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MARCH 5, 2020

Congratulations to Hopkins Lab alumna, Sydney Hope!  Dr. Hope is the 2020 recipient for the Virginia Tech Graduate School’s Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Science, Technology, and Math category.  Her dissertation was titled “Consequences of avian parental incubation behavior for within-clutch variance in incubation temperature and offspring behavioral phenotypes.”

This prestigious recognition is awarded based on the originality of idea, clarity and effectiveness of presentation, quality of writing and significance of the contribution to the field.

Way to ...

January 14, 2020

Dr. Sydney Hope, Hopkins Lab alumna ‘2019, is off France to conduct her postdoctoral research at the Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de ChizĂ©. She is studying how subtle changes to the environment in which animals develop can have significant and long-term consequences for their morphology, physiology, behavior, and survival. Currently, she is investigating whether changes in the temperature at which zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) eggs are incubated affect offspring morphology and physiology shortly after hatching, as well ...

December 18, 2019

Sydney Hope successfully defended her dissertation on December 3 in Fralin Auditorium. Her public seminar was titled, “Consequences of avian parental incubation behavior for within-clutch variance in incubation temperature and offspring behavioral phenotypes”.  Sydney, a member of the Hopkins Lab, also graduates as a PhD Fellow of the Interfaces of Global Change Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program at Virginia Tech.

Sydney is now headed to the Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de ChizĂ© in France for a postdoctoral researcher ...

June 1, 2019

Dr. Brian Todd, a postdoctoral fellow in the Hopkins Lab in 2008-2009, has been promoted to the rank of Professor at the University of California Davis. Within the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, his research focuses on providing the best available science to understand and prevent the loss of biological diversity.

CONGRATULATIONS BRIAN!! 

Gaëlle Blanvillain (Incoming PhD student) and Valentina Alasaam (recent Hopkins lab Alum) both received Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation.  Gaëlle will be joining the Hopkins lab in August and will be studying the effects of land use and climate change on hellbenders.  Gaëlle joins two other current NSF GRF recipients in our lab, Sydney Hope and Brian Case.  Valentina worked in our lab for more than 4 years, and is now studying the ...