06 Aug 2023 The lab finished a successful field season in April-May this year. Sam collected several B. philenor and A. californica samples from California. We then set out to Texas to collect B. philenor and their native Aristolochia host plants from Texas. We had a really great time collecting several butterflies and native Aristolochia species in Texas.

09 Aug 2023 Sam’s paper on the Battus philenor hirsuta genome is just published in Journal of Heredity. This is Sam’s first paper from her postdoc with Dr. Noah Whiteman at UC Berkeley. This project is funded by the California Conservation Genomics Project. Read more about this amazing initiative to conserve California’s biodiversity here – CCGP project.

01 Aug 2023 Chaturvedi lab is open for business! Sam, Kehinde, and Vineesha just arrived at Tulane and are ready to take over the semester.