News Archive

2022​

• Congratulations to honorary Light lab member Amanda Beckman, recipient of a Texas A&M 2022 U.S. Senator Phil Gramm Doctoral Fellowship Award. Info here (September 2022)
• Jessica recently attended the 4th International Congress on Parasites of Wildlife at Kruger National Park, South Africa. Excellent meeting, terrific venue. Check out some pictures here. (September 2022)
• Newly funded louse research covered in the Texas A&M Research Bulletin. Go read it!  (August 2022)
• Frantic preparation for the new semester begins! (August 2022)
• It's been a great month+ for Jessica up in northern Michigan. Successful Field Mammalogy course full of field work and northern Michigan sunsets (July 2022)
• New higher-level louse study recently published by Kevin Johnson et al. It's an interesting read and covered in a review here, where Jessica is quoted (July 2022)
• NSF proposal on mammalian sucking lice funded! I'm super excited to work with Kayce Bell, Julie Allen, Ed Stanley, and Lance Durden on this research (July 2022)
• Better late than never, but Jessica was interviewed (but not quoted) for this piece on the importance of collections (July 2022)
• Also better late than never, Jessica submitted materials for promotion to Full Professor. Fingers crossed for positive reviews up the ladder (July 2022)
• Congratulations to Natalie on a successful presentation at the Evolution meetings! Ali and Jessica also presented at the Mammal meetings (June 2022)
• Who's gearing up for Field Mammalogy at UMBS? Jessica is!  (June 2022)
• Maybe some good news coming soon from NSF..... (June 2022)
• New paper online! Baseline biodiversity assessment of South Texas small mammals and host-associated hard ticks with no detection of selected tick-borne pathogens. Congratulations to all the authors! (June 2022)
• ECCB Awards Ceremony was a great success! Congratulations to Haley Ellis (WFSC Legacy - Outstanding Senior) and Katelyn Sanchez (Outstanding Senior). See the "Pictures" like for some images of Haley and Katelyn receiving their awards. May 2022)
• Proposal submitted!  (May 2022)
• Small mammal trapping for April: 9 out of 178. Better than last month...(April 2022)
• Successful EIS in the books. It was great to see everyone, especially the awesome Corrie Moreau (April 2022)
• Another successful defense! Congratulations, Stephen!! (April 2022)
• Congratulations to Lainey! She successfully defended her non-thesis M.S.! Whoo-hoo! (April 2022)
• April Fool's! No jokes from me today, too much to do....(April 2022)
• Materials for promotion to Full Professor submitted! (March 2022)
• Small mammal trapping success...sort of....One animal is better than nothing. (March 2022)
• New #parasite #biodiversity paper out at @JBiogeography led by @WCPreisser (& other fabulous @tamueccb @TAMUEEB authors such as @aacastell3): Taxonomic scale & community organization impact observed latitudinal gradients of parasite diversity https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.14322 (March 2022)
• Coming soon, March Mammal Madness! Get in on the fun now! (March 2022)
• Manuscript accepted! (February 2022)
• First day of classes TODAY at Texas A&M. I hope we all have a good (& healthy) semester (January 2022)
• Congratulations to Ali! Recipient of an EEB Research Grant! Whoop! (January 2022)
• Happy New Year! Be Safe Out There! (January 2022)