06/22/2026
A postdoc on several different projects in population genomics and/or epigenetics is now available in my lab. See https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/sites/dewoody/lab-members/potential-students/ and https://careers.purdue.edu/job/Post-Doc-Research-Assistant/42765-en_US/?st=09562B93BB96A38F9C7BEFD0EA05FB1D79640FAB for more info. Interested applicants should email a CV formatted as a PDF.
04/30/2026
I'm happy to say that Natalie Allen's first dissertation chapter--on Western Chicken Turtles--has just been published in Conservation Genetics. Congrats to Natalie and all her coauthors!
Whole genome resequencing data provide high-resolution conservation insights into population structure and life history - Conservation Genetics
Whole genome resequencing can be a powerful tool for uncovering biological insights and quantifying population genomic metrics relevant to conservation. These insights have the potential to be most profound in secretive or elusive species that are understudied but whose populations may be waning. Th...
04/14/2026
Congrats to Dr. Jong Yoon Jeon on a great dissertation and even better defense! One of his chapters has already been designated a Top Cited Article; you can read it here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eva.70000
Thanks to Drs. Nina Therkildsen, Barny Dunning & Jessica Gurevitch for their outstanding advisory committee service!