News archive
Fall/Winter/Summer 2022
Welcome to Emma Menchions, a new MSc student, and Micah Freedman, a new post-doc joining the Angert Lab this Fall
Congratulations to Mackenzie for being awarded Student Research Awards from the American Society of Naturalists and the Botanical Society of America!!!
Welcome to Lauren McBurnie and welcome back to Juniper Maloff, both pursuing undergraduate research projects this Summer 2022
Congratulations to Juniper for defending their stellar Honors thesis this April 2022!
Welcome to Nathalie Chardon, Joey Bernhardt, and Courtney Collins, three new post-docs joining the Angert Lab this Fall
Fall/Winter/Summer 2021
Congratulations to Katie for advancing to candidacy this December 2021!
Congratulations to Haley for being awarded a 2021 BSA Graduate Student Research Award!!!
Congratulations to Mackenzie for being awarded a 2021 Lewis and Clark Fund for Field Exploration and Research grant!!!
Congratulations to Katie for being awarded WNPS and Mazama Society Research Grants for Summer 2021!!!
Congratulations to Takuji for being awarded a 2021 ASN Student Research Award!!!
Haley and Daniel have a new paper published in Evolution Letters
Welcome to Graydon Gillies, and Juniper Maloff who will be NSERC USRA students with the lab for Summer 2021!
Welcome to Xianyu Yang, a PhD student visiting from ECNU in Shanghai to work on the demographic trajectories of tree species under climate change
Congratulations to Mackenzie for advancing to candidacy this February 2021!
Fall/Winter/Summer 2020
In spite of all the COVID-realted obstacles, Katie had a super successful first field season. Go Katie!
Congratulations to Mackenzie for being awarded a 2020 SSE Graduate Research Excellence Grant (R.C. Lewontin Early Award) and a 2020 FCRF-L'Oréal Canada Award
Congrats to Olivia Rahn, Graydon Gillies, and Emma Menchions for winning NSERC USRA awards with the lab for Summer 2020!
Welcome to Katie Goodwin who started her PhD in January 2020!
Fall/Winter 2019
Haley and Takuji both aced their comprehensive exams in Summer 2019 - congrats!!
Congrats to Olivia Rahn, Rylan McCallum, and Natalie Maslowski for winning Independent Undergraduate Research Awards with the lab for Summer 2019!
Congratulations to Takuji for being awarded a SSE Graduate Research Excellence Grant (R.C. Lewontin Early Award) in the Spring 2019 competition
We've had an influx of new people! Mackenzie Urquhart-Cronish is starting her PhD and Rassim Khelifa has joined us as a PDF
Megan has a new paper in press at Evolution Letters
Megan successfully defended her thesis and is heading to UC Davis for postdoctoral work with Sharon Strauss, Jennifer Gremer, and Johanna Schmitt. Congratulations!
Former Post-doc, Chris Muir, is starting up his lab at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in January 2019. Check out his new lab website!
Rachel Germain is starting up her lab at the University of British Columbia in January 2019. Check out her new lab website!
Fall/Winter 2016
- New Biodiversity/ Killam postdoctoral fellow Rachel Germain arrived in September. Welcome, Rachel!
- Chris M. returned from a long field season in California with a van packed floor-to-ceiling with samples. Let the weighing begin!
- 2016 range-wide demography census for M. cardinalis is in the books. Southern populations are still hurting from the record drought.
- Amy just returned from a fun seminar visit to Penn State.
- The countdown is on: Barb and Rachel will be defending their MSc theses this term.
- New paper in press: Pironon et al. Biological Reviews, "Geographic variation in genetic and demographic performance: new insights from an old biogeographical paradigm."
Fall/Winter 2015
- We are excited to host Xiaojun Kou and Kristin Mercer while they visit UBC on sabbatical.
- Megan and Chris M. recently launched large-scale field transplants. N=32,000 and counting!
- Amy will be visiting Uppsala in October to give seminars.
- Chris K., Rachel, and their able crew completed resurveying all 400 legacy vegetation plots in the North Cascades!
- Congrats to Matt for successfully defending is MSc thesis (and landing a job)!
- Papers recently out: Bontrager & Angert AJB, Muir Proc Roy Soc B, Muir & Thomas-Huebner Am Nat, Sheth & Angert Am Nat, Louthan et al. TREE
Fall 2014
Summer 2014
- Seema successfully defended her PhD and is off to start her postdoc in Minnesota. Congratulations, Dr. Sheth!
- Rachel, Chris K., and Amy are headed into the field to launch the Cascades Resurvey project in collaboration with the HilleRisLambers Lab.
- Matthew successfully transplanted M. cardinalis into 10 sites at and beyond its northern range limit in Oregon.
- Megan is hunting for the lovely Clarkia pulchella in BC and WA.
- Chris represented the lab at the Mimulus meeting, held in conjuction with the Evolution meetings in Raleigh.
- Amy participated in a CIEE working group in Regina on "Canada's Phylogenetic Diversity in a Changing World."
- Papers recently accepted: Sheth et al., J Biogeog; Sheth & Angert, Evolution.
Spring 2014
- Lots of new people are on their way! Rachel Wilson will be joining the lab as a MSc student, Chris Kopp and Anna Hargreaves will be starting postdocs, and Risa Sargent and Xiaojun Kou will be spending sabbatical.
- Megan passed her comprehensive exam with flying colours, and Matthew successfully defended his proposal. Congrats to both of them!
- Seema's defense date is set, and she will be starting her postdoc in Ruth Shaw's lab at the University of Minnesota this fall!
- Qin just returned from the Bodega Bay Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics, and she also found M. douglasii in bloom!
- Chris gave a seminar at the Harvard University Herbaria (and ran the Boston Marathon!)
- Amy is heading to UC Davis for a seminar in May.
- We'll be at lots of meetings this summer: a CIEE working group, the Mimulus meeting and SSE, the Gordon Conference Unifying Ecology Across Scales, and ESA.
