Author Archives: Jody
McLachlan Lab Takes Home 2nd Best Title Again!
Every year the McLachlan, Medvigy, and Rocha labs take on the Archie lab (+ friends) in bowling. For the 6th straight year in a row, we are the 2nd best bowlers around! We once again will display the DNA helix … Continue reading
Evolution Facilitates Colonization of Invasive Species – New Paper
New paper co-authored by Megan Vahsen from her master’s work has just come out in PNAS! Szucs et al. 2017. Rapid adaptive evolution in novel environments acts as an architect of population range expansion. PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.1712934114 Abstract Colonization and expansion into … Continue reading
Field Trip to Maryland Marshes
Post by Erin Nguyen The McLachlan team recently headed out into the field for some late season sampling. Jason, Megan, and two undergrads, Aleah and Erin, went to the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Maryland to work with Pat … Continue reading
New McLachlan Lab Publication! Genetic diversity in Eastern North America following Ice Age
In this paper the McLachlan lab studied the spatial pattern of genetic diversity of trees following glaciation in Eastern North America compared to that of Europe. While in Europe southern populations are more genetically diverse compared to northern populations, this … Continue reading
Welcome Back Students!
The undergrads who work in our lab are awesome! Currently we have 10 students working on a diverse range of projects this semester. There are students sieving and germinating seeds from cores taken from a marsh in Maryland. These seeds … Continue reading
Welcome Megan Vahsen
The McLachlan lab welcomes new graduate student Megan Vahsen! Megan is joining us to work on the marsh evolution and ecology project. See this page to learn more about Megan and the project.
Quant Camp
Jason coordinated Quant Camp, an optional full emersion short course on quantitative skills for early career BIOS grad students from all disciplines. The goals of the course were to provide hands on practical experience in problem solving, to introduce best … Continue reading
New NSF Funding! Coastal Marsh Response to CO2
We’ve been awarded a new grant from NSF (DEB- Ecosystem Studies) for our project on Eco-evolutionary dynamics of coastal marsh responses to rishing CO2! Here’s the overview of our proposed work: Current projections of coastal marsh ecosystem responses to global … Continue reading
Website Revisions and Link
It’s time for a change! The McLachlan lab has transferred to this new website. We are currently in the process of updating our website content, so please excuse our dust for a little bit.