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 2007:
- Several SaBR members were awarded grants from GPSA for Spring 2008.
- Tereza and Javier have a paper in MPE (Link)
- Derek, Sean and Tereza submitted NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (DDIG). Nothing to celebrate yet, but still ....
- Adam has passed his oral examinations to PhD candidacy. Great job, Adam !!!
- Markus Mika received the William Anderson Student
Presentation Award at the 2007 Raptor Research Foundation Annual Conference on
his presentation: Population genetics and evolutionary history of the Flammulated Owl (Otus flammeolus)
- Robert William Bryson Junior has successfully passed his oral examinations to PhD. candidacy further securing his place among Mexican Herpetologists. Check out his pictorial essay on how he found his comps to be similar to his trip to Ecuador. Congrats Junior!
- Rob has a paper in Journal of Herpetology discussing taxonomic confusion of cantils in southeastern Mexico (Link)
- Rob published his Master's research on the molecular phylogenetic relationships of Mexican kingsnakes in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Link)
- Tereza and Javier have a paper in the Journal of Biogeography (Link)
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Jef and Brett have a new paper in Evolution about incomplete lineage sorting and introgression in Crotaphytid lizards (Link)
- John and his recently graduated PhD. student Garth have a paper in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution resolving the longstanding taxonomic uncertainty in family Cardinalidae (Link)
