The Ries Lab of Butterfly InformaticsLab members are busy preparing for this summer's experimental work raising butterflies. Recently, several lab members headed to a nearby campus garden to plant Chelone glabra (White Turtlehead) seedlings, a plant eaten by Euphydryas...
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April 04, 2024: Planting caterpillar food
March 04, 2024: New Global Change Bio publication
Check out lab alumnus Vaughn's latest publication of PhD dissertation research.
Rising minimum temperatures contribute to 50 years of occupancy decline among cold-adapted Arctic and boreal butterflies in North America (published in Global...
October 14, 2023: Leslie is excited to start an NSF rotator position
Leslie will be working 80% time at NSF in the Division of Biological Infrastructure to help devise a new system for assessing project outcomes for infrastructure awards. Building infrastructure is an essential component of supporting research...
Read moreAugust 30, 2023: Welcome Anngely
The Ries Lab welcomes new graduate student Anngely Leeds to Georgetown! Anngely will be presenting past work at the Entomology 2023 conference in November.
August 25, 2023: Congratulations Dr. Shirey!
Belated congratulations to Dr. Vaughn Shirey, who passed their dissertation defense with flying colors on May 12. Vaughn has been an integral part of the Ries Lab, and know that they will continue to do incredible work for the insect...
Read moreAugust 25, 2023: Vaughn named a 2023 Smith Fellow
Congratulations to Vaughn for being one of five outstanding scientists receiving the 2023 David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship...
Read moreApril 12, 2022: Celebration for Cliff and Arshan
Both Cliff and Arshan were accepted into Georgetown medical school! We went to the monarch-themed Oyamel restaurant to celebrate. Delicious! It was the first lab meal since Grace came to interview to join the lab (in summer 2019!!).
April 06, 2022: Ries lab update
We have several papers and a new grant funded since we last posted an article! See our publications and Grants pages for details. We are going to be starting rearing experiments as part of a 5-institution collaboration. More details to come......
July 25, 2021: Monarch NEE paper covered by Science Friday!!
Our collaborative paper with the Zipkin lab ,...
Read moreMay 29, 2021: Two monarch papers accepted for publication!
Whew... We have been working on BOTH of these papers for a long time! Nature Ecology and Evolution has accepted a paper led by Erin Zylstra and Elise Zipkin (the EZs) tracking monarch population dynamics since 1993 and show that climate accounts...
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