MORAN LAB NEWS
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Dan Sloan (postdoctoral fellow) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Colorado State University in the Department of Biology, to start in August 2013. (May 2013)
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Ingrid Rochon, a graduating Yale senior, successfully completed her senior thesis on the carotenoid biosynthetic genes in whitefly symbionts, working with Dan Sloan. (May 2013)
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Allison Hansen (postdoctoral fellow) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the School of Integrated Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She starts the new position in August 2013. (December 2012)
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Vince Martinson (postdoctoral associate) has accepted a postdoctoral position in the lab of John Jaenike in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Rochester. He starts the new position in January. (December 2012)
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Lisa Fazzino, a recent graduate of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, joins the lab as a volunteer researcher. (October 2012)
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Gordon Bennett joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Associate from the lab of Patrick O'Grady in the department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management at the University of California Berkeley. (September 2012)
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Lara Zipperer (Yale undergrad) joins the lab as a student researcher. (August 2012)
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Hauke Koch joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow from the lab of Paul Schmid-Hempel in the Department of Experimental Ecology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. (July 2012)
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Graduate student Kevin Vogel's Ph.D has been conferred by the University of Arizona in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He will be a postdoc in the Department of Entomology at the University of Georgia. (May 2012)
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Graduate student Vince Martinson's Ph.D has been conferred by the University of Arizona in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He will be a postdoc at Yale University. (May 2012)
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Waldan Kwong was awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) graduate fellowship for 3 years. (April 2012)
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Zakee Sabree (postdoctoral associate) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University. He leaves for Columbus this summer. Congratulations! (February 2012)
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Ingrid Rochon (Yale undergrad) joins the lab as a student researcher. (January 2012)
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Kelsey Bartlett (U. of New Haven), Kate Filush (U. of New Haven), Daniel Phillps (U. of New Haven), and Daniella Portelada (U. of New Haven) join the lab as student researchers. (January 2012)
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Philipp Engel has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) for his work on the genetics and functions of bee-associated bacteria. (December 2011)
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Undergraduate researcher Charlie Huang has been awarded a Yale Science & Engineering Association Grant. (October 2011)
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Ryuichi Koga, a researcher from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan, has joined the lab in July to work on symbionts in aphids and bees for the next year. (August 2011)
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Jill Dolowich, a high school student from Long Island, was a researcher in the lab from June to August, and has just finished her work on the routes of transmission of bacterial microbiota between worker bees. (August 2011)
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Dan Sloan, who joins the lab on Aug 1 2011, has been awarded a 3 year NIH Ruth Kirschstein postdoctoral fellowship to work on small genomes in insect symbionts. Dan recently finished his PhD at University of Virginia with Doug Taylor. (May 2011)
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Allison Hansen is awarded a 2-year USDA/NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the interaction between Buchnera and aphids. (May 2011)
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Katherine Urban-Mead (Yale undergrad) joins the lab as a student researcher. (April 2011)
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Philipp Engel (postdoc) joins the lab from Switzerland. (March 2011)
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Nibal Fadhil (U. of New Haven), Adam Hejmowski (U. of New Haven), and Cindy Barlan (Quinnipiac U.) join the lab as student researchers. (March 2011)
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Allison Hansen publishes “Aphid genome expression reveals host-symbiont cooperation in the production of amino acids” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. (January 31, 2011)
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Nancy Moran is awarded the International Prize for Biology from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. (December 6, 2010)
