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Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. Researching diversification in social wasps. Genomics, coloration, behavior, and urban ecology

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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15

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03.11.2025 17:25 👍 66 🔁 89 💬 2 📌 3
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I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Wake Forest University Fall 2026. Current projects focus on the neurobiology, behavior, and development of identity processing in paper wasps. Contact me if interested. Deadline to apply is Dec. 15th 2025. Please share!
#PhDposition #PhD #wasplove

25.08.2025 17:36 👍 27 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 1
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Crazy storm in St. Louis today near Forest Park! It knocked over two trees and took out our power but fortunately didn’t cause more damage. Lots of others not so lucky!

17.05.2025 02:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sara E. Miller ‪Assistant Professor, University of Missouri - St. Louis‬ - ‪‪Cited by 2,272‬‬ - ‪Evolutionary Ecology‬ - ‪Diversification‬ - ‪Genomics‬

Can I also be added to the Eco/Evo list?

scholar.google.com/citations?us...

26.11.2024 20:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Genomic architecture in social insects is more strongly associated with phylogeny than social behavior Abstract. The evolution of sociality in insects has been predicted to reduce effective population sizes, in turn leading to changes in genome architecture,

Check out the paper here:

academic.oup.com/aesa/advance...

26.11.2024 20:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Long answer: some features vary with social behavior within certain clades, suggesting that independent origins of sociality may have evolved independent genomic architecture.

For our paper we also created a UCE tree of published Hymenoptera genomes. It’s pretty good!

26.11.2024 20:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Very excited about the first grad student authored paper from my lab! We examined 435 Hymenoptera genomes in a phylogenetically controlled framework to test if genome architecture differs for social vs solitary species.

Short answer: No difference in size, GC% or CpG distribution

26.11.2024 20:29 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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I saw this male northern paper wasp looking a little rough, but still hanging in there in late November. Me too little wasp.

20.11.2024 20:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Add me too! Will be a good excuse to finally make a profile

14.11.2024 19:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0