Insect Symbiosis and Evolution
Lab News
// Endemic Hawaiian Leafhopper Picture Book is now available
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// We are recruiting graduate students to study the effects of climate change on insects and their microbes. This opportunity is part of our NSF-BII-INSITE
Contact: Gordon Bennett
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Aug/2026
Dr. Reo Maynard successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation: Evolutionary genomics of obligate endosymbiosis across insects, with insights from ants of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains
July/2026
Younghwan Kwak's paper on within-individual insect endosymbiont variation and evolution is officially out! Check it out:
Jan/2026
Deepika Gunasekaran published her rotation project with collaborators from UC Berkeley in Genomic Biology and Evolution! Check it out:
Jan/2026
Reo Maynard published his first paper, the first dissertation chapter in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology! Check it out:
Dec/2025
Miguel Estrada Caballero, Greg Biddle, and Gordon Bennett conducted field work on Kauai. It was a productive trip. Found a new record of a species on the beach - no joke!
July/2025
Miguel Estrada Caballero, Greg Biddle, and Gordon Bennett conducted field work on Maui in Haleakala National Park. They collaborated with National Park staff and researchers.
July/2025
Greg Biddle joined the lab as PhD graduate student and INSITE scholar
May/2025
Dr. Heather Stever successfully defended her Ph.D. and graduated. It was a terrific seminar and a well-deserved accomplishment. She's now off to new frontiers.
