
Kawahara Lab
@kawaharalab
Research group on Insect Evolution, Behavior, and Genomics, especially of moths and butterflies @UF @floridamuseum led by @Dr_Akito
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http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/mcguire/kawahara/ 15-03-2014 16:12:51
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Congrats to Juliette Rubin for advancing to candidacy today! Great job! UF Department of Biology Florida Museum #McGuireCenter

Fun end-of-the-year lab lunch! Thanks to everyone that contributed to the Kawahara Lab this past academic year! Florida Museum #McGuireCenter



A new Vox Media #podcast on the global declines of insects with Dr. Akito Kawahara from Florida Museum FLORIDA and Professor David L. Wagner from UConn. Check it out, link here: cms.megaphone.fm/channel/unexplโฆ

2022 Kawahara Lab photo! Excited to have many new faces and projects! R Keating Godfrey @anapscarvalho Chelsea Skojec Yash Sondhi Scott Cinel and others also in the lab! Florida Museum UF Department of Biology UF SNRE UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology


Great to have in-person lab meetings again! Shashank Pathour speaks about #CRISPR research in the Kawahara Lab. We also did a bingo ice-breaker! Florida Museum #McGuireCenter


Interested in #Lepidoptera? The Kawahara Lab will be at #EntSoc22 in Vancouver! 12 lab members will be presenting. Here's our lineup! Please talk to lab leader Dr. Akito Kawahara there if interested in joining our lab! Entomological Society of America SysEB ESA P-IE ESA Entomological Society of Canada Royal Entomological Society


Two new U.S. National Science Foundation #postdoc positions on #insect #silk #genomics #proteomics #CTscanning are available in the lab of paul frandsen and Kawahara Lab!!! Find us at #EntSoc22 in Vancouver or contact us. Please RT! BYU Florida Museum UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology


K-Lab members at #EntSoc22! What an amazing, beautiful place to have a conference. From left to right: Dr. Akito Kawahara Rachel L. Walsh Taylor Pierson Jacob David Plotkin Christian Couch Amanda Markee R Keating Godfrey


Was really great having Dr. Rebecca (Becca) Tarvin ๐ธ โ ๏ธ ๐ ๐๐ชฐ and Valeria RC join lab meeting today speaking to us about best ways to conduct fieldwork. Let's all strive to do fieldwork equitably! Florida Museum


Congratulations to Amanda Markee for successfully defending her Masters Thesis on #Lepidoptera #silk #genomics this morning! Amazing job!!! UF SNRE Florida Museum #McGuireCenter paul frandsen @JCDanielsLab Dr. Akito Kawahara Caroline Storer PhD


Our lab meetings are fun! Today Amanda Markee organized an amazing Jeopardy on lab related topics! Trivia is a great way to learn about the lab and build lab team camaraderie!

Excited to announce many presentations at the upcoming #EntSoc23 meeting in Washington DC, from the Florida Museum #McGuireCenter and UF SNRE UF Department of Biology UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology. Stop by to see these great talks about butterflies, moths, etc!


A new course announcement! We will be teaching a course on the hot topic of #GlobalChange and #InsectDeclines in Spring 2024 FLORIDA. It's 2 credits, please join, still many spots open! Undergrad/Grad. Offered through many UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology UF Department of Biology UF SNRE UF IFAS Wildlife Please repost!


Going to ICE 2024 in Kyoto? Come check out a talk on Japanese #insect #anime, gacha-toys this afternoon at #EntSoc23 Entomological Society of America - Azalea 2, 2:30 pm