A recent talk by W.K. Kellogg Biological Station postdoctoral research associate Cinnamon Mittan has garnered praise and an award for outstanding work.
Mittan’s talk,”Adaptation during range expansion: A phylogenetic, population genetic, and physiological perspective,” was one of two selected for the W.D. Hamilton Award of the Society for the Study of Evolution. The talk was part of a symposium at the Evolution 2022 conference in late June.
KBS Director Fredric Janzen called the award “a tremendously competitive honor.”
Cinnamon Mittan
Mittan joined KBS and the Fitzpatrick Lab as a postdoctoral research associate in fall 2021. She earned a doctoral degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree in biology from Duke University. Some of her research interests include genetic rescue, rapid evolution, conservation genomics and conservation policy.
She is an Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Presidential Fellow through Michigan State University’s College of Natural Science, and is mentored by Sarah Fitzpatrick, Nick Haddad and Mariah Meek.
Read the original article and the talk abstract.
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