Insights into longevity and virus-driven adaptation from Myotis bat genomes — now in Nature.
Our assessment of climate adaptation potential in Canada lynx at the trailing edge of the range is published in Molecular Ecology.
Tanya gave an invited seminar at the University of Memphis on PINK1–PRKN mitophagy and lifespan in long-lived bats.
Two shrew papers with the Dávalos Lab: the pancreas of Aselli in BMC Biology, and the adaptive basis of brain size plasticity and chromosomal instability in Molecular Biology and Evolution (2026).
Invited talks at the Wellcome Sanger Institute (Understanding Life) and Longevity Biotech in Boston.
Welcome to Andrew Spencer (M.S.) and Beatrice Tauer (Honors), who are launching the lab’s work on desert adaptation in the golden spiny mouse, Acomys russatus.
Congratulations to Margaret Weber (M.S. ’25), now a Ph.D. candidate in the Teeling Lab at University College Dublin, and to Mary Ann Martinez Molina (’25), now a Ph.D. student in the Shaw Lab at the University of Notre Dame.
Reference-quality bat genomes reveal adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance — now in Nature.
Margaret Weber gave a platform talk on protein homeostasis in long-lived bats at the North American Society for Bat Research in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Our policy forum on updating the U.S. Endangered Species Act for the genomic era is published in Science.
The Wildlife Genomics Lab opens at Smith College.