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News & Press
2010
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 September/October 2010. Nathan Lord and Gino Nearns will visit the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris) and the Natural History Museum (London) to conduct dissertation research.
- August 2010. Grey Gustafson joined our lab. Grey recently completed his B.S. degree in biology with an emphasis in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Kansas.
- August 2010. Gino Nearns visited the Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro and the Museu de Zoologia Universidade de São Paulo to conduct dissertation research.
- August 2010. Monica Tellez traveled to Venezuela for a collecting expedition.
- July 2010. Nathan Lord and Gino Nearns visited the US National Museum (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C. to conduct dissertation research.
- June 2010. Kelly Miller, Nathan Lord, and Gino Nearns taught a field entomology course in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.
- May 2010. Billy Edelman was awarded the prestigious Outstanding Graduating Senior Award from the Biology Department. Congratulations Billy!
- May 2010. Heidi Hopkins was awarded the prestigious American Museum Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant ($1500). Way to go, Heidi!
- March 2010. Nathan Lord and Gino Nearns visited the US National Museum (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C. to conduct dissertation research.
- March 2010. April Tafoya was awarded a travel grant to present her research at the International Conference on Subterranean Biology in Slovenia! The ICSB conference will be held in August of this year.
- March 2010. Heidi Hopkins received an Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia travel grant. Congratulations Heidi!
- March 2010. Congratulations to Elizabeth Montano on her acceptance into the graduate program here in Biology at UNM! She will be supported and funded through IMSD, and will be working with Dr. Werner-Washburne and Dr. Northup. Well done, Elizabeth!!
- February 2010. April Tafoya accepted an offer for graduate school in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences with Laura Crossey starting this fall. In addition, April will be fully funded through a prestigious NSF LSAMP Fellowship. Congratulations April!
- February 2010. Heidi Hopkins received a Smithsonian Travel (Short Term Visitor) award ($1550). This award will allow her to spend much needed time at the USNM working with their roaches. Way to go, Heidi!
- January 2010. Nathan Lord travelled to New Zealand and Australia to collaborate with colleagues on several Coleoptera projects.
2009
- December 2009. Gino Nearns was awarded the 2008 J.G. Edwards Prize by The Coleopterists Society. The Edwards Prize is awarded annually for the best published Coleoptera paper based upon a Master's thesis.
- November 2009. Kelly Miller, Nathan Lord, and Gino Nearns received a grant from USDA-CPHST to develop a Lucid key identification resource for the Ironclad and Cylindrical Bark Beetles of North America and the World Genera of Onciderini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) ($85,000).
- November 2009. Kelly Miller, Gino Nearns, Nathan Lord, and Billy Edelman traveled to Bolivia for a collecting expedition.
- October 2009. April Tafoya was awarded the Harry & Mabel Leonard Research Fellowship, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico ($2,000). Congratulations April!
- October 2009. April Tafoya attended the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation (NMAMP) student conference at New Mexico State University. April presented her research and won first place in the student competition. Congratulations April!
- August 2009. Gino Nearns passed his qualifying exams and is now a PhD candidate.
- August 2009. Nicole Telles conducted NSF funded research on pollination biology from June-August at Oregon State University.
- August 2009. Nathan Lord and Gino Nearns collected cerambycids in the Chiricahua mountains, Coronado National Forest, AZ.
- August 2009. Gino Nearns and Mike Medrano travelled to Ketchikan, Alaska and Prince Rupert, British Columbia for a collecting expedition.
- July 2009. April Tafoya was recently awarded the Harry and Mabel Leonard Scholarship, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico ($550) as well as the AMP Undergraduate Research Scholarship ($3500). Congratulations April!
- June 2009. Traci Grzymala successfully defended her MS thesis: Revision and phylogenetic analysis of Elytroleptus (Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Trachyderini). Congratulations Traci!
- June 2009. Kelly Miller, Gino Nearns and Nathan Lord travelled to Panamá for a collecting expedition and visit to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) insect collection.
- May 2009. Gino Nearns visited the INBio collection in Costa Rica.
- May 2009. Lauren Cleavall successfully defended her MS thesis: The mating behavior in two species of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Congratulations Lauren!
- April 2009. April Tafoya was awarded the Pfeffer Scholarship (tuition award) from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico.
- April 2009. Billy Edelman was awarded the Hughes Scholarship ($1,000) and Traci Grzymala was awarded the Grove Research Scholarship ($1,000) from the Department of Biology, University of New Mexico.
- April 2009. Several Miller Lab students participated in the Department of Biology's 18th Annual Research Day: Nicole Telles (poster), Billy Edelman (poster), April Tafoya (poster), Lauren Cleavall (poster), and Traci Grzymala (presentation). In addition, several members served as poster judges: Kelly Miller, Nathan Lord, Traci Grzymala, and Gino Nearns.
- March 2009. Kelly Miller travelled to Cameroon (West Africa) for a collecting expedition.
- February 2009. Nicole Telles presented a poster titled "A molecular investigation of the phylogeny of diving beetles, especially of Haideoporus texanus and Ereboporus naturaconservatus (Coleoptera: Dystiscidae: Hydroporinae)" in the Darwin Day symposium at UNM and received best poster runner-up honors.
- February 2009. Gino Nearns and Traci Grzymala attended the Southwestern Branch of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) annual meeting in Stillwater, OK. Both presentations won awards!
- January 2009. Gino Nearns, Traci Grzymala and Ian Swift traveled to Chile for a collecting expedition.
- January 2009. Kelly Miller traveled to Venezuela for a collecting expedition.
2008
- December 2008. Kelly Miller was awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER grant to develop his research, teaching and curatorial program in the MSB and Department of Biology. This grant is awarded for five years and brings roughly $100 K per year to support the awardee's activities.
- December 2008. Nathan Lord was awarded the 2007 Kirby Hays Award. This award recognizes the most outstanding M.S. student in the Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America (ESA).
- November 2008. Gino Nearns, Traci Grzymala, Alicia Hodson, Billy Edelman, and Sandra Brantley attended the Entomological Society of America (ESA) annual meetings in Reno, NV.
- November 2008. Kelly Miller,
Nathan Lord,
and Nicole Telles traveled to Madagascar for a collecting expedition.
- October 2008. Billy Edelman and Niki Telles presented research posters at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) meeting in Salt Lake City, UT. Congratulations to Billy for winning the best poster award for his area of research!
- October 2008. Nathan Lord visited Dr. Adam Slipinski at CSIRO in Canberra, Australia, for research on Bothrideridae.
- September 2008. Kelly Miller gave a talk at the Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University.
- September 2008. A new species of diving beetle, Agaporomorphus colberti Miller and Wheeler (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), was described from specimens from Venezuela. The new species was named to honor comedian and author, Stephen T. Colbert of the Colbert Report.
- September 2008. Ian Swift (Placerita Canyon Nature Center, New Hall, CA) will visit our lab to collaborate on several research projects.
- August 2008. Traci Grzymala, Nathan Lord, and Gino Nearns collected cerambycids in the Chiricahua mountains, Coronado National Forest, AZ.
- August 2008. Nathan Lord joined our lab. Nathan recently completed his MS at the Department of Entomology, University of Georgia (McHugh Lab).
- July 2008. Traci Grzymala attended the North American Workshop in Cladistics Methods, sponsored by The Ohio State University & The Willi Hennig Society, Columbus, OH.
- July 2008. Mike Medrano, Alicia Hodson, Emily Hodson, Traci Grzymala, Ian Swift (Placerita Canyon Nature Center, New Hall, CA), and Annie Ray (University of Illinois) traveled to Mexico for a two week collecting expedition.
- July 2008. Gino Nearns visited the US National Museum / Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC) to collaborate with Dr. Steven Lingafelter on cerambycid type specimen photography.
- May-June 2008. Gino Nearns and Ian Swift (Placerita Canyon Nature Center, New Hall, CA) traveled to Costa Rica for a two week collecting expedition and visit to the INBio collection.
- May 2008. Kelly Miller and Alicia Hodson attended the annual Collaborators' Conference on the Biology of Embioptera in Motte Rimrock Reserve, Perris, CA.
- April 2008. Adriano Giorgi (University of Georgia, McHugh Lab) visited our lab to collaborate on several research projects.
- April 2008. Three Miller Lab students presented posters at UNM's Department of Biology 2008 17th Annual Research Day, student poster competition.
- Gino Nearns & Kelly Miller: "A preliminary morphological study of Oncideres cingulata (Say) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Onciderini)."
- Traci Grzymala & Kelly Miller: "Preliminary Morphological Findings for Revision of the Longhorn Beetle Genus Elytroleptus Dugés (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)."
- Alicia Hodson & Kelly Miller: "A Tale of Two Species: Parthenogenetic and Sexual Species of the Genus Haploembia Found in California."
- March 2008. Kelly Miller presented an invited talk at the University of Georgia titled "Females who play hard-to-get are for suckers: Mating systems in diving beetles."
- March 2008. Nathan Lord (University of Georgia, McHugh Lab) visited in preparation for joining our lab in July 2008.
- February 2008. Sandra Brantley gave a seminar titled: "Arthropods as ecological indicators: diversity, habitat, climate"
- January 2008. Geoffrey Morse (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ) visited our lab.
- January 2008. Ian Swift (Placerita Canyon Nature Center, New Hall, CA) visited our lab to collaborate on several research projects.
2007
- December 2007. Roy Larimer of Visionary Digital visited our lab to setup a new BK Plus imaging system.
- December 2007. Kelly Miller, Sandra Brantley, and Gino Nearns attended the Entomological Collections Network (ECN) & Entomological Society of America (ESA) annual meetings in San Diego, CA. Kelly presented a talk titled "The phylogeny of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae): Stopping the spin." Gino presented a poster titled "A preliminary morphological study of Oncideres c. cingulata (Say) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Onciderini)" in the Section A student poster competition.
- December 2007. Adriano Giorgi (University of Georgia, McHugh Lab) visited our lab to collaborate on several research projects.
- November 2007. Mike Medrano passed his qualifying exams and is now a PhD candidate!
- November 2007. Kelly Miller, Gino Nearns, and Alicia Hodson traveled to Zambia (Africa) for a two week collecting expedition.
- October 2007. Kelly Miller presented an invited talk at Syracuse University titled "Females who play hard-to-get are for suckers: Mating systems in diving beetles."
- September 2007. Kelly Miller and Gino Nearns traveled to La Paz (Madidi National Park) and Santa Cruz, Bolivia, for a two week collecting expedition.
- September 2007. Kelly Miller presented an invited talk at Arizona State University titled "Females who play hard-to-get are for suckers: Mating systems in diving beetles."
- August 2007. Lauren Cleavall and Traci Grzymala joined our lab. Lauren will be working on mating systems in diving beetles and Traci will be working on longhorned beetle systematics.
- August 2007. Nathan Lord (University of Georgia, McHugh Lab) visited our lab and announced that he will join us in Fall 2008.
- July 2007. Gino Nearns attended the North American Workshop in Cladistics Methods, sponsored by The Ohio State University & The Willi Hennig Society, Columbus, OH.
- June 2007. Gino Nearns and Nathan Lord attended the Beetle Families of the World and Larval Coleoptera Workshops, hosted by Dr. John Lawrence & Dr. Michael Ivie, at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
- May 2007. Alicia Hodson joined our lab.
- May 2007. Traci Grzymala announced that she will join our lab in the fall 2007. Traci recently completed her BS at the University of Florida.
- April 2007. Lauren Cleavall announced that she will join our lab in the fall 2007. Lauren recently completed her BS at San Diego State University.
- January 2007. Gino Nearns joined the lab to begin his doctoral research on Cerambycidae Systematics (Coleoptera). Gino recently completed his MS at the Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of Florida (Branham Lab).
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Field entomology course, Costa Rica
Visiting with Dr. Don Windsor (left) at STRI, Panamá
Sifaka lemur, Madagascar
Chiricahua mountains, Coronado National Forest, AZ
Kelly Miller with new BK Plus imaging system
Miller Lab members with new BK Plus imaging system
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