Lots of action this past summer and fall in the Tollis Lab:
Sienna Hatfield graduated and worked in the lab the rest of the summer.
In June 2025 Dr. Tollis and Dr. John Neddermeyer traveled to the Evolution 2025 conference in Athens, GA.
Emma Hagen spent the summer amassing GIS and WorldClim datasets for various projects and is continuing this work on an Interns To Scholars-funded project.
Our paper with Drs. Yagmur Erten (Univ. Groningen) and Hanna Kokko (Univ. Mainz) linking cancer resistance to the origins of birds was published in PLoS Computational Biology.
Dr. Tollis is teaching CS506: Data Wrangling and Management, an new course taught in R with a web book.
Dr. Tollis published a review paper on what is known about squamate evolutionary history and genomics with collaborators Drs. Tiago Simões (Princeton) and Frank T. Burbrink (AMNH).
SKINK TIME: Nicholas Osborn joined the lab to help build phenotypic, ecological, and genomic datasets for skinks
Dr. Sergei Kosushkin joined the lab in September to start his Fulbright scholarship working on SINE evolution in squamates.
In November 2025, Drs. Tollis and Neddermeyer spent a week at AMNH and Princeton University as part of our squamate innovations NSF grant.