May 2008. Timery DeBoer and Elizabeth Jones leave for the Philippines to set up a lab at De La Salle University as part of the PIRE project. Timery will spend a full year in the Philippines.
May 2008 . Joshua Drew is award an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioinformatics.
April 2008. Former Diversity Project participants Alexis Jackson (UCSC) and Marta Munoz (Harvard), as well as former intern Kim Tenggardjaja (UCSC) are accepted into Ph.D. programs. We're so proud!
March 2008 . Mara Phelan, Sonia Ibarra, Eric Womack and Veronica Chaidez are selected as 2008 particpants in The Diversity Proejct.
March 1008 . Joshua Drew successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis.
February 2008. After 6 weeks of trying Paul Barber finally gets a reliable internet connection in Bali and can update the website!
January 2008. Craig Starger joins the lab as a postdoc to head up PIRE grant activities in Indonesia and the Philippines.
January 2008. Paul Barber and family head to Indonesia for 10 months to complete work on NSF CAREER grant and start activities on NSF PIRE grant.
January 2008. Timery DeBoer has a paper on Tridacna crocea accepted to Conservation Biology.
December 2007 . Joshua Drew gets a paper on genetic diversification of central Pacific fishes accepted to Conservation Biology.
December 2007. Eric Crandall successfully defends his thesis, becoming the first Ph.D. student to graduate from the Barber Lab. In January he begins his postdoc at ODU with Kent Carpenter.
September 2007. Elizabeth Jones, presents her research at the American Fisheries Society meeting in San Francisco, California.
August 2007. Lab recieves an NSF PIRE grant in collaboration with Kent Carpenter at Old Dominion University and Pat Halpin at Duke University.
July 2007 . Joshua Drew presents his thesis work at the Conservation Biology meetings in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
June 2007. Eric Crandall presents his thesis work at the Society for the Study of Evolution meetings in Christchuch, New Zealand.
May 2007 . Shinta Pardede successfully defends her thesis and returns to Indonesia. Selamat jalan Shinta!
May 2007. Rogelio Alvillar, Samantha Cheng, Robert Lasley, Alyssa Brayshaw and Luke Stevens join the lab for the summer
April 2007. Megan Mach and Benita Chick successfully defend their theses. Congratulations!
April 2007. Diversity Project alumnus Martha Munoz is awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.
March 2007. Rogelio Alvillar, Samantha Cheng, and Robert Lasley are selected for the 2007 Diversity Project.
January 2007. Former Diversity Project student Matthew Subia presents his Diversity Project research at ASLO.
January 2007. Kimberly Tenggardjaja joins the lab for a 6 month internship.
December 2006. Joshua Drew and Eric Crandall receive travel award to attend International Biogeographic Society meeting in the Canary Islands.
October 2006. Students in the Molecular Ecology and Evolution course examine patterns of genetic structure across the Indo-Pacific in 6 species of marine fish and invertebrates.
October 2006. New paper is published in Evolution "Comparative phylogeography of three co-distributed stomatopods: origins and timing of regional lineage diversification in the coral triangle".
October 2006: Alexis Jackson does her first dive on the submersible Alvin.
September 2006. Elizabeth Jones, Megan Mach, and Tim Werner join the lab as graduate students.
August 2006. BUMP Program relocates to the Charles River Campus of Boston University. We'll miss Woods Hole.
August 2006. Krystle Chavarria, Alexis Jackson and Matthew Subia present their research at the Young Investigators Symposium portion of the MBL general scientific meetings. Visit their websites to see their presentations
August 2006. Joshua Drew and Craig Starger head to Indonesia to conduct field work with Shinta Pardede in Sumatra and Komodo.
June 2006. Martha Munoz presents her Diversity Project research at the Evolution meetings in Stony Brook.
June 2006. Krystle Chavarria, Alexis Jackson and Matthew Subia join the lab for The Diversity Project and conduct field work in Bali, Lombok and Nusa Lembongan with Paul, Shinta Pardede, and our collaborators from Diponegoro University.
April 2006. Shinta Pardede heads to Indonesia to do diversity surveys in the Fak-Fak and Kaimana regions of Western Papua, Indonesia
March 2006. Joshua Drew and Eric Crandall are awarded the Palmer-McCloud Fellowship. Congratulations!
February 2006. Joshua Drew and Eric Crandall head to ASLO meetings in Hawaii, then to the South Pacific for 6 weeks of field work.
January 2006. Megan Mach joins the lab for a 4 month internship.
October 2005. Joshua Drew is awarded Humes Alumni Award to do field work in the Solomon Islands.
October 2005. Newest lab member, Nicholas Salvatierra Barber-Choi is born.
September 2005. Elizabeth Jones defends M.S. thesis at College of Charleston.
September 2005. Paul Barber travels to Panama for a Marine Barcoding of Life workshop at STRI.
joins the lab all the way from Indonesia. Selamat Datang, Shinta.
August 2005. Benita Chick is awarded Lerner-Gray grant. Congratulations Benita!
July 2005. Eric Crandall is awarded National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and will spend the winter doing field work in the South Pacific. Congrats Eric!
spends summer in Fiji collecting fish for his dissertation work, in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society.
June 2005. Paul Barber is awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
May/June 2005. Martha Muñoz and Bolanle Akinronbi join the lab for the first year of Lab travels to Halmahera, Indonesia, for two weeks of field work. Benita stays the whole summer.
March/April 2005. Lab travels to Krakatau, Pulau Seribu, and Manado for six weeks of field work.