Another successful semester in the books! Perhaps the brightest spot was that Ling defended her PhD with flying colors, and wow’ed everyone with her extraordinary work on bat systematics and phylogeography.

We are also excited to welcome a new PhD student into the lab this fall – Billie Harrison has been working with the endangered Grenada frog for several years, and we are looking forward to incorporating some genetic work into her conservation assessments!

We also have had a few new publications come out over these first few months of 2022:

Cook RM, Suttner B, Giglio RM, Haines ML, Latch EK (2022) Selection and demography drive range-wide patterns of MHC-DRB variation in mule deer. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01998-8

Yi X, Latch EK (2022) Nonrandom missing data can bias Principal Component Analysis inference of population genetic structure. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22, 602-611. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13498

Galla SJ, Brown L, Couch‐Lewis Y, Cubrinovska I, Eason D, Gooley RM, Hamilton JA, Heath JA, Hauser SS, Latch EK, Matocq MD (2022) The relevance of pedigrees in the conservation genomics era. Molecular Ecology, 31, 41-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16192