Madhvi Venkatraman defends dissertation, accepts NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology!

Madhvi -- ahem -- Dr. Venkatraman defended and filed her dissertation: "What makes a successful invader? Population genomics and adaptation in the invasive Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)"

Dr. Venkatraman was awarded a prestigious NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology to continue her research in this system, collaborating with Dr. Marty Martin at the University of South Florida and Dr. Rob Fleischer at the Smithsonian Center for Conservation Genomics at the National Zoo.

Fig. from Venkatraman et al. 2021 Genome Biology and Evolution doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab063