About SaBR
SaBR (Systematics and Biogeographic Research) is a student-led group at the University of Nevada Las Vegas interested in uncovering the evolutionary patterns and processes of biotas. Our group serves as a forum for learning data analysis, exchanging ideas, demystifying coalescent theory, incorporating ecology into a historical context, and eliciting arguments. We hold a weekly meeting that includes members presenting their research as well as leading tutorials on the latest cutting-edge software and analysis trends, e.g. data partitioning in MrBayes. Although the group is run by students, we invite all researchers interested in biogeography to participate in our group.
"An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullshit."
- General George Patton Jr
News 2009:
- Tereza, Jef, and Brett have a paper in the Journal of Mammalogy on the phylogeography of the Desert Pocket Mouse [link]
- Adam, Derek, Mallory, and Stacy were recognized for their oral or poster presentations at the UNLV Graduate & Professional Student Annual Research Forum
- Sean received the Elmer C. Birney Award from the American Society of Mammalogists for his paper “Diversification of silky pocket mice in the Perognathus flavus species-group: implications for the biogeography of North American arid grasslands.”
- Tereza received an award for a best student poster presentation at the Fourth International Biogeography Society Conference, which was held in Mérida, Yucatán, México, January 8-12, 2009.
- Tereza and Javier have a paper in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society on the comparative phylogeography of two Anolis species [link]
- School of Life Sciences Graduate achievements for 2008 can be viwed here. Notice, that SaBR members did pretty well.
