CEEB maintains close ties to the UO Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Geology, and Landscape Architecture, as well as the Institutes for Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, and Marine Biology.Together, CEEB's students and faculty are working in the laboratory and the field to address fundamental and applied questions about the organization and history of life on earth.
The Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (CEEB) facilitates research and graduate education in ecology and evolutionary biology. The center fosters a collegial and stimulating intellectual environment for world-class research in molecular evolution, evolutionary genetics, evolution of development, and microbial, population, community, and ecosystems ecology.
Wide Media Coverage for Recent Thornton Lab Nature Publication
Jamie Bridgham and Joe Thornton recently published a paper on the irreversibility of glucocorticoid reception evolution, along with their collaborator Eric Ortlund at Emory University. The research is so compelling that it has generated considerable commentary, in Science, The New York Times, The New York Times (again), and Nature. Those who missed Joe's seminar on October 5th should read the paper to see what everyone is talking about.
CEEB Graduate Student Wins NSERC Doctoral Scholarship
David Anderson, a second-year PhD student in the Thornton Lab, recently won a postgraduate scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). This prestigious award is highly competitive; students must maintain an excellent academic record and show exceptional promise as a developing scientist to win.
Michelle Wood to Join ASLO Board
Outgoing CEEB Director Michelle Wood has recently joined the board of the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) and is helping plan the 2010 Ocean Sciences meeting. The meeting will draw several thousand oceanographers and marine biologists to Portland this winter. You can find more information on this large (and relatively local) meeting here. Information about ASLO, the largest international organization devoted to aquatic sciences, can be found here. For more information about Michelle's new appointment, click here.
Bohannan Selected as 2009 Leopold Leadership Fellow
Brendan Bohannan will receive a Leopold Leadership Fellowship for 2009. This fellowship is awarded to up to 20 North American scientists annually, to help academic scientists contribute to public policy. You can read a longer press release here, and a description of the fellowship here.