News
- May 2022 - Congrats to Emily Scott for receiving a small research and travel grant and the Schwager summer scholarship to support her research on floral structure and pollen-collecting hair evolution!
- March 2022 - New paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Hybrid breakdown is elevated near the historical core of species ranges.
- January 2022 - Hanna Makowski received the Rosemary Grant Advanced Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution to fund her summer field work exploring the role of mating system in colonization.
- December 2021 - Congrats to Hanna Makowski for receiving a Graduate Global Research grant from UVA's Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation. She will be expanding her pollen-collecting hair work into multiple Campanula species!
- November 2021 - We are looking for a post-doc to evaluate the contribution of cytonuclear coevolution to reproductive isolation in Campanula americana. Check out the job description here.
- July 2021 - New paper out in Ecology and Evolution: Variation in reproduction and gene flow between cytotypes in a polyploid complex: one size does not fit all.
- April 2021 - The lab has a new member! Welcome to Antoine Perrier, a post-doc who will be researching the demographic and evolutionary factors which shape the rear range edge in Campanula americana.
- April 2021 - Austin Kim and Hanna Makowski received the 2021 Raven Fellowship from The Raven Society for their collaborative project on pollen collecting hairs!
- February 2021 - Congratulations to Austin Kim for receiving the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award for his proposal exploring the role of pollen collecting hairs in self reproduction!
- December 2020 - Congrats to Dr. Laura Galloway the 2021 President-Elect for the Society for the Study of Evolution!
- September 2020 - New paper accepted in Molecular Ecology: Westward range expansion from middle latitudes explains the Mississippi River discontinuity in a forest herb of eastern North America
- September 2020 - New paper out in Evolution: Strength in numbers? Cytotype frequency mediates effect of reproductive barriers in mixed-ploidy arrays
- July 2020 - New paper out in Frontiers in Plant Science: Temperature and historical colonization shape geographic variation in petal reflectance and coloration.
- June 2020 - Congratulations to Hanna Makowski for receiving the Karling Award for her proposal to BSA's Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Award!
- February 2020 - New paper out in Journal of Evolutionary Biology: Pollen colour morphs take different paths to fitness. See the blog post on the EEBio website!
- February 2020 - Members of the Galloway and Roach lab worked together to show middle school students around the UVA greenhouse.
- October 2019 - Congratulations to Hanna Makowski on winning an award for her poster at the South Eastern Population and Evolutionary Genetics conference!
- September 2019 - Cavalier Daily runs an article on the new Evolution Letters paper: https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2019/09/how-a-common-flower-provided-uva-researchers-with-climate-change-insight
- August 2019 - New paper out in Evolution Letters: Selfing ability and drift load evolve with range expansion
- August 2019 - New paper out in American Journal of Botany: Pollen limitation and autonomous selfing interact to shape variation in outcrossing rate across a species range
- August 2019 – Changing of the guard! We welcome Keric Lamb, joining us as a graduate student, and bid a fond farewell to Matt Koski who is beginning an Assistant Professor position at Clemson
- July 2019 - Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Debban, who just successfully defended her PhD in the lab!
- December 2018 - New paper out in Annals of Botany: The role of pollinator preference in the maintenance of pollen colour variation
- October 2018 - New paper out in American Journal of Botany: Effects of glaciation and whole genome duplication on the distribution of the Campanula rotundifolia polyploid complex
- October 2018 - Matt and Catherine presented at the annual Southeastern Population Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics (SEPEEG) meeting
- August 2018 - Welcome to Hanna Makowski, a graduate student joining the lab this month
- August 2018 - New paper out in Ecology and Evolution: Response to joint selection on germination and flowering phenology depends on the direction of selection
- July 2018 - Our paper "Linking pollinator efficiency to patterns of pollen limitation" was featured in UVA Today
- June 2018 - New paper out in Functional Ecology: Populations with greater flexibility in floral traits modify mating system in response to the pollinator environment
- June 2018 - New paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Linking pollinator efficiency to patterns of pollen limitation: small bees exploit the plant-pollinator mutualism
- April 2018 - Congratulations to Hanqin Wu for successfully defending her MS in the lab!
- March 2018 - New paper out in American Journal of Botany: Timing is everything: Dichogamy and pollen germinability underlie variation in autonomous selfing among populations
- March 2018 - New paper out in American Journal of Botany: Intercontinental dispersal and whole-genome duplication contribute to loss of self-incompatibility in a polyploid complex
- January 2018 - New paper out in New Phytologist: Geographic variation in pollen color is associated with temperature stress
- October 2017 - Congratulations to Dr. Brittany Sutherland, who just successfully defended her PhD in the lab!
- October 2017 - New paper out in Ecology: A geographic cline in the ability to self-fertilize is unrelated to the pollination environment
- October 2017 - New paper out in Ecology and Evolution: Variation in reproductive isolation across a species range
- September 2017 - Congratulations to Laura for being named the Commonwealth Professor of Biology!
- August 2017 - The Galloway Lab won UVA's Freezer Challenge competition, a program coordinated by the Sustainability Office to save energy by reducing freezer sample storage.
- April 2017 - Congratulations to Brittany Sutherland for receiving the Dr. Frank Finger All-University Graduate Award for Teaching!
- April 2017 - New paper out in American Midland Naturalist: The Reproductive Ecology of Diploid and Tetraploid Galax urceolata
- February 2017 - New paper out in New Phytologist: Biparental chloroplast inheritance leads to rescue from cytonuclear incompatibility
- January 2017 - New paper out in New Phytologist: Postzygotic isolation varies by ploidy level within a polyploid complex
- December 2016 - New paper out in Evolution: Cytonuclear incompatibility contributes to the early stages of speciation
- August 2016 - Welcome to Hanqin Wu, a new graduate student joining the lab this month
- March 2016 - New paper out in New Phytologist: Evolution of marginal populations of an invasive vine increases the likelihood of future spread
- March 2016 - New paper out in Annals of Botany: The mean and variability of a floral trait have opposing effects on fitness traits
- February 2016 - Welcome to Dr. Kuo Liao, who is visiting the lab for the next year from Wuhan Botanical Garden in China.
- November 2015 - New paper out in American Journal of Botany: Multiple glacial refugia lead to genetic structuring and the potential for reproductive isolation in a herbaceous plant
Header image by Catherine Debban
