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Innovative Ph.D. Program in Comparative Biology- the first Ph.D. degree-granting program for any museum in the western hemisphere
New York, New York
Joined July 2009
Description of new material of giant fossil mustelid carnivore from China, enhancing understanding of intraspecific variability & fauna of sedimentary basin, by RGGS grant awardee alum A. Valenciano, former visiting student Q. Jiangzuo & RGGS Prof J. Flynn
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PalZ - We describe three unpublished Eomellivora cranial specimens from the Late Miocene (ca. MN12–13) sites of Ta Tung Kou and Nan Ho, both in the Shouyang Basin (Shanxi Province, China),...
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Congratulation to AMNH RGGS MAT Postdoctoral alum Leanne Melbourne on her new 3-year role as Senior Curator of Climate Change and the Dynamic Coast in Norfolk, United Kingdom!
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Congratulations to RGGS Comparative Biology PhD program student Rebecca Lopez-Anido on receiving Society of Systematic Biologists Graduate Student Research Award!
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December Nature Cover story from RGGS-Columbia DEES alum Ross Ong, RGGS prof Nathalie Goodkin, and colleagues: "Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms" https://t.co/NSGL7l72Pa
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Nature Geoscience - High near-surface nitrogen-fixation rates that promoted the recent growth of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt were tied to greater upwelling of phosphorus from the equatorial...
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Congratulations to RGGS Comparative Biology PhD program students Owen Goodchild and Yucheol Shin and CUNY EEB-AMNH RGGS PhD student Kate Montana on receiving Society of Systematic Biologists Graduate Student Research Awards!
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Congratulations to RGGS Comp Bio PhD student Rebecca Lopez-Anido on receiving the the CUNY ASRC Epigenetics Core Pilot Research Award for conducting single-cell RNA sequencing experiments! Project title: Discovering the Origins of a Novel Venom-Stealing Cell Type in Sea Slugs.
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We are pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for our Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Program at the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History. Deadline: November 15, 2025.
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Fellowships for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers across disciplines.
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Application Deadlines Reminder for Annette Kade Doctoral and Postdoctoral International Exchange Fellowships: Annette Kade Graduate Student Exchange Fellowship Program: Nov. 1, 2025 Annette Kade Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program: Nov. 1, 2025 https://t.co/opC7x1cH5d
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Fellowships for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers across disciplines.
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Sigma Xi news story featuring Mongle et al. 2025: This overlooked human ancestor wielded tools with a gorilla-like grip:
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Researchers in Kenya excavated the first hand and foot bones belonging to ‘Paranthropis boisei.’
New from Gerstner Scholar and Kalbfleisch Postdoctoral Research Fellowship alum Carrie Mongle and Colleagues: Mongle et al. 2025, Nature, New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei:
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New from Gerstner Scholar and Kalbfleisch Postdoctoral Research Fellowship alum Carrie Mongle and Colleagues: Mongle et al. 2025, Nature, New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei:
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Nature - Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene...
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ECR Spotlight – RGGS Comp Bio PhD Student Lohitashwa Garikipati
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ABSTRACT. ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of...
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New from RGGS Comp Bio PhD Student Lohit Garikipati and colleagues: Many-to-one mapping in Mantodea: camouflage strategy and phylogeny drive strike variation in prey capture with raptorial forelegs
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Summary: Praying mantis prey capture is versatile and varies interspecifically in velocity and displacement of forelegs, body and starting position, driven by phylogenetic relationships and camoufl...
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JEB Cover: Garikipati et al. (jeb250626) show that camouflage strategies differ in their prey capture kinematics to improve capture of prey in the microhabitat mimicked. Photo credit: Marlena N. Wood.
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Applications are now being accepted for the Comparative Biology Ph.D. program, Graduate Student Ph.D. Fellowship program, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program, and the Annette Kade Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Exchange Fellowship programs Details:
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- ABC News- Chief Meteorologist and Chief Climate Correspondent Ginger Zee spoke with Richard Gilder Graduate School Comparative Biology Ph.D. student Anna Eichert in the Solomon Family Insectarium about insect population decline - https://t.co/E60tClyn1n via @ABC
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ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee reports on the main drivers for the alarming decline of the insect population.
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Congratulations to our 19 2025 Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Earth Science Residency Program Graduates!
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Congratulations to our 2025 PhD in Comparative Biology Graduates Joe Arguelles, Amelia Zietlow Dylan DeBaun, Mark Nikolic, and RJ Millena!
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We know that many animals are in danger due to human-caused climate change impacting their habitats. But how are some species managing to thrive alongside humans? Columbia E3B-RGGS Graduate Fellow Ellie Gamett explains what we can learn from dragonflies:
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NEW from CUNY EEB-AMNH RGGS PhD Student Kate Montana and colleagues: If history is written by the victors, who describes the spiders? Species author trends reflect gender and geopolitical disparities in biodiversity science
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Abstract. Gathering data on species description authorship is one way to track who has had access to a career in taxonomy. Via data from the World Spider C
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