News from the Boyer Lab

1. •Zack Popkin-Hall ’13 and I presented work on Queensland’s mite harvestmen at the meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in San Francisco this January.  Zach gave a poster on new species from Southern Queensland, and I gave a talk that presented an overview of our lab’s work.
   

2. •We had a great summer research season in the Boyer Lab!  Macalester students Domi Lauko ’14, Hannah Wiesner ’14, veteran mite harvestman hunter Caitlin Baker ’12, and I spent some time doing fieldwork in the rainforests of Australia, and closer to home we all did some collecting on the St. Croix River and at Macalester’s field station with Sam DelSerra ’12, Zach Popkin-Hall ’13, and Charlie Benck ‘14.  Back in the lab we generated some data, we worked on some manuscripts... Good times!  You can read more about our Queensland fieldwork and see photos here.
   

3. •The day after defending her honors thesis with flying colors, Caitlin Baker (Macalester ’12) took home the prize for best talk in her session at the annual Minnesota Academy of Sciences Winchell Symposium!  Caitlin is currently a research tech at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
   

4. •Catherine Reuter (Macalester ’10) and I published a description of four new species of mite harvestmen from the Wet Tropics of Queensland, Australia in the latest issue of The Journal of Arachnology - our first publication on the system.