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Welcome to new lab member, Brittany Leigh! Alex Urban received a grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research at USF to support her research on stress-immune interactions in sparrows. Josh just submitted his first manuscript on immune redistribution in house sparrows. Good luck! Marty was just elected an Elective Member of the American Ornithologist's Union. Josh Kuhlman passed his MS oral exam and is on target to graduate in Spring 2010. Way to go Josh!! Welcome to new lab member, Jaymin Patel! Marty, Jason Rohr, Laura Mydlarz, and Bill Hopkins authored an invited paper on Ecoimmunology and Global Change for the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. The paper is due out early 2010. Courtney Coon just submitted her first manuscript on sparrow optimal immunity. Great job getting out a paper within a year of joining the lab, Courtney! Proceedings from the SICB 2009 PNI meets Integrative Biology symposium appeared in a recent issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology. Thanks to all participants for a great meeting! The Martin lab was awarded funding from NSF to investigate physiological mediation of range expansion in the house sparrow. The work will span four years and focus on the ongoing invasion in Kenya. Elaine Rindfuss and Nhan Tu recently completed their Honors Theses in the Martin lab. Sean Argo, Said Awad, Elaine Rindfuss, and Nhan Tu earned their Bachelor's degrees from USF. Congratulations and best wishes! Elaine Rindfuss will be starting an MS degree at Uppsala University in Sweden in Fall 2009. Nhan Tu will be starting work towards her PhD in the College of Medicine here at USF in Fall 2009. Andrea's first manuscript on data collected in the Martin lab was just accepted at Functional Ecology pending minor revisions. This is all the more impressive as Dre joined the group less than a year ago! Courtney was awarded a research grant from the American Ornithologists Union to support her thesis work on enemy release in house sparrows! Jen Alam won first place and Elaine Rindfuss won honorable mention for their poster presentations in Natural Sciences at the USF Undergraduate Research Symposium. Marty, Dan Ardia, and Dana Hawley were invited to guest edit a special issue on Ecoimmunology for Functional Ecology. The issue should be available late 2010. Marty received the 2009 George A. Bartholomew Award of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The annual prize is given to a young investigator for distinguished contributions to comparative physiology and biochemistry or to related fields of functional and integrative biology. See here for more information about the award's amazing namesake, Dr. Bartholomew. The Martin lab was awarded funding from the National Science Foundation (#0849163) to host a symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology: Psychoneuroimmunology meets Integrative Biology. The symposium was a great success, and a future issue of Integrative and Comaprative Biology will include some contributions from speakers. Josh Kuhlman received a Sigma-Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, which will fund his work on stress-induced immune resdistribution in house sparrows. Congrats Josh!! Josh received a grant from the Journal of Experimental Biology to conduct a project on stress-induced immune redistritubution in zebra finches versus house sparrows. Competition for this award was severe and involved graduate students and post-docs worldwide. Josh's project is a collaboration with Dr. Dan Ardia at Franklin and Marshall College. Marty was the recipient of the 2007 Ned Johnson Award, of the American Ornithologists' Union honoring Ned K. Johnson, a lifelong supporter and former President (1996-1998) of the AOU. The award recognizes outstanding and promising work by a researcher early in his/her career in any field of ornithology. Marty received a 2007 Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology's Young Investigators Award, an award given annually to 4-6 graduate students or post-doctoral scientists for their research. Press coverage: 2008
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2006 Research focus paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Kennedy, MW, and RG Nager. 2006. The perils and prospects of using phytohemagglutinin in evolutionary ecology. TREE 21, pp. 653-655 2005 Faculty of 1000, Biology review Faculty of 1000, Biology review 2004 |