Author Archives: yfanslow

Funded PhD opportunities with real-world impact. The Gund Institute for Environment seeks outstanding PhD applicants interested in conducting interdisciplinary research on urgent global environmental issues. Students at the Gund get a deep understanding of complex global issues, hands-on training in … Continue reading →

Follow our lab adventures this summer on Instagram and Twitter! We are active this year in US, Mexico, and Canada. Lab Instagram: @InsectAgroEco Twitter: @Yolanda_H_Chen Jorge Ruiz-Arocho will spend the next 6 months studying if arthropod diversity differs between crops … Continue reading →

The Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, genome paper has just been published in Scientific Reports. Sean Schoville, University of Wisconsin and I coordinated a group of 58 scientists from 33 institutions to manually annotate the genome. Although the beetle has … Continue reading →

We celebrated Finland’s 100th birthday and the holidays with the McKay lab! Leena will sadly be leaving us soon. IAEL lab members at the party (Front: Sean, Jorge, Chase, Kristian, and Leena; Back: Andrea, Yolanda, and Lance).

Gund Institute Funded PhD Opportunities   POSITION: The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont (UVM) is recruiting exceptional PhD students for Fall 2018 to conduct interdisciplinary research on major global environmental challenges as part of a competitive PhD Research Assistantship … Continue reading →