Brad Shaffer and Evan McCartney-Melstad are featured in the August 2018 podcast from the journal Heredity, which broadcasts interviews with the people behind the journal, the science and a digest of breaking news. The focus...
Postdoc Gary Buccairelli discovers that the crayfish disrupt native predators that eat mosquito larvae. Learn more at the UCLA Newsroom and on the National Geographic Website.
From science to action: Sustainable LA Grand Challenge researchers brief California State Assemblymember Richard Bloom on UCLA research Read more on the UCLA Grand Challenges website >
The California Tiger Salamander (CTS) is state and federally listed species. As a result, Caltrans is required to consult with regulatory agencies about impacts of transportation projects. A major conservation issue for CTS is...
UC Natural Reserve System research has laid the foundation for conserving species across the state. A prime example: UCLA professor Brad Shaffer’s work on California tiger salamanders was instrumental in protecting the upland habitats...
Professor Ugur Kaya is a Turkish ecologist and herpetologist, and a Full Professor at Ege University, one of the top rated academic institutions in the country. Professor Kaya’s research centers on the ecology, population...
Isolde van Riemsdijk is a visiting PhD student at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands working with Dr. J.W. Arntzen and Dr. B. Wielstra. Her interests lie in the processes of evolution and...
Siliang Song is a summer student in the UCLA CSST program who is visiting the Shaffer Lab for ten weeks. Song will work on the phylogeny of the salamander family Ambystomatidae, including two federally...
Mario Colon, La Kretz Center liaison to the Shaffer Lab, is leaving UCLA to pursue a Master of Environmental Science & Management at the UCSB Bren School, where science, management, law, economics, and policy...
Evan McCartney-Melstad received his PhD at UCLA in December 2016, and is now a postdoc in the Shaffer Lab. Evan’s research involves gathering and analyzing genomic datasets to answer: 1) How energy developments affect...
