Author Archives: Kathleen Grogan

Applying for a faculty job is a full-time job – the financial burden

Posted on 20 Apr, 2020 by Kathleen Grogan

Last week I talked about the ‘workload’ of applying for a tenure-track faculty job (let’s call them TT jobs). This week, I want to talk about a different load – the financial one. This burden was a surprise to me, … Continue reading →

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Applying for faculty jobs is a full-time job – The 'workload'

Posted on 16 Apr, 2020 by Kathleen Grogan

As a postdoc in the last year of her funding, I’ve spent the last year applying for tenure-track faculty jobs. I’m not ready to talk about the outcome yet, but I do want to talk about the process and what … Continue reading →

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Raising boys – Not for the faint of heart

Posted on 30 Mar, 2020 by Kathleen Grogan

According to all of my parent friends, raising girls is quite different from raising boys, from the toys to the tantrums, the clothes to the bathroom habits, even for the most liberal, gender-neutral of my friends. In most sexually dimorphic … Continue reading →

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Co-opting responses for old enemies

Posted on 24 Mar, 2020 by Kathleen Grogan

On Friday, Shelby Gantt introduced us to an unusual type of parasite, the brood parasite! As Shelby eloquently described, brood parasitism is when an individual’s offspring are raised by someone else who incurs a cost to raising these offspring. The … Continue reading →

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How many samples do you need to investigate relationships between genetic make-up & immune function?

Posted on 24 Feb, 2020 by Kathleen Grogan

When an organism is exposed to a pathogen, what determines their ability to resist or recover from infection? Mounting an effective immune response is a complex dance with multiple partners, changing tempos, and maybe even a costume change or two: … Continue reading →

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Inbreeding and the cougar genome

Posted on 21 Feb, 2020 by Kathleen Grogan

This week, some of my favorite #scicomm games on Twitter are teaming up with March Mammal Madness to reveal this year’s #2020MMM contestants in my favorite “battle of the fittest.” Specifically, today (2/21/2020) at 12:30 pm EST, Dr. Michelle LaRue … Continue reading →

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The genomic & physiological basis of high altitude adaptation in North American deer mice

Posted on 31 Jan, 2020 by Kathleen Grogan

In biology, there are many ways to solve evolutionary ‘challenges’ so it always amazes me when organisms solve them in similar ways. And I love a good paper that adds to our attempts to dissect multi-trait adaptations. Recently, Schweizer et … Continue reading →

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