Lab Happenings:

We now have an Instagram! @babel_fau​

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March 2025: Congratulations to Ray for placing Second Runner Up in FAU's 3 Minute Thesis Competition!

 

December 2024:  Check out our new paper in Oikos Ornamentation and body condition, but not glucocorticoids, predict wild songbird cloacal microbiome community and diversity. Morgan Slevin, Jennifer Houtz, Maren Vitousek, Daniel Baldassarre, and Rindy Anderson. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10905

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October 30 2024:  CONGRATULATIONS to PhD student Morgan Slevin who defended his dissertation! Well done Dr. Slevin!

 

October 29 2024:   Check out our new paper in Journal of Avian Biology  Syntax in animal communication: its study in songbirds and other taxa. Heather Wolverton and Rindy Anderson.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.03258

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​August 2024: Welcome new PhD students Ray Pressman and Lauren Dawson-Scully!

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​July 2024: Rindy traveled to the Animal Behavior Society conference at Western University in London, ON.

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April 2024: Congratulations to Rindy, who was named the 2023-2024 Faculty Member of the Year for the FAU Davie campus! 

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January 2024: Rindy traveled to Seattle, WA to attend the SICB 2024 conference.

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November 2023: Congratulations to Rindy for winning an FAU College of Science Research Fellows Award!

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November 2023: CONGRATULATIONS to Hans Gonzembach who defended his dissertation proposal and advanced to candidacy! Great job Hans!

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August 2023: Check out our new paper in Southeastern Naturalist Spatial Pattern of Song-type Sharing in Male Bachman’s Sparrows in South Florida. Joseph M. Niederhauser and Rindy C. Anderson. Vol 22 (3), 315-332 https://doi.org/10.1656/058.022.0304

 

CONGRATULATIONS to Billy Abbott for defending his MS thesis like a boss on April 26. Great job Billy! And, he has already landed a dream job in California, watch this rising star!

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Congratulations to Rindy, who was named the 2022 FAU College of Science Scholar of the Year!

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January 2023:    Rindy traveled to Austin, TX to attend the SICB 2023 conference and give a talk about noise, development, and cognition. What a fabulous time! Such a stimulating and fun meeting. Can't wait for next year!

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December 2022:    Check out our new paper in Acta Ethologica Effects of anthropogenic noise on cognition, bill color, and growth in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

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October 10 2022:    CONGRATULATIONS to Billy Abbot for defending his MS proposal! Great job Billy!

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August 2022:    Check out our new paper in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology!  Song repertoires, song type sharing, and sharing of preferred song transitions in male Bachman's Sparrows

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July 2022:    We went to Costa Rica to attend the annual Animal Behavior Society Conference. Great times, great colleagues, great science.  Kudos to Morgan Slevin and Hans Gonzembach for giving excellent spoken presentations!

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April 2022:    CONGRATULATIONS to Heather Wolverton for defending her thesis and advancing to PhD candidacy!

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December 2021:    CONGRATULATIONS to Charlie Daria for completing his Master's degree!

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August 2021:     Welcome Billy Abbott! Billy joins us a an MS student in the Environmental Sciences Program.

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April 2021:     Congratulations Rindy on tenure and promotion to Associate Professor!

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March 2021:     Check out our new paper in Behaviour! 

Body size, habitat quality, and territory defense in Bachman’s sparrow

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November 2020:     Check out Rindy's paper in Ecology with Erik Noonburg Asymmetric competition and floater dynamics

 

and check out Morgan and Rindy's paper in Biology Letters Evidence supporting the microbiota–gut–brain axis in a songbird

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August 2020:     Welcome new graduate students Hans Gonzembach and Heather Wolverton to the lab! Hans and Heather will team up for their first field season to study song transmission and behavioral response to song sequences in Bachman's sparrow.

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June 30, 2020:     Huge congratulations to Dr. Joe Niederhauser, first PhD student to fledge the lab! Fantastic dissertation and seminar about the behavioral ecology of Bachman's sparrow. Someone offer this guy a job!

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May 2020:    Congratulations to Morgan Slevin who won an Animal Behavior Society research grant and then won the whole FAU Three-Minute Thesis competition! Woo hoo!

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March 2020:     Check out our new paper in General and Comparative Endocrinology! Sara Bebus, Blake Jones, Rindy Anderson: Development of the corticosterone stress response differs among passerine species, 
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1abQm3oGhHk5W

 

Feb 2-4 February 2020:     What a fun and stimulating visit! Rindy gave a seminar at Florida State University hosted by Blake Jones and the Emily DuVal lab! 

 

December 3, 2019:    Rindy had a fantastic time giving a seminar at Audubon Everglades!

 

November 4-6 2019:     A phenomenal visit by Luke Remage-Healy! He gave a hugely attended seminar, and I made a friend for life! Thanks for a great visit Luke!

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August 2019:    The lab welcomes new Biology M.S. student Charlie Daria!

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July 30, 2019     M.S. student Paula Ziadi defended her thesis with poise and confidence, and became the *first ever* Anderson Lab graduate student to complete her degree. Congrats Paula!!! 

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July 2019      Rindy gave a talk about Bachman's sparrow communication and heard many fascinating talks at the at the Behavior 2019 conference in Chicago.

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March 2019      Rindy had a fantastic time visiting University of Florida's Wildlife Ecology and Conservation department to give a seminar. Thanks all for a fun and informative visit!

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February 2019     Visit by Steve Nowicki and Susan Peters!  We were fortunate to spend time with Steve and Susan and hear a fantastic seminar by Steve.

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January 2019    SICB!  The lab had a great meeting, with Joe and Paula giving terrific talks (Paula's first conference talk!) and Morgan getting great feedback on his poster and project ideas. 

 

November 2018    We had a great time hosting the 2018 Florida Ornithological Society Meeting at the FAU Davie Campus. Fantastic science, conversations, connections, and shared love of birds!

 

August 2018    The lab is thrilled to welcome new Ph.D. student Morgan Slevin!

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