Congratulations to PhD candidate, Brooke Bodensteiner, who won grants from the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and the MacMillan Center to support her dissertation research! Brooke will be working on the thermal physiology and evolution of Australian reptiles.

The Muñoz Lab in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Yale University is seeking to hire a postdoctoral researcher. The postdoc will be hired under the auspices of a NSF grant to study the ecophysiology, spatial ecology, and evolution of lungless salamanders. This is a collaborative project with Dr. Eric Riddell (Iowa State University). We are open to different types of backgrounds and interests including, but not limited to: amphibian ecology and evolution, ecophysiology, spatial ecology and biophysical modeling, and comparative phylogenetics. The position is for 2-3 years, with annual reappointment. See full ad, with link for the application, on the "Opportunities" tab on this website.

Congratulations to Henry for passing his qualifying exams and advancing to Candidacy! 

We are seeking an undergraduate student for an REU position this summer! The successful applicant will be working on ecophysiology and evolution of terrestrial lungless salamanders. Check out the Opportunities page for more!

We extend a huge welcome to Dr. Laura Alencar who joins us as Post-Doctoral researcher. Laura was previously a post-doc at Clemson University and studies the macroevolution and macroecology of vertebrates.  Check out her page to learn more!

Congratulations to Brooke for passing her qualifying exams and advancing into candidacy! Congrats, Candidate Brooke!

And to continue the celebrations, Brooke also recently published a new paper with co-authors in Journal of Experimental Biology evaluating thermal-metabolic phenotypes of the common wall lizard across elevations. Check out the Publications page for more information! Well done, Brooke.

Whew! This year has been challenging for many reasons, but that is all the more reason to highlight the good moments. The lab has been fortunate enough to have a spate of extremely good luck recently and we figured it was time to have a little Muñoz Lab victory lap:

• Martha and Eric Riddell (Iowa State) received funding for their NSF proposal to study ecophysiological evolution in woodland salamanders 
• Martha and Josef Uyeda (Virginia Tech) received a grant from the Templeton foundation to investigate micro- and macroevolutionary approaches in physiology
• Martha, Luke Frishkoff (UT Arlington) and Luke Mahler (U. Toronto) received an NSF grant to study niche evolution and community assembly in Caribbean anoles
• Christine Ho, an undergraduate in the lab, received the Yale College Dean's Research Fellowship to continue her research this summer
• Ed Burress and Martha had a paper accepted for publication in Systematic Biology
• Meaghan Gade will be joining the lab as a postdoctoral researcher this summer
• Nathalie Alomar received an NSF GRFP and will be joining the lab as a PhD student in the fall
• Saúl Domínguez Guerrero was awarded the Yale Endowed Postdoctoral Fellowship and will be joining the lab as a postdoctoral researcher beginning in the fall
• Henry Camarillo received the prestigious Ford Foundational Graduate Fellowship

We are overwhelmed by the incredible achievements of our lab members and extend a well-deserved congratulations to all! 

The Muñoz Lab has a lot of exciting recent updates that we will be sharing imminently!

More generally moving forward, this will be our space to post updates about lab happenings. We are also planning to update with blog posts about current research coming out of the lab, so stay tuned!