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The Yoder Lab @ CSUN
The Yoder Lab @ CSUN
Studying evolution, together
  • Graduate research | Yucca moths

    Pryce Millikin awarded Honorable Mention by NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship program

    ByJB Yoder 8 April, 20258 April, 2025

    Yoder Lab Master’s student Pryce Millikin has been awarded an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The GRFP provides three years of stipend support and research funding to master’s and doctoral students in all fields of science across the United States — this year only 1,000 applicants received GRF…

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  • Graduate research | Joshua trees | Projects | Yucca moths

    Help the Yoder Lab map and study the activity of Joshua trees’ specialized pollinators, yucca moths!

    ByJB Yoder 23 January, 2025

    This is cross-posted from the Joshua Tree Genome Project website. Yoder Lab grad student Pryce Millikin needs your help observing Joshua trees to figure out where their specialized pollinator moths are active. Skip down to the three steps you can follow to help us, or read more background here: Joshua trees need our help. These…

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  • Funding | Graduate research | News | Yucca moths

    Pryce Millikin earns strong external support for thesis research

    ByJB Yoder 16 April, 2024

    Pryce Millikin, the current Master’s student in the Yoder Lab, has won not one but three external awards providing financial support for his thesis research. Pryce started in the lab last fall, and hit the ground running on a project to understand how climate variation might impact the specialized pollinators of Joshua trees, the yucca…

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  • Graduate research | Publication | Theory of coevolution

    New publication: Finding a population genetic fingerprint of coevolution

    ByJB Yoder 19 September, 20221 December, 2022

    A new paper from the lab — coauthored with all three of the Yoder Lab’s graduate student alumni — is now online ahead of print in the journal Evolution Letters. In it, we analyze population genetic data from 20 pairs of plants and herbivores, parasites, and mutualists that live intimately on those plants to test for evidence that the associate species’…

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  • Graduate research | Yucca moths

    Cate MacGregor shows how Joshua tree’s super-specialized pollinators are adapted to climate, too

    ByJB Yoder 24 May, 202223 September, 2022

    Master’s student Cate MacGregor successfully defended her dissertation this morning. Cate’s thesis project uses RADseq data to look for evidence of local adaptation to climate in populations of moths so specialized that we know next to nothing about their lives when they’re not on their host plant — the pollinators of Joshua trees. Working from samples…

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  • Graduate research | Undergraduate research

    Join the Yoder Lab for NSF-funded graduate research

    ByJB Yoder 22 September, 2021

    The Yoder Lab at CSUN is recruiting up to two Master’s students to start in Fall 2022, to develop thesis projects within our ongoing work on the evolutionary genomics of Joshua tree and its coevolution with specialized pollinators.

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  • Graduate research | Joshua trees

    Mikhail Plaza uses linkage mapping to put Joshua tree evolution in its genomic place

    ByJB Yoder 29 July, 2021

    Earlier today, Master’s student Mikhail Plaza successfully defended his thesis research, in which he built a linkage map for Joshua tree and used it to reexamine data identifying genetic loci that may play a role in local adaptation to climate and to specialized pollinating yucca moths. Mikhail’s project is among the first fruits of the…

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  • Graduate research | Joshua trees | Yucca moths

    Alby Dang ably defends the Yoder Lab’s first Master’s thesis

    ByJB Yoder 29 July, 2021

    Master’s student Alby Dang successfully defended his thesis research, an examination of cooperative dynamics in the Joshua tree/yucca moth mutualism, in a public presentation and meeting with his thesis committee this morning. Alby was the first graduate student to join the Yoder Lab, interviewing for a position in summer 2017 and enrolling the next fall,…

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  • Funding | Graduate research | Joshua trees | Lab business | News

    The Yoder Lab is officially NSF-funded!

    ByJB Yoder 20 July, 2020

    I’m delighted to finally, officially announce that the lab has received funding from the National Science Foundation — for a big, collaborative endeavor we’ve been calling the Joshua Tree Genome Project. Collaborative grants to us here at CSUN and to Chris Smith’s lab at Willamette University, with subawards to collaborators at USGS and the Universities of…

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  • Graduate research

    Earn a Master’s in the Yoder Lab at CSUN

    ByJB Yoder 18 September, 2017

    My lab at California State University, Northridge, is open for Master’s students enrolling for the 2018-19 school year. I’m building a research program focused on the coevolution of interacting species, particularly how mutualists shape each others’ genomic diversity, and how interactions between species can help or hinder adaptation to abiotic factors like climate. You should…

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