Greg Pauly departed today for California. He will be a postdoc in Brad Shaffer's lab at the University of California, Davis, working on turtle genetics. Greg also plans to continue his work on the Bufo boreas group, as well as finish up some manuscripts from his dissertation work.

Sandi Willows-Munro arrived in May 2008 to start a postdoc with the AmphibiaTree project. She will focus on higher-level relationships of some African frog lineages.

Sandi received her PhD with Conrad Mathee, who is part of the Evolutionary Genomics Group at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Matt Morgan arrived in July 2007 to begin a two year postdoc on the AmphibiaTree project. His primary research goal is to continue the sequencing of nuclear genes.

Matt received his PhD in Scott Keogh's lab at Australian National University in Canberra.

As part of the lab double-PhD month of April, Emily Moriarty Lemmon defended her dissertation successfully on Friday, April 27.

On Monday, 2 April 2007, Santiago Ron successfully defended his dissertation. The committee, including Ulrich Mueller, Mike Ryan, Chris Bell, Larry Gilbert, and David Cannatella, listened to his public lecture at the Monday noon seminar, and then retired to a meeting room to finish the interrogation. Santiago stood his ground, and passed.