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PBIO associate professor Kathrin Stanger-Hall was recently featured in an article in the Red & Black and an article in the New York Times for her firefly research. Congrats, Kathrin!

PBIO professor Chris Peterson and his collaborators Frank Lombardo (U. Illinois) and Chris Godfrey (U. North Carolina Asheville) (shown left to right below) have been awarded a second NOAA grant through the VORTEX-SE program. 

PBIO post-doc Karolina Heyduk and graduate student Jess Stephens, along with Brent Faircloth (LSU) and Travis Glenn (UGA), co-authored a recent book chapter, "Targeted DNA Region Re-sequencing" in Field Guidelines for Genetic Experimental Designs in High-Throughput Sequencing.

Wendy Zomlefer, Curator of the University of Georgia Herbarium, received NSF funding for a workshop on "Herbarium Specimen Curation and Best Practices."  The workshop was held 19-21 May 2016 in the herbarium and we hosted 26 participants (including an NSF program officer) from 17…