Author: Anthony Geneva

  • Congratulations Caden!

    Congratulations to Caden Comsa for their successful dissertation proposal! We’re very excited to see what Caden’s work on the conservation genomics of Chilabothrus boas will find!

  • Congratulations Alyssa!

    Big congratulations to Alyssa Vanerelli who successfully completed her qualifying exam. She is now an NRT Fellow and CCIB PhD Candidate! We are excited to see what your research finds now that classes and teaching are behind you.

  • Welcome Dr. Taft!

    After successfully submitting his dissertation at the University of Witwatersrand, Dr. Jody Taft has joined the lab to contribute to our NSF-funded work on anole genomes. Welcome Jody!

  • Congratulations Dr. Devon Main!

    Visiting scholar Dr Devon Main receives his PhD from the University of Johannesburg! His thesis was a phylogenomic investigation into the evolution of Southern African dwarf chameleons (Bradypodion). Some of his notable findings were mitonuclear discordance pointing to a mitochondrial capture event between two species roughly 3 million years ago and widespread nuclear introgression within…

  • New Post-Doc

    After receiving her PhD at Harvard University, Dr. Inbar Maayan received the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology! Her research in the Geneva Lab will focus on the evolution and phylogeography of Jamaican Anolis lizards. See her website for more information about her exciting research!

  • New MS Students

    Master’s Students MacKenna Durbin (Biology) and Regan Kenia (CCIB) join the Geneva Lab! Check out People to read more about their exciting research studying adenoviruses.

  • PhD Students Present at JMIH

    PhD students Alyssa Vanerelli, Cleo Falvey, and Caden Comsa presented their research at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (JMIH) in Norfolk, VA! They shared their exciting research studying parallel evolution in Anolis sagrei, assembling atadenovirus whole-genomes, and assembling Anolis mitochondrial genomes. See People for more information about each of their projects.

  • New PhD Students

    Alyssa Vanerelli and Caden Comsa have been accepted into the CCIB PhD program and will continue their research in the Geneva Lab!

  • Congratulations, Graduates!

    Three Geneva Lab students successfully defended their projects and were awarded Master of Science Degrees this year.

  • New Faces in the Lab

    The lab has grown since last year! Joining current Master’s students Caden Comsa and Andrew Ebenezer are three new people. Sashoya Dougan is an undergraduate Fellow in the NIH MARC program, Cleo Falvey is a new PhD student awarded an NSF GRFP fellowship, and Alyssa Vanerelli is a PostBac Researcher funded by an NSF REPS…

  • Genomics Social Hour talk

    I was honored at the invitation to speak at this week’s California Academy of Science’s Genomics Social Hour. The topic of the week was Adaptive Radiation on Islands and included talks by Christine Parent and Matthew Knope and me. If you missed it, talks from the social hour are archived on YouTube. Many thanks to…

  • New Paper on Glacier Biodiversity

    Just published in Scientific Reports a description of the animal phyla inhabiting New Zealand’s glaciers. Led by Rutgers–Camden colleague Dan Shain, we describe the presence and diversity of metazoan lineages using phylogenetic and haplotype analyses revealing five animal phyla and multiple distinct lineages with tardigrades and rotifers.

  • New Paper in Breviora!

    Now online in Breviora, a paper led by former undergraduate Emmanuel D’Agostino investigating behavioral reproductive isolation between island populations of Anolis sagrei. Emmanuel watched and carefully analyzed hundred of hours of lizard videos to test if lizards from different islands were more or less likely to mate. He found strikingly little difference among islands but…

  • Dovetail Webinar

    Earlier this summer Anthony presented a webinar as part of the Dovetail Genomics Webinar series. The talk gives some background on our work and includes preliminary results from our efforts creating new genome assemblies from across the diversity of Anolis lizards. It’s online here if you want to check it out.