Welcome to our new postdoc, Emily Rhus, who will join us in March and work on our immune scaling project.
Meredith, Marty and Clint Francis will host a symposium on light pollution at the 2019 AOS meeting in Anchorage, AK.
Meredith's light pollution work gets some nice coverage.
Marty joins American Naturalist as an Associate Editor and Conservation Physiology as an editorial board member.
Nice production by USF COPH on our work on immune scaling.
Marty was elected a Fellow of AAAS.
Meredith's new paper in Integrative and Comparative Biology was featured by USF COPH.
Marty, Kate Buchanan and colleagues from all over Australia were invited to write a paper for Trends in Ecology and Evolution on extreme host competence.
Congrats to Haley for winning a Hesse award from the American Ornithologists Union.
Effective May 31, 2018, the Martin lab will move to USF Global and Planetary Health.
Haley received Honorable Mention for her NSF GRFP proposal on epigenetic potential in house sparrows.
Haley earned a Chapman Grant on house sparrow epigenetic potential from the American Museum of Natural History.
Congrats to Jaime Zolik - she has been recruited into the USF CAS Dean's Student Leadership Society.
Congrats to Holly for successfully defending her dissertation.
Lab alum Britt Leigh finished her PhD with Larry Dishaw and Mya Breitbart and will soon start a postdoc at Vanderbilt.
Lab alum Samantha Murphy was accepted into med school at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine.
Cool interview with lab alum, Dr. Dre.
Marty was promoted to Professor, April 24, 2017.
Intriguing ideas by colleagues on coinfection dynamics using our work on stress and West Nile virus as a basis for their arguments.
Neat feature on Meredith here
Congrats to Holly for winning the 2016 Mushinsky Award in the USF IB grad program!
Meredith and Haley earned Sigma Xi award to support their dissertation research.
Marty, Cynthia Downs, Rays Jiang, and Ray Ball (Lowry Park Zoo) were just awarded 4 years of support by NSF-IOS to investigate the effects of body mass on the organization of innate immunity in terrestrial mammals.
More press on our mosquito choice work.
Front page of the Tampa Bay Times Local section!
Lots of press coverage for Steph's new paper in Proc B including this interview.
Sarah successfully defended her thesis and earned her MS.
Amber successfully defended her dissertation and earned her PhD.
Sarah was just invited to write a paper on parasite tolerance for Trends in Parasitology.
Nice write-up in Bioscience about Ecoimmunology and the work in the Martin lab! Thanks Vanessa!
Holly and Sarah earned additional grants through the Porter Family Foundation. Three in the span of 3 weeks - wow!
Marty was quoted in Science for a paper on life history and disease competence by Han and colleagues.
Holly and Sarah earned AOU grants to support their graduate research.
Amber, Holly and Sarah all earned Sigma Xi grants for their graduate research with funding rates for the cycle being only 17%.
Sarah successfully defended her proposal and advanced to MS candidacy.
Former Martin lab Honor's student Chloe Josefon, now a PhD student in Haruka Wada's lab, received an NSF GRFP.
Travis Bautista will join Ben Dantzer's lab in Fall 2015 to begin pursuing his PhD.
Steph was accepted into the Methods in Ecological Genomics Analysis workshop this summer at the Mote Tropical Research lab.
Former Martin lab Honor's student, Alex Urban, will earn her DVM from U of Florida this spring.
As of January 2016, Marty will be the new Editor-in-Chief of Integrative and Comparative Biology, the journal of SICB.
Our NSF-supported collaboration with the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) has begun. Each Saturday and Sunday, you can see˜Pick Your Brain" a gameshow on disease ecology, a Science Works Theater project.
Our Kenya work was featured in Science. Read more here.
Marty was selected as a Fulbright Specialist for Argentina; in 2015, he visited the Universidad Nacional del Litoral to work and teach several courses with Andrea Previtali and Pablo Beldomenico.
Congrats to Martyna for successfully defending her MS thesis on early-life stress and female choice.
Marty was elected Chair of the new Division of Ecoimmunology and Disease Ecology within SICB.
Steffanie was awarded a prestigious Hollings Scholarship from NOAA.
Courtney was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship to study the interface between livestock and wild buffalo in South Africa at the University of Praetoria.
Holly successfully defended her dissertation proposal and advanced to candidacy.
Amber was elected President of the Biology Graduate Student Organization in USF IB.
Travis Bautista was selected to a summer REU program in Woods Hole.
Be on the lookout for Integrative Organismal Biology, a book edited by Marty, Art Woods and Cam Ghalambor, due out December 2015. Here is the Table of Contents. Thanks to the contributors for such exciting chapters!
Congrats to Courtney Coon, the newest Martin lab PhD!
Martyna was featured in a piece by Hobart and William Smith College about her coauthoring of a book chapter on disease in urban birds.
Check out the piece in Science about the new Division of Ecoimmunology and Disease Ecology in the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology!
Congrats to Martyna who earned a Sigma Xi GIAR to support her MS work!
Some press for research on Toll-like receptor expression in Kenyan house sparrows.
Doug Barron will join the Shimizu and Martin labs as a postdoc in summer 2014. Welcome Doug!
Marty was invited to a NASA/NSF workshop in December 2013 on Stress in the healthy animal.
Some coverage here and here for a recent collaboration between the Rohrand Martin labs on enduring effects of atrazine on infections in frogs.
Former Martin lab member, Justin Trotter, will begin a postdoc at Stanford in the lab of new Nobel laureate, Thomas Sudof.
Steph Gervasi will join the Martin and Unnasch labs as a postdoc to collaborate on studies of corticosterone and West Nile virus infection in birds.
As of Fall 2014, Marty will take over the Graduate Director position from Henry Mushinsky for USF Integrative Biology.
An Ecology paper by John Parker and colleagues was recently recognized on the Faculty of 1000.
Congrats to Andrea, the first Martin lab PhD! Way to go Dr. Dre!
Bo Everett, former undergrad on Project ZEFI, was just accepted into the Disney Conservation Internship program.
Marty and Tom Unnasch have been awarded four years of support by NSF-IOS for research on stress hormones and West Nile virus in birds.
Welcome to Sarah Huber, from the lab of Travis Wilcoxen at Millikin University, who will join the Martin lab as an MS student in Fall 2013.
Chloe successfully defended her Honors thesis on integrator networks in house sparrows.
Courtney received a Tharpe Fellowship to support her over summer 2013 at USF.
Holly received support from the Global Invasives RCN (led by Ruth Hufbauer and Mark Torchin) to travel to U Texas and work with the Phelps lab.
Amber successfully defended her PhD proposal on brown anole ecophysiology and advanced to candidacy.
Andrea accepted a post-doc position in the lab of Andy Russell at the University of Exeter where she will be working on Australian babblers
Chloe was accepted to the competitive cellular and molecular bioscience graduate rotation program at Auburn.
Steffanie was accepted into a summer REU program at Kansas State to study nesting in sparrows.
Marty was interviewed by ABC Action News about the African land snail problem and what makes for nasty invasive species.
Chloe was accepted to a PhD program at Auburn U to work with Haruka Wada.
Martyna successfully defended her MS proposal.
Marty and Christina Richards wrote an article on epigenetics for The Conversation.
Andrea, Christina Richards and Aaron Schrey were quoted in Nature for the SICB symposium they hosted last week.
Amber and Holly were just awarded grants from Sigma Xi for their research!
Courtney and Jim Adelman were invited to host a symposium on urban disease ecology at the 2013 ESA meeting.
Marty, Roi Dor and Aaron Schrey were invited to contribute a full proposal to an NSF-Israeli BSF funding opportunity on Invasiveness via phenotypic plasticity in house sparrows.
Press coverage here and there for the review article on behavioral epigenetics!
Finally, an invited review on behavioral epigenetics was published in Behavioral Ecology.
Former Honors student, Allesandra Araujo, was accepted to an MS program at Illinois State where she will work with Robin Warne.
Andrea received good news coverage about her stress hormones and behavior in Kenyan house sparrows paper in PRSB Bio.
A collaboration with Jim Rivers and Matt Betts at Oregon State and Jen Owen at Michigan State on stress hormone correlates of fitness in migratory thrushes was highlighted on ScienceDaily.
Amber was invited by Marshall McCue to speak in a SICB 2014 symposium on her research involving resource allocation in Kenyan house sparrows.
Amber was awarded support from the RCNE to travel to Scott McWilliams lab to learn how to quantify stable isotopes in house sparrow tissues.
Andrea was awarded an NSF-DDIG to complete her thesis work on Kenya!
Andrea had a chapter of her thesis accepted to Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, on exploratory behavior, corticosterone and range expansion in Kenyan house sparrows.
Official word today: Marty will be tenured and promoted to Associate Professor, effective August 7, 2012.
A paper with Jen Owen at Michigan State on corticosterone effects on West Nile infection in Northern Cardinals has earned the Highly Accessed indicator from BioMed Central.
Holly is featured in the USF College of Arts and Sciences news for earning an NSF GRFP.
Allesandra, Brittany, and Desirae successfully defended their Honors theses and graduated with their BS degrees from USF.
Brittany presented her Honor’s thesis work on Thesis Day in the Honor’s College.
Brittany presented her Honor’s thesis research at the USF Undergraduate Research forum.
Amber, Andrea and Courtney gave a talk on our Kenyan house sparrow research at the Rotary Club in Nakuru, Kenya.
Holly Kilvitis, a former undergraduate researcher in the Martin lab, won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support her PhD studies in the Martin and Richards’ labs, beginning Fall 2012.Â
Marty, Art Woods, and Cameron Ghalambor have contracted with Wiley to edit a book entitled, Integrative Organismal Biology.
Courtney will travel to Extremadura, Spain in early 2012 to learn experimental avian malaria infections from Alfonso Marzal with support from the RCN in Ecoimmunology.
Marty and Martyna were funded by the USF College of Arts and Sciences to conduct preliminary work determining whether variation in disease prevalence in Northern Cardinals along urban-rural gradients is impacted by host physiology.
Andrea and former lab member Justin Trotter received a Graduate Student Challenge Grant from USF to investigate neurogenesis and range expansion in Kenyan house sparrows.
Former lab member, Paul Snyder, just joined Vanessa Ezenwa’s lab at the University of Georgia.
Brittany Leigh was featured on Fox Tampa Bay news for shark research she conducted during her REU internship at Mote Marine lab this summer.
Cris, Marty and Christina Richards were invited to submit a review on behavioral ecological epigenetics at Behavioral Ecology
Cris was just invited to the NESCent Evolutionary Quantitative Geneticscourse in August 2011.
Courtney was invited to participate in the MalariaRCN workshop in Shepherdstown, WV.
Cris just had a review on developmental plasticity as a source of evolutionary innovation accepted at PRSB Bio.
Former lab member Liz Andreassi was accepted into the George Washington Public Health graduate program in Microbiology.
Brittany S. had an Opinion piece accepted at Trends in Parasitology on the regulation of inflammation.
Cris published a review, Emerging systems in eco-evo-devo: the spadefoot toad, in Evolution and Development.
Courtney was accepted into the Evolution workshop at the Ecology of Infectious Disease meeting in Santa Barbara, June 2011.
Liz Andreassi accepted a position at GeneDX in Gaithersburg, MD.
Andrea was awarded a Sigma-Xi GIAR to support her PhD research.
Brittany received another Marc Dresden student award from the American Society of Parasitologists to present at the annual meeting in Anchorage, AK.
Marty was quoted in an article about an outbreak of ecoimmunology in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Brittany Leigh accepted an REU position at Mote Marine lab to continue her research in shark immunology.
Martyna Boruta and Amber Brace will join the Martin lab in Fall 2011 to pursue PhDs.
Staci and Paul presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Ithaca, NY.
Paul Snyder just accepted a summer field tech position at the Cary Institute with Rick Ostfeld.
Marty led a round-table discussion on Evolutionary Ecology meets immunology at the University of Georgia, Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute.
Alex Urban was accepted into veterinary school at the University of Florida and will start Fall 2011.
The special Ecological Immunology issue of Functional Ecology edited by Marty, Dan Ardia and Dana Hawley is now out. Thanks to all contributors for their excellent work! The issue is highlighted here.
Brittany Sears just won Best Talk in the Division of Ecology and Evolution at the 2011 SICB meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The RCN in Ecoimmunology was mentioned in an article in The Scientist.
Congrats to Andrea and Brittany S. for winning a SICB Grant-in-Aid of Research! They were among only about 20 winners this year!
Courtney published her first, 1st-authored paper in the American Journal of Physiology, Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology.
Four undergraduates (Elizabeth Andreassi, Amber Brace, Laura Kidd, and Paul Snyder) all graduated this past weekend.
Laura Kidd successfully defended her thesis on captivity effects on acute phase responses in house sparrows.
Marty and Courtney wrote a Perspectives article for Science on amazing work from the Andrea Graham lab.
Marty won a 2010 University Outstanding Research Award from USF.
Marty was quoted in the Roanoke Times regarding work by colleague Jason Davis at Radford.
Marty and Courtney attended the Global Invasions Network meeting at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
A paper that Andrea and Marty co-authored was chosen by the Faculty of 1000. Congratulations and thanks to our collaborators, Bob Cox and Ryan Calsbeek!
Brittany (Leigh) was just accepted into the Marine Immunology winter internship at Mote Marine lab.
Brittany just published her first peer-reviewed article, this one on seahorse parasites.
Andrea was invited to speak in a special symposium on long-term effects of stressors at the International Ornithological Congress in Brazil.
Courtney won a Graduate Women in Science SDE Fellowship. Her application was one of the top 10 of 266. Great job!!
Brittany received a Marc Dresden student award from the American Society of Parasitologists to attend and present at their annual meeting in Colorado Springs.
Andrea just received an AOU Research Award for her thesis research on Kenyan house sparrow behavioral endocrinology.
Cris Ledon-Rettig will join the lab soon, as she just was awarded an NSF Post-doctoral Fellowship! We are very excited to have her!
Josh Kuhlman just defended his thesis and will earn his MS degree next month. Congrats!
Brittany earned Honorable Mention for her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship application! Great job!
Jaymin Patel and Alex Urban just presented their Honors thesis research at the USF Undergraduate Research symposium.
Alex Urban just submitted her Honors Theses results for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Excellent job, Alex!
Marty, Dan Ardia, Dana Hawley, and colleagues from around the world were recently awarded a Research Collaborative Network on Ecological Immunology.
Andrea won a USF Library Scholarship award to support her research in Kenya.
Andrea won a USF Graduate Student Achievement Award. Congrats!
Marty recently joined the editorial boards of Functional Ecology and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences.
Josh's first manuscript on immune redistribution in sparrows was accepted at Functional Ecology.
Courtney won a Sigma Xi GIAR to support her PhD research!
Courtney, Brittany and Andrea all advanced to PhD candidacy. Congratulations!
Josh Kuhlman passed his MS oral exam and is on target to graduate in Spring 2010. Way to go, Josh!!
Marty, Jason Rohr, Laura Mydlarz and Bill Hopkins, just submitted an invited manuscript on Ecoimmunology and Global Change for the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.The paper is due out early 2010.
Proceedings from the SICB 2009 PNI meets Integrative Biology symposium were published in Integrative and Comparative Biology
The Martin lab was awarded funding from NSF to investigate physiological mediation of range expansion in the house sparrow. The work will span four years and focus on the ongoing invasion in Kenya. See the HOSPnet pagefor more details.
Andrea's first manuscript on data collected in the Martin lab was just accepted at Functional Ecology pending minor revisions. This is all the more impressive as Dre joined the group less than a year ago!
Courtney was awarded a research grant from the American Ornithologists Union to support her thesis work on enemy release in house sparrows!
Jen Alam won first place and Elaine Rindfuss won honorable mention for their poster presentations in Natural Sciences at the USF Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Marty received the 2009 George A. Bartholomew Award of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The annual prize is given to a young investigator for distinguished contributions to comparative physiology and biochemistry or to related fields of functional and integrative biology. See here for more information about the award's amazing namesake, Dr. Bartholomew.
The Martin lab was awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to host a symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology: Psychoneuroimmunology meets Integrative Biology. The symposium was a great success, and a future issue of Integrative and Comaprative Biology will include some contributions from speakers.
Josh Kuhlman received a Sigma-Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, which will fund his work on stress-induced immune resdistribution in house sparrows. Congrats Josh!!
Josh received a grant from the Journal of Experimental Biology to conduct a project on stress-induced immune redistritubution in zebra finches versus house sparrows. Competition for this award was severe and involved graduate students and post-docs worldwide. Josh's project is a collaboration with Dr. Dan Ardia at Franklin and Marshall College.
Marty was the recipient of the 2007 Ned Johnson Award, of the American Ornithologists' Union honoring Ned K. Johnson, a lifelong supporter and former President (1996-1998) of the AOU. The award recognizes outstanding and promising work by a researcher early in his/her career in any field of ornithology.
Marty received a 2007 Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology's Young Investigators Award, an award given annually to 4-6 graduate students or post-doctoral scientists for their research.
Meredith, Marty and Clint Francis will host a symposium on light pollution at the 2019 AOS meeting in Anchorage, AK.
Meredith's light pollution work gets some nice coverage.
Marty joins American Naturalist as an Associate Editor and Conservation Physiology as an editorial board member.
Nice production by USF COPH on our work on immune scaling.
Marty was elected a Fellow of AAAS.
Meredith's new paper in Integrative and Comparative Biology was featured by USF COPH.
Marty, Kate Buchanan and colleagues from all over Australia were invited to write a paper for Trends in Ecology and Evolution on extreme host competence.
Congrats to Haley for winning a Hesse award from the American Ornithologists Union.
Effective May 31, 2018, the Martin lab will move to USF Global and Planetary Health.
Haley received Honorable Mention for her NSF GRFP proposal on epigenetic potential in house sparrows.
Haley earned a Chapman Grant on house sparrow epigenetic potential from the American Museum of Natural History.
Congrats to Jaime Zolik - she has been recruited into the USF CAS Dean's Student Leadership Society.
Congrats to Holly for successfully defending her dissertation.
Lab alum Britt Leigh finished her PhD with Larry Dishaw and Mya Breitbart and will soon start a postdoc at Vanderbilt.
Lab alum Samantha Murphy was accepted into med school at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine.
Cool interview with lab alum, Dr. Dre.
Marty was promoted to Professor, April 24, 2017.
Intriguing ideas by colleagues on coinfection dynamics using our work on stress and West Nile virus as a basis for their arguments.
Neat feature on Meredith here
Congrats to Holly for winning the 2016 Mushinsky Award in the USF IB grad program!
Meredith and Haley earned Sigma Xi award to support their dissertation research.
Marty, Cynthia Downs, Rays Jiang, and Ray Ball (Lowry Park Zoo) were just awarded 4 years of support by NSF-IOS to investigate the effects of body mass on the organization of innate immunity in terrestrial mammals.
More press on our mosquito choice work.
Front page of the Tampa Bay Times Local section!
Lots of press coverage for Steph's new paper in Proc B including this interview.
Sarah successfully defended her thesis and earned her MS.
Amber successfully defended her dissertation and earned her PhD.
Sarah was just invited to write a paper on parasite tolerance for Trends in Parasitology.
Nice write-up in Bioscience about Ecoimmunology and the work in the Martin lab! Thanks Vanessa!
Holly and Sarah earned additional grants through the Porter Family Foundation. Three in the span of 3 weeks - wow!
Marty was quoted in Science for a paper on life history and disease competence by Han and colleagues.
Holly and Sarah earned AOU grants to support their graduate research.
Amber, Holly and Sarah all earned Sigma Xi grants for their graduate research with funding rates for the cycle being only 17%.
Sarah successfully defended her proposal and advanced to MS candidacy.
Former Martin lab Honor's student Chloe Josefon, now a PhD student in Haruka Wada's lab, received an NSF GRFP.
Travis Bautista will join Ben Dantzer's lab in Fall 2015 to begin pursuing his PhD.
Steph was accepted into the Methods in Ecological Genomics Analysis workshop this summer at the Mote Tropical Research lab.
Former Martin lab Honor's student, Alex Urban, will earn her DVM from U of Florida this spring.
As of January 2016, Marty will be the new Editor-in-Chief of Integrative and Comparative Biology, the journal of SICB.
Our NSF-supported collaboration with the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) has begun. Each Saturday and Sunday, you can see˜Pick Your Brain" a gameshow on disease ecology, a Science Works Theater project.
Our Kenya work was featured in Science. Read more here.
Marty was selected as a Fulbright Specialist for Argentina; in 2015, he visited the Universidad Nacional del Litoral to work and teach several courses with Andrea Previtali and Pablo Beldomenico.
Congrats to Martyna for successfully defending her MS thesis on early-life stress and female choice.
Marty was elected Chair of the new Division of Ecoimmunology and Disease Ecology within SICB.
Steffanie was awarded a prestigious Hollings Scholarship from NOAA.
Courtney was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship to study the interface between livestock and wild buffalo in South Africa at the University of Praetoria.
Holly successfully defended her dissertation proposal and advanced to candidacy.
Amber was elected President of the Biology Graduate Student Organization in USF IB.
Travis Bautista was selected to a summer REU program in Woods Hole.
Be on the lookout for Integrative Organismal Biology, a book edited by Marty, Art Woods and Cam Ghalambor, due out December 2015. Here is the Table of Contents. Thanks to the contributors for such exciting chapters!
Congrats to Courtney Coon, the newest Martin lab PhD!
Martyna was featured in a piece by Hobart and William Smith College about her coauthoring of a book chapter on disease in urban birds.
Check out the piece in Science about the new Division of Ecoimmunology and Disease Ecology in the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology!
Congrats to Martyna who earned a Sigma Xi GIAR to support her MS work!
Some press for research on Toll-like receptor expression in Kenyan house sparrows.
Doug Barron will join the Shimizu and Martin labs as a postdoc in summer 2014. Welcome Doug!
Marty was invited to a NASA/NSF workshop in December 2013 on Stress in the healthy animal.
Some coverage here and here for a recent collaboration between the Rohrand Martin labs on enduring effects of atrazine on infections in frogs.
Former Martin lab member, Justin Trotter, will begin a postdoc at Stanford in the lab of new Nobel laureate, Thomas Sudof.
Steph Gervasi will join the Martin and Unnasch labs as a postdoc to collaborate on studies of corticosterone and West Nile virus infection in birds.
As of Fall 2014, Marty will take over the Graduate Director position from Henry Mushinsky for USF Integrative Biology.
An Ecology paper by John Parker and colleagues was recently recognized on the Faculty of 1000.
Congrats to Andrea, the first Martin lab PhD! Way to go Dr. Dre!
Bo Everett, former undergrad on Project ZEFI, was just accepted into the Disney Conservation Internship program.
Marty and Tom Unnasch have been awarded four years of support by NSF-IOS for research on stress hormones and West Nile virus in birds.
Welcome to Sarah Huber, from the lab of Travis Wilcoxen at Millikin University, who will join the Martin lab as an MS student in Fall 2013.
Chloe successfully defended her Honors thesis on integrator networks in house sparrows.
Courtney received a Tharpe Fellowship to support her over summer 2013 at USF.
Holly received support from the Global Invasives RCN (led by Ruth Hufbauer and Mark Torchin) to travel to U Texas and work with the Phelps lab.
Amber successfully defended her PhD proposal on brown anole ecophysiology and advanced to candidacy.
Andrea accepted a post-doc position in the lab of Andy Russell at the University of Exeter where she will be working on Australian babblers
Chloe was accepted to the competitive cellular and molecular bioscience graduate rotation program at Auburn.
Steffanie was accepted into a summer REU program at Kansas State to study nesting in sparrows.
Marty was interviewed by ABC Action News about the African land snail problem and what makes for nasty invasive species.
Chloe was accepted to a PhD program at Auburn U to work with Haruka Wada.
Martyna successfully defended her MS proposal.
Marty and Christina Richards wrote an article on epigenetics for The Conversation.
Andrea, Christina Richards and Aaron Schrey were quoted in Nature for the SICB symposium they hosted last week.
Amber and Holly were just awarded grants from Sigma Xi for their research!
Courtney and Jim Adelman were invited to host a symposium on urban disease ecology at the 2013 ESA meeting.
Marty, Roi Dor and Aaron Schrey were invited to contribute a full proposal to an NSF-Israeli BSF funding opportunity on Invasiveness via phenotypic plasticity in house sparrows.
Press coverage here and there for the review article on behavioral epigenetics!
Finally, an invited review on behavioral epigenetics was published in Behavioral Ecology.
Former Honors student, Allesandra Araujo, was accepted to an MS program at Illinois State where she will work with Robin Warne.
Andrea received good news coverage about her stress hormones and behavior in Kenyan house sparrows paper in PRSB Bio.
A collaboration with Jim Rivers and Matt Betts at Oregon State and Jen Owen at Michigan State on stress hormone correlates of fitness in migratory thrushes was highlighted on ScienceDaily.
Amber was invited by Marshall McCue to speak in a SICB 2014 symposium on her research involving resource allocation in Kenyan house sparrows.
Amber was awarded support from the RCNE to travel to Scott McWilliams lab to learn how to quantify stable isotopes in house sparrow tissues.
Andrea was awarded an NSF-DDIG to complete her thesis work on Kenya!
Andrea had a chapter of her thesis accepted to Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, on exploratory behavior, corticosterone and range expansion in Kenyan house sparrows.
Official word today: Marty will be tenured and promoted to Associate Professor, effective August 7, 2012.
A paper with Jen Owen at Michigan State on corticosterone effects on West Nile infection in Northern Cardinals has earned the Highly Accessed indicator from BioMed Central.
Holly is featured in the USF College of Arts and Sciences news for earning an NSF GRFP.
Allesandra, Brittany, and Desirae successfully defended their Honors theses and graduated with their BS degrees from USF.
Brittany presented her Honor’s thesis work on Thesis Day in the Honor’s College.
Brittany presented her Honor’s thesis research at the USF Undergraduate Research forum.
Amber, Andrea and Courtney gave a talk on our Kenyan house sparrow research at the Rotary Club in Nakuru, Kenya.
Holly Kilvitis, a former undergraduate researcher in the Martin lab, won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support her PhD studies in the Martin and Richards’ labs, beginning Fall 2012.Â
Marty, Art Woods, and Cameron Ghalambor have contracted with Wiley to edit a book entitled, Integrative Organismal Biology.
Courtney will travel to Extremadura, Spain in early 2012 to learn experimental avian malaria infections from Alfonso Marzal with support from the RCN in Ecoimmunology.
Marty and Martyna were funded by the USF College of Arts and Sciences to conduct preliminary work determining whether variation in disease prevalence in Northern Cardinals along urban-rural gradients is impacted by host physiology.
Andrea and former lab member Justin Trotter received a Graduate Student Challenge Grant from USF to investigate neurogenesis and range expansion in Kenyan house sparrows.
Former lab member, Paul Snyder, just joined Vanessa Ezenwa’s lab at the University of Georgia.
Brittany Leigh was featured on Fox Tampa Bay news for shark research she conducted during her REU internship at Mote Marine lab this summer.
Cris, Marty and Christina Richards were invited to submit a review on behavioral ecological epigenetics at Behavioral Ecology
Cris was just invited to the NESCent Evolutionary Quantitative Geneticscourse in August 2011.
Courtney was invited to participate in the MalariaRCN workshop in Shepherdstown, WV.
Cris just had a review on developmental plasticity as a source of evolutionary innovation accepted at PRSB Bio.
Former lab member Liz Andreassi was accepted into the George Washington Public Health graduate program in Microbiology.
Brittany S. had an Opinion piece accepted at Trends in Parasitology on the regulation of inflammation.
Cris published a review, Emerging systems in eco-evo-devo: the spadefoot toad, in Evolution and Development.
Courtney was accepted into the Evolution workshop at the Ecology of Infectious Disease meeting in Santa Barbara, June 2011.
Liz Andreassi accepted a position at GeneDX in Gaithersburg, MD.
Andrea was awarded a Sigma-Xi GIAR to support her PhD research.
Brittany received another Marc Dresden student award from the American Society of Parasitologists to present at the annual meeting in Anchorage, AK.
Marty was quoted in an article about an outbreak of ecoimmunology in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Brittany Leigh accepted an REU position at Mote Marine lab to continue her research in shark immunology.
Martyna Boruta and Amber Brace will join the Martin lab in Fall 2011 to pursue PhDs.
Staci and Paul presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Ithaca, NY.
Paul Snyder just accepted a summer field tech position at the Cary Institute with Rick Ostfeld.
Marty led a round-table discussion on Evolutionary Ecology meets immunology at the University of Georgia, Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute.
Alex Urban was accepted into veterinary school at the University of Florida and will start Fall 2011.
The special Ecological Immunology issue of Functional Ecology edited by Marty, Dan Ardia and Dana Hawley is now out. Thanks to all contributors for their excellent work! The issue is highlighted here.
Brittany Sears just won Best Talk in the Division of Ecology and Evolution at the 2011 SICB meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The RCN in Ecoimmunology was mentioned in an article in The Scientist.
Congrats to Andrea and Brittany S. for winning a SICB Grant-in-Aid of Research! They were among only about 20 winners this year!
Courtney published her first, 1st-authored paper in the American Journal of Physiology, Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology.
Four undergraduates (Elizabeth Andreassi, Amber Brace, Laura Kidd, and Paul Snyder) all graduated this past weekend.
Laura Kidd successfully defended her thesis on captivity effects on acute phase responses in house sparrows.
Marty and Courtney wrote a Perspectives article for Science on amazing work from the Andrea Graham lab.
Marty won a 2010 University Outstanding Research Award from USF.
Marty was quoted in the Roanoke Times regarding work by colleague Jason Davis at Radford.
Marty and Courtney attended the Global Invasions Network meeting at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
A paper that Andrea and Marty co-authored was chosen by the Faculty of 1000. Congratulations and thanks to our collaborators, Bob Cox and Ryan Calsbeek!
Brittany (Leigh) was just accepted into the Marine Immunology winter internship at Mote Marine lab.
Brittany just published her first peer-reviewed article, this one on seahorse parasites.
Andrea was invited to speak in a special symposium on long-term effects of stressors at the International Ornithological Congress in Brazil.
Courtney won a Graduate Women in Science SDE Fellowship. Her application was one of the top 10 of 266. Great job!!
Brittany received a Marc Dresden student award from the American Society of Parasitologists to attend and present at their annual meeting in Colorado Springs.
Andrea just received an AOU Research Award for her thesis research on Kenyan house sparrow behavioral endocrinology.
Cris Ledon-Rettig will join the lab soon, as she just was awarded an NSF Post-doctoral Fellowship! We are very excited to have her!
Josh Kuhlman just defended his thesis and will earn his MS degree next month. Congrats!
Brittany earned Honorable Mention for her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship application! Great job!
Jaymin Patel and Alex Urban just presented their Honors thesis research at the USF Undergraduate Research symposium.
Alex Urban just submitted her Honors Theses results for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Excellent job, Alex!
Marty, Dan Ardia, Dana Hawley, and colleagues from around the world were recently awarded a Research Collaborative Network on Ecological Immunology.
Andrea won a USF Library Scholarship award to support her research in Kenya.
Andrea won a USF Graduate Student Achievement Award. Congrats!
Marty recently joined the editorial boards of Functional Ecology and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences.
Josh's first manuscript on immune redistribution in sparrows was accepted at Functional Ecology.
Courtney won a Sigma Xi GIAR to support her PhD research!
Courtney, Brittany and Andrea all advanced to PhD candidacy. Congratulations!
Josh Kuhlman passed his MS oral exam and is on target to graduate in Spring 2010. Way to go, Josh!!
Marty, Jason Rohr, Laura Mydlarz and Bill Hopkins, just submitted an invited manuscript on Ecoimmunology and Global Change for the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.The paper is due out early 2010.
Proceedings from the SICB 2009 PNI meets Integrative Biology symposium were published in Integrative and Comparative Biology
The Martin lab was awarded funding from NSF to investigate physiological mediation of range expansion in the house sparrow. The work will span four years and focus on the ongoing invasion in Kenya. See the HOSPnet pagefor more details.
Andrea's first manuscript on data collected in the Martin lab was just accepted at Functional Ecology pending minor revisions. This is all the more impressive as Dre joined the group less than a year ago!
Courtney was awarded a research grant from the American Ornithologists Union to support her thesis work on enemy release in house sparrows!
Jen Alam won first place and Elaine Rindfuss won honorable mention for their poster presentations in Natural Sciences at the USF Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Marty received the 2009 George A. Bartholomew Award of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The annual prize is given to a young investigator for distinguished contributions to comparative physiology and biochemistry or to related fields of functional and integrative biology. See here for more information about the award's amazing namesake, Dr. Bartholomew.
The Martin lab was awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to host a symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology: Psychoneuroimmunology meets Integrative Biology. The symposium was a great success, and a future issue of Integrative and Comaprative Biology will include some contributions from speakers.
Josh Kuhlman received a Sigma-Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, which will fund his work on stress-induced immune resdistribution in house sparrows. Congrats Josh!!
Josh received a grant from the Journal of Experimental Biology to conduct a project on stress-induced immune redistritubution in zebra finches versus house sparrows. Competition for this award was severe and involved graduate students and post-docs worldwide. Josh's project is a collaboration with Dr. Dan Ardia at Franklin and Marshall College.
Marty was the recipient of the 2007 Ned Johnson Award, of the American Ornithologists' Union honoring Ned K. Johnson, a lifelong supporter and former President (1996-1998) of the AOU. The award recognizes outstanding and promising work by a researcher early in his/her career in any field of ornithology.
Marty received a 2007 Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology's Young Investigators Award, an award given annually to 4-6 graduate students or post-doctoral scientists for their research.