2021

Prospecting for New Species of Large Mammals in Northern Amazonia

• Molly McDonough (Chicago State U.), in collaboration with Bruce Patterson (NIRC)

Biogeography, and Community Evolution of Permian and Triassic Southern and East African terrestrial ecosystems: a ‘Paleoinformatics’ approach

• Pia Viglietti (GBC), in collaboration with Ken Angielczyk (NIRC)

A RADseq approach to understand species delimitation and biogeography of Cladonia sandstedei (Abbayes) Ahti in the Caribbean

• Joel Mercado (NIRC/U. of Chicago)

Use of museum specimens to understand the impacts of Guinea-Congolese forest isolation and expansion on two ecologically divergent mammals

• Adam Ferguson (NIRC), in collaboration with Molly McDonough (Chicago State U.)

First Horse fly genome and Ultraconserved Elements (UCE) probe-set

• Maureen Turcatel (GFCC)

A comparative evolutionary analysis of endogenous viruses throughout Insecta

• Peter Flynn (NIRC/U. of Chicago)

Biogeography of Pitcairnia L’Her in the insular Caribbean

• Natalia Ruiz Vargas (UIC), in collaboration with Roberta Mason-Gamer (UIC)

Diversification & Evolutionary History of the Pyrrhura perlata complex (Aves: Psittaciformes: Arini)

• Taylor Hains (NIRC/U. of Chicago), in collaboration with John Bates (NIRC) and Shannon Hackett (NIRC)

Refactor existing standard data in the Emu database to support research products in S&E

• Sharon Grant (IT)

Population genomics and biogeography of an economically important Neotropical fish

• Caleb McMahan (GFCC)

Comparative Population Dynamics and Morphometrics of Brown Rats (Rattus norvegicus) vs Squirrels across the Chicagoland Region to Understand Urban Species Adaptation

• Noe De La Sancha (Chicago State U.), in collaboration with Felix Grewe (GBC)

Egg Shape Analysis Software

• Valentina Gomez (NIRC/UIC), in collaboration with John Bates (NIRC)

Accelerating the pace of scientific discovery: Uncovering hidden biodiversity using machine learning

• Matt Von Konrat (GFCC)

Rapid Inventory Team Grainger Bioinformatics Center Funding Proposal 2021

• Michelle Thompson, on behalf of the Science Action Center

Genome resequencing of an Enigmatic Arctic-Alpine Genus, Mountain-Avens (Dryas spp., Rosaceae)

• Dawson White (GBC), in collaboration with Rick Ree (GBC)

Evolutionary walks through ornamental phenotype space: Understanding constraint and innovation in diverse acoustic and visual phenotypes of kingfishers

• Chad Eliason (GBC), in collaboration with Shannon Hackett (NIRC)

West Nile Virus Epizootic in the FMNH’s Bird Collection: Evidence for Pathogen-driven Selection?

• Dylan Maddox (NIRC)