September 2025
Fabian Salgado-Roa wins the Medalla Humbold-Caldas for his Molecular Ecology paper “The Andes as a semi-permeable geographical barrier: Genetic connectivity between structured populations in a widespread spider.” Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17361
Congratulations, Fabian!
April 2025
Sid wins CNS Award for Excellence in Integrative Biology & Environmental Science for his research “Phylogenetic Analysis Suggests Duplication of AFAP1L2 as the Origin of Novel Frog Gene Xmc.“
Young lab and EvoDevOmics researchers Aaron Johnson, Adi Baditela, Jax Schellenberger, Lanning Welsch, Meera Nair, Mira Lakshmi Rajagopalan, and Sid Ramu Nair presented their research at the College of Natural Sciences Technology & Science Undergraduate Research Forum.
March 2025
Congratulations to Abby Beman and Anouka Saha who will be starting PhD programs this upcoming fall 2025! Additional congratulations to Abby for her CNS distinctions in Research and Leadership, Service, and Community Engagement! PhD Programs: Quantitative and Computational BioSciences Baylor College of Medicine (Abby) and EEB graduate program at Washington University in St Louis!
February 2025
Congratulations to Fabian Salgado Roa who was chosen as one of two CNS Stengl Wyer Scholars. I am looking forward to learning about the developmental and genomic mechanisms of color variation in spiny orb weavers with Fabian starting this fall! Photo: Sam Fraser-Smith from Brisbane, Australia – Gasteracantha cancriformis
May 2024
Noé is awarded as a UT CNS Dean’s Honored graduate to go along with their distinctions in Research and Community & Student Engagement
April 2024
Undergraduate researchers Anouka Saha (left) & Abby Beman (right) present posters at the College of Natural Sciences Technology & Science Undergraduate Research Forum. Abby wins CNS Award for Excellence in Integrative Biology & Environmental Science!