Long-time lab member Caroline Kanaskie defended her PhD in April 2025. In the photo, Caroline and Jeff pose outside the Whittemore Center after the COLSA graduation ceremony in May. Caroline will be joining the faculty of the University of Maine at Fort Kent, where she will be an assistant professor of forestry.
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Christopher P Ziadeh, Shayleigh B Ziadeh, Breanne H Aflague, Mark A Townley, Matthew P Ayres, Alexandra R Contosta, Jeff R Garnas. Distinct communities under the snow: describing characteristics of subnivium arthropod communities, Environmental Entomology, 2024; nvae017, https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvae017 Written by Chris Ziadeh ’23G, former Garnas lab technician and master’s student Prior to starting this research, I knew nothing
PhD candidate Caroline Kanaskie here. I’m proud to share that my first big paper is now available as an advance article in Environmental Entomology! This is the result of my masters research. Kanaskie CR, Dodds KJ, Stephen FM, Garnas JR. 2023. Southern pine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and its associated insect community: similarities and key differences
No, we have not started studying large, hairy mammals, and we expect that humans will remain the only primates you’ll find in New Hampshire. We’d like to share a bit about the APE (Ash Protection Experiment) at Hubbard Brook! You can read more about the project here: https://hubbardbrook.org/story/copy/. Here, we specifically want to share more
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The Garnas Lab wrapped up a busy September! Here are some highlights: Liz recently chatted with a 9th grade honors biology class about termites and beetles. She connected with the class via Skype a Scientist–the students were in New Jersey! The students read one of her papers and were very excited to ask about both the
September lab member highlights: Skype-a-Scientist, and Spain! Read More »
From postdoc Carl Bastom, Jr: “As an Assistant Features Editor (AFE) for The Plant Cell, I get to write small pieces highlighting research articles coming out in that issue. Being an AFE has been a great way to see cutting edge research early as well as gain experience writing. This most recent work was about differential pigment
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September 6, 2023 This is Jeff (with a new friend [a wooden wolf statue placed without explanation on the park bench]) on the campus of the University of Lausanne next to the “Napolean tree”– an English oak (Quercus robur). This massive tree was an acorn when Napoleon (yes, Bonaparte) was a young boy, and a
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August 30, 2023 It’s been a while since we’ve posted any news on the Garnas Lab site . . . so here’s a big update to catch you up on the last FOUR years! We plan to post to the site more often, and we just transitioned the site over to WordPress so it is
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May 24, 2019 Congrats to Bre who did an awesome job on what was NOT an easy project. More good things to come!
Bre Aflague successfully defends her MSc! Read More »
January 24, 2019 Check out a blog post written by Jeff Garnas on colony social structure in the invasive European fire ant, Myrmica rubra. Super-abundant and with a nasty sting, this ant is still near and dear to Jeff’s heart as the subject of his Masters work at the University of Maine.
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