After much revision and hard work, Lily’s Master’s Thesis is finally published in Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata! You can find a PDF of the article here.
Author: Lily Thompson
Many introductory biology courses visit cemeteries to learn about human survivorship and principles of population dynamics, but this semester the University of Richmond’s Integrated Biological Principles II course (Biology 202) has combined this classic lab with community service. Taught by Kristine Grayson, Jory Brinkerhoff, Malcom Hill, and Emily Boone, the labs visited East End Cemetery, a historic African-American cemetery in Eastern Richmond to clear away vegetation and other debris from the gravestones. Recently, the project was a featured story on the University of Richmond’s website. Click here to read the article!
Kristine is giving a seminar at Eastern Mennonite University in her hometown of Harrisonburg, Virginia on Friday, Nov. 6, at 4 p.m. in Suter Science Center 106. The talk will be on the research she’s done on the population dynamics of tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus), an endemic and rare reptile of New Zealand. You can find a link to the press release on her seminar here.
There’s been a lot of media interest in the gypsy moth work we’ve been doing in the Grayson Lab this year. This is thanks to the great efforts of folks in University of Richmond Communications Office.
Our latest media release was a two page spread in the Autumn 2015 edition of the University of Richmond Magazine. You can see the online version here.
Our very own Kayla Sherman (Class of 2017) is a featured research student on the University of Richmond webpage! Congrats to Kayla! You can read the article here.
The Grayson Lab met up in Baltimore, Maryland for the 100th meeting of the Ecological Society of America! So many talks to hear and posters to see! Including 2 poster presentations from our lab: one gypsy moth performance in the southern range and one on on harlequin bug melanization!
L to R: Trevor Faske, Lily Thompson, Nana Banahene, Amber Yang, Melisa Quiroga-Herrera, Dr. Kristine Grayson (Lab members attending the meeting, but not pictured: Andrew Levorse, Logan McDonald, Katelyn Horn, & Dr. Jen Olson)
Four of our summer research students, Nana Banahene, Amber Yang, Melisa Quiroga-Herrera, and Andrew Levorse, participated in rigorous HHMI funded first year undergraduate interdisciplinary science courses. A photo of our very own Nana Banahene is featured in a Nature article outlining the use of creative, interdisciplinary science education from pre-kindergarten to university levels. Check the article out the online version here!
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The new University of Richmond President, Dr. Ronald Crutcher, toured Gottwald today and stopped by to see what we’re up to in the Grayson Lab. After walking him though our summer research on gypsy moths in a simulated climate we took this photo to commemorate the occasion. Welcome to UR, Dr. Crutcher! We’re glad you stopped by!
L to R: Lily Thompson, Nana Banahene, Amber Yang, Dr. Ronald Crutcher, Melisa Quiroga-Herrera, Dr. Kristine Grayson
A few days ago we were interviewed by the Richmond Time-Dispatch about our work on gypsy moth in the climate gradients of Virginia and today the article was published on the FIRST PAGE!
It’s official. We’re famous.
Have you ever wondered if gypsy moth larvae do better when reared on artificial diet or on leaves? So did we! And now our research on it is published in Environmental Entomology! Click on the title below for the PDF!
Performance of Wild and Laboratory-Reared Gypsy Moth (Lepidoptera: Erebidae): A Comparison between Foliage and Artificial Diet
Kristine L. Grayson; Dylan Parry; Trevor M. Faske; Audrey Hamilton; Patrick C. Tobin; Salvatore J. Agosta; Derek M. Johnson
Environmental Entomology 2015;
doi: 10.1093/ee/nvv063
