics study out of the University of Northern Iowa louselab (louselab.uni.edu/) accepted at Molecular Ecology. Huzzah! (December 2018)
• MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED! Congratulations to Adrian on getting the first chapter of his dissertation accepted! #milkshaketime (December 2018)
• Two manuscripts in press at Journal of Mammalogy (Benedict et al. and Cook & Light). Look for them in 2019. Cook & Light is available now via AdvanceAccess. (December 2018)
• Congratulations to all of Light's undergraduate students for surviving Natural History of Vertebrates and General Mammalogy. And congrats to all of you that graduated! (December 2018)
• Good news on the last day of November and a Friday afternoon: Bridgett's MS thesis has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Mammalogy. WHOO HOO!!!! (November 2018)
• Congratulations to Leila for passing her comprehensive exams, whoo-hoo!!​ (November 2018)
• Jessica recently hosted Corey Welch from Iowa State for the EEB seminar series . What a great visit and amazing talk about diversifying STEM. Learn about Corey and his fabulous STEM Scholars Program at Iowa state here. (November 2018)
• Two Light-lab WFSC brown-bag seminars in under a month. Jessica gave a seminar November 3rd; folks seemed to like it. (November 2018)
• Positive news regarding Bridgett's manuscript. Time to revise and resubmit! (November 2018)
• Corrie Moreau is visiting! Learn all about her research here: http://moreaulab.org/corrie-moreau/ (October 2018).
• I bet Adrian's WFSC brown-bag seminar was awesome. Sorry I missed it! (October 2018).
• Ginormous 579 page NSF TCN proposal submitted!!! WOW (October 2018).
• I only spent ~1/2 day at SACNAS. I was beyond impressed with this organization. Click the link to learn all about SACNAS. (October 2018).
• Whitney's manuscript: resubmitted! Congrats =) (October 2018).
• Texas EcoLabs proposal submitted! (October 2018).
• Hello October! It's going to be a busy month. Here's what's planned: 
  1. ​Big NSF ADBC proposal submission (totaling over $4 million dollars!)
  2. Adrian re-submits a killer (nearly literally) manuscript
  3. Jessica attends, presents, and organizes a Symposium at SACNAS  
  4. Jessica co-hosts Corrie Moreau for an upcoming ENTO and EEB talk 
  5. And more! Stay tuned..... (October 2018).
• Congratulations to Bridgett on the submission of her Master's Thesis for publication! The manuscript is currently in review at Journal of Mammalogy. (September 2018)
• Start of the semester has been busy with teaching, grant proposals, and manuscripts. Looks for lots of updates next month. (September 2018)
• Oh, hello there website! It's been awhile. How's it going? Beginning of fall semester among other things has been busy. But I have some updates. See you soon! (September 2018)

• Lots of great activity from the Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections. Check out their facebook feed here: https://www.facebook.com/BRTCTAMU/ (August 2018)
• It's August! You know what that means, right? Fall classes are just around the corner.... (August 2018)
• Posted on twitter, but posting here as well: Congratulations to Dr. Duane Schlitter on receiving the 2018 Jackson Award from the American Society of Mammalogists. This award recognizes Duane's service to the Society. Congrats, Duane! (July 2018) 
• Fourth of July is coming at a good time; time to decompress a bit from the summer meetings (July 2018)
• Congratulations to Jessica on a successful International Congress on Phthiraptera: best tweeter award and elected to the Council (June 2018)
• The Light lab participated in 3 academic meetings this month: Annual Meetings of the American Society of Parasitologists (Whitney) and the American Society of Mammalogists (Adrian, Bridgett, and Leila), and the International Congress on Phthiraptera (Louse Meetings; Jessica) (June 2018)
• Oona's South Africa louse manuscript is provisionally accepted at Systematic Entomology! Congratulations Oona! (June 2018)
• It's summer meeting time! Here are some hashtags to follow on twitter: #ASPCancun #ASMWildcat #ICP6Brno (June 2018)
• Got some manuscripts out in print! Check them out here (poxvirus) and here (bat phylogeography) (June 2018)
• The lab rocked an escape room, successfully getting out in under an hour. What fun! (May 2018)
• Jessica just participated in #SkypeAScientist and had a GREAT time! So much fun (May 2018)
• Congratulations to Bridgett! She successfully defended her thesis research this week! (May 2018)
• Hodo et al. manuscript on a new poxvirus in Texas rodents is coming out soon. Popular press is amplifying the research. Check it out at Live Science and Fox News. And here's the CDC media release (May 2018)
• Just found out that Whitney has received a Tom Slick Student Development Grant. This will help her travel to the annual meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists. Congrats, Whitney! (May 2018)
• Lots of congratulations this month! Many great students graduated, including Mary and Celeste (see the "People" page.
• Congratulations to Leila! She received funding from the American Society of Mammalogists via a Grants-in-Aid award. Whoo-hoo! (May 2018)
• Congratulations to lab alumnus Caitlin Nessner Respess. She has been promoted to Project Coordinator, Lead at her job at the Baylor College of Medicine. Congrats, Caitlin! (May 2018)
• Starting April with a bang! March Mammal Madness is wrapping up with the final 4 tonight (April 2nd)
• Awesome time in the field with Tony and Celeste today (April 2nd)
• Jessica is working hard on her March Mammal Madness battles. Who's following the fun? (March 2018)
• What's just around the corner, people??? March Mammal Madness! Go fill out your bracket now and follow #2018MMM on twitter. (March 2018)
• Anyone else counting down the days until Spring Break?? (March 2018)
• Another manuscript accepted! This time to Emerging Infectious Diseases (February 2018)
• Manuscript accepted to Journal of Mammalogy. Whoo-hoo! (February 2018)
• Light lab is killing it in the field this month with site visits galore! (February 2018)
• TSM 2018 was amazing! Bridgett and Leilia both won awards for their posters (Clyde Jones and Vernon Bailey award, respectively) and I was elected President-Elect! (February 2018)
• Light is at Oklahoma State visiting the Dept. of Integrative Biology today (Feb. 9th). I'm looking forward to a fun visit. (February 2018)
• Check it out: paper resulting from some of my favorite Mexican collaborators published in Journal of Mammalogy on gray mouse opossums (February 2018)
• Two more manuscripts submitted. Here's hoping they go out for review. (February 2018)
• Texas EcoLabs will be in full swing this month. I'll do my best to take pictures of some lovely habitats (February 2018)
• TSM 2018 is coming up! Are you going?? (February 2018)
• Remember that manuscript submitted in January? Yes, rejected without review. We've turned it around and submitted elsewhere today (1 Feb). I'll hold off on the milkshake until acceptance. (February 2018)
• Milkshake time: Manuscript submitted! (January 2018)
• Slow start to the semester, but classes have begun, sequences submitted and analyzed, and we're getting off to a good start in 2018 (January 2018)
• Happy New Year! (January 2018)