Congratulations to our #NSF Philippines PIRE REU student, Rebecca Ruiz, for earning a #SACNAS Travel Scholarship to present her research on the relationship between #MPAs and fish #biodiversity at #NDISTEM2022! Thank you to the #PhilippinesPIRE team and John Whalen for providing mentorship and guidance and #SUACKREM for hosting!

#tamucc #odu #Silliman #Dumaguete

Congratulations to our 2022 cohort of Philippines-IRES students for presenting their #independentResearch projects at #NDiSTEM2022. Markers tested for an #endangered deer, new crab species discovered, new locality record for an endangered barb, and interesting differences in transition size of a #protogynous #fish. Thank you to their mentors at #Silliman University in #Dumaguete City for their expert guidance!

2023 application portal is open https://sites.wp.odu.edu/phires/

#ph-ires #nsf #tamucc #odu

Congratulations to our #NSF REPS PostBac, Jordan Rodriguez, for winning a "Best Presentation" award at #NDiSTEM2022 for her presentation on successfully sequencing the #genomes of 32/36, 112 yo fish specimens from the #smithsonian, resulting in 550k #SNPs to test for evolution when compared with contemporary specimens. Thank you to the members of #PhilippinesPIRE for #bioinformatics and @gcl for lab expertise.
#SACNAS #museumomics #lcwgs #congen