Burch Lab News
5/10/2008 Thanks to all these graduating students! Christina won the UNC Graduate School Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring. Read more here.
5/5/2008 Congratulations Dr. Dang! Kristen successfully defended her PhD thesis 'RNA Structures and their Molecular Evolution in HIV'. Kristen is moving on to a postdoc at 'Dook' where she will continue to do computational investigations of HIV biology and evolution.
11/29/2007 Congratulations Dr. Ferris! Marty successfully defended his PhD thesis 'Evolution of host range in the bacteriophage phi6'. He will be moving on to a postdoc in UNC's medical school with Mark Heise.
11/1/2007 Speciation in laboratory populations published at Evolution
Duffy, S., C. L. Burch, and P. E. Turner. 2007. Evolution of host specificity drives reproductive isolation among RNA viruses. Evolution. 61: 2614–2622. link
6/15/2007 Congratulations Dr. Knies! Jen successfully defended her PhD thesis 'The genetic basis of temperature adaptation in lab and natural bacteriophage populations'. She will be moving on to a postdoc at Brown University with Dan Weinreich.