When a disease emerges in humans, sampling of animals, the environment and even people tends to be reactive, says KU Ecology & Evolutionary Biology KU Natural History Museum researcher Jocelyn P. Colella. PICANTE will act as an early warning system for pandemic prediction and prevention. news.ku.edu/2023/02/21/res…

After ~2 years of work, we share our results about the presence of M. leprae in tissues from #armadillos kept at #museum collections in the #US published in EID journal wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29… #leprosy #science #scicomm thks to Daniel Garzon-Chavez, Charlotte Avanzi, M Jackson, @ATP_biodiv

Phenomenal Panama expedition - the result of a beautiful and fun collaboration with the Gorgas Institute, UNM, KU, and the PICANTE Consortium. Much discovery awaits!

Biodiversity data from museums can train AI and other models of wildlife and zoonotic disease. Those models, importantly, will continue to improve with the growth and digitization of biodiversity collections worldwide. #CollectionsAreEssential #PICANTE journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

Thanks Jocelyn P. Colella!

Whales are overrated, how about a #smallmammal sighting at #IMC13

Newest Colella Lab member Danny Ibañez IV gave a stellar talk Irene Carton Danny tested the effect(s) of urbanization, traffic, and water availability on roost presence, abundance, and spp composition in New Mexico bridge hibernacula Am Soc Mammalogists

Happy to share our newest pub on the awesome Todiramphus kingfishers! We find mitonuclear discordance without gene flow & suggest this might be an overlooked phenomena, likely common in rapid radiations where waiting times btwn speciation events are short onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/F…

First local field trip with the whole crew!! Lucky to have such a fun and hardworking group of grad students Ben Wiens Danny Ibañez IV +Alex

triangulaR: an R package for identifying AIMs and building triangle plots using SNP data from hybrid zones biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Check out triangulaR, my new R package for building triangle plots! I explore how sample size of parental pops and allele frequency difference thresholds influence hybrid index and interclass heterozygosity estimates, see more here: github.com/omys-omics/tri… biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out my new preprint about how to use triangle plots to distinguish between admixture and isolation-by-distance!

Check out my new paper on rapid, non-invasive molecular identification of mammals from fecal samples using nanopore adaptive sampling 🧬 academic.oup.com/jmammal/articl…

If you're at the American Society of Mammalogists meeting this year, come see my talk tomorrow at 11:15, where I will be presenting on time-specific ecological niche models for 𝘡𝘺𝘨𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘢 the host for Calabazo Virus!

🚨ENMs differentiate Pacific from American pine martens in North America, with potential ecological displacement when the two species are in sympatry: tinyurl.com/mv4sxee2 Thanks to coauthors Nick Freymueller Danielle Land Ben Wiens + K. Stone + J. Cook

The Tongass Land Mgmt Plan (which reg's the Tongass NF in SE Alaska) is currently undergoing revision. To help inform that process, we reviewed the status of regional endemics & specimen capacities to measure change through time: doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.2… Toni Androski Ben Wiens

Brand new manuscript, led by Lucas DeCicco "Phylogeography of the Island Leaf Warbler Reveals Rapid Secondary Sympatry or Ecological Speciation". Totally open access in SSB Bulletin, learn more about the complex evolutionary history of this iconic group: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb…

I'm recruiting students / postdocs to join my new lab at the University of Rochester for Fall 2025 onwards! If you're interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, genome evolution, and/or computational biology, please get in touch! More info: mhibbins.github.io

Rolling blackouts ain't got nothing on MEPA (Museums and Emerging Pathogens in the Americas)! DNA extractions in the dark demonstrate how accessible this technology is in remote corners of the globe. #ONT #Nanopore

In the middle of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, the #Nanopore sequencer is officially running at our first MEPA Field Genomics Workshop!!