YIBS Newsletter - Fall 2021

YIBS Newsletter - Fall 2021
September 9, 2021

Dear YIBS community, 

We’re very excited to share the YIBS Fall Newsletter with you! Please click the link below to view. Thank you and enjoy!

Eric Sargis and Carla Staver 

YIBS Newsletter - Fall 2021

News & Updates

Snail darter

Fish at center of key conservation fight not a distinct species after all

January 3, 2025
In the late-1970s, a small freshwater fish known as the snail darter made history when its newly acquired status as an endangered species helped to temporarily block...
Photo of Brandon Ogbunu

YIBS Faculty Affiliate Brandon Ogbunu receives National Academies Award

January 2, 2025
Yale computational biologist and YIBS faculty affiliate Brandon Ogbunu, whose research investigates complex problems in epidemiology, genetics, and evolution, has been...
An X-ray image of a helmeted guineafowl used to precisely measure the knee-joint poses of the bird.

Thanksgiving special: dinosaur drumsticks and the story of the turkey trot

November 20, 2024
Wings may be the obvious choice when studying the connection between dinosaurs and birds, but a pair of Yale paleontologists prefers drumsticks. That part of the leg, they...