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