Emily gave a talk at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology.  Thanks to the hosts for a wonderful visit!

We are so happy to welcome Maggie Haines to the Latch Lab as a postdoctoral fellow! Maggie comes to us from Melbourne, where she worked on montane lizard phylogeography and systematics at the University of Melbourne and Australian National University.  Learn more about Maggie’s work here.

Our work on deer malaria has been featured in lots of cool news outlets, including Science Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Newsweek, and IFLScience!

Bennett was awarded a grant from TWS Western Section for his work on Cascades frogs. Congrats Bennett!

Emily gave a talk in a symposium “Advances in Molecular, Population, and Quantitative Genetics” at the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference in Grand Rapids, MI. Latch Lab alum John Powell also presented a talk in this symposium on his UWM work on mule deer genomics.

We have a Postdoctoral position and PhD student position available to work on population genomics of captive zoo populations.

Emily coauthored a paper accepted to Science Advances describing the rediscovery of an endemic, New World malaria in white-tailed deer. Congrats to Ellen Martinsen, Smithsonian National Zoo postdoc, the lead author of the study.

Our paper on modeling alternative culling strategies to maximize genetic variation in bison herds was accepted by Animal Conservation. Congrats Rachael! (Nov 2015)

The Latch Lab is recruiting graduate students for projects on Snowshoe hare genetics and Bat molecular ecology.

Our paper on landscape genetics of badgers in Wisconsin was accepted by Heredity. Congrats Liz!