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Announcing the 2024 Evolutionary, Ecological, and Conservation Genomics (EECG) Research Award Recipients

2024 AGA Award Outcomes

Ecological, Evolutionary, and Conservation Genomics (EECG) Research Awards

The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where additional funds would allow them to conclude their research project and prepare it for publication.

57 students and post-docs applied for funding this year, and 11 received funding (Table 1), one of whom* received the Robert K. Wayne Conservation Scholarship and Research Award. This special EECG award was established in memory of Robert Wayne to support graduate students whose research directly benefits a threatened species.

Awardees can expect letters of congratulation with more specific information and banking details request soon.

Table 1. Recipients of the 2024 Ecological, Evolutionary, and Conservation Genomics Research Awards.

1	Madeleine	Becker	Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute	United States	Controlling for time: disentangling evolutionary and conservation genomics questions using ‘time series museomics’ in the California Channel Island deer mouse
2	Laura	Cespedes Arias	The University of Chicago	United States	The genetic underpinnings of partial reproductive isolation in a warbler hybrid zone
3	Daniel	Estévez Barcia	Greenland Institute of Natural Resources	Greenland	GRINFISH: (Genomics of Reindhartius hippoglossoides on Inshore Fisheries)
4	Jacob	Fredette-Roman	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	Characterizing the mechanisms of mutation rate evolution in diploid and haploid S. cerevisiae
5	Benjamin	Karin	University of California Berkeley	United States	Using ontogenetic and seasonal color change to unlock the genetic basis of vibrant red and blue coloration in a California lizard
6	Zachary	Muscavitch	University Of Connecticut	United States	Unveiling the Mysteries of Fog Lichens: Phylogenomic Insights into the Phenotypic Diversity of a Niche-Specific Radiation
7	Henry	North	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	Leveraging evolutionary genomics to infer the past and forecast the future spread of an invasive agricultural pest
8	Elizabeth	Sheldon	Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus	United Kingdom	Epigenetic and dietary diversity in Alaskan coastal wolves: Harnessing DNA methylation to help delineate conservation units in North American wolves.
9	Gabrielle	Welsh	University of Denver	United States	Genomic architecture of convergent novel signals in the Pacific field cricket
10	Michael	Yuan	California Academy of Sciences	United States	Microgeographic adaptation and landscape connectivity in two anoles from the small, environmentally heterogeneous island of St. Martin
11	Cameron	So*	McGill University	Canada	Testing the conservation value of range-edge populations: local adaptation, genetic load, and inbreeding in wild lupine