Recent & Noteworthy
Joining the Biology Department at the University of the Fraser Valley!
Starting in fall of 2022, Dr. Navon will be joining the Biology Department at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, B.C. She will be working as an Assistant Professor with a special focus on molecular evolution. She is extremely excited about joining this warm, welcoming, teaching-intensive institution!
Heading to Woods Hole, MA to Attend Prestigious Summer Course
In the summer of 2022, Dr. Navon will be heading to the Marine Biological Laboratories facility at Woods Hole to attend a prestigious summer course on Embryology. Past attendees include 2 Nobel laureates, and Dr. Navon will be learning from leaders in the field, including Drs. Neil Shubin and Maureen Barr. Her attendence is made possible by a generous scholarship from MBL as well as the travel budget awarded to each INSPIRE fellow.
Dr. Navon Is Awarded UW-Madison ECR Award!
Dr. Navon was recently recognized for her research into phenotypic plasticity by the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She gave a virtual seminar on the topic as part of their Spring 2022 Evolution Seminar Series.
Understanding diversity by linking ecomechanics and functional traits across time and space
In early 2019, I participated in an NSF-funded working group aimed at understanding how the rules of life impact biodiversity. A team of 24 researchers from a wide swathe of biological fields and career stages met in Portland to discuss life, the universe, and everything. My role in the project involved bringing in an understanding of developmental timescales to the table, and developing a pipeline for how to standardize functional trait data collection and analysis. The multiple co-authored paper resulting from that meeting was recently published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
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You can read Science Daily's coverage of this paper here.
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Image Description: a tree bending under wind strain - one of the key examples described in the paper.
Press Release Picked Up by EurekaAlert!
The press release for our recent article in PNAS was picked up by Eureka Alert. You can read the full story here.
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Image Description: Craig Albertson, lead PI on the PNAS paper, was highlighted by the website EurekaAlert.
AGA's Journal of Heredity blog features my writing.
The AGA's Journal of Heredity has a new blog featuring posts from early-career scientists. Check out my new outreach piece discussing original research on threespine stickleback here.
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Image Description: Threespine stickleback from a single stream/lake system - these animals show major differences based on habitat.
My writing was featured in the SICB Student Journalism Program!
Ahead of the 2017 meeting for the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I applied for and was awarded a SICB student journalist subsidy. This award helped fund my trip to the annual meeting, and required me to write a short press release about one of the talks I attended. I wrote about Dr. Morehouse's research into the intricacies of jumping spider vision. Find the full article here.
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Image Description: A male jumping spider displaying vibrant coloring characteristic of his species.
Writing for a New Life Science Blog Founded by UMass Graduate Students.
Members of the Interdisciplinary Life Science Graduate Programs at UMass Amherst have founded a Life Science blog. I will be serving as a regular contributor - check out my author bio page here.
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Image Description: The That's Life [Science] blog logo highlights aspects of all the interdisciplinary life science graduate programs.
Joining OceanBites - a Collective Outreach Effort by Ocean Researchers.
I'm going to be writing for a well-established science outreach blog focused on ocean science. Find my new author page here.
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Image Description: Lobsters feature prominently in my first outreach post.