Burch Lab News


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.