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Postdoc receives Fellowship

Dr. Laura Brannelly, a Postdoc in the RZ lab, was recently awarded the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council. This prestigious fellowship is designed to support excellent basic and applied research, and advance promising early career researchers. This is a fantastic opportunity for Laura, but bitter-sweet for […]

New Postdoc joins the lab

  Dr. Karie Altman has joined the Richards-Zawacki lab as a postdoctoral research associate. Karie recently received her PhD from Oakland University in Michigan, where she studied disease ecology and thermal biology. Prior to her PhD work, Karie received a BS from Madonna University. Welcome to the R-Z lab Karie!

New publication in Science

Defying disease: Panama’s frogs are fighting back Many infectious diseases can fade away after initial outbreaks. Bubonic plague, cholera, and influenza are examples from recent human history. The same phenomenon occurs for wildlife diseases as well. How does this happen? One popular explanation is that the pathogen evolves to become less deadly, so […]