Lab News (Click to see latest updates)

  • January 2023, Michael Collyer was one of 505 scientists in the world to be elected an honorary fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. More info here.

  • January 2023, Allie Rutledge was awarded a student of the year award for her internship experience from PennACE!!

  • December 2022, New article accepted!! Burns, M.D., M.L. Collyer, & B.L. Sidlauskas. Simultaneous integration and modularity underlie the exceptional body shape diversification of characiform fishes. Evolution.

  • May 2022, New article accepted released!! Consilience of methods for phylogenetic analysis of variance. Evolution.

  • December 2021, An NSF OPUS Award has been awarded to Dr. Michael Collyer

  • October 2021, New article accepted released!! Collyer, M.L., E.K. Baken, & D.C. Adams. A standardized effect size for evaluating and comparing the strength of phylogenetic signal. Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Accepted) Now released!

  • September 2021, New article accepted early released!! Friedman, S.T., M.L. Collyer, S.A., Price, & P.C. Wainwright. Divergent processes drive parallel evolution in marine and freshwater fishes. Systematic Biology.

  • September 2021, New article accepted released!! Baken, E. K., M. L. Collyer, A. Kaliontzopoulou, & D. C. Adams. geomorph v4.0 and gmShiny: enhanced analytics and a new graphical interface for a comprehensive morphometric experience. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. (Accepted) Now released!

  • The gmShiny app is up and running. Check out the website!

  • New Lab Members! (Starting summer 2021)

    • Student Researchers: Lauryn Shamblee, Damiana Bradley Slagle

    • Lab Technician: Jordan Hooks

  • New website, May 2021

  • RRPP 1.0.0 and Geomorph 4.0.0 released, April 2021

  • Collyer & Adams, Phylogenetically aligned component analysis, MEE, published February 2021.

  • Dr. Erica Baken joined the lab as a postdoc, summer 2020