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Big Day in the BR lab!
Dr. BR gave her promotion talk yesterday at the GGA seminar! She talked about the research program in the BR lab - bugs and fishes! There were 90 people in the room and 30 on zoom! Last slide was a tribute to Dolly - RIP Queen! Here's a photo of [...]
Backyard spraying drives insecticide resistance in arbovector of disease, the tiger mosquito!
Check out our two new papers recently out, one led by Dr. Cole Butler and one led by Dr. Jennifer Baltzegar. Press Release Here & Video Below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j24dP44UVNQ&t=29s
Six BR Lab Papers out on BioRxiv – check them out!
Harned S*, Mankiewicz JL, Borski RJ, Godwin J, Burford Reiskind MO. (Revised & Resubmitted; Preprint 2026) The value multi-year sampling for detecting fine-scale population genetic structure in marine fishes: A case study of juvenile southern flounder. PLoS One; Preprint DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.24.720543 Ding J*, Reed EMX*, Reiskind MH, Burford Reiskind MO. [...]
Congrats Dr. Scholten!
On Friday August 15, our graduate student, Bradley Scholten, successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled "Assessing the Spread of Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria in Songbirds at Bird Feeders". Bradley was co-Advised by both Drs. Burford Reiskind and Kays. He did an incredible job and we are so excited to congratulate [...]
Giving Day: Donate to the Graduate Student Conservation Genetics Fund!
Do you want to help the next generation of scietists address global conservation issues such as habitat loss, fragmented populations, over harvesting, and invasive species? Consider dontating to the Conservation Genetics Graduate Fund. This fund supports graduate students' research, stipends, and travel costs to sites and conferences to present their [...]
New papers out this year from Emma Wallace & Emily Reed…
Check out two new papers published in the BR lab. First we have the delightful and wicked smart Emma Wallace, who was an undergraduate researcher in our lab and has now moved on to a PhD program a Duke! She conducted a fantastic phylogenetic analysis on rockfish in the subgenus [...]
Excelling through Mentorship- An interview with Dr. Martha Burford Reiskind
Check out the interview by Women in Genomics
New paper out by Dr. Andy Maurer!
Check out Andy's new paper on the effects of Atlantic Sargassum invasion on hawksbill sea turtles! LINK
Two new lab members!
The Burford Reiskind lab is excited to announce a new lab member! Bradley Scholten co-advised by Roland Kays! Both just finished the first-year training program with the GG Scholars & Here's a link to his spotlights! Make sure you check him out, we are very excited over here.
New Andy Maurer Paper on Sea Turtles & Climate Change
Population viability of sea turtles in the context of global warming (2021) Bioscience https://doi-org.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/10.1093/biosci/biab028 LINK
Conservation Currents
We are excited to update the blog for lab members and friends of the Burford Reiskind lab. Our goal is to celebrate current work on the conservation of species across the globe and highlight the cutting edge tools and approaches we are all using to address conservation of species in [...]