July 8, 2026

BCG alumni Laurel Humphrey received honorable mention for her NSF GRFP.

July 8, 2026

CartograPlant manuscript is published in Genetics! Lead authors: Brandon Lind, Meghan Myles, and Irene Cobo-Simon https://genestogenomes.org/from-arabidopsis-to-zea-mays-theres-a-knowledgebase-for-that/

August 20, 2026

Michelle Neitzey received an NSF PRFB to work on American beech landscape genomics!

August 20, 2026

Congrats to Airianna McGuire who is a NSF GRFP recipient! We are SO proud of you! You worked so hard for this!

July 8, 2026

Airianna McGuire received the EVOME graduate student research fellowship award to understand transcriptomic regulation of heat stress in Arctic grayling!

July 8, 2026

Vidya received a travel award to the NAFGS conference in Quebec City!

July 8, 2026

Congrats to lab alumni Susan McEvoy on her new position as an Assistant Professor! https://www.upsc.se/about-upsc/news/6658-understanding-genomics-to-support-future-forests.html

November 26, 2025

Congratulations to the Adelgid team – Karl Fetter, Vidya Vuruputoor, and Meghan Myles! https://academic.oup.com/g3journal/advance-article/doi/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf232/8271896?searchresult=1

July 25, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Vidya Vuruputoor!

July 24, 2025

Congratulations to Henry Schober for receiving his MS degree in Animal Science.

July 25, 2025

Congratulations to co-first author Vidya Vuruputoor – New Phytologist paper is live: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70208

July 25, 2025

Congratulations to our BS recipients – Isabella Harding, Keertana Chari, Vikesh Chinta and Samira Obbu!

July 25, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Neitzey!

July 25, 2025

Congratulations to the Biodiversity and Conservation Genomics Team (Samira Obbu, Alan Rodger, Andrew Deierlein) for receiving honorable mention for their poster, A Tale of Two Tubeworms: Riftia pachyptila and Tevnia jerichonana Comparative Genomics, at the 2025 Biodiversity Bonanza.

July 25, 2025

Congratulations to Cynthia Webster for receiving honorable mention for her poster, From Code to Conservation: Leveraging EASEL for Structural and Functional Genome Annotation of Complex Eukaryotes, at the 2025 Biodiversity Bonanza.