News Archive

2019

• Big news: Jessica will be teaching Field Mammalogy at the University of Biological Station Summer 2020. Learn more about it here (December 2019)
• Successful and fun lab white elephant party! Happy holidays! (December 2019)
• Congratulations to all of the Fall 2019 Graduates! (December 2019)
• Final grades submitted! (December 2019)
• Congratulations, Adrian! Adrian is the 2nd PhD student to graduate from the Light Lab. (December 2019)
• Anxiously awaiting word on two manuscripts. tick. tock (anyone watching "Watchmen"?)​ (November 2019)
• Who wants to see some great videos of the urban wildlife?? Jessica's dog is tormented by these critters. ​​(November 2019)
• Popular press article about recently published work on a new species of bat from Nicaragua here (October 2019)
• Manuscript provisionally accepted! This one was a doozy too....267 page host-parasite checklist. (October 2019)
• It's officially fall (and it feels like it too, at least for a few days) (October 2019)
• Proposal submitted! (September 2019)
• Lots of new manuscripts are available online! Check out the Publications page to see more. (September 2019)
• Mammalogy small mammal trapping has been super successful so far! 4 species and good numbers (September 2019)
• Manuscript accepted, yay! (September 2019)
• Fall 2019 Semester is in full swing! Check out the People page to see all the new Light lab members (and keep an eye out for updates). (September 2019)
• Proposal submitted! (August 2019)
• Grants proposals due and classes are about to start. (August 2019)
• Another manuscript accepted! Congratulations Whitney! (August 2019)
• Whoo-hoo! Congratulations to Adrian for successfully defending his dissertation! Great job, Adrian! (August 2019)
• Adrian's defense has been announced: Wednesday August 14th 9:30 (WFES 411):
  "Using museums and mammals to unravel Central American biodiversity and biogeography" (August 2019)
• Another PhD student is getting ready to graduate, while we welcome several new lab members. Check out the People page to learn more. (August 2019)
• Sad, but excited, for Whitney's imminent departure for her postdoc. We'll miss you, Whitney! Be sure to follow Whitney on twitter @WCPreisser to follow her adventures (July 2019)
• Wednesday July 16th: Project recommended for funding by NSF! Whoo-hoo! Learn about our #parasite research here: http://parasitetracker.org/ #collectionsareessential (July 2019)
• Monday July 15th: Manuscript accepted. What a great way to start a work week! (July 2019)
• Happy 4th of July! (July 2019)
• The Light Lab rocked the #asm100 meetings with Emma, Grace, Adrian, Leila, Whitney, and Jessica all presenting. Great job, folks! (June 2019)
• Congratulations to Leila, PhD student in @TAMUEEB (home departments @essm_tamu & @wfsctamu) for receiving a 2019-2020 Dissertation Fellowship from @TAMU_OGAPS! Amazing news! (June 2019)
• Gearing up for summer meetings! (June 2019)
• Centenntial issue of the Journal of Mammalogy is out! So many great articles here (May 2019)
• Super duper congratulations to Whitney on passing her dissertation defense! Whitney is the first Light lab PhD student to defend and she did a superb job. Congratulations, Whitney! (May 2019)
• Leila has passed her proposal defense. Great job, Leila! (May 2019)
• Congratulations to our 2019 WFSC graduates (especially David, Lacie, and Melanie)! (May 2019)
• Manuscript (re)submitted! (May 2019)
• Congratulations to Whitney! She was awarded best presentation at the 2019 Houston Regional Ecology & Evolution Student Symposium (May 2019)
• May is going to be an exciting month....stay tuned! (May 2019)
• Manuscript submitted! Starting April off right...maybe there will be a few more?? (April 2019)
• #2019MMM has come to a close. Congrats to Bengal Tiger, this year's champion! Reviews of the battle at Wakelet and the Rodent Roundtable  (April 2019)
• Congratulations to Grace! We just found she is the recipient of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Outstanding Sophomore Student Award!! (March 2019)
• Congratulations to past Light-lab member Bonner Watson!! Recipient of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Outstanding Senior Student Award!! (March 2019)
• Congratulations to Adrian!!! Recipient of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Outstanding PhD Student Award!! (March 2019)
• Adrian and Leila both scored travel grants to the upcoming mammalogy meeting! Yay! (March 2019)
• And congratulations to Caylie for winning 2nd Place Poster Presentation for the Undergraduate Category at Student Research Week. Caylie's poster was about the BRTC and ocelot specimens. (March 2019)
• Congratulations to Leila! She won 1st Place Oral Presentation in the Graduate Sciences Category for Student Research Week. Yay! (March 2019)
• One more manuscript submitted, this time to Journal of Mammalogy. Here's hoping it gets sent out for review!
• MARCH MAMMAL MADNESS IS HERE #2019MMM (March 2019)
• Manuscript accepted at Ecology and Evolution. So excited to see this one accepted (pocket gopher-chewing louse population dynamics) (March 2019)
• Three manuscripts submitted to Therya! Yippie! (March 2019)
• Whitney's parasite latitudinal gradient paper is out (early view): Link (March 2019)
• If all goes well, several manuscripts will be submitted the week of March 4th (let's see what happens)​ (March 2019)
• Three Light lab manuscripts came out in bring within the first 4 days of March. Check out the Publications page to see them. (March 2019)
• New manuscript accepted, yay! (February 2019)
• See the Publications pages for links to Adrian's recent publications. Congrats, Adrian! (February 2019)
• Chewing louse population genetics study online-early here! (February 2019)
• New papers with volumes and page numbers, coming soon! (February 2019)
• Jessica and Adrian are off to the annual meeting of the Texas Society of Mammalogists. Track the meeting here: #txmamm2019 (February 2019)
• Congratulations to Whitney again! The first manuscript from her dissertation has been accepted for publication in Ecography. (February 2019)​
• Congratulations to Whitney! She's going to take a postdoctoral research position in the lab of Chelsea Woods at the University of Washington. (January 2019)
• The chewing louse population genetics study out of the University of Northern Iowa louselab (louselab.uni.edu/) is now online at Molecular Ecology. Check it out here (January 2019)
• Adrian's study at Methods in Ecology and Evolution is available online here (January 2019)
• Bridgett's Master's thesis is online at Journal of Mammalogy. Here it is! ​ (January 2019)